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Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks during the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Balsheviks were Marxist revolutionaries in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin.
The Bolsheviks were also known as "Communists" but not until the Seventh Party Congress of the Bolshevik Party in March 1918, when the party officially changed its name from Bolshevik to Communist.
Lenin took power in the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which actually took place in November 1917, but Russia was using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar. Lenin's Bolsheviks had control of some parts of the government, but not all The Russian Civil War broke out between the Red Army (Lenin and the Bolsheviks) and the opposing White Army. The Red Army won out in 1920, placing Lenin firmly in power.
The Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin took over Russia in 1917. In March 1918, the Bolsheviks changed their name to the Communist Party.