The Communists was the Bolsheviks new name after seizing power in 1917. In March 1918 the officially changed the name.
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The new name for the Bolsheviks was 'Communists,' which was adopted at the Bolshevik's Seventh Party Congress in March 1918.
The Bolsheviks changed their name to Communists. After the October Revolution at their Seventh Party Congress in March 1918, they formally changed the name of the party to the Communist Party.
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Lenin and the Bolsheviks came into power on October 26, the culmination of the two day October Revolution. Prior to that, the Russian Provisional Government was in power. Arrest warrants were out for Lenin since July, 1917 and he had to flee the country to Finland to avoid capture. He snuck back in under disguise to organize the October insurrection which brought him and the Bolsheviks into power.
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The Imperial Family was kept at their palace in Tsarskoe Selo from the revolution in February/March 1917 until August 1917. They were then sent by train and boat to the Siberian city of Tobolsk in Siberia, where they remained until the following spring. By then the Bolsheviks had seized power, and the new rulers had the family sent to Ekaterinburg, where they remained until their murder on July 16/17, 1918.