Vladimir I. Lenin led the Bolshevik Party. At first it had been part of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, a Marxist political party, but it split off from it. In March 1918the Bolshevik Party renamed itself the Communist Party.
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Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks, a radical revolutionary faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. Although the Bolsheviks began as a faction of another political party, they began having separate meetings and became a political party in its own name later on. In March 1918, the Bolshevik Party changed its name to the Communist Party.
Lenin led the Bolshevik Party, a more revolutionary faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1905. The Bolsheviks came into being at the 1903 RSDLP Congress in Brussels, Belgium in 1903. Although Lenin led the Bolsheviks since 1903, neither Lenin nor the Bolsheviks played any part in the Revolution of 1905.