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they were Russian social democrats who wanted a change in government brought about by an industrial revolution. The Party was considered illegal so majority of the members were either in prison or in exile until August 1917 when the Provisional Government requested their help in trying to fight of General Kornilovs troops who were believed to be staging a military coup. After this the Bolshevik popularity grew with membership increasing to 2 million. They staged the 1917 October Revolution where they arrested the Provisional Government and declared themselves in power through the use of the Military Revolutionary Committee.

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Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary and the Bolsheviks were his supporters. In 1917, they seized control of Russia and founded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first ever Communist country. The Bolsheviks came from the the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party, which split in 1901 into the Bolsheviks ("majority") and Mensheviks ("minority"). The Mensheviks believed Communism should be achieved in Russia by first replacing the monarchy with a democracy, then introducing communism (despite their name, they actually had more supporters at first). The more radical Bolsheviks wanted to replace the monarchy with a Dictatorship which would immediately introduce communism.

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