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Faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; a major faction in the Russian Civil War
Estimates of how many people the Bolsheviks killed vary widely depending on period, method and definition: some accounts count millions in the Russian Civil War and famines, others count executions an...
Estimates of total deaths tied to the Russian Civil War vary widely: many sources place overall deaths between roughly 5–12 million, with the majority civilians (for example, "as many as 10 million" a...
The claim that the was a "" does not hold up against the balance of historical evidence: its formal institutions—one-party rule, controlled elections, and centralized appointment systems—systematicall...
during 1917 was pluralistic, shaped more by class, locality, and competing Jewish national projects than by any single allegiance to Bolshevism; many Jews favored the , , , or Jewish national lists, w...
Scholars and commentators estimating Christian fatalities under the Bolsheviks and early Soviet regimes draw on a mix of contemporary press accounts, church lists, survivor testimony, later archival w...
Khrystyna (Christina) Sushko was a Ukrainian military doctor and lieutenant who, according to a recent Wikipedia entry, was captured by Bolsheviks on 5 June 1919 during fighting near Mala Salikha and ...