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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...
The term "" names the 1917 seizure of power in by ’s and derives from the party name "Bolsheviks," itself from the Russian bolshinstvo meaning "majority," a label that emerged after an early split in ...
’s most tangible “goods” were organizational and intellectual: he led to seize state power in 1917, founded and structures that would reshape the twentieth century, and produced writings that translat...
The phrase that “The Council of the People’s Deputies some of the Empire’s harsh restrictions, such as on freedom of expression” conflates actions by different bodies in different moments; contemporar...
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 ...