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Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
Timeline of Events
1907
3.24.1907
The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper ''Dro'' is published.
1917
4.3.1917
Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.
12.15.1917
World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
1918
1.25.1918
The Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
7.4.1918
Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
7.17.1918
On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
8.17.1918
Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
8.30.1918
Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
8.30.1918
Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
2006
10.28.2006
Funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.