2007-02-08 16:35:58 · 7 answers · asked by jairj04 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
gee, they didn't. They were always Communists. Bolsheviks were one faction of the 1917 revolution that overthrew the Tsar.Bolshevik means majority -- and although they were not actually in the majority, the Bolshevik leaders were better organised (unlike those who actually followed the communist philosophy) and much more ruthless than the other factions. Because of that, they were able to "take over" the revolution, and remake it and communism in their own image and have it conform to the Bolshevik ideology -- a modern day parallel would be the way the extreme left anti-American minority has taken over the Democratic party in the US, and how the one-world no borders crowd has done the same to the Republicans.
The Bolsheviks were a minority who took over the means of communication and hijacked the October Revolution. The majority of Communists,not even the revolutionaries, were not out ot kill the Tsar or the history of Russia. The majority of Democrats are not anti-American, but you can't tell that by looking at the party leadership and listening to the rhetoric. the majority of Republicans had no idea they were voting for GWB as President of Mexico -- but look at what we got.
The minority calls itself majority, and sheep follow along until they are unable to stop the herd. The Bolsheviks had their OGPU/KGB/etc; we have the "Patriot" Act -- the ultimate result of which will be suppression of all dissent.
Excuse me, but there are some jack-booted thugs landing their black helicopters on my lawn. I need to put on my tin foil hat before the aliens abduct me.
2007-02-08 16:58:48 · answer #1 · answered by mourning my dad 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Bolsheviks were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
2007-02-08 16:57:46 · answer #2 · answered by greβ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To differentiate it from the Mensheviks and other remaining fractions of the RSDLP.
It didn't drop the name Bolshevik from its name until 1952. Until then they were officially known as All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
2007-02-08 16:42:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Bolshevik" is a Russian word. Communist Party is English.
2007-02-08 16:40:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because Stalin murdered most of the Bolsheviks.
2007-02-09 04:36:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
do a wiki search for "bolsheviks".
2007-02-08 16:40:07 · answer #6 · answered by 0821l_4a8^#y$855 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are muderous cowards vi would destroy them all. what evils they spew from their trap. they are dogs
2007-02-08 16:43:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋