I'm doing a project on world war one and i have no idea whatsoever about what a bolshevik was?!!?? Help???

Question

Ok, so i need to know what a bolshevik was and what they did that was significant in terms of the war. I know there is somethjing about a revolution,but im really confused and wikipedia is no help at all, can someone go into detail about bolsheviks and the russian revolution and what it had to do with the war?

Answer 1

Bolshevik (n.) A member of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that adopted Lenin's theses on party organization in 1903.

Bolshevik adj.
Word History: The word Bolshevik, an emotionally charged term in English, is derived from an ordinary word in Russian, bol'she, "bigger, more," the comparative form of bol'sho, "big."
The plural form Bol'sheviki was the name given to the majority faction at the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1903 (the term is first recorded in English in 1907).
The smaller faction was known as Men'sheviki, from men'she, "less, smaller," the comparative of maly, "little, few."
The Bol'sheviki, who sided with Lenin in the split that followed the Congress, subsequently became the Russian Communist Party.
In 1952 the word Bol'shevik was dropped as an official term in the Soviet Union, but it had long since passed into other languages, including English.

Read Russia and World War One.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russia_and_world_war_one.htm

Answer 2

WW1 had the effect of making the conditions of the soldiers and peasants far worse than they normally were and the result was the March 1917 revolution by a groupof socialist parties with the pledge to end the war by means of an Armistice with Germany.
To do this the Tsar was deposed and new government took over under Kerensky promising to introduce a proper democracy.
One element of these Socialist parties was a group known as the Bolsheviks.
By August 1917 it was clear that the situation of the people was no better and the Bolsheviks started to agitate for more power.
At this stage they were small in number and unpopular but by sheer force of the personality of their leader Lenin they siezed control of the Committee of Soldiers and Sailors Soviet (council) which gave them a power base for further action.
Using the Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg as their headquarters they organised strikes and political meetings throughout the city calling for a peace with Germany and finding support among the soldiers and sailors returning from the front line who they formed into the Red Guard.
They eventually received the support of the Committee of Peasants Soviets and took complete control of St. Petersburg..
Kerensky sent an armed force against them but they defeated him in battle and he had to flee for his life.
At a meeting at the Smolny Institute in October the Bolsheviks were given total power and the revolution was under way.
Lenin spread the power of the soviets to other parts of the Russian Empire and ,after a bloody civil war , the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed.

Answer 3

Member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.
Check out these links:
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/russianrev/summary.html
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture6.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSnovemberR.htm
http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php?action=L2&SubjectID=1917october&Year=1917
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0860858.html

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

One individual from WW2 was once Cesar Geoffray, the founding father of the A Coeur Joie choral motion in France. This all got here approximately after the Nazis occupied France. The triumphant German infantrymen had this slogan "Strength by way of Joy", and so they used to sing in choirs as they marched down the occupied streets flaunting their victory. Cesar Geoffray was once so encouraged through the happiness of the Germans, he went to Gestapo HQ and requested the Gauleiter whether or not it could be allowed to installed French choirs in the entire villages as a tribute to the enjoyment of the German infantrymen. The Gauleiter was once overjoyed at how without difficulty and fortunately the French had been taking to German tradition and without difficulty agreed, even passing the suggestion to Berlin, to ensure that the scheme to be applied in the course of France. What the Germans didn't understand was once that A Coeur Joie was once a entrance for the Resistance, and lots of sabotage plans had been organized in the course of rehearsals, and a few of the songs they sang had been of Liberty. A Coeur Joie endured after the warfare with a grand worldwide reunion each and every 3 years at a choral competition at Vaison-los angeles-Romaine in Provence. I myself went there within the Seventies and recall one deficient conductor looking to lead 10,000 singers in a Roman amphitheatre. So how approximately a challenge at the Resistance, and the way they fooled the Nazis?