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Bolshevik Leaders

The Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917. The party was later called the Communist Party. The Communists founded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922 and ruled that country until its collapse in 1991.
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Bolshevism; Communism; Russian Revolutions of 1917
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