For starters, the Great October Revolution was unlike the February ... on the part of the leader (Lenin) of a minority party ...

In October, squeezing out the moderate ... live to see the battles of the upcoming revolution," Vladimir Lenin, informal leader of the Bolshevik party, said in January 1917. Back then, an émigré ...

Serious historical research has refuted claims that the October Revolution was a conspiratorial ... of the struggle within the Bolshevik Party that preceded the insurrection, noted: ...

[2] The Stalinist bureaucracy murdered virtually the entire leadership of the October Revolution. Show trials were organized, between 1936 and 1938, of Bolshevik leaders, including Zinoviev ...

Elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee, he played a key role in the October Revolution ... of power and elimination of “inner-party” democracy, Trotsky criticized Stalin’s shift towards ...

During this time, the Bolsheviks ... achievements of the Revolution, break up the Soviets and bring back the old system. The Bolsheviks portrayed themselves as a patriotic party who would defend ...