Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (Russian: ??????????, ????????? (singular); IPA:?[b?l????v?ik]; derived from ??????????? bol'shinstvo, "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The RSDLP was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party.