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Bolshevik is a member of a wing of the Russian, social - democratic workers party. It was lead by Lenin. It seized control of the government in Russia in October in 1917 and became the dominant political power. It originated at the party's second congress when Lenin's followers insisted that the party membership should be restricted to professional revolutionaries, it won a temporary majority of the party's central committee and on the editorial board of newspaper Iskra. The Bolsheviks wanted to overthrow the provisional governement and set up a governement for the proletariat. They implemented an extreme Communist state, and communist principles, with this came a dictatorship of the proletariat and they used terror to manipulate the people. THe Bolsheviks needed to establish firm rules because their control of Russia was threatened by a the Civil War.

Between 1917 - 1921 Lenin set up a kind of change which included a communist society, which was based in certain types of rules, or the abolishing of some activities such as: - He banned religion, destroyed the churches and killed its priests. - The was a Labour Law that gave workers an eight hour day unenployment pay and pension. - There was a huge campaign to teach everyone to read. - As for education, Science was encouraged and useless subject such as Latin and History were abolished. - Free love, divorce, and abortion were allowed.

Many people changed their loyalties to the Bolsheviks, Lenin's pro-Communism party, this party opposed the war. When the revolution struck, the Bolsheviks took advantage of this chance to overthrow the Provisional Government.

Bibliogaphy: Encyclopedia Britannica (2013). Bolshevik (Russian political faction). [online] Retrieved from: http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/72272/Bolshevik [Accessed: 11 Sep 2013].