The Bolsheviks (Russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ bol'shinstvó, 'majority'), also known in English as the Bolshevists, were a far-left, revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin that split with the Mensheviks from the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898, at its Second Party ...

Burkina Faso – African Independence Party, African Independence Party (Touré), Burkinabé Bolshevik Party, Burkinabé Communist Group, Burkinabé Socialist Bloc, Burkinabé Socialist Party, Change 2005, Convention of Progress Forces, Democratic Forces for Progress, Marxist–Leninist Group, Movement for Socialist Democracy, Organization for ...

Resulted in: End of most communist states. End of the Cold War; Spread of liberal democracy; End of the Soviet Union as a superpower and its dissolution on 26 December 1991; Collapse of the one-party state regimes democratic centralism, planned economy; Socio-economic reforms in China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam; Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, Comecon, and Eastern Bloc

Bolshevik Party of India: BPI 1939 Marxism–Leninism: Lok Sabha: 0 / 543. Rajya Sabha: 0 / 245. Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation: CPI(ML)L Dipankar Bhattacharya: 1974 Marxism–Leninism Mao-Zedong-Thought: Lok Sabha: 0 / 543. Rajya Sabha: 0 / 245. Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)

Imeni Kirova, Armenia – Sergey Kirov, Bolshevik leader; Imeni Tairova – Alexander Tairov, Armenian theater director; Isahakyan – Avetik Isahakyan, poet; Kamo, Armenia – Kamo (Bolshevik) (1882–1922), nom de guerre of Simon Ter-Petrossian; Khanjian, Armenia – Aghasi Khanjian, first secretary of the Armenian Communist Party

Since the time of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, a variety of developments have been made in communist theory and attempts to build a communist society, leading to a variety of different communist ideologies. These span philosophical, social, political and economic ideologies and movements, and can be split into three broad categories Marxist-based ideologies, Leninist …

1950: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s in Puerto Rico, attempt on the life of US president Harry S. Truman in the Blair House, and shooting at Congress, was a call for Puerto Rico's independence and uprising by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party against United States Government rule of Puerto Rico. 1950s: The Mau Mau ...