Bolsheviks

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1. The radicals in the Russian Revolution, who were led by Lenin and who favored revolution rather than gradual democratic change.

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Bolshevik has been used as a general term for a radical leftist or for a communist of the Soviet Union.

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Surviving relatives of Tsar Nicholas II also lived there after fleeing to the UK, following the murder of other family members by Bolsheviks in 1918.

From BBC

Leadership values change, but being placed under permanent house arrest by the Bolsheviks at the luxury Hotel Metropol in “A Gentleman in Moscow” doesn’t stop Alexander from dressing the aristocratic part.

From Los Angeles Times

The gold was confiscated after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917.

From Seattle Times

Around the same time, the German Army agreed to a technology transfer scheme with the Bolsheviks that allowed the army to test new weapons and tactics at secret sites deep inside the Soviet Union.

From Salon

In France she met and married another exile, Bronislav Sossinsky, who had won the highest medal for gallantry in the White Army that fought against the Bolsheviks in Russia's Civil war.

From Reuters