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Also Known As Bolsheviki
Date 1903 - 1952
Areas Of Involvement communism
Related People Leon Trotsky • Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze • Semyon Mikhaylovich Budenny • Vladimir Lenin • Joseph Stalin • Nikita Khrushchev • Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev • Vyacheslav Molotov • Lev Kamenev • Nikolay Bukharin • Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov • Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov • Béla Kun • Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan • Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze

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