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Bolsheviks

Russian Bolshevik soldiers demonstrating in Petrograd. Text: Първиятъ реводюционенъ отрядъ въ начадото на реводюцията.

Russian Bolshevik soldiers demonstrating in Petrograd.

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Първиятъ реводюционенъ отрядъ въ начадото на реводюцията.

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The Russian Bolsheviks seized power in the October or Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The most prominent of its members were Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.