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The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

Timeline of Events

1907

3.24.1907

The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper ''Dro'' is published.

1917

4.3.1917

Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.

12.15.1917

World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.

1918

1.25.1918

The Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.

7.4.1918

Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).

7.17.1918

On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

8.17.1918

Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.

8.30.1918

Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

8.30.1918

2006

10.28.2006

Funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.