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Led by Vladimir Lenin, which radical Marxist faction seized power in Russia during the October Revolution of 1917?

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Interestingly, the name "Bolshevik" literally translates to "one of the majority" in Russian, an ironic title since Lenin's faction was often a numerical minority compared to their rivals, the Mensheviks ("the minority"). After overthrowing the Provisional Government to establish the world's first socialist state, they eventually rebranded themselves as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As a fun historical quirk, because Russia was still using the old Julian calendar at the time, their famous "October Revolution" actually took place in November!

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