The+Bolsheviks

Daniel Abercrombie The Bolsheviks

Split from The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1903 V.I. Lenin leader of the Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks used armed robbery as means of fundraising (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSbolsheviks.htm) Lenin writes April Theses April, 3rd, 1917 The Russian Provisional Government was weak and unpopular Leon Trotsky trains and establishes the red guard Overthrow of Provisional Government November 6-7 1918
 * Early Days**

Whites out of Serbia under Admiral Alexander Kolchak posed first threat for Bolsheviks Gen Anton Denikin pushes through Ukraine Organized Reds under Trotsky defeats The unorganized whites Communists Implement "Revolutionary Terror" by creating the Cheka (Secret Police) by 1921 Bolsheviks maintained control
 * Civil War**

Dec 29 1922 Treaty of the Creation of the USSR and Deceleration of the Creation of the USSR approved
 * USSR**