Early Days
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
Civil War
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
USSR
Dec 29 1922 Treaty of the Creation of the USSR and Deceleration of the Creation of the USSR approved
The Bolsheviks
Early Days
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
Civil War
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
USSR
Dec 29 1922 Treaty of the Creation of the USSR and Deceleration of the Creation of the USSR approved