Abstract
Abstract Bolshevism is a political doctrine associated with the Bolshevik party led by Vladimir Lenin. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Lenin was a leading member of the Marxist‐oriented Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP). However, his theoretical work and reflection on political developments in Russia led him and his supporters to break with the party during the RSDLP's congress of 1903. Although the Bolsheviks were a breakaway faction from the larger RSDLP, their name means “majority” or “of the majority” in the Russian language. The Bolsheviks appropriated this name after winning a critical procedural vote at the party congress. This name also reflected the party's desire to be seen as the representatives of the vast working class or proletariat.
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