mar 8, 1918 - Bolsheviks adopt name Communists
Description:
The Bolsheviks adopted a new name to the Communist Party, after the writings of Karl Marx. The group of people that brought down both Czar Nicolas II and the government that followed after he left the throne, announced itself to the world as a communist government, and it would rule all of the new Union of Soviet Socialists Republics until 1991.Added to timeline:
Date:
mar 8, 1918
Now
~ 107 years ago