All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

The All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), also known as the Bolshevik Party, is the premier communist party of the Soviet Union. Founded from the majority faction (bolšinstvo) of the preceding in the early 20th century, its role in the Russian Revolution has made the party (and its chief architect, Vladimir Lenin) a cornerstone of the nascent Soviet state.

Today, the Bolsheviks constitute the more conservative tendencies of the Soviet communist movement after the split of the militarized internationalists from the party (forming the Soviet United Labor Front). Even with the subsequent return of multiparty politics after the Great Revolutionary War, the All-Union Communist Party has maintained a status of eminence within society, owing to its integral contributions to the development of the USSR and the global revolution.