Vladimir Lenin compelled what political party to splinter, enabling him to radicalize one faction and begin the October Revolution?
A)Authoritarian Russian Nationalist Party
B)Bolshevik Party
C)Communist Party
D)Social Democratic Labor Party

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Vladimir Lenin, the author of "What Is to Be Done?," compelled the Social Democratic Labor Party to splinter in 1903, enabling him to radicalize one faction-the group that ultimately began the October Revolution in 1917. The radicalized group was called the Bolsheviks (who were not a party), but they remained part of the Social Democratic Labor Party. In 1922, when the Bolsheviks succeeded in creating the Soviet Union-the world's first constitutional Soviet state-Lenin became the Soviet Premier. After a series of strokes, Lenin died in 1924 (doctors now believe he may have succumbed to neurosyphilis). Rather than burying their revolutionary leader, the Soviet/Russian people have kept his body on display in the capital since his passing. (His remains are washed once a year in a chemical bath that helps preserve his body.)

Vladimir Lenin Compelled What Political Party to Splinter, Enabling Him