The main leader of the Bolsheviks was Vladimir Lenin.

Core answer

  • The Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was led by Vladimir Lenin from its formation in 1903 and throughout the 1917 Russian Revolution.
  • Lenin served as the principal strategist and political head of the Bolsheviks, later becoming the first leader of the Soviet state after they seized power in October 1917.

Extra context

  • Lenin’s full name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, and he became the central figure of Bolshevik ideology and organization, arguing for a disciplined vanguard party to lead a workers’ revolution.
  • While other prominent Bolsheviks like Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were influential, they were not the top leader of the faction during the revolution; that position was firmly held by Lenin.

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