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Re:The great error: the Bolsheviks were not a party but an a... by aaron-lebo on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:55PM (#16031927)
I'm getting into semantics, but though I get that the Bolsheviks of 1920 transformed (officially) and eventually into the CPSU in 1952, with that "rebranding", did anyone in the USSR still call themselves Bolsheviks or were they communists or was there a more popular term?

It's just that I've never seen it in (historical) contexts outside of describing the pre 1920s revolutionaries.

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Re:The great error: the Bolsheviks were not a party but an a... by pandaman on Friday December 29, 2017 @04:33PM (#16032141)
>anyone in the USSR still call themselves Bolsheviks or were they communists or was there a more popular term

They used "bolshevik" as a term of endearment especially in reference to the old party members.

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