During the reign of Czar Nicholas II (1884-1917),
             Russia went through a series of bad harvests that caused
             starvation among the peasants. As industrialization
             increased, discontent also grew among the middle class and
             proletarians (workers) in the cities. As a result, Russians
             found themselves drawn to three main polotical parties that
             sought changes in government and promised a better future;
             the liberal constitutionists, the populists and the
             Marxists. The Marxists, who followed the socialist
             teachings of Karl Marx, wanted to promote revolution among
             the city workers. In 1898 a number of secret Marxist groups
             in Russia joined and formed the Russian Social Democratic
             Labor Party, which became the inception from which
             Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who later added the name
             Lenin, is the founder of Bolshevism, which later became
             known as the Communist Party. This Communist doctrine is
             based on the ideas and theories of Karl Marx. According to
             Marx, the free enterprise system, which is based on
             privately owned businesses, would eventually destroy itself.
             As a result, economic depressions would occur. The
             depressions would worsen until the workers would revolt and
             take over the industries. Marx believed that such
             revolutions would occur in Western nations that had highly
             developed economies.1 Lenin believed that a revolution would
             succeed in Russia only if led by a small political party of
             professional revolutionaries.2 This idea was Lenin's most
             important addition to Marx's social theory as he founded the
             In 1903, the second congress of the Russian Social
             Democratic Party was held in London to discuss the issue of
             party organization and membership. This gathering
             represented thousands of members, with influence over
             hundreds of thousands of workers. Lenin and Martov were
             part of the Iskra group. During the 22nd session, when the
             Congress had been going on for two ...