Bolsheviks Effectively the Bolsheviks were those in the Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party who followed Lenin and his plans, and Mensheviks were those who did not. The Mensheviks were permanently suppressed by their opponents from 1922.
In August 1830, the audience were so stirred by a performance of Auber's "La Muette de Portici" at their capital's opera house, that it led to what successful fight for independence?