Vadim Podbelsky
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) was a Russia
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n revolutionary
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 and Bolshevik
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The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 statesman
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 following the Russian Revolution.

Podbelsky joined the Bolshevik
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 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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 in 1905. During the 1905 uprising
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The 1905 Russian Revolution was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies...

 he was involved in anti-government demonstrations and meetings. Fearing arrest, Podbelsky fled to France
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 in 1906.

Vadim Podbelsky was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
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Burials in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Moscow began in November 1917, when 240 pro-Bolshevik victims of the October Revolution were buried in mass graves on Red Square. It is centered on both sides of Lenin's Mausoleum, initially built in wood in 1924 and rebuilt in granite in 1929–1930...

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