difference between bolshievks and soviets..

The word Bolsheviks is descriptive of any majority in the Russian language. In 1905, Alexander Bogdanov and Vladimir Lenin created the Bolshevik Party to help ensure that democratic centralism was maintained within the Social Democratic Labor Party.

The word Soviet, on the other hand, was used to describe elected bodies at state and local levels (Pliguzov & Smith, 1996).

Though both of these institutions were invested in promoting communist principles, they differed in the methods used to achieve this aim.

1. The term soviet is descriptive of state and local councils that emerged spontaneously in the course of the Russian revolution. The word Bolshevik, on the other hand, refers to the Party that Lenin and Bogdanov formed in 1905 to preserve the purity of communist objectives.
2. The Bolsheviks encouraged the use of far more violent methods than the soviets when implementing communist objectives in society.
3. As the soviets were made up of workers and peasants, they were more supportive of the rights of the underclass than the Bolsheviks who were more committed to realizing the ideological objectives in their communist manifesto as dictated by Lenin.