Which faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party did Nikolai Krivoruchko join?
Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (Russian: большевики, большевик (singular) ; ] ; derived from большинство "bol'shinstvo", "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The RSDLP was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in Minsk in Belarus to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party.
Valentin Khaustov Valentin Ivanovich Khaustov (Russian: Валентин Иванович Хаустов ; 1884, Ryazan Governorate — after 1922) was a turner, a menshevik and a deputy of the Fourth Imperial Duma from the Ufa Governorate between 1912 and 1917. He was also a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK). In 1917 he became a member of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma and the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet - he was appointed a commissar for postal and telegraph employees. In 1918, after the beginning of the Russian Civil War, he supported the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly.