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The sixth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
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1898–1912 political party in the Russian Empire
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Prague Conference
6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1912)
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Bolsheviks
Faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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