Recently got a temp ban from KiA2 for very mildly acknowledging this fact. Just testing the waters here.
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Could there be a good reason for why the Jews in the tsarist Empire turned to deranged politics? Perhaps that supporters of the tsar were carrying out pogroms, that the Jews did not have equal citizenship (which is logical enough, because it was a Christian Empire), or that they were forbidden from living outside the 'Pale of Settlement'?
It's not strange to me at all that Jews would be more likely to support the communists, who defended them, and not the tsarist regime, which hated them.
It's not just Russia, not nearly. You'd need to look up people like Emma Goldman and Bela Kun as well as many others.
...Bolshevik means majority.
Yes, the Bolsheviks declared themselves the majority of the Russian Social Democratic Party, even though they were the minority, and labeled the majority Martov/Plekhanov faction as the Mensheviks - which later on stuck.