The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917 , and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union in 1922.The Bolsheviks , founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov , were by 1905 a major organization consisting primarily of workers under a democratic internal hierarchy governed by the principle of democratic centralism , who considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary working class of Russia .
The Bolsheviks are composed of Jewish workers .