AXELROD, PAVEL BORISOVICH (1850-1928) One of the founders of the "Geneva Group for the Federation of Labour." Together with the St. Petersburg-based "Union for Struggle of the Liberation of the Working Class," this was the foundation of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party (RSDRP). In 1903 the latter split into the split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, with Axelrod becoming a major figure in the latter. Over the next 25 years, he was the outstanding ideologist, …showed first 75 words of 880 total…

…showed last 75 words of 880 total…and farms. He urged the "workers of the world to unite" in a worldwide revolution. Marx died in 1883, but his ideas formed the basis of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Mongolia became the second communist nation in 1921 and by the end of World War II, many governments were overthrown by communists. The ideas of Marx were not used in the communist countries. Marx believed that workers would control government, but communist governments were strict and dictatorial.