Editing Bolshevism (section)

===Criticism and historical estimates===
According to the philosopher and linguist [[Nikolai Trubetzkoy|Nikolay Trubetskoy]]:

{{Quote|text=The positive significance of Bolshevism may be that having removed the mask and showed everyone [[Satan]] in his undisguised form, he led many through confidence in the reality of Satan to faith in God.|author="We and Others", ''Eurasian Times'', Berlin, 1925}}

The authors of ''[[The Black Book of Communism]]'' note:<ref name="BB1"/>

{{Quote|From the moment of its organizational formation in 1903, this party differed from all other currents of both Russian and world social democracy primarily by its voluntarist strategy of overthrowing the existing order and its concept of party organization – a rigidly structured, disciplined one, consisting of selected professional revolutionaries, parties are the antipode of vague mass parties, widely open to sympathizers, to the struggle of opinions and discussions, that is, the way the Russian Mensheviks and almost all European Social Democrats were.}}

Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]], answering questions in the [[Federation Council (Russia)|Federation Council]] on June 27, 2012, accused the Bolshevik leadership of betraying national interests – "the Bolsheviks committed an act of [[Treason|national betrayal]]..." as a result of which Russia lost the [[First World War]] – "...the result of the betrayal of the [[Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|then government]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://izvestia.ru/news/528739|title=Putin Accused the Bolsheviks of National Treason|date=June 27, 2012|publisher=[[Izvestia|News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://izvestia.ru/news/528844|title=Honor the Losers|author=Boris Mezhuev|date=June 28, 2012|publisher=News}}</ref>