Menshevik
Americannoun
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Mensheviks,
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Mensheviki
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Origin of Menshevik
1905–10; < Russian menʾshevík, equivalent to ménʾsh ( iĭ ) lesser (comparative of málenʾkiĭ small; compare menʾshinstvó minority) + -evik, variant of -ovik noun suffix
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The government in Georgia was heavily Menshevik and resisted Bolshevik rule, but in 1921 the Red Army took control of this region as well.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Menshevik Kerensky was present in Petrograd when there began a curiously leaderless and random series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery.
From Time ● Jan. 18, 2015
Nervous and low-voiced, the Dean is under the stigma of having been a Menshevik, not a Bolshevik.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since arriving at Rome he has let it be known that he is not a Bolshevik but a Menshevik.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first time, the City Duma members and the Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary leaders were present in imposing numbers, and spoke so gravely of the consequences that the Commissar was frightened.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
M. Kerensky offered to return to Russia and submit to imprisonment if the Bolsheviki would release from prison certain Mensheviki.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quiet Street, a novel about Russians—not Communists, not Mensheviki, not Whites—is perhaps a sign that she is regaining her literary faculties.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peace was concluded with Germany at Brest-Litovsk and ratified by the Congress of "People's Committees" on such unfavorable terms that the dissenting "Lesser Group" or Mensheviki withdrew in protest from the Congress, henceforth Bolshevik.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the Brussels Conference of 1903, when the Socialist Convention split to become known as Bolshevik* and Menshevik Parties, he joined the Mensheviki.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mensheviki and Socialist Revolutionaries were having a meeting.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
Bolsheviks scorned Mensheviks as socialists in name only, and they utterly despised the Kadets.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2015
Leon Trotsky shouted at the Mensheviks as they exited the Petrograd Second Congress of Soviets in 1917: “You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—the dustbin of history!”
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2014
He was astute enough to choose the Bolsheviks rather than the Mensheviks when the Party split in 1903.
From Time Magazine Archive
If anyone deviated the least little bit from him, like the Mensheviks, for example, he turned on them, he reviled them, he used every term of imprecation against them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mensheviks and S.R.s of the Kuban Rada organized the army of Denikin.
From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Leon Davidovich Trotzky
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