Menshevik
Americannoun
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Mensheviks,
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Mensheviki
plural
noun
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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
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
In 1899 he joined the Social Democrat Party, before it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, actively plotted against the Tsar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Outside the hall I ran into the City Engineer, the Menshevik Gomberg and three or four reporters.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
He belonged to the "Lesser Group" or "Mensheviki" of his party, in contradistinction of the "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki."
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
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
M. Kerensky offered to return to Russia and submit to imprisonment if the Bolsheviki would release from prison certain Mensheviki.
From Time Magazine Archive
While Bolsheviki and Mensheviki wrangled and disputed, great forces were at work among the Russian people.
From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo
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
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
A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prominent Mensheviks and S. R.'s came to us as intermediaries, exhorted, threatened and foretold our doom and the doom of the Revolution.
From From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Davidovich Trotzky
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