Menshevik
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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
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 Magazine Archive
In the first edition of the Soviet Encyclopedia, Vishinsky had been identified as a former Menshevik.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Russia "Bolshevik" means majority, and "Menshevik" minority.
From Bolshevism: A Curse & Danger to the Workers by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)
M. Kerensky offered to return to Russia and submit to imprisonment if the Bolsheviki would release from prison certain Mensheviki.
From Time Magazine Archive
He belonged to the "Lesser Group" or "Mensheviki" of his party, in contradistinction of the "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki."
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
That is to say, he once belonged to the "Smaller Group" or "Mensheviki" of the Russian Social Democratic Party.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Mensheviki contended that the time for secret, conspiratory action was past; that Russia had outgrown that earlier method.
From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by Spargo, John
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
Led by gentle Julius Martov, the Mensheviks had a Jeffersonian faith in the masses and a passion for democracy.
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 attacked not only the militarization of labor, but general labor service also.
From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich
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