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
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
Since arriving at Rome he has let it be known that he is not a Bolshevik but a Menshevik.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then came Dan, the Menshevik, to hear whom I had come.
From Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome
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
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
He belonged to the "Lesser Group" or "Mensheviki" of his party, in contradistinction of the "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki."
From Time Magazine Archive
In this, the initiative was taken by the Social-Revolutionists and the Mensheviki.
From From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Davidovich Trotzky
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
But as a law student at Kiev University after 1901, Vishinsky became absorbed with politics, joined the Mensheviks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plekhanov tended to side with the Mensheviks, and so did an obstreperously brilliant newcomer named Lev Bronstein, who signed his fiery pamphlets with the name Trotsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, the Mensheviks have gone much further into the question.
From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Leon Davidovich Trotzky
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