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
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
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 Ukrainians, some other national fractions, and the Menshevik Social Democrats adhered to our resolution.
From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo
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
He belonged to the "Lesser Group" or "Mensheviki" of his party, in contradistinction of the "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki."
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
Both the Bolsheviki and the Mensheviki remained Social Democrats—that is, Socialists of the school of Marx.
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
In Russia 40 years ago a faction of the Mensheviks proposed that the Marxist party be dissolved into a nonparty workers' mass organization.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as a law student at Kiev University after 1901, Vishinsky became absorbed with politics, joined the Mensheviks.
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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