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Mensheviki

  • plural
    of Menshevik.
    Menshevik
    noun
    a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in opposition to the Bolsheviks: advocated gradual development of full socialism through parliamentary government and cooperation with bourgeois parties; absorbed into the Communist party formed in 1918.

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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

He belonged to the "Lesser Group" or "Mensheviki" of his party, in contradistinction of the "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki."

From Time Magazine Archive

The next largest group was the Social Democratic party, including Bolsheviki and Mensheviki, numbering 103.

From Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

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