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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

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

They frankly opposed the Mensheviki when the latter proposed to hold their great convention of industrial workers, giving as their reason the fear that the convention majority would not consist of class-conscious revolutionary Marxian Socialists.

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