The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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
He was astute enough to choose the Bolsheviks rather than the Mensheviks when the Party split in 1903.
From Time Magazine Archive
A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921.
From Time Magazine Archive
This report was printed in the Rabocaja Gazeta, May 18 and 19—this is the organ of the Mensheviks, i.e. that of Tscheidse, Tseretelli and Skobeleff.
From In the World War by Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz
