Mensheviks
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pluralof Menshevik.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Mensheviknouna 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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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
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A onetime Menshevik, he came through unscathed when the Bolsheviks put the Mensheviks out of business in 1921.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Needless to say, the Mensheviks struck up a chorus of opposition.
From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Leon Davidovich Trotzky