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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

Plekhanov tended to side with the Mensheviks, and so did an obstreperously brilliant newcomer named Lev Bronstein, who signed his fiery pamphlets with the name Trotsky.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was astute enough to choose the Bolsheviks rather than the Mensheviks when the Party split in 1903.

From Time Magazine Archive

At that time the dominant party in the Soviets was that of the Mensheviks, who were opposed to the formation of a Soviet Government, and were supporting the provisional Cabinet of Kerensky.

From The Crisis in Russia by Ransome, Arthur