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Menshevism

  • a word derived from 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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As if this were not enough, students suspected of Menshevism* have been expelled and finally, under compulsion by fanatical women, including the wife of Lenin and Mme.

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By 1920, however, it was clear to Vishinsky that Menshevism would take more than free soup.

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As soon as Menshevism began to assume the character of a tactical movement.

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