Mensheviki

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A form of Menshevik — A member of the gradualist or moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution, when they split with the Bolsheviks; or a member of a later independent moderate-Marxist party formed in 1917.

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Meanings

noun
  1. literarypluralplural of Menshevik

    Roughly, the Mensheviki and Socialist Revolutionaries believed that Russia was not economically ripe for a social revolution — that only a political revolution was possible.

    1987 [1919 January 1], John Reed, “Preface”, in Ten Days That Shook the World, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 14
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