menshevism

plural menshevisms

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Menshevism.

   Little was known about that curious outfit, which had been devised by Lenin to keep control of a small bolshevik conspiratorial group in the Caucasian fortress of menshevism.

   1967, Edward Ellis Smith, The Young Stalin: The Early Years of an Elusive Revolutionary, page 156

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   The subdivisions of socialism (populism, menshevism, bolshevism) are of course very well known: there is an enormous and valuable literature, both in the Soviet Union and the West.

   1957, Atti del X Congresso internazionale, Roma, Congresso internazionale di scienze storiche, page 655

   While unknown men of the masses inside Russia were leading strike waves, peasant insurrections, mutinies in the armed forces, in closest cooperation between adherents of menshevism, bolshevism and the Social Revolutionary Party, the leaders in exile continued their battle of factions.

   1961, Bertram David Wolfe, Three who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History, page 302

1. historicalThe Communist political ideology of the Mensheviks.