menshevik
IPA: mˈɛnʃʌvɪk
Root Word: Menshevik
noun
- (now chiefly historical) 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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Examples of "menshevik" in Sentences
- The minority or Menshevik faction adopted that title.
- I have never heard Gorbachev described as a Menshevik.
- The Mensheviks awaited the capitalist revolution in Russia.
- As a Menshevik activist he was imprisoned by the Czar's secret police.
- It was the congress of the Bolsheviks only with a handful of Mensheviks.
- After studying law in Moscow, she became a member of the Menshevik party.
- In Russian, bolshevik means from the majority and menshevik from the majority.
- The Mensheviks didn't predict the end of the USSR, they opposed the Bolsheviks.
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