Menshevik

noun pl. -·viks′ or -·vik′i-vē′kē

a member of the minority faction (Mensheviki) of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, which opposed the more radical majority faction (Bolsheviki) from 1903 on

Etymology: Russ (1903) < menshe, the smaller, less, minority < OSlav miniji, smaller < IE *mineu-, var. of base *mei-, to lessen > L minor

adjective

of, characteristic of, or like the Mensheviks