Menshevism

Variant of Menshevik

Menshevik definition

Men·she·vik (men′s̸hə vik′)

noun pl. Mensheviks -·viks′ or Mensheviki -·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

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