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Menshevism
Variant of Menshevik
noun pl. Mensheviks or Mensheviki
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
adjective
of, characteristic of, or like the Mensheviks
Related Forms:
- Menshevism noun
- Menshevist noun, adjective
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