Menshevik
Also known as Minority
The Mensheviks () were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. Mensheviks held more moderate and reformist views as compared to the Bolsheviks, and were led by figures including Julius Martov and Pavel Axelrod.
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The Mensheviks were a moderate faction of the Russian Socialist party that split from Vladimir Lenin's more radical Bolshevik faction in 1903, favoring gradual reform rather than revolutionary change. They matter historically because this split represented a fundamental disagreement about how socialism should be achieved in Russia, ultimately leading to the Bolsheviks seizing power in the Russian Revolution while the Mensheviks faded from influence.
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Key facts
- Political party.founded
- 1903
- Political party.parent_organization
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
- Political party.position
- Left-wing
- Political party.name
- Mensheviks
- Political party.native_name
- меньшевики́
- Political party.native_name_lang
- ru
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Mensevikii.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mensheviks
- inception
- 1903-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1924-00-00