Mensheviks

Mensheviks 

Mensheviks was a party formed in 1903 from a split in the RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Labor Party). The word Menshevik means “minority” in Russian. During 1905-1907 Mensheviks opposed the working class. 

A member of a wing of the RSDLP before and during the Russian revolution.

They believed in:

They revolted against the bourgeois, and established socialism. Mensheviks tended to be moderate and were more positive toward the liberal conditions.
 * Creating socialism through bourgeois revolution.
 * Opposed the soviet government with armies
 * Opposed a plan for a party restricted to professional revolution
 * They wanted to achieve socialism democratically.

 Mensheviks vs. Bolsheviks 

The first meeting: 

 On July 1903 the fifty-seven delegates gathered around in Brussels. Georgi Plekhanov was elected and represented the Russian Marxists.

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The delegate’s fair uneasy and unfair, that’s why they moved to London, where they start meetings and gathered around. It became clear the party split in two groups and points of view, the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.=====

Definition of a party member and leader
Confrontations: 



The Bolsheviks almost always have a higher percentage of votes; from there they took its representative name “majority ” and Mensheviks who receive the least “Minority ”
Menshevik contribution:

Iska owned to the Menshevik organ
On May 4 1917 Mensheviks took the government and other socialist-liberal coalition with social revolutionaries and liberal democrats took it and made it.

Bibliography: richar cavendish, (2011). The Bolshevik-Menshevik Split. historytoday. Published in History Today Volume: 53 Issue: 11 2003

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