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Noun: Menshevik  'men-shu,vik
  1. A member of the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution
    "The Mensheviks lost power to the more radical Bolsheviks in 1917"

Derived forms: Mensheviks

Type of: socialist

Encyclopedia: Menshevik