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Mensheviks

Mensheviks is the plural of Menshevik.

Meaning of Menshevik

Noun

Menshevik (plural Mensheviks or (literary) Mensheviki)

  1. (historical) A member of the gradualist or moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution, when they split with the Bolsheviks; or a member of a later independent moderate-Marxist party formed in 1917.
    • В одном районе в последние 5—6 месяцев представителем был «меньшевик». Благодаря оторванности от общей работы этот район страшно ослаб.1967 [1905 March 23 (10)], Владимир Ленин [Vladimir Lenin], “Пора кончить”, in В. И. Ленин – Полное собрание сочинений, volume 9, page 145; English translation from “Time to Call a Halt!”, in V. I....

Questions about Mensheviks

What is Mensheviks the plural of?
Mensheviks is the plural of Menshevik.

Words near Mensheviks in the dictionary

  1. menservants
  2. menses
  3. mensh
  4. Menshevik
  5. Mensheviki
  6. Mensheviks
  7. menshevism
  8. menshevisms
  9. Menshevist
  10. Menshevists
  11. mensing

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