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Definition of Menshevik
1. Noun. A Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution.
Definition of Menshevik
1. Proper noun. A member of the gradualist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menshevik
Literary usage of Menshevik
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Proletarian Revolution in Russia by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Leon Trotsky (1918)
"And, until the results of the work of this delegation shall become apparent, the
Menshevik-Internationalist Fraction proposes to the Congress that it ..."
2. Lenin's Legacy: The Story of the Cpsu by Robert G. Wesson (1978)
"At the Fifth Congress, in 1907, the Bolshevik leaders averaged thirty-four years
of age and the Menshevik leaders forty-two. The oldest Bolsheviks were ..."
3. Socialism in Thought and Action by Harry Wellington Laidler (1920)
"The Menshevik group, which contained a large number of the so-called " intellectuals,"
believed that it was necessary for Russia to pass through the ..."
4. Socialism in Thought and Action by Harry Wellington Laidler (1920)
"The Menshevik group, which contained a large number of the so-called " intellectuals,"
believed that it was necessary for Russia to pass ..."
5. The Cause of World Unrest by Howell Arthur Gwynne (1920)
"... 'Menshevik' first came into use. Lenin, representing the Bolsheviks, was his
opponent at that time. He is the only prominent Menshevik who has taken an ..."
6. Bolshevik Aims and Ideals and Russia's Revolt Against Bolshevism (1919)
"In the words of one of their own leaders, the difference between a Bolshevik and
a Menshevik lies in the fact that the one has the courage of his ..."
7. Bolshevik Aims and Ideals and Russia's Revolt Against Bolshevism (1919)
"A truer definition would be that the Menshevik is guided by democratic ...
Whilst the Menshevik shrinks before the appalling tragedy of civil war, ..."
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