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1967 [1905March 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. Lenin – Collected Works, volume 8, translation of original in Russian, 1977, page 36:
For the last five or six months the representative of one district has been a ‘Menshevik’. Due to the fact that it has been out of touch with the general activity, this district has lost ground terribly.
V odnom rajone v poslednije 5—6 mesjacev predstavitelem byl «menʹševik». Blagodarja otorvannosti ot obščej raboty etot rajon strašno oslab.
1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, page 259:
‘Better an ultra-leftist than a Menshevik,’ said Rosa Kaletsky.
2015 October 28, Ted Cruz, quotee, “Transcript: Read the Full Text of the CNBC Republican Debate in Boulder”, in Time:
Let me be clear. The men and women on this stage have more ideas, more experience, more common sense than every participant in the Democratic debate. That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.
Translations
member of a minority faction of the Russian revolutionary movement
