Menshevik
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian меньшеви́к (menʹševík), derived from меньшинство́ (menʹšinstvó, “minority”), formed in turn from Russian ме́ньше (ménʹše), the comparative of ма́лый (mályj, “little”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Menshevik (plural Mensheviks or Mensheviki)
- (now chiefly 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.
- 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 faction of the Russian revolutionary movement
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