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Mensheviks 

The Mensheviks were more focused on changing Russia peacefully through an evolutionary process, while the Bolsheviks wanted revolutionary, violent change.
On July 30, 1903, the second congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) was held in Brussels, Belgium. While the meeting was supposed to unite the party, instead it split in two. Lenin headed the Bolsheviks, who believed that violence was necessary for the revolution to succeed. The Bolsheviks thought that only a violent uprising in the proletariat can truly create a communist state, with the rebellion to be headed by a small number of intelligent revolutionaries. The Mensheviks, on the other hand, believed that reform and democracy would gradually bring Russia into communism. They thought that the formulation of a parliament and organization into different parties would allow Russia's working class to gain more power. Lenin gave his group the name "Bolshevik", which means majority-class. His opponents were called "Mensheviks", which means minority-class, although, at the congress in Brussels, there were more Mensheviks than Bolsheviks. During the civil war following the overthrow of Czar the Bolsheviks represented the red army and the Mensheviks represented the white army. The Mensheviks wanted to later establish a monarchy, which was not supported by the Mensheviks.
Related Words
menshn • Mensan • menshe • menshevik • menship • Meeshnew • meishna • mensane • Mensang • Mensen

semi-menshevik 

Rosa Luxemburg (also @TheAcherons)
What was the attitude of the German Left Social-Democrats, of Parvus and Rosa Luxemburg, to this controversy? They invented a utopian and semi-Menshevik scheme of permanent revolution…
semi-menshevik by KulakHater1918 April 10, 2021

Menshevik 

A member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party.
The Mensheviks and Bolsheviks were both Communists, but they disagreed on how the revolution could be achieved. The Mensheviks believed in mobilizing the Russian masses (workers and peasants) against the existing establishment and in using the parliamentry system to achieve it, whereas the more radical Bolsheviks believed that the revolution should come about through the works of a small group of intellectual elites such as Lenin. The reason this confuses a lot of people is because Menshevik means "minority", and Bolshevik means "majority", when actually it was the Mensheviks who believed in a revolution of the majority, and the Bolsheviks in one of the minority. The reason for these paradoxies is that the names actually represent the size of their respective parties rather than their viewpoints-- the 1905 split between the two factions revealed that the MAJORITY of Communists were Bolsheviks, and the minority were Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks went on to carry out the revolution successfully.
Menshevik by Dancing with Fire April 8, 2013
Member of Mensa. Mensa is the high IQ society and membership requires an IQ in the top 2% of the population.
It by no means surprises me that nobody on this site knows what Mensa is!
Mensan by the voice of reason April 24, 2003
meishna is a word derived from the famous KeVI and Hunter Ray it is reffered to as me-shh-na a word similiar to the language commonly spoken in Africa. Meishna often is referred to a young fat kid eating McDonalds.
mom i just a meishna on 4th street.
meishna by John Bucketlist November 22, 2010
The amnesia which women get while menstruating. The cycle causes forgetfulness and erratic behavior. Women can lose 25% of their IQ points during this time; making rational decision making an impossible task. Some have compared the experience to a mild form of Alzheimer’s. Don’t let this temporary slowness fool you, she will knock you out!
1. The woman couldn’t recall if she left her keys in the car or if the car was running, due to her mensnesia.

2. “Hey, I have mensenia, I can’t be expected to remember you have a food allergy!”
Mensnesia by TemptressTease December 11, 2021
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