Word: mensheviki
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...economy, writing political tracts, making political friends, deepening her political color sense. She met Lenin in London, Trotsky in New York City. She joined the old Russian Social Democratic Party before there was a Communist (Bolshevik) Party. When the split came, she spurned the Bolsheviki (the majority), embraced the Mensheviki (the minority), and went back to St. Petersburg to take a small hand in the 1905 uprisings. In 1911 she was fighting capitalism in Paris, in 1912, militarism in Stockholm, in 1913, anti-Semitism in London...
Bolshe in Russian means "larger." The Bolsheviki were at first merely the larger group or majority of the Russian Social-Democrat Party which split up in 1903 into the Bolsheviki, led by Lenin and the Mensheviki (minority). In 1918 the Bolshevik Party adopted the name Communist Party, of which Josef Stalin is now Secretary and as such Dictator of Russia...
...badly as Russia. For years after the War nothing escaped her epileptically clenched teeth but the mutter of revolutionary debate. Lately she has disgorged a few novels, most of them drearily propagandist, which have been filtered into translation. Quiet Street, a novel about Russians?not Communists, not Mensheviki, not Whites?is perhaps a sign that she is regaining her literary faculties...
...friends provided he wrote the name Trotsky: of his several aliases that one somehow stuck. In London he met Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), worked with him on the Iskra, revolutionary magazine. Lenin and Trotsky had many a difference of opinion and one serious argument: Trotsky left Lenin for the Mensheviki (moderates), but during the Revolution became a Bolshevik again. Says he of Lenin: "He was my master. This does not mean that I repeated his words and gestures a bit late, but that I learned from him to arrive independently at the same conclusion...
Nervous and low-voiced, the Dean is under the stigma of having been a Menshevik, not a Bolshevik. That is to say, he once belonged to the "Smaller Group" or "Mensheviki" of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The "Larger Group" or "Bolsheviki" have long since obliterated their rivals, now constitute the Communist Party, and are the political masters of Russia. As a mere Menshevik, the Chief Justice is notably deferential to the potent Soviet Prosecutor. He, the dread Nikolai Vassilievich Krylenko, onetime Commander of the Red Army, plays both hero and villain in the Shahkta Trial...