menshevism

menshevism

See also: Menshevism

English

Noun

menshevism (countable and uncountable, plural menshevisms)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Menshevism
   • 1957, Atti del X Congresso internazionale, Roma, Congresso internazionale di scienze storiche, page 655:

     The subdivisions of socialism (populism, menshevism, bolshevism) are of course very well known: there is an enormous and valuable literature, both in the Soviet Union and the West.

   • 1961, Bertram David Wolfe, Three who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History, page 302:

     While unknown men of the masses inside Russia were leading strike waves, peasant insurrections, mutinies in the armed forces, in closest cooperation between adherents of menshevism, bolshevism and the Social Revolutionary Party, the leaders in exile continued their battle of factions.

   • 1967, Edward Ellis Smith, The Young Stalin: The Early Years of an Elusive Revolutionary, page 156:

     Little was known about that curious outfit, which had been devised by Lenin to keep control of a small bolshevik conspiratorial group in the Caucasian fortress of menshevism.