menshevik

English - Turkish

Definition of menshevik in English Turkish dictionary

{i} bolşevikler karşıtı rus demokrat partisi üyesi

(isim) bolşevikler karşıtı rus demokrat partisi üyesi

Rus Sosyal Demokrat Partisinde Bolşeviklere karşı olan tutucu üye

English - English

Definition of menshevik in English English dictionary

A member of the gradualist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution

Member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party. The group evolved in 1903 when L. Martov called for a mass party modeled after western European groups, as opposed to Vladimir Ilich Lenin's plan to restrict the party to professional revolutionaries. When Lenin's followers obtained a majority on the party central committee, they called themselves Bolsheviks ("those of the majority"), and Martov and his group became the Mensheviks ("those of the minority"). The Mensheviks played active roles in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and in the St. Petersburg soviet, but they became divided over World War I and later by the Russian Revolution of 1917. They attempted to form a legal opposition party but in 1922 were permanently suppressed

a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution

Hyphenation

men·she·vik

Etymology

() Borrowed from Russian меньшевик (men'ševik), formed on Russian меньше (men'še), the comparative of малый (malyj, “little”)T.F. Hoad, Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, ISBN 978-0-19-283098-2; headword Menshevik.