Menshevik
Noun
Meaning
a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution
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Examples
The Provisional Government, with the support of Socialist-Revolutionary Party Menshevik leaders of the All-Russian Executive Committee of the Soviets, ordered an armed attack against the peaceful demonstrators, murdering hundreds.
These were to be followed by the arrests of Socialist Revolutionary Party and Menshevik leaders.