As nouns the difference between bolsheviks and menshevik
is that bolsheviks is plural of Bolshevik|lang=en while Menshevik is a member of the gradualist or moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution, when they split with the Bolsheviks; or a member of a later independent moderate-Marxist party formed in 1917.
menshevik
Noun
(en-noun)
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, p. 259:
*:‘Better an ultra-leftist than a Menshevik ,’ said Rosa Kaletsky.
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