menshevik

For such an essay to not discuss how the disastrous Menshevik decision to continue the war fatally weakened them and their positions...

Personally saw a lot of parallels to the bolshevik/menshevik/socialist divide in recent US history.

And it's unlikely the Menshevik republicans would have pulled that off.

A more interesting counterfactual would have been Menshevik victory.

He didn’t want another Menshevik - Bolshevik-like episode.

(1850-1926) Vera Ivanovna Zasulich was a Russian Menshevik writer and revolutionary.

They were the largest left faction, and the word bolshevik translates to 'majority', while menshevik means 'minority' - so named because the Bolsheviks pursued a majority-rule policy while the Mensheviks wanted a more parliamentarian system that preserved the rights of minority parties.

Menshevik literally means "minority" and Bolshevik "majority", that's how intertwined the two are.

I don't understand why you say "it's unlikely the Menshevik republicans would have pulled that off".

It was a majority faction ("bolshevik" literally means "member of majority" as opposite to "menshevik", "member of minority") in the Russian Social-Democratic Worker Party (РСДРП).

I think, in the sense used in the post at issue: "Left":"Liberal"::Bolshevik:Menshevik So liberal is to the left of Center but to the right of Left.

Plenty of Russian Socialists agreed with this take, it was at least part of the reason for the Bolshevik/Menshevik split.

You could have had, as some in the Bolshevik Party, in the Left-Menshevik wings, were thinking, a combination of local soviet-style structures with a national parliament.

It's well know for example that Germany supported not only Lenin's Bolsheviks, but also socialist rivals (Leon Trotsky, then a Menshevik, who published antiwar articles in Paris and then New York City).