Question

Policies of bolsheviks and menshevikd.



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Answer 1

The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were both revolutionary political parties of Marxist origins. Russian Marxism dates back to 1898 and the creation of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, or SDs, which itself was formed from several smaller groups. By the turn of the 20th century the SDs were Russia’s largest Marxist party. In its first few years the party platform of the SDs remained true to Marxist theory. The SDs considered the proletariat (industrial working class) to be the natural source of revolutionary energy. Since Russia’s industrial workforce was still small, socialist revolution in Russia was a distant prospect – decades, generations, perhaps even a century away.

Answer 2

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were the two main factions within the Russian Socialist movement at the beginning of the 20th century. ... Bolsheviks and Mensheviks had a number of common features and beliefs: They both strived for the elimination of the capitalist system.

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks had a number of common features and beliefs:

They both strived for the elimination of the capitalist system;
They both wanted to overthrow the Tsarist regime; and
They were both part of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party.