who were bolsheviks and mensheviks?
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The Bolshevik were the majority group led by Vladmir Lenin who thought that in a repressive society like Tsarist Russia, the party should be disciplined and control the number and quality of its members. they were the group who conducted the Russian revolution
The Menshevik, were the minority group who taught that the party should be open by all. they did not believe in revolution but wanted to bring changes through democratic means
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During the early 1900s, the Social-Democrat Worker's Party was created in tsarist Russia. This would escalate into the Russian Revolution of 1917. Within the party, there was a spilt and two factions emerged: the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. The word Menshevik comes from the word "minority" (in Russian of course), and Bolshevik from "majority". Bolsheviks believed in a radical —and elitist— revolution, whereas Mensheviks supported a more progressive change in collaboration with the middle class and the bourgeoisie. The central figures were Julius Martov, at the head of the Mensheviks, who opposed Vladimir Lenin, leader of the bolcheviks. The Bolcheviks did not truly have the majority, yet it was their vision that prevaded for the upcoming decades.