why was the socialists divided into bolsheviks and mensheviks class 9 history
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The Bolsheviks claimed the name after getting their way in a wrangle over the editorial board of the Party newspaper Iskra (‘the Spark’ – which was to ‘start a big blaze’). The Mensheviks unwisely accepted the appellation, though they were actually more often in the majority. Both groups were enthusiasts for the destruction of capitalism and the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, but the Mensheviks, led by Martov, favoured a large, loosely organised democratic party whose members could agree to differ on many points. They were prepared to work with the liberals in Russia and they had scruples about the use of violence. The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, were hardline revolutionaries who would not have known a scruple if it bought them a drink.
Lenin had no time for democracy and no confidence in the masses. He wanted a small, tightly organised, strictly disciplined party of full-time members who did what they were told, followed the party line in every particular and would be far more difficult for the Tsarist police to infiltrate. (One of the congress’s own organising committee, as it happened, was an agent of the Russian secret police.)
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the socialists who wanted revolution. Bolsheviks believed in the necessity of a revolution led and controlled by the proletariat only, whereas Mensheviks (believed that a collaboration with the bourgeoisie (capitalists and industrialists