Menshevik was created in 1903.

A Menshevik is a member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party. They are opposed to the Bolsheviks and defeated them after the overthrow of the tsar in 1917.

Julius Martov was the leading Menshevik. Leon Trotsky was also a Menshevik until shortly before the October Revolution, when he switched over to the Bolsheviks.

Ziva Galili y Garcia has written:

'The Menshevik revolutionary defensists and the workers in the Russian Revolution of 1917'

'The Menshevik leaders in the Russian Revolution'

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