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[โ€“] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhh, yes the mensheviks. The majority which name was the russian word for minority

[โ€“] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They were minority nearly all time among the workers and party supporters in Russia. Mensheviks did attained majority in party congresses several times, but it's because they were usually happening outside Russia and mensheviks certainly had majority among the emmigrant inteligentsia. For example once they got a majority for few years because most bolshevik memebers of Central Comitte were arrested in Russia - something that was not happening to the mensheviks since they weren't in Russia.

They also didn't had the majority during the October Revolution. They did, but only together with SR's, during the February Revolution, but in subsequent months they squandered it by not fullfilling even the most basic promises of that revolution.