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Menshevik

Menshevik, formed in 1903 as a faction of the Russian Socialist Democratic Labour Party, were a more moderate and reformist political party.

Wanted the SDP to be an electoral socialist party based on western models. Like the Bolsheviks, wanted to overthrow the Czarist regime.

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