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  1. Member of the minority (Russian menshinstvo
  2. `minority') of the Russian Social Democratic
  3. Party, who split from the Bolsheviks 1903.
  4. The Mensheviks believed in a large, loosely
  5. organized party, and that before socialist
  6. revolution could occur in Russia, capitalist
  7. society must develop further. During the
  8. Russian Revolution they had limited power and
  9. set up a government in Georgia, but were
  10. suppressed 1922.
  11.