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The government in Georgia was heavily Menshevik and resisted Bolshevik rule, but in 1921 the Red Army took control of this region as well.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Menshevik Kerensky was present in Petrograd when there began a curiously leaderless and random series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery.

From Time • Jan. 18, 2015

Nervous and low-voiced, the Dean is under the stigma of having been a Menshevik, not a Bolshevik.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1899 he joined the Social Democrat Party, before it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, actively plotted against the Tsar.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first time, the City Duma members and the Menshevik and Socialist Revolutionary leaders were present in imposing numbers, and spoke so gravely of the consequences that the Commissar was frightened.

From Ten Days That Shook the World by Reed, John