Menshevistn.adj.
/ˈmɛnʃᵻvɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɛn(t)ʃəvəst/ Now chiefly historical.
A. n.
A Menshevik; a supporter of Menshevism.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [noun] > Menshevism > Menshevik
Menshevik1906
minimalist1906
Menshevist1919
soft1930
1919 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Aug. 432/3 A pleasing description of the Menshevists.
1931 Times 7 Mar. 12/2 The Menshevists had always been opposed to the violent overthrow of the Bolshevists.
1949 I. Deutscher Stalin iii. 55 To the Menshevists this sounded like an ominous repetition of Blanquism, the doctrine of the leader of the Paris Commune.
B. adj.
Of or relating to Menshevism or the Mensheviks.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [adjective] > specific party
socialist revolutionary1877
social revolutionary1907
Menshevist1922
1922 (title) Soviet Social Insurance. Tzarist, Menshevist and Soviet Insurance laws.
1926 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 274 He was known to return in all intricate cases to his menshevist fallacies.
1931 Times 7 Mar. 12/2 Documentary evidence of the alleged Menshevist propaganda all, strangely enough, got destroyed.
1967 M. Glenny tr. A. V. Lunacharsky Revolutionary Silhouettes 116 For two hours, amid the shouts and boos of the S.R. and Menshevist rabble (all the reactionary elements at the factory were traced back to the S.R.s and the Mensheviks) we tried to bring the excited mob to order.
2000 Atlantic Monthly 1 Mar. 18 The Georgians alone have seen in just one century a Menshevist regime, civil war, Stalinist destruction and deportations, democracy, anarchy, and, finally, benign despotism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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