Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - menshevik

 noun  (plural ~s or ~i)  Etymology: Russian men'shevik, from men'she less; from their forming the minority group of the party  Date: 1907 a member of a wing of the Russian Social Democratic party before and during the Russian Revolution believing in the gradual achievement of socialism by parliamentary methods in opposition to the Bolsheviks  • Menshevism noun  • Menshevist noun or adjective