First formulated in the wake of the 1905 revolution in Russia, the Theory of Permanent Revolution was developed in opposition to the two-stage perspective of the Menshevik faction of Russian ...
He joined the Menshevik party, opposed Russia's continued participation in World War I and in the turbulent years following the 1917 Russian Revolution, he was imprisoned both by the Bolsheviks ...
History teaches us how mistaken a notion this is. The Bolshevik and Menshevik wings of the Russian socialist movement drew different conclusions about their attitudes toward representatives of ...
Even greater disasters followed. The Soviet bureaucracy attacked the Theory of Permanent Revolution and revived the Menshevik two-stage theory of revolution in countries with a belated capitalist ...
Irving Kupchik was from Belarus, which was then part of the Russian Empire, and had been a Menshevik, part of the moderate opposition to the Bolsheviks. He left the country after the Bolsheviks ...
There they waited with a bouquet and speeches for Lenin. We have this scene from Sukhanov, a non-party Menshevik sympathizer, whom Lenin would not have allowed within speaking distance of his ...