Name: Bolsheviks and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 54 s
Description: What happened after the October Revolution and the rise of the Bolsheviks Party? We will also learn more about the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

Question

In what aspects were the Bolsheviks different from the Mensheviks? Which one was the majority group?

Accepted Answer

The difference between different social groups can be discussed as follows:

The Social-Democratic Worker's Party suffered a split on ideological opinions of different members. One faction was of the Mensheviks, while the other faction was that of the Bolsheviks.

The Mensheviks were of the soft opinion. They wanted a slow but progressive change in the governance of the country; they wanted to work with the Czar to create a Constituent Assembly.

However, the Bolsheviks were the radical branch. They wanted armed revolution against the Czar, imperial ideas, as well as capitalism to organise the nation with the worker's point of opinion.

The head of the Mensheviks was Julius Martov, who opposed the head of the Bolsheviks Vladimir Lenin on his ideas of revolution.

In the end, as the Bolsheviks were in majority, and got popular support from the public, a great revolution was held in Russia which deposed the Czar, and socialism was introduced in Russia.

In what aspects were the Bolsheviks different from the Mensheviks? Which one was the majority group?

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