The Mensheviks (Russian: меньшевики́, romanized: mensheviki, from меньшинство, menshynstvo, 'minority') were a left-wing socialist faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) within the Russian socialist movement. The other significant faction were the Bolsheviks. The factions emerged in 1903 following a dispute within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) betwee...
Union of Autonomists is an organization of peoples in the Russian Empire that arose during the revolution of 1905 and sought the decentralization of the Russian Empire on the basis of national autonomy and federalism.