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...served various terms of imprisonment amounting in all to ten years. "It was in prison that I finally became converted to the theory of Marx." He was a Social Democrat. After the Brussels Conference of 1903, when the Socialist Convention split to become known as Bolshevik* and Menshevik Parties, he joined the Mensheviki. "As soon as Menshevism began to assume the character of a tactical movement. . . I broke with the Mensheviki and remained outside both factions," he related. After Bloody Sunday, Jan. 9, 1905, he seems to have become an ardent Bolshevik and to have worked hard for the revolution...
...Bolshevik, from bolshinstvó, meaning majority; Menshevik, from menshinstvtó, meaning minority...
...Jordanski, new Soviet representative to Rome, who will sign the Lausanne Treaty Convention relative to the freedom of the Straits, is described as "an interesting personality." Since arriving at Rome he has let it be known that he is not a Bolshevik but a Menshevik...
...words Bolsheviki and Mensheviki (bolshinstvó and menshinstvó) are the Russian for majority and minority. The apparent anomaly?the Bolsheviki being an actual minority in Russia?is accounted for by the Socialist Conference of Brussels, July, 1903, from which the Bolshevik and Menshevik Parties derived their names...