<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Men·she·viks</li><li>Men·she·vik·i<ul><li>A member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party in opposition to the Bolsheviks.</li><li>Advocated gradual development of full socialism through parliamentary government and cooperation with bourgeois parties.</li><li>Absorbed into the Communist Party formed in 1918.</li></ul></li></ul>