What was the difference between the Bolshevik and Menshevik groups?

 What was the difference between the Bolshevik and Menshevik groups?

Ans.

Mensheviks and Bolsheviks were the two main factions within the Russian socialist movement at the beginning of the 20th century.

(i) Vladimir Lenin led the Bolshevik group and was of the opinion that the party should be disciplined and control the number and quantity of its members. Thus he insisted on the necessity of creating a strictly organised party.

(ii) The Mensheviks were the moderate faction and believed that the party should be open to all