mensheviki

/M EH1 N SH AH0 V IH0 K IY1/
noun
  1. 1

    (now chiefly historical) A member of the gradualist or moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution, when they split with the Bolsheviks; or a member of a later independent moderate-Marxist party formed in 1917.