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Mensheviki
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en John Reed (journalist) John Reed 1987 1 January 1919 w:Ten Days That Shook the World Preface 14 https://archive.org/details/tendaysthatshooktheworldjohnreed/page/n13/mode/2up w:Moscow w:Progress Publishers Roughly, the Mensheviki and Socialist Revolutionaries believed that Russia was not economically ripe for a social revolution — that only a political revolution was possible.