Close. "Bolshinstvo" means "majority" (from "bolshe," "more"); "menshinstvo" means "minority" (from "menshe," "less"). "Bolshevik" means "member of the majority."
--- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
wrote:
>
> By the way," bolshevik" means majority in Russian
> ("Menshevik" means
> minority). Bolshevism is "majorityism".
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