The Split of the Social Democrats
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- The Split of the Social Democrats
- Bolsheviks
- Led by Lenin
- Favoured a revolutionary elite to direct the uneducated masses
- Practical
- Act now!
- One revolution ASAP
- Democratic Centralism
- Notion by Lenin that true democracy lay in obedience of members to authority + instructions of leaders
- No co-operation with other parties
- Mensheviks
- Led by Plekhanov and Martov
- Concerned more with debate and theory
- Intellectuals
- Procrastinators
- More interested in reform than revolution
- Organisation open to the masses
- Fully democratic: one member, one vote
- Works with other revs and Trade Unions to ensure reform
- "We cannot be guided by the mood of the masses; that is changeable and unaccountable. The masses have given their confidence to the Bolsheviks and ask from them not words but deeds" Lenin
- Different personality, ideology, party structure and strategy
- Bolsheviks
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