the difference between bolsheviks and mensheviks

Mensheviks on trade unions

Supprited them in pursuing better wages and conditions for workers

Bolsheviks on trade unions

Claimed it was just economism which was dismissed as playing into hands of bourgeoise

Mens of otehr parties

Alliance with all other revolutionary parties and bourgeois liberal parties

Bols on other parties

No cooperation with other parties, aimed to turn workers into revolutionaries

Mens on making decisions

Open, democratic discussion with party, decisions made by votes

Bols of making decisions

Authority exercised by the central committee of the party - ‘democratic centralism’

Mens on revolution

Russia not yet ready for a proletariat revolution bourgeois had to first

Bols on revolution

Bourgeois and proletarian could be combined into one revolution

Mens on size of party

Mass organisation with membership open to all revolutionaries

Bols on size of party

A tight knit exclusive, organisation of professional revolutionaries