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GlossaryRussian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
- Pavel Borisovich Axelrod Павел Борисович Аксельрод Theorist of the mass workers' party: the argument that lost to Lenin's vanguard
- Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov Георгий Валентинович Плеханов The father of Russian Marxism: against his own pupils’ revolution
- Nikolay Semyonovich Chkheidze Николай Семёнович Чхеидзе Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet in the dual-power era, face of revolutionary defencism
- Noe Zhordania ნოე ჟორდანია Leader of the Georgian Mensheviks who headed the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1918–1921
- Alexander Nikolayevich Potresov Александр Николаевич Потресов One of the six who built Iskra: the Menshevik theorist who parted with Lenin
- Fyodor Ilyich Dan Фёдор Ильич Дан Menshevism's theoretical pillar who stood for democratic socialism against Lenin
- Julius Osipovich Martov Юлий Осипович Мартов Lenin’s oldest friend and most principled adversary
- Evgeni Gegechkori ევგენი გეგეჭკორი Menshevik politician who chaired the Transcaucasian Commissariat and became foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia