Was Stalin a Menshevik?

At this April 1917 Party conference, Stalin was elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee with 97 votes in the party, the third highest after Zinoviev and Lenin.

Is Stalin a Bolshevik?

Joseph Stalin was a Georgian-born student radical who became a member and eventually leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953.

Who were the Mensheviks in Animal Farm?

Mensheviks was a party formed in 1903 from a split in the RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Labor Party). The word Menshevik means “minority” in Russian. During 1905-1907 Mensheviks opposed the working class. A member of a wing of the RSDLP before and during the Russian revolution.