Menshevik Revolution

[John "Eh" MacDonald]

I'm a little shaky on the Russian Revolution. I do know that the RSDLP split to form two different factons, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.

How would Russia be different today in the past and the present if Julius Martov lead the revolution? How did the Mensheviks theories differ from the Bolsheviks?

EDIT: Perhaps this should be in learning?

[Die Neue Zeit]

It depends on which Menshevik group took the lead. Utter disaster would have befallen Russia had the Menshevik-Defencists taken power (not that they had any spine to do so, since they were in cahoots with the Provisional Government and later the Whites).

If, in 1920 or so, the Menshevik-Internationalists had succeeded in overthrowing the anti-soviet Bolshevik coups' d'etat of 1918, however... but again, they didn't have the spine to openly split from their Defencist "comrades."