ut above the others. By contrast, none of the leading Mensheviks has come down to us with a historical image known to more than a few specialists. Menshevik whom we now remember are those who made a name for themselves subsequently as Bolsheviks, such as Trotsky. The Mensheviks' own leaders seem not to have been a very dynamic or colorful lot, suggesting that the Menshevik program did not draw commanding personalities, or create such personalities among its adherents.
Nevertheless, although the Mensheviks may have lacked dynamic leadership, their ideology nevertheless was able to draw broader support among the politicized and radicalized segment of the Russian people (mainly soldiers, radical members of the middle classes, and industrial workers in Moscow and St. Petersburg). Movements that command broad popular support and have many loyal adherants are not necessarily doomed, even in revolutionary conditions, by the lack of forceful leaders or to put it the other way, forceful leadership alone cannot always propel a minority fa
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