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What did the Bolsheviks and Menshiviks think of Rasputin?

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Complete speculation but likely Trotsky (first a Menshevik then a Bolshevik) considered Rasputin a morally bankrupt product of the morally bankrupt edifice of a capitalist monarchal society. Looking back a little over 100 years later it's hard to disagree with that notion. read more

As his influence over Alexandra grew, Rasputin was not content to merely attend her son at his sickbed, and was emboldened to advise Tsar Nicholas II on matters of government. He made enemies who tried without success to warn the royal family that Rasputin was a fraud. read more

At first, the Bolsheviks supported the Provisional Government and considered merging with the Mensheviks, but then Lenin arrived back from exile and stamped his views firmly on the party. Indeed, while the Bolsheviks were riven by factions, it was Lenin who always won and gave direction. read more

The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were both revolutionary political parties of Marxist origins. Russian Marxism dates back to 1898 and the creation of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, or SDs, which itself was formed from several smaller groups. read more

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