{{Short description|Left-wing faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Mensheviks)}} The '''Menshevik-Internationalists''' were a faction inside the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Mensheviks). The faction, representing the left-wing inside the party, emerged in May 1917. It was joined by a number of political leaders returning from exile, the most notable being Julius Martov. The Menshevik-Internationalists opposed the pro-war line of Dan and Tsereteli. The Menshevik-Internationalists hoped to sway the Menshevik Party over to an anti-war stance.<ref name="WadeWade2005">{{cite book|author1=Rex A. Wade|author2=Rex A.. Wade|title=The Russian Revolution, 1917|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBfnjdxFUkUC&pg=PA213|date=21 April 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-84155-9|page=213}}</ref> The Menshevik-Internationalists dominated the Menshevik Party Organizations in Kharkov, Tula and some other places. They had some control over the Petrograd branch of the party.<ref name="WadeWade2005"/>
At the Menshevik Party congress in August 1917, the Menshevik-Internationalists represented about a third of the gathered delegates.<ref name="WadeWade2005"/> A major chunk of the Menshevik-Internationalist faction broke away and joined the Bolsheviks in August 1917. This group included Yuri Larin.<ref name="WadeWade2005"/>
At the election for the All-Russian Central Executive Committee held at the Third Congress of Soviets in January 1918, the Menshevik-Internationalists obtained two out of 306 seats.<ref>{{cite book|title=Reprints from the Soviet Press: Current Articles, Speeches, Documents and Reports|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ymlGAQAAIAAJ|year=1968|page=19}}</ref>
==See also== *Social Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania and Belorussia (internationalists)
==References== {{reflist}} Category:Factions of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Category:Mensheviks Category:1917 establishments in Russia