The Mensheviks believed that Russian socialism would grow gradually and peacefully and that the tsar's regime should be succeeded by a democratic republic in which the socialists would cooperate with the liberal bourgeois parties.
Os menxeviques crían que o socialismo ruso chegaría gradual e pacificamente e que o réxime do tsar debería ser sucedido por unha república democrática na que os socialistas houbesen de cooperar cos partidos burgueses.