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If the Mensheviks triumphed over the Bolsheviks at the Bolshevik-Menshevik Split at the Second RSDLP Party Congress in 1903, making it, rather than Bolshevism, the dominant current in world communism, (although of course, the names would be reversed), would a later Menshevik communist government in Russia, with its basis of a mass party, be less likely to be fully totalitarian, than a Bolshevik government? Of course, wether a government actually becomes totalitarian is dependent on a multitude of factors other than sub-ideology, but would it be less likely to do so overall?
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