The Bolsheviks and the Proletariat - The Russian Revolutionary Party and Its Tasks

The mensheviks, led by prehanof and pavel axelerod, believed it meant that at this stage, the liberal bourgeoisie were the revolutionary class. Don however, and the bolsheviks generally had a different take based on the realities of the russian empire at the turn of the twentieth century. The role of the proletariat as the vanguard in the struggle for the complete and decisive victory of the bourgeois revolution is not clear to the right leaning social democrats.