earnest Russian Marxists these were grave and fundamental options; the bitterness generated by the division of opinion over them was aggravated by the fact that while Lenin won over a majority of the delegates who had been able to reach London, his main opponents, the Mensheviks (minority) undoubtedly represented a majority of the party as a whole. A third body in Russian Marxism, an organization of Jewish Social Democrats called the Bund, stood close to the Menshevik position.
