Compare the two parties of the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks: what did they have in common, what were the differences?

Both parties were part of the RSDLP before it was split into two factions. They had a common goal of building socialism, and after communism in Russia. Miscellaneous: unlike the Bolsheviks, who advocated armed methods of struggle, for the revolution “here and now,” the Mensheviks believed that Russia was not ready for socialism and therefore it was necessary to act in alliance with other, liberal parties by moderate methods, through political reforms and gradual, peaceful transformations in the state.