The Mensheviks played a leading role in the 1905 Revolution and were particularly active in the the soviets and the emerging trade union movement. However, Lenin's more radical positions grew in popularity during the First World War as anger mounted against the czarist regime, and a number of leading Mensheviks such as Leon Trotsky and Alexandra Kollontai[?] joined the Bolsheviks. The Mensheviks, like other opposition parties, were later banned by Lenin's Communist Party.
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