Aperson belonging to the left-wing majority group of the russian social democratic worker's party was called a marinsky menshevik bolshevik populist

Those were called Bolsheviks, which literally meant majority in Russian. The members of the liberal minority were called Mensheviks ("minority"). The battle for power between these two fractions played a crucial role in the start of the early Union and the Bolsheviks won out.

The tried to make the government smaller by making the government smaller