The Mesheviks and the Bolsheviks were two totally different movements in Russia from ideological perspective and their actions. The Mesheviks wanted a gradual, peaceful change in the country, with progressive methods used, and by including the Middle class in the process, with the end goal being modernization of the country. The Bolsheviks, on the other side, wanted radical changes, and that was supposed to be done by the elites, not by the middle class people. Also, instead of modernizing the country, the Bolshevkis wanted to establish communism in the country.
They were both native to what is currently Mali. The Songhai could reaonably be called a successor empire to the Malinese. The Songhai had a single state language, (Gao) unlike the Malinese, and obtained greater power and wealth than the Malinese, but culturally there were a lot of similarities.
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