Indeed. For such an essay to not discuss how the disastrous Menshevik decision to continue the war fatally weakened them and their positions ... well, you don

Indeed. For such an essay to not discuss how the disastrous Menshevik decision to continue the war fatally weakened them and their positions ... well, you don't have weigh Marxist minutia so much if you consider things like that, or the much greater ruthlessness of the Bolsheviks. (I've lately taken up detailed study of WWI, it's really critical to understanding what followed. And a lot of the superficial histories get a lot wrong, e.g. the "hidebound" British Royal Navy launched seaplane air raids on German Zeppelin hangers (!) on January 19-20 of 1915, rather early in the war....)