The Mensheviks favored a large, loosely organised democratic party whose members could agree to differ on many point. On the other hand, the Bolsheviks wanted a small, tightly organized strictly disciplined party of full time members who did what they were told and followed the party line in every particular way . This is Important to our unit, because the Menshaviks and Bolsheviks were a big part of the Russian Revolution. They were the two sides that fought in the Russian Civil War.