Bolshevik
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Bol·she·vik (bōl′s̸hə vik′, bäl′-)
noun pl. Bolsheviks -·viks′ or Bolsheviki Bol′·she·vi′ki (-vē′kē)
- a member of a majority faction (Bolsheviki) of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, which formed the Communist Party after seizing power in the 1917 Revolution
- a Communist, esp. of the Soviet Union
- loosely any radical: hostile usage
Etymology: Russ (1903) < bol'she, the larger, majority
adjective
Related Forms:
- Bolshevism Bol′·she·vism′ noun
- Bolshevist Bol′·she·vist noun, adjective
- Bolshevize Bol′·she·vize′ (-vīz′) transitive verb Bolshevized -·vized′, Bolshevizing -·viz′·ing
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Bolshevik
n.
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Modifies a noun
- communism: But various other ideas have been propounded alongside anarchism: " liberalism " , socialism and bolshevik communism.
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Of all tyrannies in history, the Bolshevik tyranny is the worst, the most destructive, the most degrading. Every British and French soldier killed last year was really done to death by Lenin and Trotskyönot in fair war, but by the treacherous desertion of an ally without parallel in the history of the world.
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