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Bol·she·vik (bōl′s̸hə vik′, bäl′-)

noun pl. Bolsheviks -·viks′ or Bolsheviki Bol′·she·vi′ki (-vē′kē)

  1. 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
  2. a Communist, esp. of the Soviet Union
  3. loosely any radical: hostile usage

Etymology: Russ (1903) < bol'she, the larger, majority

adjective

of or like the Bolsheviks or Bolshevism

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Bolshevik Synonyms

Bolshevik

n.

  1. An adherent of the Bolsheviki

    Marxist, revolutionary, Soviet, Communist, Marxian socialist, Bolshevist, Commie*, Red*. *

  2. A radical; usually lower case

    revolutionary, extremist, radical, anarchist; see radical, rebel 1.


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Bolshevik Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • communism: But various other ideas have been propounded alongside anarchism: " liberalism " , socialism and bolshevik communism.
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Bolshevik quotes

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.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

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