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Bolsheviks
Variant of Bolshevik
noun pl. Bolsheviks or Bolsheviki
- 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
adjective
of or like the Bolsheviks or Bolshevism
Related Forms:
- Bolshevism noun
- Bolshevist noun, adjective
- Bolshevize transitive verb Bolshevized, Bolshevizing
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