Bolshevized

Variant of Bolshevik

Bolshevik definition

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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