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/bˈoʊlʃəvˌɪk/ Listen

adjective

Bolshevik adj. Of or pertaining to Bolsheviks or bolshevism. "Bolshevik Revolution"

Synonyms: bolshevik.

noun

Bolshevik n.

A member of the extreme left wing of the Social Democratic Party that seized power in Russia in 1917 after the Russian October Revolution, and advocated rule by the proletariat and state ownership of property. Note: Actually in the minority, this branch seized the opportunity, when the moderate group walked out, to proclaim themselves a majority and form a government. They prevailed in the subsequent civil war.

Same as communist, especially used of Russian communists.

Anyone with communist leanings or sympathies; used very loosely in a derogatory sense by some people with economically conservative views.

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Etymology of 'Bolshevik'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bolshevik" Quotes from Famous Books

... light of the danger of revolution in America: ... This belittling of the very real danger to the institutions of this country, as well as the attempted discrediting of any investigating group (or individual), has become thoroughly characteristic of our "Parlor Bolshevik" ...

— The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson

... false (no one can tell how true or how false), came through to France and England. It was certain that the whole fabric of society in Russia had dissolved in the wildest anarchy the world has seen in modern times, and that the Bolshevik gospel of "brotherhood" with humanity was, at least, rudely "interrupted" by wholesale murder ...

— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... of the mind of a group of people, of the French mind, the militarist mind, the bolshevik mind, we are liable to serious confusion unless we agree to separate the instinctive equipment from the stereotypes, the patterns, and the formulae which play so decisive a part in building up the mental world to which the native character is adapted and responds. Failure to make this ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... the beginning of the revolution, bedaubed themselves with red revolutionary paint, were still very inimical to the new regime. An open selection of counter-revolutionary elements was being made in the lines. Bolshevik publications were ruthlessly persecuted. The military advance had long ago changed into a tragic retreat. The bourgeois press madly libelled the army. Whereas, on the eve of the advance, the ruling parties told us that we were an insignificant gang and that the army had never heard of ...

— From October to Brest-Litovsk • Leon Trotzky

... have small effect on the imagination when simply stated as such. Perhaps people will realize what it means when instead of talking of the wounded undergoing operations without anesthetics I record the case of an acquaintance, a Bolshevik, working in a Government office, who suffered last summer from a slight derangement of the stomach due to improper and inadequate feeding. His doctor prescribed a medicine, and nearly a dozen different ...

— The Crisis in Russia - 1920 • Arthur Ransome

... people came under Russian rule in the 1860s and 1870s, but Russia's hold on Central Asia weakened following the Revolution of 1917. Bolshevik control of the area was fiercely contested and not fully reestablished until 1925. Much of present-day Sughd province was transferred from the Uzbekistan SSR to newly formed Tajikistan SSR in 1929. Ethnic Uzbeks form a substantial minority in Sughd province. Tajikistan ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... said Jennie, stolidly. "I helped set it, with him pretending to be all worked up, for the doctor to see. He got rid of me all right. He's got one of his spies there now, a Bolshevik like himself. ...

— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart