Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that adopted Lenin's theses on party organization in 1903.
- noun A member of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that seized power in that country in November 1917.
- noun A member of a Marxist-Leninist party or a supporter of one; a Communist.
- noun An extreme radical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to Bolsheviks or bolshevism.
- noun 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.
- noun same as
communist , especially used of Russian communists. - noun anyone with communist leanings or sympathies; -- used very loosely in a derogatory sense by some people with economically conservative views.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A Russian
communist revolutionary, member of the Bolshevik Party in the 1917 Communist Revolution of Russia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries
- noun a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party
- adjective of or relating to Bolshevism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Boy, the blogs resident Bolshevik is is rare form today, most likely because of the beating his Eagles took at the hands of the hated Cowboys.
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The blogs resident paranoid Bolshevik is becoming raving bonkers.
Matthew Yglesias » A People’s History of the United States 2010
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The Germans were equally alive to the fact that the Jews of Russia wielded considerable influence in Bolshevik circles.
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This work ended when the American secretaries withdrew from welfare work in Bolshevik territory during the summer of 1918.
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BRZEZINSKI: Well, Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, an early Russian Marxist -- a person who lead the so-called majority faction of Russian Marxists and the word Bolshevik is derived from the word majority.
The Grand Failure: The Birth & Death of Communism in the 20th Century 1989
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They were mere boys, who, probably, didn't even know what the word Bolshevik meant.
Flash-lights from the Seven Seas Francis John McConnell 1917
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Boy, the blogs’ resident Bolshevik is on fire tonight.
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But the hearings did not uncover much, if anything, about the extent of Bolshevik propaganda in the United States, and the report, entitled Bolshevik Propaganda, contained little evidence of the true impact of Bolshevism in America.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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But the hearings did not uncover much, if anything, about the extent of Bolshevik propaganda in the United States, and the report, entitled Bolshevik Propaganda, contained little evidence of the true impact of Bolshevism in America.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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But the hearings did not uncover much, if anything, about the extent of Bolshevik propaganda in the United States, and the report, entitled Bolshevik Propaganda, contained little evidence of the true impact of Bolshevism in America.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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