Bolshevik
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9.0
- noun
- /ˈboʊlʃəvɪk/
:
bolchevique
- The Bolshevik leader called for an immediate overthrow of the provisional government to establish a new regime.
- Bolshevik Russia
- Jewish Bolshevik
Is a dashing, charismatic, adventurous Bolshevik.
- Is a dashing, charismatic, adventurous Bolshevik.
- And so, you know, at that stage it looks at the Bolsheviks were finished, Trotsky was arrested, most of their leaders were arrested and Lenin was in hiding.
- It it's not, it's not strictly fair to call them Bolsheviks.
- He may not have had muscle, but you can see who now did the Bolsheviks.
Examples
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After three days of fighting, Polish lines broke and the Bolshevik advance began to gather momentum.
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The Left Opposition did not question the Bolshevik's monopoly of power and explicitly supported the idea of party dictatorship.
Blog text (4) -
What are you, a Bolshevik or something?
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I thought you were some sort of crazy Bolshevik.
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You sound like a Bolshevik, Harvey.
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Until, that is, the Bolsheviks arrived in force.
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Are you a Bolshevik?
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Here he learned that anti Bolshevik groups had recently met in UFA and established a new Provisional All Russian government.
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He's a Bolshevik.
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Asja, a Latvian Bolshevik, was an actress, director, and pioneer in children's theater.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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4.2
A person who wants community ownership of businesses and public services
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6.3
A person who wants major political or social change
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5.8
A person who supports or takes part in political change to remove a government
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6.3
A person who supports Karl Marx's ideas about class and social equality
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4.4
A person who wants businesses and land owned by the community, not by individuals
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9.1
A person who supports extreme left politics
A person who belonged to the Russian party that followed Lenin and took power in 1917
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bolshevik comes from the Russian word bol'shinstvo meaning 'majority', from bol'she meaning 'more' or 'bigger'; the name came from the group that had the most votes in a party meeting, so a Bolshevik is a member of that 'majority' revolutionary group.