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Bolshevist

Bolshevist

9.9
A person who belonged to the Russian party that followed Lenin and took power in 1917
  • noun
  • /ˈboʊlʃəvɪst/
translation icon : bolchevique
  • During the civil war, many Bolshevists fought fiercely for their political ideals.

Since going West was impossible and the route to Murmansk was blocked by the Bolshevists, they had to go east.

Examples

  • Since going West was impossible and the route to Murmansk was blocked by the Bolshevists, they had to go east.

    The Great War

  • On 6 January, he wondered at "the tremendous changes in every phase of Russian life wrought by the Bolshevist revolution..."

    Academic text (1991)

  • In fact, Stalin never said a word about postponing Bolshevist expansion indefinitely.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The Bolshevist path to the heart of Europe and beyond would be cleared where necessary by the Red Army and prepared, as Suvorov argued, by the chaos and mass bloodletting of Hitler's war.

    Academic text (1996)

  • It obviously had to be the outcome most favored in the Kremlin, because only it, among all possible suggested outcomes, brought the Soviet Union closest to its Bolshevist international goals.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The Bolshevist party played a crucial role in the Russian Revolution of 1917.

  • He identified as a Bolshevist and supported the communist policies of Lenin.

Synonyms

Bolshevik
vsBolshevist
3 9.0

A person who was part of the Russian revolutionary group that took power in 1917

refers only to a party member of the Lenin-led group
Bolsheviki
vsBolshevist
  • Archaic
9.9

People who followed Lenin and took power in Russia in 1917

refers to an individual member rather than the group

Compounds

Judeo-Bolshevist
  • Slur
9.9

A hateful claim that wrongly links Jewish people with communism to attack them

Surface Forms

Bolshevist singular
Bolshevists plural

Morphology

Bolshevist = Bolshevik (transparent) = Bolshevik + ist

The noun is formed with the productive suffix '-ist' denoting an agent or adherent of 'Bolshevik', so the membership meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Bolshevist as a noun means a member of the Bolshevik party, and the party name comes from Russian bol'she meaning 'more' or 'larger' because they claimed to be the 'majority' in a party split. So a Bolshevist is someone who belonged to that group and followed its ideas.