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to bolshevize

to bolshevize

9.9
To make a country or institution follow Communist ideas
  • verb
  • /ˈboʊlʃəvaɪz/
  • Archaic
translation icon : bolchevizar
  • The government aimed to bolshevize the education system to align it with Communist ideologies.

Examples

  • But was all that murderous bolshevizing solely out of his need for security?

    Academic text (1999)

  • And the details of an enterprise as grand in its dimension and as macabre in its destructive prospects as that drive to bolshevize Europe to the west that Stalin planned had to have left a paper trail way beyond the Kremlin offices and apartments and the suburban dachas of Stalin and his intimates.

    Academic text (1996)

  • During the revolution, many leaders sought to bolshevize various institutions to ensure they supported the new regime.

  • Efforts to bolshevize the military included implementing strict Communist policies and leadership structures.

Synonyms

to socialize
vsto bolshevize
  • Formal
28 8.4

To put businesses under government control

calls for full communist alignment rather than broader socialist control
to communize
vsto bolshevize
  • Formal
9.0

Make land, factories, or other resources owned by the whole community

focuses on changing whole countries, institutions, or activities instead
to sovietize
vsto bolshevize
  • Archaic
9.9

To make a country follow the government, rules, and culture of the Soviet Union

aims for general communist principles rather than specifically Soviet models
to stalinize
vsto bolshevize
  • Formal
9.9

Make a country or group follow strict central control like Stalin used

aims for communist alignment without the extreme repression or cult rule

How Communist

to bolshevize
  • Archaic
9.9
to communize
  • Formal
9.0

Surface Forms

bolshevize infinitive
bolshevized past
bolshevized past participle
bolshevizing present participle
bolshevizes third person singular

Morphology

bolshevize = Bolshevik (transparent) = bolshevik + ize

Formed by the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' applied to 'Bolshevik', meaning 'to make or render Bolshevik', which is directly deducible by learners.

Etymology

The word bolshevize comes from Bolshevik, the Russian political group, plus the ending -ize, which means 'to make' as in modernize or Americanize. So to bolshevize something is to 'make' it follow Bolshevik or Communist ideas.