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Bolshevik   /bˈoʊlʃəvˌɪk/   Listen
Bolshevik

noun
1.
Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries.  Synonyms: bolshie, bolshy, Marxist, red.
2.
A Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party.  Synonym: Bolshevist.






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"Bolshevik" Quotes from Famous Books



... majority of the officers, who, at 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

... winter defense these American soldiers were to make history for American arms, exhibiting courage and fortitude and heroism, the stories of which are to embellish the annals of American martial exploits. They were destined, a handful of them here, a handful there, to successfully baffle the Bolshevik hordes in ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore

... 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

... thoughtfully. "But then there's Sarah on the other hand who can't forgive me for not putting on a red necktie and going Bolshevik. She'd have me put in my time trying to upset the bourgeois ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... she could successfully have withstood the suitors who must have crowded about her. Her house on Fifth Avenue was full of old engravings of American patriots, and the library inherited from her editorial parent was replete with volumes upon subjects which would have filled a Bolshevik with disgust. Briefly, if ever Trotzky had become Commissar of the Soviet of Manhattan, Miss Althea and those like her would have been the first ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train



Words linked to "Bolshevik" :   Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, Bolshevism, commie, communist, Trotsky, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, bolshevise, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, radical, Nikolai Lenin, Lev Davidovich Bronstein, Leon Trotsky, Lenin, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, bolshevize, Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Vladimir Lenin



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