Bolshevikn.adj.
/ˈbɒlʃɪvɪk/ A. n.
1. A member of that part of the Russian Social-Democratic Party which took Lenin's side in the split that followed the second Congress of the party in 1903, seized power in the ‘October’ Revolution of 1917, and was subsequently renamed the (Russian) Communist Party. Cf. Menshevik n. and adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [noun] > Bolshevism > Bolshevik
maximalist1907
Bolshevik1917
Bolshevist1917
Bolo1919
bolshie1920
1917 19th Cent. July 141 The Mensheviki or Minimalists (Moderate Socialists)... The Bolsheviki (Extreme Socialists).
1917 New Europe 6 Dec. 236 It was from this Conference [of Socialists at Stockholm, 1903] that the cleavage between Bolševiks and Menševiks dates, the former being those who held a ‘majority’ at the Conference, the latter a ‘minority’.
1918 E. J. Dillon Eclipse of Russia 10 The Bolsheviks at once outbid the Cadets.
1918 E. J. Dillon Eclipse of Russia 33 After the triumph of the Bolsheviki.
1918 C. E. Russell Unchained Russia 253 The Bolshevic was in Russia the most natural fruitage.
a1968 M. Richler in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 196 The crazed man behind him, another old bolshevik, repeats over and over again, ‘This could never happen in a socialist country.’
2. transferred and figurative. A person of subversive or revolutionary views; an out-and-out opponent of the existing social order or accepted codes.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary
innovator1598
revolver1698
revolutionist1710
sansculotte1790
revolutionary1795
revolutionizer1798
revolutioner1803
descamisado1821
radical1822
sansculottist1833
revolutionaire1835
red republican1848
redshirt1889
Bolshevik1926
Young Turk1948
1926 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts 29 The cliques of literary Bolsheviks, who seem to be inspired by a destructive hatred..of civilisation.
B. adj.
Of or relating to (a member or members of) the Leninist faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Party or (later) the Communist Party.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [adjective] > principles or policies
nihilistic1868
nihilist1872
Bolshevik1907
bolshie1918
Menshevik1918
Bolshevistic1920
Bolshevized1920
red1920
1907 I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 401 Go to the Labour Parties... Not the Bolshewiki faction..but the Menshewiki.
1917 New Europe 8 Nov. 112 The Bolševik mentality.
1918 C. E. Russell Unchained Russia 261 The Bolshevic movement.
1919 J. Pollock Bolshevik Adv. p. xx The part played by the Jews in Bolshevik Russia.
1952 Economist 25 Oct. 240/1 The party is no longer Bolshevik, even in name. The Politburo has been dropped.
Derivatives
ˈBolshevikism n. = Bolshevism n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [noun] > Bolshevism
Boloism1917
Bolshevism1917
Bolshevikism1919
1919 H. S. King Russia during War 49 The rising tide of Bolshevikism.
ˈBolshevikize v. = Bolshevize v.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > make communistic [verb (transitive)] > make Bolshevist
Bolshevikize1918
Bolshevize1919
1918 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 135/1 What Germany is resolved upon is that these lands shall not be Bolshevikized economically.
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n.adj.1907