Bolshevismn.

/ˈbɒlʃɪvɪz(ə)m/

Etymology: < Russian bol′ševizm: see Bolshevik n. and adj.

The doctrines and practices of the Bolsheviks; the communistic form of government adopted in Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution of October (November), 1917.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Russian politics > [noun] > Bolshevism

Boloism1917

Bolshevism1917

Bolshevikism1919

1917 New Europe 8 Nov. 112 The good sense of Russian democracy threw off the yoke of Bolševism.

1918 T. Roosevelt in Metropolitan Mag. June 9/1 The most powerful indictment of the corrupt and inefficient tyranny of the Romanoffs..is that it produced Bolshevism.

1918 T. Roosevelt in Metropolitan Mag. June 9/2 Parlor or pink-tea bolshevism dear to the hearts of so many..who like to think of themselves as intellectuals.

1918 Times 7 Dec. 9/6 There must be no Bolshevism in [British] land policy.

1926 W. R. Inge Lay Thoughts 159 Bolshevism is no new thing there [i.e. in Russia].

1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent ii. 47 Bolshevism only smashed your house or your business or your skull, but Americanism smashes your soul.

Derivatives

Bolsheˈvisia n. [-ia suffix¹]

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [noun]

bear1794

Russian Federation1886

Soviet Union1918

Bolshevisia1919

Bolshevy1921

U.S.S.R.1927

narod1938

red land1942

Sov1967

1919 J. Pollock Bolshevik Adv. 195 A producer [of stage-plays] in Bolshevisia.

1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 514/1 Life in Bolshevisia—such as it was in July 1918.

ˈBolshevy n. [after Muscovy] the land of Bolshevism; Russia under the rule of the Bolsheviks.

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