Bolshevism
/ˈbɒlʃəˌvɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun]
The communist form of government adopted in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution of 1917: enthusiastic supporters of Bolshevism...
- His romantic longings are a strategic critique of the faceless rationalism of Bolshevism.
- Both authors set Bolshevism in the mainstream of European social thinking.
- I'd be the last to say that anarchism would have succeeded any better than Bolshevism did.
Origin
Russian bol′shevizm, from bolʹshe 'greater' (see Bolshevik).