Bolsheviknoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbɒl.ʃə.vɪk/us/ˈboʊl.ʃə.vɪk/a supporter of the group led by Lenin that took power in Russia in 1917
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Bolshevik
adjective [ U ] ukus
Bolshevism
noun [ U ] uk/ˈbɒl.ʃə.vɪ.zəm/us/ˈboʊl.ʃə.vɪ.zəm/
Examples from literature
- All Asia lies open to Bolshevik ambitions.
- The Bolshevik leaders were not long in showing their hand.
- The Bolshevik soldiers stood to attention and listened to me with great interest.
- The Bolsheviks comprised chiefly Jews and Germans, who were exceedingly active and enterprising.
- What motive is possible except idealism, love of mankind, non-economic motives of the sort that Bolsheviks decry?