Bolshevik
noun
Bol·she·vik
ˈbōl-shə-ˌvik 
ˈbȯl-,
ˈbäl-,
-ˌvēk
plural Bolsheviks also Bolsheviki
ˌbōl-shə-ˈvi-kē
ˌbȯl-,
ˌbäl-,
-ˈvē-kē
1
: a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917
Bolshevik
adjective
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The Bolshevik victory influenced early Chinese radicals, and Moscow led and bankrolled the CCP in its early years.
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Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024
Hawke is an excellent addition, making a worthy antagonist who takes over with the diplomacy of a Bolshevik but ultimately proves no less susceptible to pressure than the rest of them.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
For Soviet leaders, an obsession with rooting out any potential challenges to their power was fueled by the leaders’ lack of trust in the country’s military and security services, a preoccupation that haunted the Kremlin from the first days of the Bolshevik Revolution all the way through 1991.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2024
The reference to government texts replacing the Bible was, undoubtedly, a way of reinforcing the idea that, as some argued, the Amendment was a Bolshevik scheme.
—Janet Golden / Made By History, TIME, 23 May 2024
In the years after Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, many Russian Jews supported and participated in the country that became known as the Soviet Union.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
The Armenian genocide, the Bolshevik revolution, Nazi Germany, El Salvador, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2024
The limited series take on Amor Towles’ 2016 novel tiptoes along an allegorical line, without toppling over into either outright whimsy or voyeuristic gawking at the flawed idealism and generational traumas of the Bolshevik Revolution.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
Ewan McGregor initially seems like an odd casting choice to play Count Alexander Rostov — a 1920s aristocrat whose mouthy ways lead to his getting forever confined by a Bolshevik court panel to the ritzy Metropol hotel.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
Joseph Torigian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2024
Hawke is an excellent addition, making a worthy antagonist who takes over with the diplomacy of a Bolshevik but ultimately proves no less susceptible to pressure than the rest of them.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
For Soviet leaders, an obsession with rooting out any potential challenges to their power was fueled by the leaders’ lack of trust in the country’s military and security services, a preoccupation that haunted the Kremlin from the first days of the Bolshevik Revolution all the way through 1991.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2024
The reference to government texts replacing the Bible was, undoubtedly, a way of reinforcing the idea that, as some argued, the Amendment was a Bolshevik scheme.
—Janet Golden / Made By History, TIME, 23 May 2024
In the years after Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, many Russian Jews supported and participated in the country that became known as the Soviet Union.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
The Armenian genocide, the Bolshevik revolution, Nazi Germany, El Salvador, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2024
The limited series take on Amor Towles’ 2016 novel tiptoes along an allegorical line, without toppling over into either outright whimsy or voyeuristic gawking at the flawed idealism and generational traumas of the Bolshevik Revolution.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
Ewan McGregor initially seems like an odd casting choice to play Count Alexander Rostov — a 1920s aristocrat whose mouthy ways lead to his getting forever confined by a Bolshevik court panel to the ritzy Metropol hotel.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
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Bolshevik
noun
Bol·she·vik
ˈbōl-shə-ˌvik
ˈbȯl-
ˈbȯl-
ˈbäl-,
-ˌvēk
plural Bolsheviks or Bolsheviki
ˌbōl-shə-ˈvik-ē
ˌbȯl-,
ˌbäl-,
-ˈvē-kē
1
: a member of the communist party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917
Bolshevik
adjective
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