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Bolshevik definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to Bolshevism; "Bolshevik Revolution" [syn: Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshevistic] n
1: emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries [syn: Bolshevik, Marxist, red, bolshie, bolshy]
2: a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party [syn: Bolshevik, Bolshevist]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural Bolsheviks; also Bolsheviki) Etymology: Russian bol'shevik, from bol'shi? greater Date: 1917 1. a member of the extremist wing of the Russian Social Democratic party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917 2. communist 3 • Bolshevik adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. 1 hist. a member of the radical faction of the Russian socialist party, which became the communist party in 1918. 2 a Russian communist. 3 (in general use) any revolutionary socialist. --adj. 1 of, relating to, or characteristic of the Bolsheviks. 2 communist. Derivatives: Bolshevism n. Bolshevist n. Etymology: Russ., = a member of the majority, one who (in 1903) favoured extreme measures, f. bol' she greater

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(Bolsheviks) 1. Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Seventy-four years after the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet era ended. ...anti-Bolshevik forces. ADJ 2. A Bolshevik was a person who supported Lenin and his political ideas. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Communist sympathizer, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Marxist-Leninist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Stalinist, Titoist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, anarch, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, avowed Communist, bolshie, bonnet rouge, commie, comrade, criminal syndicalist, extreme left-winger, extremist, fellow traveler, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, mild radical, nihilist, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pink, pinko, radical, rebel, red, revisionist, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, ultra, ultraist, yippie