Bolsheviks

1. The radicals in the Russian Revolution , who were led by Lenin and who favored revolution rather than gradual democratic change.

Notes

Bolshevik has been used as a general term for a radical leftist or for a communist of the Soviet Union .

Example Sentences

“The Bolsheviks” were a tag team in the latter part of the decade, with one from Croatia and the other from America.

From The Daily Beast

Soviet Russia annexed Ukraine in 1922, after a war that had commenced in 1917, when the Bolsheviks took Moscow.

From The Daily Beast

This time the enemy is the Bolsheviks of the right, our current GOP.

From The Daily Beast

Once upon a time, the statists—Roosevelt and his brains trusters—helped save capitalism from the Bolsheviks of the left.

From The Daily Beast

They had a unified vision of conspiracy that encompassed Jews, blacks, Zionist bankers, greedy plutocrats, and Bolsheviks.

From The Daily Beast

Credible eye-witnesses report the massacre of three thousand people within a few days of Odessa's recapture by the Bolsheviks.

From Project Gutenberg

The Bolsheviks comprised chiefly Jews and Germans, who were exceedingly active and enterprising.

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At the same time the state was overthrown by a political party, the Bolsheviks, who set up a dictatorship of the proletariat.

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Human nature being what it is, it would not have been surprising if all the Jews in Russia had become fanatical Bolsheviks.

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If Jews have reluctantly turned towards Bolshevism, it is because they have been forced into it by the anti-Bolsheviks.

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