Bolshevism
Americannoun
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the doctrines, methods, or procedure of the Bolsheviks.
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(sometimes lowercase) the principles or practices of ultraradical socialists or political ultraradicals generally.
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Etymology
Origin of Bolshevism
First recorded in 1915–20; Bolshev(ik) + -ism
Example Sentences
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The most serious threat to liberalism was the irruption of Bolshevism, Fascism and Nazism between 1917 and 1945.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Xenophobia was further exacerbated by the Russian Revolution and the manufactured threat of Bolshevism, or the “Red Menace.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2017
Just as many of the Nazis they were dealing with saw the Cold War as part two of their own epic crusade against Bolshevism.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2015
He reacted furiously against any suggestion that Bolshevism was a new religion, writing to Gorky in 1913 that trying to construct a new god was an exercise in necrophilia.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2011
Slightly less superficial observers hit upon the abstract principle of "Liberty" as the keynote of Americanism, interpreting this justly esteemed principle as anything from Bolshevism to the right to drink 2.75 per cent. beer.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
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