Bolshevist

American  

[bohl-shuh-vist, bol-] / ˈboʊl ʃə vɪst, ˈbɒl- /

noun

1. a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.

2. (sometimes lowercase) an ultraradical socialist; any political ultraradical.

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adjective

1. Bolshevistic.

Other Word Forms

• anti-Bolshevist noun
• non-Bolshevist noun
• pro-Bolshevist noun

Etymology

Origin of Bolshevist

First recorded in 1915–20; Bolshev(ik) + -ist

Example Sentences

In the late 1920s, Ahn was falsely accused of being a Bolshevist and deported from the United States.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2021

Twice imprisoned, once exiled by the Imperial Government, he helped found the anti-Czarist Constitutional Democratic Party in the early 1900s, fled with Kerensky after the Bolshevist coup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Appealing to his "spiritual father" for a real chance to fight again, he was sent to Poland,where to he vindicated his military genius by directing the successful Polish resistance to the Bolshevist armies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bryan's last years, notorious for fanatic championship of "fundamentalism" as opposed to "modern ism" and evolution, Author Long explains ruefully as post-War hysteria in line with Lusk laws and Bolshevist scares.

From Time Magazine Archive

The worst of them made up uglier names than Bolshevist even, and allowed the brutal side of their natures to dwell on imaginary enormities which they attributed to the knights.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White