Bolshevist
Americannoun
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a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
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(sometimes lowercase) an ultraradical socialist; any political ultraradical.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Bolshevist
First recorded in 1915–20; Bolshev(ik) + -ist
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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
If Czarism needed an Okhrana, clearly the Bolshevist state would need a super-Okhrana to fill the larger social vacuum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Born in Byelorussia, he joined the Bolshevist underground at 19, in 1906 fled from Czarist police into exile in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is clear to every one that the violent administrative rage that has swept leaders of the region has nothing to do with the Bolshevist struggle against the true enemies and wreckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
One week before the Bolshevist Revolution, in the autumn of 1917, his young wife bore him a second child, a son.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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