Bolshevist

[ bohl-shuh-vist, bol- ]

/ ˈboʊl ʃə vɪst, ˈbɒl- /

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noun

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

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

adjective

Bolshevistic.

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Origin of Bolshevist

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

OTHER WORDS FROM Bolshevist

an·ti-Bol·she·vist, noun, adjectivenon-Bol·she·vist, nounpro-Bol·she·vist, noun, adjective

Words nearby Bolshevist

boloney, bolo tie, Bolshevik, Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Bolshevist, Bolshevistic, Bolshevize, Bolshie, Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Theater

How to use Bolshevist in a sentence

There was also a bright youth named Viktor, who, until the Bolshevist revolution, was a student.
Eastern Nights - and Flights|Alan Bott
From them we heard awful tales of massacres and looting during the Bolshevist domination over the Black Sea regions.
Eastern Nights - and Flights|Alan Bott
This modernistic degenerate cult is simply the Bolshevist philosophy applied in art.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements|Nesta H. Webster
According to the Bolshevist formula, religion is opium for the people: and serves as a tool of capitalist domination.
Communism and Christianism|William Montgomery Brown

So, according to Bolshevist crowd-logic, democracy means the rule of a minority by means of force.
The Behavior of Crowds|Everett Dean Martin