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
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Bolshevist
First recorded in 1915–20; Bolshev(ik) + -ist
Example Sentences
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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
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
Maxim Litvinoff, who had married a plump, middle-class Englishwoman, set out to end the isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
On his return to Paris his peace proposal, involving recognition of the Bolshevist regime, was suddenly tossed into the waste basket by Messrs. Wilson and Lloyd George.
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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