Bolshevik

See also: bolshevik

English

Alternative forms

• bolshevik

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), from большинство́ (bolʹšinstvó, “majority”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒlʃəvɪk/
• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ̯lʃəvɪk/, /ˈbɑlʃəvɪk/, /ˈbɔlʃəvɪk/

Noun

Bolshevik (plural Bolsheviks or Bolsheviki)

1. A Russian communist revolutionary, member of the Bolshevik Party in the 1917 Communist Revolution of Russia.
2. A term used to describe the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Related terms

• Bolshevism

Translations

a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917

• Albanian: bolshevik (sq) m
• Arabic: بُلْشِفِيك m (bulšifīk), بُلْشِفِيّ m (bulšifiyy)
• Armenian: բոլշևիկ (bolšewik)
• Azerbaijani: bolşevik
• Belarusian: бальшаві́к m (balʹšavík)
• Bulgarian: болшеви́к (bg) ? (bolševík)
• Catalan: bolxevic m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布爾什維克／布尔什维克 (zh) (bù'ěrshíwéikè), 布尔什维克 (zh) (bù'ěrshíwéikè)

• Czech: bolševik (cs) m
• Danish: bolsjevik c
• Dutch: bolsjewiek (nl) m
• Esperanto: bolŝeviko
• Estonian: enamlane, bolševik
• Finnish: bolševikki (fi)
• French: bolchevik (fr) m, bolchévique (fr) m, bolchevique (fr) m
• Galician: bolxevique m
• Georgian: ბოლშევიკი (bolševiḳi)
• German: Bolschewik (de) m, Bolschewikin f, Bolschewist m, Bolschewistin f
• Greek: μπολσεβίκος (el) m (bolsevíkos)
• Greenlandic: bolschevikki
• Hindi: बोलशेविक m (bolśevik)
• Hungarian: bolsevik (hu)
• Icelandic: bolsévik m
• Irish: Boilséiveach m
• Italian: bolscevico (it) m
• Japanese: ボリシェヴィキ (borisheviki)
• Kazakh: большевик (bolşevik)
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• Korean: 볼셰비키 (bolsyebiki)
• Kyrgyz: большевик (ky) (bolşevik)
• Latvian: boļševiks m
• Lithuanian: bolševikas m
• Macedonian: болшевик m (bolševik)
• Mongolian: большевик (mn) (bolʹševik)
• Norwegian: bolsjevik m
• Persian: بلشویک (fa) (bolševik)
• Polish: bolszewik (pl) m
• Portuguese: bolchevique (pt) m
• Romanian: bolșevic (ro) m
• Russian: большеви́к (ru) m (bolʹševík), большеви́чка (ru) f (bolʹševíčka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бољшѐвӣк m

  Roman: boljšèvīk (sh) m

• Slovak: boľševik m
• Slovene: boljševik (sl) m
• Spanish: bolchevique (es) m
• Swedish: bolsjevik (sv) c
• Tajik: болшевик (bolševik)
• Thai: บอลเชวิค (bɔɔn-chee-wík)
• Turkish: Bolşevik (tr)
• Turkmen: bolşewik (tk)
• Ukrainian: більшови́к m (bilʹšovýk)
• Urdu: بالشویک m (bālśevik)
• Uzbek: bolshevik (uz)
• Vietnamese: người Bôn sê vích, bôn
• Yiddish: באָלשעוויק m (bolshevik), באָלשעוויסט m (bolshevist)

See also

• Menshevik