Bolshevik

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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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.

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