Bolshevism


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Bol·she·vism

also bol·she·vism  (bōl′shə-vĭz′əm, bŏl′-)
n.
1. The strategy developed by the Bolsheviks between 1903 and 1917 with a view to seizing state power and establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat.
2. Soviet Communism.

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Bolshevism

a radical wing of the Russian Social Democratie Labor party, favoring revolutionary tactics to achieve full socialization and, under the leadership of Ulyanov (Lenin), setting up from 1917-20 the present Soviet regime. — Bolshevik, Bolshevist, n., adj.
See also: Communism
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Bolshevism - Soviet communismBolshevism - Soviet communism      
communism - a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
revisionism - a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism
revisionism - any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx
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Translations

Bolshevism

[ˈbɒlʃəvɪzəm] Nbolchevismo m
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Bolshevism

[ˈbɒlʃɪvɪzəm] nbolchevisme m
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Bolshevism

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Bolshevism

[ˈbɒlʃəvɪzm] nbolscevismo
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The nobs may have lived in dread of French Revolution and Bolshevism but those cataclysms never arrived.
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One was that Bolshevism was a far greater danger than Fascism and so the Fascists in Germany and Italy were a good thing and should be supported.
Hamburg radio announced Hitler's death in Berlin, claiming he had "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancery fighting against Bolshevism".
It was initially reported he had 'fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany', but the real details of his death emerged on 20 June.
The accusation that Jews invented and promoted Bolshevism, and should therefore be held accountable for its offenses, had horrific consequences for Jews.
A Revolutionary in the Time of Tsarism and Bolshevism. By Robert Henderson.
We can keep such facts in mind, Slezkine argued, and still avoid sliding into the anti-Semitic slander that Bolshevism was a Jewish plot.
Elsewhere in the country, riots and unrest compelled the government to station armed troops in the streets and the threat of Bolshevism and revolution was in the air.
In his book The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin makes the credible case that Bolshevism effectively ceased to exist beyond 1927.
As Vladimir Lenin famously said, 'Bolshevism can not survive without Baku oil'," Aghayev said.
"How differently the world war would have ended if the Germans had not attempted to annex the Baltics while simultaneously stoking the flames of Russian Bolshevism. If Germany had refrained from playing with the Red fire and kept a firm hand on Russia...