bolshevize

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bolshevize

(ˈbɒlʃəˌvaɪz) or

bolshevise

vb (tr)

to bring into line with Communist ideology

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bolshevize - make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles; "communize the government"

bolshevise, communise, communize

alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

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If Sloin's Jewish Revolution is mainly about how Belarusian Jews helped bolshevize themselves and their republic in the 1920s, Anna Shternshis's When Sonia Met Boris takes both a narrower and a broader focus: narrower, because more intimate and based on oral interviews that emphasize individual choices, family, and everyday life rather than large issues of political transformation, but also broader because Shternshis throws light on many significant aspects of how Soviet Jews thought and lived.

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Later, Stalin's dictatorship, in his eyes, was a virile example of total mobilization and a "model" for Germany; although it was not necessary to Bolshevize, Russify, or Asiatize Germany, it was imperative to take into account this "oriental type" as Germany found its own solution.