Definition of Bolshevism

1. Noun. Soviet communism.

Exact synonyms: Collectivism, Sovietism
Generic synonyms: Communism
Specialized synonyms: Revisionism, Revisionism
Derivative terms: Bolshevist, Bolshevistic, Collectivist, Collectivistic

Definition of Bolshevism

1. Noun. The strategy used by the Bolsheviks in attempting to gain power in Russia ¹

2. Noun. Marxism-Leninism ¹

3. Noun. (alternative capitalization of Bolshevism) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bolshevism

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bolshevism

Bollandist
Bollandists
Bollinger bodies
Bollinger granules
Bollington
Bolly
Bollywood
Bologna
Bologna sausage
Bolognese
Bolognian
Bolognian phosphorus
Bolognini's symptom
Bolshevik
Bolsheviks
Bolshevism
Bolshevist
Bolshevistic
Bolt
Bolton
Bolton-Broadbent plane
Bolton-nasion line
Bolton-nasion plane
Bolton plane
Boltonia
Boltzmann
Boltzmann's constant
Boltzmann brain
Boltzmann brains
Boltzmann constant

Literary usage of Bolshevism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Actually, the book is as much a history of bolshevism as it is a biography ... It is hardly possible that so many analogies between bolshevism and Fascism ..."

2. Forty Years of Diplomacy by Roman Romanovich Rosen (1922)
"Thus the advent of bolshevism as a world power, which dates from that fatal day, has so far seemingly failed to be comprehended in all its ominous ..."

3. Selected Articles on Modern Industrial Movements by Daniel Bloomfield (1919)
"IS bolshevism ON THE WANE?1 So long as the war continued bolshevism remained to the average man a purely Russian phenomenon. ..."

4. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon (1920)
"I have seen officers and men in France who had shed their blood joyfully for the Entente cause gradually converted to bolshevism by the misdeeds of the ..."

5. Occasional Papers and Addresses of an American Lawyer by Henry Waters Taft (1920)
"ASPECTS OF bolshevism AND AMERICANISM 1 IT would be impossible in the time allotted to me to do more than sketch the outstanding features of bolshevism and ..."

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