Bolshevist

[ bohl-shuh-vist, bol- ]

noun
  1. a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.

  2. (sometimes lowercase) an ultraradical socialist; any political ultraradical.

adjective

Origin of Bolshevist

1
First recorded in 1915–20; Bolshev(ik) + -ist

Other words from Bolshevist

  • an·ti-Bol·she·vist, noun, adjective
  • non-Bol·she·vist, noun
  • pro-Bol·she·vist, noun, adjective

Words Nearby Bolshevist

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How to use Bolshevist in a sentence

  • There was also a bright youth named Viktor, who, until the Bolshevist revolution, was a student.

  • From them we heard awful tales of massacres and looting during the Bolshevist domination over the Black Sea regions.

  • This modernistic degenerate cult is simply the Bolshevist philosophy applied in art.

  • According to the Bolshevist formula, religion is opium for the people: and serves as a tool of capitalist domination.

    Communism and Christianism | William Montgomery Brown
  • So, according to Bolshevist crowd-logic, democracy means the rule of a minority by means of force.

    The Behavior of Crowds | Everett Dean Martin