BOLSHEVISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bolshevism mean? 

• BOLSHEVISM (noun)
  The noun BOLSHEVISM has 1 sense:

1. Soviet communism

  Familiarity information: BOLSHEVISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOLSHEVISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soviet communism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Bolshevism; collectivism; sovietism

Hypernyms ("Bolshevism" is a kind of...):

communism (a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bolshevism"):

revisionism (a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism)

revisionism (any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx)

Derivation:

Bolshevist (a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party)

Bolshevistic (of or relating to Bolshevism)