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BOLSHEVIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bolshevist mean? 

BOLSHEVIST (noun)
  The noun BOLSHEVIST has 1 sense:

1. a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist partyplay

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


BOLSHEVIST (adjective)
  The adjective BOLSHEVIST has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Bolshevismplay

  Familiarity information: BOLSHEVIST used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOLSHEVIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bolshevik; Bolshevist

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

commie; communist (a socialist who advocates communism)

Instance hyponyms:

Bukharin; Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (Bolshevik leader in Russia who advocated gradual collectivism of the farms; was executed in a purge by Stalin (1888-1938))

Lenin; Nikolai Lenin; Vladimir Ilich Lenin; Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov; Vladimir Ilyich Lenin; Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; Vladimir Lenin (Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924))

Leon Trotsky; Lev Davidovich Bronstein; Trotsky (Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940))

Derivation:

Bolshevism (Soviet communism)

Bolshevistic (of or relating to Bolshevism)


BOLSHEVIST (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Bolshevism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Bolshevik; Bolshevist; Bolshevistic

Context example:

Bolshevik Revolution

Pertainym:

Bolshevism (Soviet communism)


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