Bolshevik

English

/ˈbɒlʃəvɪk/, /ˈboʊ̯lʃəvɪk/

noun
Definitions
  • A Russian communist revolutionary, member of the Bolshevik Party in the 1917 Communist Revolution of Russia.
  • A term used to describe the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian большеви́к.

Origin

Russian

большеви́к

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