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Bolshevik en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbol-/ (General-American)
• /ˈboʊlʃəvɪk/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbɑl-/ (General-American)
• /ˈbɔl-/ (General-American)
• /ˈbɒlʃəvɪk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), from большинство́ (bolʹšinstvó, “majority”).

Meanings

1. (historical) A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.
   • Мы, большевики, утверждаем, что на нашей стороне большинство настоящих, русских, партийных деятелей. 1967 [1905 February 3], Владимир Ленин [Vladimir Lenin], “Письмо к Грейлиху”, in Краткий очерк раскола в РСДРП (В. И. Ленин – Полное собрание сочинений; 9), page 239; English translation from “The Letter to Greulich”, in Bernard Isaacs, Isidor Lasker, transl., A Brief Outline of the Split in the R.S.D.L.P. (V. I. Lenin – Collected Works; 8), translation of original in Russian, 1977, page 130:
   • But such points were on the whole lost in the picture as it appeared in gross: everyone had confessed, the Old Bolsheviks had publicly avowed disgraceful plans and actions. The whole business almost passed belief. Were the confessions true? How had they been obtained? What did it all signify? We are told that the confessions were as little believed in Russia as abroad, ‘or even less’, but that the average Soviet citizen who had not been in jail found them as puzzling as foreigners did. 1968, Robert Conquest, “The Problem of Confession”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 124:
2. (historical) A member of the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Forms

Deriveds

bolshevize · Bolshevikian

Relateds

Menshevik · anarcho-Bolshevik · Bolshevism · Old Bolshevik · cultural Bolshevik

Translations (77)

uk більшови́к (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · mr बोलशेव्हिक (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · fr bolchevique (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · de Bolschewist (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · sl boljševik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · da bolsjevik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · fi bolševikki (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · kk большевик (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · eo bolŝeviko (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · kn ಬೋಲ್ಶೆವಿಕ್ (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · pl bolszewik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · et enamlane (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · be бальшаві́к (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · mk болшевик (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ky большевик (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · fr bolchevik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · kl bolschevikki (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · hu bolsevik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ka ბოლშევიკი (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · tk bolşewik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · it bolscevico (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · is bolsévik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ar بُلْشِفِيّ (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · sh бољшѐвӣк (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · vi Bôn-sê-vích (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · te బోల్శెవిక్ (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · sq bolshevik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · yi באָלשעוויסט (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ja ボリシェヴィキ (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ko 볼셰비키 (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · hy բոլշևիկ (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · cs bolševik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · tr Bolşevik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · te బొల్శెవిక్ (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · az bolşevik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ar بُلْشِفِيك (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · es bolchevique (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · hi बोलशेविक (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · pl bolszewiczka (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · la bolsevicus (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · lv boļševiks (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · lt bolševikas (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · de Bolschewistin (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · pt bolchevique (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · gl bolxevique (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ga Boilséiveach (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · de Bolschewik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ru большеви́к (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · no bolsjevik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · fa بلشویک (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ru большеви́чка (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · nl bolsjewiek (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · sk boľševik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · tg болшевик (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · el μπολσεβίκος (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · yi באָלשעוויק (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ca bolxevic (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · et bolševik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · mn большевик (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · fr bolchévique (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ro bolșevic (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · sv bolsjevik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · uk більшови́чка (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · sah бассабыык (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ur بالشویک (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · ota بولشهویك (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · vi bôn-sê-vích (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · bg болшеви́к (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · cmn 布爾什維克 /布尔什维克 (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · be бальшаві́чка (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · it bolscevica (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · th บอลเชวิค (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · kn ಬೊಲ್ಶೆವಿಕ್ (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · de Bolschewikin (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · sh boljšèvīk (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · uz bolshevik (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917) · la bolsevica (a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917)