How to Use Bolshevik in a Sentence

Bolshevik

noun

• Ruth also gave up writing, but became more of a bohemian—and more of a Bolshevik.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
• Paramount and the Bolshevik parted ways before his contract was up.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• This would not be the first time the Pets have gone Bolshevik and made unacceptable political challenges.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 Sep. 2024
• In 1917, after years of living in exile, Bolshevik leaders returned home.
  — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2024
• His likeness appeared on enormous posters, friezes and parade banners, presenting him as the embodiment of Bolshevik ideals.
  — Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
• National Bolshevik demonstrators had once occupied the tower as Dugin cheered them on in the pages of Limonka.
  — James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
• Imbrie’s work placed him in such peril that unsubstantiated rumors of Bolshevik involvement in his death persisted for years.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• Yet the seizure of the means of production — not in the Bolshevik but in the Robber Baron sense — has been the default mode for motion picture makers since the birth of the medium.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2022
• The link between epochs, ripped apart by bloody Bolshevik hands, had been miraculously, unexpectedly put back together as the last possible moment was ebbing away.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• Yurovsky had, meanwhile, been planning the family’s murder, though with a surprising lack of efficiency for such a ruthless, dedicated Bolshevik.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2018
• Hawke is an excellent addition, making a worthy antagonist who takes over with the diplomacy of a Bolshevik but ultimately proves no less susceptible to pressure than the rest of them.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024
• The reference to government texts replacing the Bible was, undoubtedly, a way of reinforcing the idea that, as some argued, the Amendment was a Bolshevik scheme.
  — Janet Golden / Made By History, TIME, 23 May 2024
• Beginning in 1929, and following the Bolshevik revolution, the icon has been housed at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 16 May 2023
• For working-class young men like Platonov, the Bolshevik Revolution opened up huge vistas of opportunity, not merely for self-betterment but for the creation of a new society.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• In Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution had been preceded by two smaller revolutions.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• The episode in question opens with a flashback in which the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, are executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 7 Nov. 2022
• The hotel’s assistant manager, a cockney turned Bolshevik named Jack Margolis, explained to one journalist that the dining room was closed to keep the guests safe in the event of a direct hit on the famous glass ceiling.
  — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
• If such a figure had actually existed, the Russian Revolution may have gone very differently, to the chagrin of Romanov and Bolshevik alike.
  — Sean T. Collins, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• After the October Revolution, her father was conscripted into battle with Bolshevik forces, and Eleanora and her mother endured illness and poverty at home.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left the country since 2022, the largest exodus since the Bolshevik Revolution, further straining the country’s labor force.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
• The first round of this struggle, in which early Soviet operatives faced off primarily against their British counterparts, started soon after the Bolshevik Revolution.
  — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2023