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Recent Examples of Bolshevik
Within the decade, Russia slipped into full-scale revolution, culminating in the Bolshevik seizure of government and the violence of the Soviet regime.
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Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Bulgakov’s novel The White Guard, published in 1925 and set at the same time, is an elegy for Tsarist Kyiv that detests both Ukrainian national aspirations and Bolshevik rule.
—Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
The Bolshevik ideology of global revolution represented the ultimate threat to the United States, spurring the paranoia that fueled Senator Joseph McCarthy’s infamous witch hunts.
—Eric Jason Martin Tanya Pérez Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Earlier in the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, had been called the Bolshevik Party.
—Mark Jones, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
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Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Bulgakov’s novel The White Guard, published in 1925 and set at the same time, is an elegy for Tsarist Kyiv that detests both Ukrainian national aspirations and Bolshevik rule.
—Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
The Bolshevik ideology of global revolution represented the ultimate threat to the United States, spurring the paranoia that fueled Senator Joseph McCarthy’s infamous witch hunts.
—Eric Jason Martin Tanya Pérez Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Earlier in the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, had been called the Bolshevik Party.
—Mark Jones, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bolshevik
leftist
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That includes Valentín, a leftist whose own dreams of revolution have been cut short by the dictatorship’s crackdowns.—
Blythe Marks,
Them.,
17 Oct. 2025
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His cultural critiques were unmistakably right-wing, but his scorn for the corporatization of universities might have come from the mouth of a disaffected leftist.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Bolshevik.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bolshevik. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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