Bolshevik

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for Bolshevik
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leftist
Noun
  • However, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has already blasted Peltola as a radical leftist in a new 45-second ad.
    Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Rodríguez is a hard-line leftist with deeply anti-American views learned from her father, a Marxist guerrilla commander who died at the hands of Venezuelan security forces.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026

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“Bolshevik.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bolshevik. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.

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