Bolshevik

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Recent Examples of Bolshevik Following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Russian Crown Jewels were seized and transferred to Moscow’s Armoury Hall, where they were stored in nine large boxes, Sotheby’s said. Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 2 June 2026 May Day’s roots trace back to the 19th Century, when Marxists, socialists and labor unions called for a day of strikes in Paris and later became a national holiday in the Soviet Union after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Preston Mizell, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026 Stalin orchestrated the macabre murder of his onetime rival, the Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky, a continent away in Mexico, while picking off his fellow revolutionaries across the Soviet Union. Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 1 Mar. 2026 In Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution had been preceded by two smaller revolutions. Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Bolshevik
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leftist
Noun
  • Tuesday night was a very good night to be a leftist in New York City.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 24 June 2026
  • Raman is more likely than Bass to pick up the voters who chose community organizer Rae Huang, a leftist who, like Raman, is a DSA member.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026

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“Bolshevik.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bolshevik. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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