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Recent Examples of bolshevism
Fear of bolshevism blended with a long-standing hostility toward certain classes of immigrants.
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Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bolshevism
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Even philosophies of meaning (Marxism, nationalism, utilitarianism) took on a mechanistic bent.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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As young men and women embrace faith — along with folk songs, traditional dress and ancient tea ceremonies — some experts see it as a movement back to forms of Vietnamese identity that preceded Marxism and war.—
Damien Cave,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Orwell would spend the rest of his life trying to clarify that in his time the left meant both idealists committed to human rights, equality, and justice and supporters of a Stalinism that was the antithesis of all those things.—
Rebecca Solnit
February 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2024
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Medieval threat to democracy The rhetoric of absolving Stalinism goes hand in hand with popularizing the state’s version of the Russian Middle Ages through public media channels.—
Dina Khapaeva,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
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Together, these men of the world and men of the cloth engineered a spiritual revival designed to shake Americans free from creeping collectivism.—
James Morone,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2015
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Glenn Beck would’ve whipped out the chalkboard for an interpretive monologue on the dangers of collectivism.—
Matt K. Lewis,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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Yet what Grant didn’t foresee is that this kind of liberalism could form an effective resistance against Yankee imperialism.—
Zack Beauchamp,
Vox,
2 July 2025
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Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has trampled traditional values underfoot.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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“Bolshevism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bolshevism. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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