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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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One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.—
Mike Dunleavy,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
13 July 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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In addition, Brown draws on Black traditions of culture and collectivism to mobilize communities.—
Essence,
Essence,
6 Aug. 2025
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Webb also reflected the dark side of big government and collectivism.—
John Micklethwait,
Foreign Affairs,
29 May 2014
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In an expansive conversation for Talk Easy about his works, Mamet is questioned by host Sam Fragoso about his conservative rightward political shift and rejection of liberalism.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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But the other crucial political point is that the crisis of liberalism is general, not specific to the United States, and there is no obvious expat refuge from the ideological conflicts of our age.—
Ross Douthat,
Mercury News,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Bolshevism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bolshevism. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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