ALL meanings of bolshevik
Bol·she·vik
B b - adjective bolshevik Bolshevik is used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917. 3
- countable noun bolshevik A Bolshevik was a person who supported Lenin and his political ideas. 3
- noun bolshevik (formerly) a Russian Communist 3
- noun bolshevik any Communist 3
- noun bolshevik any political radical, esp a revolutionary 3
- noun bolshevik a member of a majority faction (Bolsheviki) of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, which formed the Communist Party after seizing power in the 1917 Revolution 3
- noun bolshevik a Communist, esp. of the Soviet Union 3
- noun bolshevik any radical 3
- adjective bolshevik of or like the Bolsheviks or Bolshevism 3
- noun bolshevik When Bolshevik is used to refer to an extreme radical, it implies that such a person has a strongly felt subversive or combative ideology counter to the status quo. The 20-century poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were called literary Bolsheviks by a writer in a London newspaper. 1
- noun plural bolshevik a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party. 1
- noun plural bolshevik (loosely) a member of any Communist party. 1
- noun plural bolshevik (often lowercase) Disparaging. a contemptuous term used to refer to an extreme radical or revolutionary. 1
- noun bolshevik Russian communist revolutionary 1
- adjective bolshevik Russian communist 1
- noun bolshevik Alternative form of Bolshevik. 0