Bolshevik

//ˈbɒlʃəvɪk//

"Bolshevik" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The Soviet people, ruled by the Bolshevik party, steadfastly and confidently go on to the heights of Communism.

When the dictionary of the etymology of Hungarian words was compiled, the word "fool", in Hungarian "bolond", was followed by the word "bolshevik", according to the Hungarian alphabet. This was not to be tolerated, so the word "bolonyik" was inserted, which is a rarely used word meaning herbsmith.

The Bolshevik counterrevolution reversed the fortunes of what had been a strong and rising proletarian movement.

Trotsky was a bolshevik.

Trotsky became a Bolshevik in October of 1917.

I'm not a Bolshevik, but I know quite a few.

I always suspected Tom was a Bolshevik, but I never had any hard proof until now.

The Bolsheviks disempowered the workers' councils, replacing them with direct Bolshevik rule under the veneer of council rule.

Lenin claimed that there was no better Bolshevik than Trotsky.

The old Bolshevik couldn't hold back his tears.

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Мы, большевики, утверждаем, что на нашей стороне большинство настоящих, русских, партийных деятелей.

But such points were on the whole lost in the picture as it appeared in gross: everyone had confessed, the Old Bolsheviks had publicly avowed disgraceful plans and actions. The whole business almost passed belief. Were the confessions true? How had they been obtained? What did it all signify? We are told that the confessions were as little believed in Russia as abroad, ‘or even less’, but that the average Soviet citizen who had not been in jail found them as puzzling as foreigners did.

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