Bolshevist

[ bohl-shuh-vist, bol- ]

noun

1. a follower or advocate of the doctrines or methods of the Bolsheviks.
2. (sometimes lowercase) an ultraradical socialist; any political ultraradical.

adjective

1. Bolshevistic.

Other Words From

• anti-Bolshe·vist noun adjective
• non-Bolshe·vist noun
• pro-Bolshe·vist noun adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bolshevist¹

First recorded in 1915–20; Bolshev(ik) + -ist

Example Sentences

In the late 1920s, Ahn was falsely accused of being a Bolshevist and deported from the United States.

From Los Angeles Times

He called his party Bolshevist, which in Russian means majority, even though its members constituted a distinct minority even among the array of the country’s socialist revolutionary parties; he made many believe they were truly a majority.

From Slate

The Republican senator Miles Poindexter, of Washington State, also eying the Presidential nomination, called on the government “to deport every alien Bolshevist and to punish rather than protect those who practice their savage creed in this country.”

From The New Yorker

Scottish Secretary Robert Munro is said to have called the protest "a Bolshevist uprising".

From BBC

One week before the Bolshevist Revolution, in the autumn of 1917, his young wife bore him a second child, a son.

From Literature