bolshevik

plural bolsheviks · plural bolsheviki

1. alternativeAlternative form of Bolshevik.

plural Bolsheviks · literary plural Bolsheviki · alternative bolshevik

1. historicalA Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.

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

   Vladimir Lenin

   1967 [1905 February 3], Владимир Ленин [Vladimir Lenin], “Письмо к Грейлиху”, in Краткий очерк раскола в РСДРП (В. И. Ленин – Полное собрание сочинений; 9), page 239; English translation from “The Letter to Greulich”, in Bernard Isaacs, Isidor Lasker, transl., A Brief Outline of the Split in the R.S.D.L.P. (V. I. Lenin – Collected Works; 8), translation of original in Russian, 1977, page 130

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   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.

   1968, Robert Conquest, “The Problem of Confession”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 124

2. historicalA member of the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.