Meanings
plural cultural Bolsheviks
- NazismSomeone accused of cultural Bolshevism.
Nearly 100 years after he was branded a “cultural Bolshevik” and dismissed from his teaching job in Frankfurt in 1933, there are connecting lines from [Max] Beckmann's experience to today's culture of whipped-up outrage.
2026 June 13, Jacoba Urist, “Cake, painting and war stories”, in FT Weekend (Collecting section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7
Origin
- GermanKulturbolschewist
- Englishcultural Bolshevik
Calque of German Kulturbolschewist.
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cultural Bolshevik. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural%20Bolshevik
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