Meanings
- NazismuncountableCulture, and art in particular, that the Nazi party considered to be undesirable or degenerate (entartet) and undermining (zersetzen) the völkisch ideology and party line.
He [Björn Höcke] uses terminology and concepts once used by Hitler himself, including racial suicide, a “decaying state’’ and “cultural Bolshevism.”
[2019 October 26, Katrin Bennhold, Melissa Eddy, “‘Hitler or Höcke?’ Germany’s Far-Right Party Radicalizes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC1 more example
Often cultural bolshevism and Jewish culture were seen as equivalent, since Bolshevism, Marxism, and Communism were considered to have originated from Jewish minds as those of Marx and Engels.
2020, “Entartete Musik: Perpertrators and Victims”, in Dina Siegel, Frank Bovenkerk, editors, Crime and Music, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 17
Origin
- GermanKulturbolschewismus
- Englishcultural Bolshevism
Calque of German Kulturbolschewismus.
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Arabic الْبُولْشِفِيَّة الثَّقَافِيَّة
- الْبُولْشِفِيَّة الثَّقَافِيَّة (al-būlšifiyya ṯ-ṯaqāfiyya)cultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Chinese Mandarin 文化布爾什維克主義 /文化布尔什维克主义
- 文化布爾什維克主義 /文化布尔什维克主义 (wénhuà bù'ěrshíwéikèzhǔyì)cultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Czech kulturní bolševismus
- kulturní bolševismuscultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
French bolchevisme culturel
- bolchevisme culturelcultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
German Kulturbolschewismus
- Kulturbolschewismuscultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Hindi सांस्कृतिक बोल्शेविकवाद
- सांस्कृतिक बोल्शेविकवाद (sānskŕtik bolśevikvād)cultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Hungarian kultúrbolsevizmus
- kultúrbolsevizmuscultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Japanese 文化ボリシェヴィキ主義
- 文化ボリシェヴィキ主義 (yudaya borisheviki-shugi)cultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Polish bolszewizm kulturowy
- bolszewizm kulturowycultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Portuguese bolchevismo cultural
- bolchevismo culturalcultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Russian культурбольшеви́зм
- культурбольшеви́зм (kulʹturbolʹševízm)cultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Spanish bolchevismo cultural
- bolchevismo culturalcultural elements that were perceived to be propagating undesirable Bolshevik ideas
Cite this entry
cultural Bolshevism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural%20Bolshevism
“cultural Bolshevism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural%20Bolshevism. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cultural Bolshevism,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural%20Bolshevism.
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