Bolshevik

See also: bolshevik

English

Alternative forms

bolshevik

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), from большинство́ (bolʹšinstvó, “majority”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒlʃəvɪk/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ̯lʃəvɪk/, /ˈbɑlʃəvɪk/, /ˈbɔlʃəvɪk/

Noun

Bolshevik (plural Bolsheviks or Bolsheviki)

A Russian communist revolutionary, member of the Bolshevik Party in the 1917 Communist Revolution of Russia.
A term used to describe the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Related terms

Bolshevism

Translations

a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917

Albanian: bolshevik (sq) m
Arabic: بُلْشِفِيك‎ m (bulšifīk), بُلْشِفِيّ‎ m (bulšifiyy)
Armenian: բոլշևիկ (bolšewik)
Azerbaijani: bolşevik
Belarusian: бальшаві́к m (balʹšavík)
Bulgarian: болшеви́к (bg) (bolševík)
Catalan: bolxevic m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 布爾什維克 (zh), 布尔什维克 (zh) (bù'ěrshíwéikè)
Czech: bolševik (cs) m
Danish: bolsjevik c
Dutch: bolsjewiek (nl) m
Esperanto: bolŝeviko
Estonian: enamlane, bolševik
Finnish: bolševikki (fi)
French: bolchevik (fr) m, bolchévique (fr) m, bolchevique (fr) m
Galician: bolxevique m
Georgian: ბოლშევიკი (bolševiḳi)
German: Bolschewik (de) m, Bolschewikin f, Bolschewist m, Bolschewistin f
Greek: μπολσεβίκος (el) m (bolsevíkos)
Greenlandic: bolschevikki
Hindi: बोलशेविक m (bolśevik)
Hungarian: bolsevik (hu)
Icelandic: bolsévik m
Irish: Boilséiveach m
Italian: bolscevico (it) m
Japanese: ボリシェヴィキ (borisheviki)
Kazakh: большевик (bolʹşevïk)

Korean: 볼셰비키 (bolsyebiki)
Kyrgyz: большевик (ky) (bolʹşevik)
Latvian: boļševiks m
Lithuanian: bolševikas m
Macedonian: болшевик m (bolševik)
Mongolian: большевик (mn) (bolʹševik)
Norwegian: bolsjevik m
Persian: بلشویک‎ (fa) (bolševik)
Polish: bolszewik (pl) m
Portuguese: bolchevique (pt) m
Romanian: bolșevic (ro) m
Russian: большеви́к (ru) m (bolʹševík), большеви́чка (ru) f (bolʹševíčka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бољшѐвӣк m

Roman: boljšèvīk (sh) m
Slovak: boľševik m
Slovene: boljševik (sl) m
Spanish: bolchevique (es) m
Swedish: bolsjevik (sv) c
Tajik: болшевик (bolševik)
Thai: บอลเชวิค (bɔɔn-chee-wík)
Turkish: Bolşevik (tr)
Turkmen: bolşewik (tk)
Ukrainian: більшови́к m (bilʹšovýk)
Urdu: بالشویک‎ m (bālśevik)
Uzbek: bolshevik (uz)
Vietnamese: người Bôn sê vích, bôn
Yiddish: באָלשעוויק‎ m (bolshevik), באָלשעוויסט‎ m (bolshevist)

See also

Menshevik

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