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BOLSHEVISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Soviet communism
Synonyms:
Bolshevism; collectivism; sovietism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Bolshevism" is a kind of...):
communism (a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bolshevism"):
revisionism (a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism)
revisionism (any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx)
Derivation:
Bolshevist (a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party)
Bolshevistic (of or relating to Bolshevism)
