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Bolshevist   /bˈoʊlʃɪvˌɪst/   Listen
Bolshevist

noun
1.
A Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party.  Synonym: Bolshevik.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to Bolshevism.  Synonyms: Bolshevik, Bolshevistic.



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"Bolshevist" Quotes from Famous Books



... discuss the problem of Jewish immigration honestly. Nine tenths of them, under the lash of snobbish Jewish advertisers, are even afraid to call a Jew a Jew; their orders are to call him a Hebrew, which is regarded as sweeter. During the height of the Bolshevist scare not one American paper ventured to direct attention to the plain and obtrusive fact that the majority of Bolshevists in Russia and Germany and at least two-thirds of those taken in the United States were of the faith of Moses, Mendelssohn ...
— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... my dumpling when he asked me if I were a socialist. No, I replied. Then perhaps I was an anarchist or a Bolshevist, he persisted. N-no, I answered him, sadly and slowly, for I foresaw his scorn. He leaned forward across the table. Begging my pardon for an intrusion in my affairs, he asked me if I were not aware that the world was slipping away from me. God knows. Perhaps. I had come frisking to ...
— Chimney-Pot Papers • Charles S. Brooks

... that.... Bolshevist uprisings are in reality the visible objects of some underlying, deep, mental disturbance, world-wide in character.... This same spirit of unrest has invaded science." [Footnote: Cited in The New Republic, Dec. 24, 1919, ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... the fallacious arguments so often encountered. First of all, it has the tone of darkest Hungary or Bolshevist Russia, and is absolutely contrary to the facts as regards conditions in the United States. The so-called "toasters" or "capitalistic class;" for suppose it is to them that this refers, have been in the ...
— Socialism and American ideals • William Starr Myers

... and one supported now (1920) daily in the conservative press, whenever I.W.W. and Bolshevist demonstrations shake the country! But "Paul Kauvar" is, to-day, not the kind of drama to drive home the ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy • Steele Mackaye



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