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Bolshevism

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Bol·she·vism also bol·she·vism  (blsh-vzm, bl-)
n.
1. The strategy developed by the Bolsheviks between 1903 and 1917 with a view to seizing state power and establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat.
2. Soviet Communism.
[Bolshev(ik) + -ism.]
Bolshevism
a radical wing of the Russian Social Democratie Labor party, favoring revolutionary tactics to achieve full socialization and, under the leadership of Ulyanov (Lenin), setting up from 1917-20 the present Soviet regime. — Bolshevik, Bolshevist, n., adj.
See also: Communism
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Noun1.BolshevismBolshevism - Soviet communism
collectivism, sovietism
communism - a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
revisionism - a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism
revisionism - any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx
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