Bolshevik (Adjective)
Meaning
Of or relating to Bolshevism; "Bolshevik Revolution".
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The city witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution's bloody aftermath as Lenin seized power.
- Her historical fiction novel focuses on the life of a young woman caught in the Bolshevik upheaval of 1917.
- Vladimir Lenin became a central figure in the Bolshevik Party's radical restructuring of the Soviet Union.
- By early 1918, Bolshevik leaders consolidated control of key Russian institutions, particularly the media and economy.
- Karl Marx's influential works helped to lay the intellectual foundation for the eventual Bolshevik rise to power.