Bolsheviks

1. The radicals in the Russian Revolution, who were led by Lenin and who favored revolution rather than gradual democratic change.

Bolshevik has been used as a general term for a radical leftist or for a communist of the Soviet Union.

Example Sentences

Leadership values change, but being placed under permanent house arrest by the Bolsheviks at the luxury Hotel Metropol in “A Gentleman in Moscow” doesn’t stop Alexander from dressing the aristocratic part.

From Los Angeles Times

The gold was confiscated after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917.

From Seattle Times

Stalin wrote the “Short Course on the History of the Bolsheviks” that contains the adage, “The party becomes strong by purging itself.”

From Washington Times

Around the same time, the German Army agreed to a technology transfer scheme with the Bolsheviks that allowed the army to test new weapons and tactics at secret sites deep inside the Soviet Union.

From Salon

But the Bolsheviks quickly invaded nearly all of them, forcing them into the newly established Soviet Union, which reoccupied the Baltic nations after World War II, leaving only Finland independent.

From Salon