Bolshevism. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Bolshevism

SYLLABICATION:	Bol·she·vism
PRONUNCIATION:	blsh-vzm, bl-
VARIANT FORMS:	also bol·she·vism
NOUN:	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.
ETYMOLOGY:	Bolshev(ik) + –ism.


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