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Bolshevism

[bohl-shuh-viz-uhm, bol-] / ˈboʊl ʃəˌvɪz əm, ˈbɒl- /




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In “World Enemy No. 1,” the author charts the development of Nazi anticommunism, from its origins immediately after World War I, and the way the movement systematically targeted Jews as supposed agents of international Bolshevism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

What critics of Bolshevism on Trial don’t realize is that the film’s timeless story still resonates deeply with the American public.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2020

Xenophobia was further exacerbated by the Russian Revolution and the manufactured threat of Bolshevism, or the “Red Menace.”

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2017

Just as many of the Nazis they were dealing with saw the Cold War as part two of their own epic crusade against Bolshevism.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2015

These fears were intensified by the Russian revolution of 1917, with its hideous corollary of Bolshevism which definitely triumphed before the close of that year.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard




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