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Bolshevism

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




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The most serious threat to liberalism was the irruption of Bolshevism, Fascism and Nazism between 1917 and 1945.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

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

More important, they seem immune to hermetic ideologies: Bolshevism, Labourism, Islamism, the myths and legends around constitutional Irish nationalism.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2011

In a country capable of producing the "Revolution" of 1917 and the later Bolshevism, anything was possible in the mid-eighties,—anything except the shadow of freedom.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur




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