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Bolshevism

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




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Or that Winston Churchill—who in 1919 said Bolshevism should be strangled in its cradle—became Stalin’s puppet 22 years later?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

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

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

“He believed that Bolshevism is absolute evil,” wrote the grandson, Peter Basilevsky, in 2007.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2015

Abyssinian Church, Mohammedan threat against, 50 Afghanistan, religious uprisings in, 41; nineteenth-century independence of, 118; Bolshevism in, 286 ff.; rebellion of, 286 ff.

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop