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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

But Bolshevism on Trial is the movie that the Jennings Daily Times-Record of Jennings, Louisiana famously proclaimed “the timeliest picture ever screened” on June 3, 1919!

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

Turkestan, Bolshevism in, 286; social revolution in, 290 Turkestan, Chinese, Mohammedans in, 51; revolt of, 51 Turkey, Islam conquered by, 23; Arabs war against, 23 ff.;

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop




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