Bolshevik

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Recent Examples of Bolshevik The Bolshevik ideology of global revolution represented the ultimate threat to the United States, spurring the paranoia that fueled Senator Joseph McCarthy’s infamous witch hunts. Eric Jason Martin Tanya Pérez Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 Earlier in the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, had been called the Bolshevik Party. Mark Jones, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2024 If such a figure had actually existed, the Russian Revolution may have gone very differently, to the chagrin of Romanov and Bolshevik alike. Sean T. Collins, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024 Ruth also gave up writing, but became more of a bohemian—and more of a Bolshevik. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Bolshevik

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