a member of the extreme left wing of the Social Democratic Party that seized power in Russia in 1917 after the Russian October Revolution, and advocated rule by the proletariat and state ownership of property.
same as communist, especially used of Russian communists.
anyone with communist leanings or sympathies; -- used very loosely in a derogatory sense by some people with economically conservative views.
a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party
of or relating to Bolshevism; "Bolshevik Revolution"
Majority (Social Democrat faction)
A Bolshevik was a member of the Communist movement in Russia that established the Soviet government after the 1917 Russian Revolution; more generally, a Bolshevik is any radical or disruptive person or movement seeking to transform economic and political relationships.
Bolsheviks ( IPA , derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik factionDerived from men'shinstvo ("minority"). The split occurred at the Second Party Congress in 1903. at the Second Party Congress in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.After the split, the Bolshevik party was designated as RSDLP(b) (Russian: РСДРП(б)), where "b" stands for "Bolsheviks". Shortly after seizing power in November 1917 the party changed its name to the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (РКП(б)) and was generally known as the Communist Party after that point, however, it was not until 1952 that the party formally dropped the word "Bolshevik" from its name.
