Bolsheviki

English

Noun

Bolsheviki

  1. (literary) plural of Bolshevik
    • 1987 [1919 January 1], John Reed, “Preface”, in Ten Days That Shook the World, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 11:
      This book is a slice of intensified history—history as I saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed account of the November Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the head of the workers and soldiers, seized the state power of Russia and placed it in the hands of the Soviets.
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