Bolshevik
Russian communist revolutionary
A Bolshevik was a member of the radical faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party that seized power in the 1917 October Revolution, establishing the Soviet state.
The term came to mean any Russian communist, then broadened to label anyone perceived as radically leftist or revolutionary.
Used disparagingly by opponents: The senator called the protesters Bolsheviks.
The adjective form is Bolshevik or Bolshevist.
Soviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- 1917Late Great War
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
Petrograd · Winter Palace · Mensheviks · February Revolution · Russian Civil War · Red Guards · Cheka · Pravda
Former communist superpower
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- StalinismTotalitarian Communist doctrine
- PolitburoCommunist party's governing body
KGB · NKVD · collectivization · show trials · purges · Comintern · Iron Curtain · Cold War
State-led revolutionary socialism
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
dictatorship of the proletariat · class struggle · vanguard · collectivization · means of production · Marx · Engels · revolutionary theory
Seeking fundamental systemic change
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- seizure of powerForcible assumption of authority
- armed struggleViolent political conflict
overthrow · agitation · propaganda · cadre · cell · underground · clandestine · exile
Lenin
Soviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- 1917Late Great War
Red Army · Petrograd · Winter Palace · Mensheviks · February Revolution · Russian Civil War · Red Guards · Cheka · Pravda · emigres
USSR
Former communist superpower
- Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- StalinismTotalitarian Communist doctrine
Politburo · KGB · NKVD · collectivization · show trials · purges · Comintern · Iron Curtain · Cold War · commissar
Marxism-Leninism
State-led revolutionary socialism
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
proletariat · dictatorship of the proletariat · class struggle · vanguard · collectivization · means of production · Marx · Engels · revolutionary theory · anti-capitalism
revolutionary
Seeking fundamental systemic change
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- seizure of powerForcible assumption of authority
armed struggle · overthrow · agitation · propaganda · cadre · cell · underground · clandestine · exile · radicalism
radical
Root-indicating symbol
- extremistOne holding fringe views
- agitatorOne who foments discord
- subversiveSeeking to undermine authority
zealot · fanatic · hardliner · leftist · fellow traveler · red · pinko · militant · firebrand · ideologue
- 20th CenturyWorld War I aftermath, Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic bomb, New Deal, Nazi Germany
- Revolutionrevolt, uprising, insurrection, overthrow, revolutionaries
- RussiaRussia, Moscow, Kremlin, Red Square, Siberia
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- Russian HistorySoviet Union, tsars, Tsarist Russia, Romanov, czars
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
BolshevikMenshevik
Gradualist Russian Marxist faction
White Russian · czarist · monarchist · counterrevolutionary · White Army
Bolshevikcapitalist
Private ownership supporter
free marketeer · bourgeois · industrialist · robber baron · plutocrat
- Bolshevik Revolution1917 communist coup in Russia
- Bolshevik PartyLenin's revolutionary socialist organization