Bolshevists
Lenin's radical followers
Bolshevists are members or supporters of the Bolshevik faction, the revolutionary socialist movement that seized power in Russia in 1917 and established the Soviet state.
The term often carries hostile connotations, used by critics to suggest radical leftism, authoritarianism, or violent revolution: The newspapers warned of Bolshevists infiltrating the labor unions.
Now largely historical, sometimes deployed as a political slur.
Soviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- 1917Late Great War
- PetrogradRussian city name, 1914-24
insurrection · vanguard · uprising · proletariat · Red Guards · Winter Palace · seizure · militants
Advocates for fundamental change
- extremistsThose with radical positions
- subversivesThose undermining established systems
- agitatorsThose who incite disturbance
- anarchistsOpponents of state authority
terrorists · fanatics · zealots · ideologues · demagogues · conspirators · infiltrators · provocateurs
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
internationalism · anti-capitalism · Leninism · imperialism · bourgeoisie · exploitation · workers · masses
Soviet founding upheaval
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
- White ArmyAnti-communist Russian forces
- ChekaFirst Soviet secret police
terror · nationalization · emigres · exiles · autocracy · February Revolution · provisional government · czar
Gathering for celebration
- factionGroup within group
- MensheviksRussian moderate socialist faction
- DumaMoscow's legislative chamber
- splitSeparation into parts
majority · minority · central committee · discipline · organization · membership · apparatus · functionaries
Lenin
Soviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- 1917Late Great War
Petrograd · insurrection · vanguard · uprising · proletariat · Red Guards · Winter Palace · seizure · militants · radicals
radicals
Advocates for fundamental change
- extremistsThose with radical positions
- subversivesThose undermining established systems
- agitatorsThose who incite disturbance
anarchists · terrorists · fanatics · zealots · ideologues · demagogues · conspirators · infiltrators · provocateurs · fifth column
Marxism
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
collectivization · internationalism · anti-capitalism · Leninism · imperialism · bourgeoisie · exploitation · workers · masses · ideology
Russian Revolution
Soviet founding upheaval
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
- White ArmyAnti-communist Russian forces
Cheka · terror · nationalization · emigres · exiles · autocracy · February Revolution · provisional government · czar · abdication
party
Gathering for celebration
- factionGroup within group
- MensheviksRussian moderate socialist faction
- DumaMoscow's legislative chamber
split · majority · minority · central committee · discipline · organization · membership · apparatus · functionaries · commissars
Bolshevistscapitalists
Owners of productive wealth
anti-communists · monarchists · fascists · bourgeoisie · liberals
BolshevistsWhite Russians
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Whites · White Army · counter-revolutionaries · loyalists · interventionists