BOLSHEVISM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Soviet communism

Synonyms:

Bolshevism; collectivism; sovietism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Bolshevism" is a kind of...):

communism (a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bolshevism"):

revisionism (a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism)

revisionism (any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx)

Derivation:

Bolshevist (a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party)

Bolshevistic (of or relating to Bolshevism)