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Usage note Expand. When Bolshevik is used to refer to an extreme radical, it implies that such a person has a strongly felt subversive or combative ideology counter to the status quo. The 20-century poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were called literary Bolsheviks by a writer in a London newspaper.
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (Russian: Ð±Ð¾Ð»ÑÑÐµÐ²Ð¸ÐºÐ¸, Ð±Ð¾Ð»ÑÑÐµÐ²Ð¸Ðº (singular), IPA: [bÉlÊ²ÊÉ¨ËvÊ²ik]; derived from Ð±Ð¾Ð»ÑÑÐ¸Ð½ÑÑÐ²Ð¾ bol'shinstvo, majority, literally meaning one of the majority), were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.