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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 are best known for seizing power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and for founding the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. Bolsheviks had an extremist perspective on socialism in economics and proletarian internationalism with regard to geopolitics and national identity, expressed through their organization of professional revolutionaries into a cadre under a strict internal hierarchy and quasi-military discipline ...