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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.
In all senses also called Bolshevist. [Russian Bol'shevik, from bol'she, comparative of bol'shoÄ­, large; see bel- in Indo-European roots.] Bolâ²sheÂ·vikâ² adj. Word History: The word Bolshevik derives from the Russian word bol'she, bigger, more, the comparative form of bol'shoÄ­, big.. In Russian, the plural Bol'sheviki was the name given to the majority faction at the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1903.