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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.
Bolshevik, ( Russian: âOne of the Majorityâ) , plural Bolsheviks, or Bolsheviki, member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workersâ Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.