"What is the meaning of the Russian word ""bolshevik""?"
Anti-Bolshevik propaganda Anti-Bolshevik propaganda Anti-Bolshevik propaganda was created in opposition to the events on the Russian political scene. The Bolsheviks were members of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party which came to power during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The word "Bolshevik" (большевик) means "one of the majority" in Russian and is derived from the word "большинство" (transliteration: "bol'shinstvo", see also Romanization of Russian) which means "majority" in English. The group was founded at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party when Vladimir Lenin’s followers gained majority on the party’s central committee
Lovers of the Russian Word Lovers of the Russian Word The Colloquy of Lovers of the Russian Word (, "Beseda lyubitelei russkogo slova") was a conservative and proto-Slavophile literary society founded in St. Petersburg in the early nineteenth century. The society began meeting as early as 1807, but its regular monthly meetings began in March 1811 in "a beautiful and luxuriously appointed hall in Derzhavin's large home on the banks of the Fontanka"; as many as 500 people might attend its meetings, and it published its own journal, the "Chteniya v Besede lyubitelei russkogo slova" (Readings at the Colloquy of Lovers of the Russian Word),