Bolshevism

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɒlʃəˌvɪz(ə)m/
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• General-American: /ˈbɑlʃəˌvɪzəm/
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• General-American: /ˈboʊl-/
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• General-American: /ˈbol-/
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Borrowed from Russian большеви́зм (bolʹševízm, “Bolshevism”), from большинство (bolʹšinstvo, “majority, most”) (referring to the fact that the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party won on the majority of the important issues at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903) + -и́зм (-ízm, “-ism”, suffix forming the names of systems, schools of thought or theories based on the names of their subjects or objects). большинство is derived from большо́й (bolʹšój, “great, large”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bel-) + -ство (-stvo, suffix forming a neuter noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, quality or state) (from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo (suffix forming nouns denoting a condition or state)).

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: bolshevizëm — Communist political ideology
• Arabic: بُلْشِفِيَّة (bulšifiyya) — Communist political ideology
• Armenian: բոլշեւիզմ (bolšewizm) — Communist political ideology
• Asturian: bolxevismu — Communist political ideology
• Azerbaijani: bolşevizm — Communist political ideology
• Belarusian: бальшаві́зм (balʹšavízm) — Communist political ideology
• Bulgarian: болшеви́зъм (bolševízǎm) — Communist political ideology
• Catalan: bolxevisme — Communist political ideology
• Chinese Mandarin: 布爾什維主義 /布尔什维主义 (bù'ěrshíwéizhǔyì) — Communist political ideology
• Czech: bolševismus — Communist political ideology
• Danish: bolsjevisme — Communist political ideology
• Dutch: bolsjewisme — Communist political ideology
• Estonian: bolševism — Communist political ideology
• Finnish: bolševismi — Communist political ideology
• Galician: bolxevismo — Communist political ideology
• Georgian: ბოლშევიზმი (bolševizmi) — Communist political ideology
• German: Bolschewismus — Communist political ideology
• Greek: μπολσεβικισμός (bolsevikismós) — Communist political ideology
• Hebrew: בּוֹלְשֶׁבִיזְם (bolshevízm) — Communist political ideology
• Hindi: बोलशेविकवाद (bolśevikvād) — Communist political ideology
• Hindi: बोल्शेविज़्म (bolśevizma) — Communist political ideology
• Hungarian: bolsevizmus — Communist political ideology
• Irish: Boilséiveachas — Communist political ideology
• Italian: bolscevismo — Communist political ideology
• Japanese: ボルシェヴィズム (borushevizumu) — Communist political ideology
• Japanese: ボルシェビズム (borushebizumu) — Communist political ideology
• Japanese: ボリシェヴィズム (borishevizumu) — Communist political ideology
• Japanese: ボリシェビズム (borishebizumu) — Communist political ideology
• Kazakh: большевизм (bolşevizm) — Communist political ideology
• Korean: 볼셰비즘 (bolsyebijeum) — Communist political ideology
• Kyrgyz: большевизм (bolşevizm) — Communist political ideology
• Latvian: boļševisms — Communist political ideology
• Lithuanian: bolševizmas — Communist political ideology
• Macedonian: болшеви́зам (bolševízam) — Communist political ideology
• Marathi: बोलशेव्हिकवाद (bolśevhikvād) — Communist political ideology
• Mongolian: большевизм (bolʹševizm) — Communist political ideology
• Norwegian Bokmål: bolsjevisme — Communist political ideology
• Persian: بلشویسم (bolševism) — Communist political ideology
• Polish: bolszewizm — Communist political ideology
• Portuguese: bolchevismo — Communist political ideology
• Romanian: bolșevism — Communist political ideology
• Russian: большеви́зм (bolʹševízm) — Communist political ideology
• Serbo-Croatian: бољшевѝзам — Communist political ideology
• Serbo-Croatian: boljševìzam — Communist political ideology
• Slovak: boľševizmus — Communist political ideology
• Slovene: boljševizem — Communist political ideology
• Spanish: bolchevismo — Communist political ideology
• Swedish: bolsjevism — Communist political ideology
• Tajik: болшевизм (bolševizm) — Communist political ideology
• Turkish: Bolşeviklik — Communist political ideology
• Turkmen: bolşewizm — Communist political ideology
• Ukrainian: більшови́зм (bilʹšovýzm) — Communist political ideology
• Uyghur: بولشېۋىزم (bolshëwizm) — Communist political ideology
• Uzbek: bolshevizm — Communist political ideology
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa bôn-sê-vích — Communist political ideology
• Yiddish: באָלשעוויזם (bolshevizm) — Communist political ideology