Bolsheviks
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"Le Sec et l'Humide (2008) is a book-length essay by Jonathan Littell, a corpus analysis of the prose of Léon Degrelle in Campaign in Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front (1949) which makes a clear distinction between the dry (the fascists) and the humid (the Bolsheviks)."--Sholem Stein "Unless we can do away with money entirely as a medium of exchange, as the Bolshevists tried to do in the early years of the Revolution , then we must recognise its symbols and understand that they indicate a peculiar power which the time requires."--The New Spirit in the Cinema (1930) by Huntly Carter |
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The Bolsheviks; derived from bol'shinstvo (большинство), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority", were a radical, far-left, and revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov that split from the Menshevik faction (from men'shinstvo (меньшинство), "minority", which comes from men'she (меньше), "less").
Derogatory usage of "Bolshevik"
"Bolo" was used as derogatory expression for Bolsheviks used by British service personnel in the North Russian Expeditionary Force which intervened against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and other Nazi leaders used it in reference to the worldwide political movement coordinated by the Comintern. During the days of the Cold War in the United Kingdom, labour union leaders and other leftists were sometimes derisively described as "Bolshies". The usage is roughly equivalent to the term "Commie", "Red" or "pinko" in the United States during the same period. The term "Bolshie" later became a slang term for anyone who was rebellious, aggressive or truculent.
See also
- Democratic centralism
- Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks
- Leninism
- October Revolution
- Old Bolshevik
- Soviet Revolutionary Communists (Bolsheviks)
- Vladimir Lenin
- Marxism-Leninism
- Trotskyism