How to Use Bolshevik in a Sentence

Bolshevik

noun

• The strange holdover from the era of Bolshevik iconography.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
• Yet the seizure of the means of production — not in the Bolshevik but in the Robber Baron sense — has been the default mode for motion picture makers since the birth of the medium.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2022
• Paramount and the Bolshevik parted ways before his contract was up.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• Beginning in 1929, and following the Bolshevik revolution, the icon has been housed at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Fox News, 16 May 2023
• The reference to government texts replacing the Bible was, undoubtedly, a way of reinforcing the idea that, as some argued, the Amendment was a Bolshevik scheme.
  — Janet Golden / Made By History, TIME, 23 May 2024
• The hotel’s assistant manager, a cockney turned Bolshevik named Jack Margolis, explained to one journalist that the dining room was closed to keep the guests safe in the event of a direct hit on the famous glass ceiling.
  — Alan Philps, Town & Country, 5 July 2023
• For working-class young men like Platonov, the Bolshevik Revolution opened up huge vistas of opportunity, not merely for self-betterment but for the creation of a new society.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• The link between epochs, ripped apart by bloody Bolshevik hands, had been miraculously, unexpectedly put back together as the last possible moment was ebbing away.
  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• The episode in question opens with a flashback in which the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, are executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 7 Nov. 2022
• Yurovsky had, meanwhile, been planning the family’s murder, though with a surprising lack of efficiency for such a ruthless, dedicated Bolshevik.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• After the October Revolution, her father was conscripted into battle with Bolshevik forces, and Eleanora and her mother endured illness and poverty at home.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
• The first round of this struggle, in which early Soviet operatives faced off primarily against their British counterparts, started soon after the Bolshevik Revolution.
  — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2023
• White Russians, the fiercely anti-communist aristocrats and generals who battled the Bolshevik Reds for more than five years starting in 1917 and then mostly fled into exile, were rehabilitated in official histories as patriots.
  — Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• The limited series take on Amor Towles’ 2016 novel tiptoes along an allegorical line, without toppling over into either outright whimsy or voyeuristic gawking at the flawed idealism and generational traumas of the Bolshevik Revolution.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024