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 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024