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Bolshevism

[bohl-shuh-viz-uhm, bol-] / ˈboʊl ʃəˌvɪz əm, ˈbɒl- /




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Jochen Hellbeck is under no doubt that Bolshevism was Hitler’s primary concern and the Soviet Union his principal nemesis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Just as many of the Nazis they were dealing with saw the Cold War as part two of their own epic crusade against Bolshevism.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2015

“He believed that Bolshevism is absolute evil,” wrote the grandson, Peter Basilevsky, in 2007.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2015

He reacted furiously against any suggestion that Bolshevism was a new religion, writing to Gorky in 1913 that trying to construct a new god was an exercise in necrophilia.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2011

The scheme of his work has been "to trace the evolution of Bolshevism from an abstract doctrine to a practical experiment."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920 by Various


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