Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·russian ·1917
Bolshevik
from большевик (bolshevik)
- Meaning
- Member of the majority — the larger faction at the 1903 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party congress.
- Source word
- большевик (bolshevik)
- Route into English
- Specific to one faction; broadened to "communist" generally in Western usage after 1917.
- Arrived
- 1917
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