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Bolsheviks
 
 
(BOHL-shuh-viks, BOL-shuh-viks) The radicals in the Russian Revolution, who were led by Lenin and who favored revolution rather than gradual democratic change.  1
Bolshevik has been used as a general term for a radical leftist or for a communist of the Soviet Union.  2
 
 
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