bolshevize
Verb: 1. To make Communist or bring into accord with Communist principles: The act of imposing or transforming a government, system, or organization to align with the doctrines and practices of Bolshevism, a radical branch of Marxism-Leninism associated with the Russian Revolution. 2. To cause to adopt or be influenced by Bolshevik ideology: The process of instilling or enforcing the political, economic, and social theories of revolutionary communism.
The verb "bolshevize" describes a deliberate, often forceful, process of political transformation. It is typically used in historical or political analysis to discuss the imposition of communist structures and ideology. * The new regime sought to bolshevize the entire state apparatus, replacing old officials with party loyalists. * Historians debate the methods used to bolshevize the agricultural sector during the early Soviet period.
- Historical Context: The term is most frequently applied to the actions of the Bolshevik Party following the 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent spread of Soviet influence. It often carries a critical or negative connotation, implying coercion and the suppression of alternative systems.
- The occupying force's primary goal was to bolshevize the country's institutions.
- Figurative Use: In a broader, sometimes hyperbolic sense, it can be used to describe any attempt to impose a rigid, doctrinaire system.
- Critics accused the new manager of trying to bolshevize the company's creative culture.
- Bolshevization (noun): The process or result of making something Bolshevik.
- The rapid bolshevization of the media ensured state control over information.
- Bolshevik (noun/adjective): A member of the radical wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party; pertaining to Bolshevism.
- Communize (verb): A more general synonym meaning to make communist.
- Communize
- Sovietize (specifically to make similar to the Soviet Union)
- Democratize
- Liberalize
- Decentralize
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make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles
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communize the government
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