Bolschevism

English

Etymology

From German Bolschewismus.

Noun

Bolschevism (uncountable)

1. (non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of Bolshevism.
   • 1996 May 1, Carl Alex Friis Nielsen, “Resistance to German Onslaught 1939-40”, in soc.history.war.world-war-ii‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

     The "Frikorps" was one of the units raised to fight Bolschevism from the occupied countries - and it seems that only about 20% of the volunteers were Nazis.

   • 1997 August 10, mclane, “Chess Analysis Software”, in rec.games.chess.computer‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

     Yesterday I saw a documentation about Hitler and Stalin and the way Hitler cheated Stalin by suggesting him, he would NOT attack UdSSR but Great Britain. It was a very nice documentation, they showed that the whole bolschevism was just an arranged idea of germans, using Lenin/Stalin for own ideas.

   • 2001 August 7, radiosigs, “Praise be Jesus, it's the Catholics again!”, in alt.radio.scanner.flame_fest‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

     W4NTI last week posted that Jews are communists and I tried to get through to the radical by explaining that, to Jews there, very early Bolschevism in Russia represented an escape from Tzarist persecutions and pogroms. Who knows if he caught on?

   • 2004 July 1, EjP, “Darwin Contribute to Holocaust?”, in talk.origins‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

     I highly recommend Donna Kossy's "Strange Creations" for a very interesting summary of fringe views on the origins of human beings, including those which fed into Naziism and Bolschevism.