Bolshevize, v.
(ˈbɒlʃɪvaɪz)
[f. Bolshevik + -ize.]
trans. To make Bolshevist in character; to convert (a country) to a Bolshevistic form of government.
| 1919 Observer 23 Mar. 10/5 Unless we want to bolshevise the Boche and the world. 1920 19th Cent. Mar. 536 Taking her chance that Germany will be Bolshevised before Russia is Germanised. 1920 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 268 Thereby preventing these people from being Bolshevized. |
Hence ˈBolshevized ppl. a.; ˈBolshevizing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˌBolsheviˈzation, the process of making, or becoming, Bolshevist.
| 1920 19th Cent. Mar. 536 Great Britain has been accused..of pursuing a policy aimed at the Balkanisation of the Baltic provinces. It may appear that we have only achieved their Bolshevisation. 1920 Glasgow Herald 15 Apr. 7/1 Syndicalists of a Bolshevik or Bolshevising hue. Ibid. 2 Oct. 7/2 The withdrawal of the Bolshevised troops from Asia Minor. 1927 Daily Tel. 16 Aug. 11/5 With a view to the Bolshevising of the 400,000,000 of Chinese. Ibid., A Bolshevised China would be the world's greatest peril. 1940 Manch. Guardian Weekly 22 Mar. 225 Since 1918, when the German Army took some small part in freeing Finland from Bolshevisation. |