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commie

DEFINITIONS OF: commie

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n a socialist who advocates communism

Synonyms:
communist
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Mao Tsetung
Chinese communist leader (1893-1976)
John Reed
United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
Chou En-lai
Chinese revolutionary and communist leader (1898-1976)
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Bolshevik leader in Russia who advocated gradual collectivism of the farms; was executed in a purge by Stalin (1888-1938)
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)
Lev Davidovich Bronstein
Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940)
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apparatchik
a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party
Bolshevik, Bolshevist
a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party
Comrade
a fellow member of the Communist Party
revisionist
a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
Type of:
socialist
a political advocate of socialism
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