bolshevism
Bolshevism (noun) means the methods the Bolsheviks used to try to seize power in Russia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian большеви́зм (bolʹševízm, “Bolshevism”), formed from большинство (bolʹšinstvo, “majority, most”) (referring to the fact that the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party won on the majority of the important issues at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903) and -и́зм (-ízm, “-ism”, a suffix forming the names of systems, schools of thought or theories based on the names of their subjects or objects). большинство in turn derives from большо́й (bolʹšój, “great, large”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bel-) and -ство (-stvo, a suffix forming a neuter noun, usually an abstract noun denoting a relation, social status, scientific discipline, quality or state) (from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo, a suffix forming nouns denoting a condition or state).
