Borrowed from Russian большеви́зм ("Bolshevism"), from большинство (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) + -и́зм. is derived from большо́й (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bel-) + -ство (from Proto-Slavic *-ьstvo ("suffix forming nouns denoting a condition or state")).
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