Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
, from Russian oktyabrist, "member of the league formed October 1905 in response to imperial policies";
, from Russian Oktyabryonok, "member of a Russian communist children's organization founded 1925 and named in honor of the October Revolution."
Usage examples of "octobrist".
Like all Soviet children, Ramius joined the Little Octobrists, then the Young Pioneers.
Petchukocov had been a faithful Communist since joining the Octobrists as a boybut damn it!
While the srs and sds had to reject the unsafe and barely democratic conditions of the October Manifesto and the moderate Octobrists were content to work within its terms, the CDs tried to do both at once: to work with the Manifesto, in the sense of accepting a Duma very limited in its franchise and powers, and to insist at the same time that the Duma as at present constituted was wholly unsatisfactory and needed to be supplanted.
Eight Young Octobrists from Pskov, three boys and five girls ranging in age from eight to ten, and three clerical employees, all men who worked directly for the Politburo, were laid out in polished birchwood coffins, surrounded by a sea of flowers.