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| Bolshevik |
(often l.c.) a member of the majority faction of the party that seized power in 1917 and formed the Communist party in the Soviet Union. [1/3 definitions] |
| cleavage |
the splitting of an organization into opposing groups, as from conflicting ideas; faction. [1/4 definitions] |
| factional |
of or relating to a faction. |
| factious |
inclined toward or promoting faction; divisive or dissentious. [2 definitions] |
| Ghibelline |
a member of an aristocratic faction in medieval Italy that supported the authority of the German emperors over the papacy. (Cf. Guelph.) |
| Guelph |
a member of a medieval Italian political faction that supported the pope against the German emperors. (Cf. Ghibelline.) |
| left wing |
a faction of a political party or other group that advocates liberal reform or radical, revolutionary change, esp. in the social, political, or economic order. (Cf. right wing.) |
| lily-white |
one who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, exclusion of nonwhites, esp. a member of a former faction of the Republican party in the southern United States that opposed the inclusion of blacks in the party. [1/4 definitions] |
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