Proletariat - definition, pronunciation, transcription

Amer. |ˌproʊlɪˈteərɪət|

Brit. |ˌprəʊlɪˈtɛːrɪət|

- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages (syn: labor, labour)

...the Bolsheviks believed that Russia's discontented proletariat made that nation ripe for revolution...