With all this in mind, I expected some bolshie extrovert, holding court in the centre of the room.
In the meantime the government will have to get used to dealing with bolshie judges.
In the 1970s its bolshie workforce frequently clashed with tetchy managers.
Although one of the first things that greets you after your train rolls into Lime Street station is a union headquarters festooned with posters about cuts and privatisation, the trade unions are now a shadow of their former, bolshie selves.
He will also have to deal with subprime-linked lawsuits and a regulatory investigation of Merrill's accounting for illiquid assets.Above all, he must decide if the business model, with precious investment bankers and bolshie brokers under one roof, needs to be reconfigured.
And that, undoubtedly, is where the problems will begin.In this section The burden of victory La dolce pensione Lost for words Putin versus nobody serious A bolshie Bolshevik Out with the UN, in with the EU Money-go-round Money-go-round Money-go-round ReprintsThe the Spanish anthem, a jaunty tune known as La Marcha Real (The Royal March), is explosivery
Despite the prospect of mass unemployment, South Korea's notoriously bolshie unions have not turned the streets into a bloodbath: they know most people would not support them, having already voted for change.
And a parent-teacher association packed with the local elite is more help with bolshie bureaucrats than one full of foreigners.Further growth is on the cards.
But even in others, like finance, eastern workers have made smaller productivity gains than westerners.That said, the stereotype of the eastern worker as nostalgic, lazy and bolshie is outdated.
That could well embolden rebels in what is an increasingly bolshie parliament.
But the unions in the power utilities are a bolshie lot.
