soviet
see also: Soviet
Pronunciation Noun
Soviet
Noun
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see also: Soviet
Pronunciation Noun
soviet (plural soviets)
- (historical) A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.
- 2005, James Meek (author), The People's Act of Love, Canongate 2006, page 230:
- Kratochvil, Jedlicka, Safar, Kubes and Vasata, who always took an interest in politics, set up a soviet in the last wagon and uncoupled it from the rest of the train in the night.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, page 184:
- Workers' committees were forming embryo soviets, soldiers' and sailors' collectives had whole ships and regiments under their temporary command, landless workers in the countryside were taking over abandoned farms and properties.
- 2005, James Meek (author), The People's Act of Love, Canongate 2006, page 230:
soviet
- Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
- altcaps en pertaining to the Soviet Union
- 1935, Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey, page 129
- An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.
- 1947, Washington Education Association, Washington Education Journal
- Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational [....]
- 1991, "Whatchamacallit", in Boston Globe, Aug 27, 1991
- The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.
- 2004, "M&S coach Rose makes his pitch", in Times Online, Nov 14, 2004
- "It felt very soviet, very intimidating", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.
- 2005, Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, page 575
- [...] that has been enlarged most quickly and widely is the very soviet region newly created in northern Sichuan.
- 2006, Kate Transchel, Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural ..., page 136
- One tactic was to become more "soviet" than vanguard workers by enthusiastically participating in the regime's productivity campaigns such as shock work,
- 2006, SG Inge-Vechtomov, "From the Mutation Theory to the Theory of the Mutation Process", in NATO Security through Science Series B
- Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.
- 2007, Comment on Fred Hiatt, "A Soviet Memorial -- and Mind-Set: How far Russia has regressed became shockingly evident last week when Vladimir Putin's Russia unleashed a barrage against neighboring Estonia.", Washington Post, May 7, 2007
- There are 3 kinds of Russian speakers in Estonia: a Those that have taken out Estonian Citizenship, b Those that took out Russian citizenship and are therefore loyal to Russia, c those that have not taken either citizenship and are still very soviet in mindstate.
- 1935, Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey, page 129
- Portuguese: soviético
- Russian: сове́тский
Soviet
Noun
soviet (plural soviets)
- A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- altcaps en
- French: Soviétique
- German: Sowjetbürger, Sowjetbürgerin
- Italian: sovietico, sovietica
- Russian: сове́тский граждани́н
soviet
- (history, not comparable) Pertaining to the Soviet Union or its constituent republics.
- Supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism; Sovietist.
- French: soviétique
- German: sowjetisch, Sowjet-
- Italian: sovietico
- Portuguese: soviético
- Russian: сове́тский
- Spanish: soviético
- Russian: сове́тский
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