Soviet

See also soviet

English

Etymology

From Russian совет (sovét), советский (sovétskij)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈsoʊviət/

Proper noun

Soviet

1. (history) Any of the governing workers' councils in the Soviet Union.

Translations

soviet — see soviet

Adjective

Soviet (comparative more Soviet, superlative most Soviet)

1. (history, not comparable) Pertaining to the Soviet Union or its constituent republics.
2. Supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism; Sovietist.
   • 1998, David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad, page 9

     He remained more Soviet than his parents and often accused Gorbachev of having destroyed the Soviet Union on behalf of US intelligence.

   • 2001, Robert G. Moeller, War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany, page 113

     Only in the GDR were the returning POWs presumed guilty; there East Germans, attempting to be "more Soviet than the Soviets," [....]

   • 2005, Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh, In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism, page 61

     It would also be incorrect to creat a "scale of Sovietism", arguing, say, that Gildin was more Soviet than Litvakov, or that Litvakov was more Soviet than Dobrushin. Essentially, they were equally Soviet, even if they saw their Sovietism rather differently: [....]

Translations

pertaining to the Soviet Union or its republics

Arabic: سوفياتي (ar) (sufyaati) Armenian: սովետական (hy) (sovetakan) Belarusian: савецкі (be) (savécki) Bulgarian: съветски (bg) (sǎvétski) Chinese: Mandarin: 蘇維埃 (cmn), 苏维埃 (cmn) (Sūwéi'āi), 蘇聯的 (cmn), 苏联的 (cmn) (Sū-lián-de) Croatian: sovjetski (hr) Czech: sovětský (cs) Danish: sovjetisk (da) Esperanto: sovetia (eo) Finnish: Neuvostoliiton (fi) French: soviétique (fr) German: sowjetisch (de), Sowjet- (de) Hindi: सोवियत (hi) (soviyat) Hungarian: szovjet (hu) Italian: sovietico (it) Japanese: ソ連の (ja) (So-ren-no), ソビエトの (ja) (Sobiéto-no), ソヴェトの (ja) (Sovéto-no) Korean: 소비에트 (ko) (Sobieteu)

Latvian: padomju- (lv) Manx: Soveidjagh (gv) Pashto: شوروی (ps) (šuravi) Persian: شوروی (fa) (šuravi) Polish: radziecki (pl) Portuguese: soviético (pt) Russian: советский (ru) (sovétskij) m. Serbo-Croatian: совјетски (sh), sovjetski (sh) Slovak: sovietsky (sk) Slovene: sovjetski (sl) Spanish: soviético (es) m., soviética (es) f. Swahili: Kisovyeti (sw) Swedish: sovjetisk (sv) Tajik: шӯравӣ (tg) (šūravī) Thai: โซเวียต (th) (soh-wîat) Ukrainian: радянський (uk) (radjáns’kyj) m. Vietnamese: xô viết (vi), Xô viết (vi), xô-viết (vi) Yiddish: סאָוועטיש (yi) (sovetish) m.

supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism

Finnish: neuvosto- (fi), neuvostohenkinen (fi), neuvostomielinen (fi), neuvostolainen (fi)