soviet
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Russian совет (“council”), from Old Russian and Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (“advice”). Compounded from со- + Old Church Slavonic вѣтъ (“agreement”), from Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”). Related words include навет, извет, ответ, привет, обет, вече, отвечать, ответить, завещать, and совещаться. Probably cognate with Polish witać (“to welcome”).
Noun [edit]
soviet (plural soviets)
- A form of governing council in the former Soviet Union.
- 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate 2006, p. 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, p. 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, The People's Act of Love, Canongate 2006, p. 230:
- The main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union imposed in the bolshevik October Revolution in the former imperial Russia.
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Translations [edit]
council
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form of government
Adjective [edit]
soviet (comparative more soviet, superlative most soviet)
- Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
- Relating to the ideology, culture or politics of 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
Translations [edit]
relating to the Soviet Union
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Noun [edit]
soviet m (invariable)
- soviet (council)
