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soviet Definition

so·viet (sō′vē et′, -it; sō′vē et′)

noun

    1. any of the various governing councils that performed executive and legislative functions in the Soviet Union: in structure the soviets formed a pyramid, with the village and town soviets as its base and the Supreme Soviet as its apex
    2. any similar council in a socialist governing system
  2. the government officials or the people of the Soviet Union, Russia, or Uzbekistan

Etymology: Russ sovyet, council, advice < s(o)-, together (< IE *kom-: see com-) + -vèt, speak, ult. < IE base *weid-, to see, know, make known > wise

adjective

  1. of a soviet or soviets or government by soviets
  2. of or connected with the Soviet Union

soviet Synonyms

soviet

modif.

socialist, communist, sovietized, collective, collectivized; see also Russian.

soviet Synonyms

soviet

n.

assembly, congress, council; volost, uyezd, guberniya, oblast (all Russian); see also legislature.

soviet Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • create: In some units, the idea of creating soviets was discussed.
  • appease: Up in a road map is appease the soviets he's delighted to.
  • form: The question now is to hammer home to the working class throughout the world what conditions are necessary i n order to form soviets.
  • abolish: The new constitution abolishes the soviets, dissolving the workers into the general mass of the population.
  • elect: In the newly elected soviets there are 7.8 % of deputies who are under 30 years old.
  • dissolve: The grateful traitors of these groups then took the lead in dissolving the embryonic soviets, the Anti-Fascist Militia Committees.

Adjective modifier

  • Russian: At a Congress of Russian soviets the next day the revolution was greeted with wild enthusiasm.
  • local: On average, about 28 % of candidates for the local soviets were under 30.
  • American: Here is where the American soviets can produce real miracles.
  • embryonic: The grateful traitors of these groups then took the lead in dissolving the embryonic soviets, the Anti-Fascist Militia Committees.
  • revolutionary: Blum's government seized the Trotskyist newspaper that had carried Trotsky's call for the establishment of revolutionary French soviets.

Modifies a noun

  • republic: The gist lies in the very existence of the soviet republic.
  • troop: Claim to the soviet troops there's army of oxford.
  • democracy: The revival of soviet democracy in Russia was still a real possibility, but needed aid from abroad.
  • union: There is no study in how no soviet union them they had.
  • power: We turn next to the chapter that deals with the policy of the soviet power.
  • government: In response the soviet government refused to back down.

Modifying Another Word

  • simultaneously: People can have simultaneously soviet troops london and is.

Possessives

  • soldier: These three blocs had in their hands the mass of delegates to the workers ' , peasants ' , and soldiers ' soviets.

Preposition: of

  • worker: Russia and its people could only be saved by the soviets of workers and peasants.
soviet Quotes

Around me, around them [the dissidents], the total, all- eclipsing Soviet world, which renders any other world powerless and far away, had become profoundly, morally hostile.

—Thubron, Colin Gerald Dryden

Itake it as a compliment whenanagent ofthelargest and most heinous bully of the century, the Soviet Union, accuses me of being a bully.

—Haig, Alexander Meigs,Jr

Civil war is impossible in the Soviet Union.

—Pavlov,Valentin Sergeyevich

   If the Russian word 'perestroika' has easily entered the international lexicon, it isduetomorethanjust interest in what isgoing on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring; that is, progressive development, a fundamental change.

—Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich

The Soviet game is chess†ours is poker.We will have to play a creative mixture of both games.

—Shultz, George P(ratt)

The Soviet Republic needs an army that will be able to fight and conquer.

—Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein

The Soviet Union remains a superpower in the military and nuclear senseöonly its economy is in difficulty. People want me to lead the troops out or to chuck them over the border, but I have neither the strength nor the will to do it.

—Walesa, Lech

   Wenn das deutscheVolk dieWaffen niederlegte, wu«  rden die Sowjets†ganz Ost- und Su« d osteuropa zuzu«  glich des gr o« ÞtenTeiles des Reiches besetzen.Vor diesem einschlieÞlich der Sowjetunion riesigenTerritorium wu«  rde sich sofort ein eisernerVorhang heruntersenken. Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets†would occupyall eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich.Over all thisterritory, whichwith the Soviet Unionwould be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend. See also Churchill 217:92.

—Goebbels, (Paul) Joseph

InTurkey it was always1952, in Malaysia1937; Afghanistan was1910 and Bolivia1949. It is twenty years ago inthe Soviet Union, ten in Norway, five in France.It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

—Theroux, Paul Edward