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so·vi·et

 (sō′vē-ĕt′, -ĭt, sŏv′ē-, sō′vē-ĕt′)
n.
1. One of the popularly elected legislative assemblies that were created after the Russian Revolution (1917) and existed at local, regional, and national levels in the former Soviet Union.
2. Soviet A native or inhabitant of the former Soviet Union.
adj.
1. Of or relating to a soviet.
2. often Soviet Of or relating to the former Soviet Union.

[Russian sovet, council, soviet, from Old Russian sŭvětŭ; see ksun in Indo-European roots.]
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soviet

(ˈsəʊvɪət; ˈsɒv-)
n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in the former Soviet Union) an elected government council at the local, regional, and national levels, which culminated in the Supreme Soviet
2. (Historical Terms) (in prerevolutionary Russia) a local revolutionary council
adj
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) of or relating to a soviet
[C20: from Russian sovyet council, from Old Russian sŭvĕtŭ]

Soviet

(ˈsəʊvɪət; ˈsɒv-)
adj
1. (Placename) of, characteristic of, or relating to the former Soviet Union, its people, or its government
2. (Peoples) of, characteristic of, or relating to the former Soviet Union, its people, or its government
3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) of, characteristic of, or relating to the former Soviet Union, its people, or its government
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So•vi•et

(ˈsoʊ viˌɛt, -ɪt, ˌsoʊ viˈɛt)

n.
1. Usually, Soviets. a governing official or citizen of the Soviet Union.
2. (l.c.) (in the Soviet Union)
a. a governmental council, being part of a hierarchy of councils at various levels of government, culminating in the Supreme Soviet.
b. a committee of workers, peasants, or soldiers during the revolutionary period.
3. (l.c.) any similar council in a socialist system of government.
adj.
4. of or pertaining to the Soviet Union or the Soviets.
5. (l.c.) of or pertaining to a soviet.
[1917; < Russian sovét council, advice, Old Russian, Old Church Slavonic sŭvětŭ=sŭ- together, with + větŭ counsel; calque of Greek symboúlion]
So′vi•et•dom, n.
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Soviet

A Russian term for a local, regional or national elected government council which grew out of the pre-Revolutionary workers’ councils. These initially democratic bodies were dominated by Bolsheviks (later Communists) after 1917.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Soviet - an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)soviet - an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
council - a body serving in an administrative capacity; "student council"
Adj.1.Soviet - of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people; "Soviet leaders"
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Translations
السوفيات
sovětský
sovjet
neuvosto
szovjet
sovét-Sovétmaîur
ソヴェトのソビエトソビエトのソ連の
sovietassovietinissovietų
sovietsovietsky
savet
sovyet
радянський

soviet

[ˈsəʊvɪət]
A. (Pol) (formerly) Nsoviet m
the Soviets (= people) → los soviéticos
B. ADJsoviético
Soviet RussiaRusia f Soviética
the Soviet Unionla Unión Soviética
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Soviet

[ˈsəʊviət] adjsoviétiqueSoviet Russia nRussie f soviétiqueSoviet Union n
the Soviet Union → l'Union f soviétique
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soviet

nSowjet m; the Soviets (= people)die Sowjets; the Supreme Sovietder Oberste Sowjet
adj attrsowjetisch, Sowjet-; soviet powerSowjetmacht f; soviet citizenSowjetbürger(in) m(f)

Soviet

:
Soviet Republic
Soviet Russia
nSowjetrussland nt
Soviet Union
nSowjetunion f
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soviet

[ˈsəʊvɪət]
1. nsoviet m inv
2. adjsovietico/a
Soviet Russia → Russia Sovietica
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soviet

(ˈsəuviət) adjective
and noun concerning the former Soviet Union.
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Unfortunately, the Soviet period and the sovietisation have influenced Belarus' historical memory and culture negatively and undermined the idea of the national state.
At a commemoration of a 1956 anti-Communist uprising, Hungary's right-wing leader Viktor Orban said his country must stand up to Europe's "Sovietisation" and defend its borders against mass migration.
Nevertheless, upon the launch of the political show trials at the end of 1951, whose main goal was to seek the enemy within, this progressive (understood in terms of ideology, not composition) line of socialist creation ended--no longer seeking the "specifically Czech way to socialism", but consistent Sovietisation. After the fashion of the Soviet Union, radical expressions of revolutionary ideas started to be branded as deviant (leftist deviant), both when it comes to politics and art.
"The sovietisation process" (Popescu, 2010: 35) in Romania starts with the events in August, 23, 1944, when Marshall Ion Antonescu was removed from the government and Romania declared war to her former ally, Germany.
Le niveau de sovietisation au sein de l'espace sovietique a ete plus intense precisement la ou la conscience nationale etait la plus faible.
In the 1980s and into the 1990s, there was a dominant western perception that the indigenous people in Soviet Central Asia had failed to integrate into Soviet society and that there was large-scale resistance to political socialisation (Sovietisation) and European-Russian acculturation (Russification).
The London guardian.co.uk, published an article titled "US university accused of 'Sovietisation' of Catholic intellectual life" in which it criticized the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the body which oversees Catholic doctrine.
Thus, the present analysis uses as a background for the argumentation precisely the series of theories developed during but also at the end of the Cold War, and restarted as a debate in 2001, with the post-communism, respectively postcolonialism dimensions (Moore 2001, Kovacevic 2008 and in Romania, by a special issue, in 2001, of the Echinox Journal on Postcolonialism and Postcommunism), approaching the generally ignored connection between the two areas and as a consequence of this connection, the reading through the colonial lenses of communism and in particular the process of cultural sovietisation of the Eastern European ('satellite') countries, Romania among them.