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so·vi·et

(sō′vē-ĕt′, -ĭt, sŏv′ē-, sō′vē-ĕt′)

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-)

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.

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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Noun	1.	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"

Translations

السوفيات

sovětský

sovjet

Sowjet Sowjet-sowjetisch

soviético sóviet

neuvosto

soviétique soviet

szovjet

sovét-Sovétmaîur

Soviet sovietico

ソヴェトのソビエトソビエトのソ連の

sovietassovietinissovietų

sovjet-sovjeter

советский совет

sovietsovietsky

savet

sovyet

радянський

苏维埃的苏联的蘇維埃

soviet

[ˈsəʊvɪət]

A. (Pol) (formerly) N → soviet m
the Soviets (= people) → los soviéticos

B. ADJ → soviético
Soviet Russia → Rusia f Soviética
the Soviet Union → la Unión Soviética

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Soviet

[ˈsəʊviət] adj → soviétiqueSoviet Russia n → Russie f soviétiqueSoviet Union n
the Soviet Union → l'Union f soviétique

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soviet

n → Sowjet m; the Soviets (= people) → die Sowjets; the Supreme Soviet → der Oberste Sowjet

adj attr → sowjetisch, Sowjet-; soviet power → Sowjetmacht f; soviet citizen → Sowjetbürger(in) m(f)

Soviet

Soviet Republic

n → Sowjetrepublik f

Soviet Russia

n → Sowjetrussland nt

Soviet Union

n → Sowjetunion f

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soviet

[ˈsəʊvɪət]

1. n → soviet m inv

2. adj → sovietico/a
Soviet Russia → Russia Sovietica

soviet

(ˈsəuviət) adjective

and noun concerning the former Soviet Union.

References in classic literature ?

Primarily: examinations, when we perform the bodily movement of writing it down; conversation, when we assert it to display our historical erudition; and political discourses, when we are engaged in showing what Soviet government leads to.

View in context

'The implications of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan could pose the most serious threat to the peace since the Second World War.

Past in Perspective

Anderson has harvested some of its howlers in Propaganda and Persuasion--Soviet scientists would soon be able to control the weather, the people of Hungary welcomed Soviet tanks in 1956, etc.

Propaganda and Persuasion: The Cold War and the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society

Comrade Rockstar: The Life and Mystery of Dean Reed, the All-American Boy Who Brought Rock 'n' Roll to the Soviet Union, by Reggie Nadelson, New York: Walker & Company, 352 pages, $14.95

Red Elvis: the strange tale of the Soviets' favorite rock 'n' roll star

Other supposed experts--in Russia and the West--have also expressed surprise and alarm at the apparent resurrection of the dreaded Soviet secret police.

Putin's Russia: the return of the iron fist

And it was quite a night--October 3, 1956, at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the Leonid Lavrovsky/Sergei Radlov/Serge Prokofiev production of Romeo and Juliet featuring Galina Ulanova, Yuri Zhdanov, and Sergei Koren in the ballet's original 1946 Bolshoi staging, itself only slightly revised from the first 1940 Soviet production by Leningrad's Kirov Ballet.

Attitudes

In 1961, Castro allied Cuba with the Soviet Union, and the U.S.

Fidel's finale? When Cuba's dictator was sidelined by illness, Castro's younger brother assumed power. What, if anything, will happen?

Communists backed by the Soviet Union take over Bulgaria, Albania, and East Germany.

The Cold War

There were real spies--not only Alger Hiss at State but Harry Dexter White at Treasury, Lauchlin Currie at the White House, and David Greenglass at Los Alamos, who had been recruited by another Soviet agent, Julius Rosenberg.

McCarthyism: myth and reality

The literature about the transformation of the Soviet economy is dominated by writings on Russia, and most books about other post-Soviet economies are of poor quality.

Georgia on my mind

Russian intellectuals were in a rush to naively proclaim the end of ideology during perestroika, when they witnessed top Soviet apparatchiks turning the Communist regime into their own enemy.

"Russia!": Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953.

A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953

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