Meaning of Soviet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
2. A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
3. A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.
   historical
4. Alternative letter-case form of soviet (“workers' council”)
5. Alternative letter-case form of soviet (“workers' council”).
   alt-of
6. Pertaining to the Soviet Union or its constituent republics
7. Supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism; Sovietist

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Examples

“They then established the West Hunan-Hupeh (Hsiang-O-Hsi) Special Committee and a little later transformed it into a soviet government. Party membership figures as of 1932 for a dozen counties in the area were estimated at 18,034, with the largest number, 4,468, working in Chienli County, then headquarters of the soviet.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The major obstacle to a border settlement is the status of Heixiazi, a 330-square kilometer island at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers. The island is claimed by the Chinese but controlled by the USSR. Because Heixiazi overlooks Khabarovsk as well as the point where the Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the Amur River, the Soviets are reluctant to give it up.”

“Толчками и скачками дело все же идет к тому, что давно провозглашенный нашей партией переход власти к Советам будет осуществлен.”

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