"soviet" meaning in English

See soviet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈsəʊ.vi.ət/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsɒ.vi.ət/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsoʊ.vi.ət/ [US] Audio: en-us-Soviet.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-soviet.wav Forms: more soviet [comparative], most soviet [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian сове́т (sovét, “council”), from Old Russian borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ, “advice”). Compounded from съ- (sŭ-) + вѣтъ (větŭ, “agreement”), from Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”). Related words include наве́т (navét), изве́т (izvét), отве́т (otvét), приве́т (privét), обе́т (obét), ве́че (véče), отвеча́ть (otvečátʹ), отве́тить (otvétitʹ), завеща́ть (zaveščátʹ), and совещаться (soveščatʹsja). Probably cognate with Polish witać (“to welcome”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ru|сове́т||council}} Russian сове́т (sovét, “council”), {{der|en|cu|съвѣтъ||advice}} Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ, “advice”), {{der|en|sla-pro|*větъ||council, talk}} Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”), {{cog|pl|witać||to welcome}} Polish witać (“to welcome”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} soviet (comparative more soviet, superlative most soviet)
  1. Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council). Translations (pertaining to a soviet): soviet (Farefare), neuvosto- (Finnish), sovéskur [masculine] (Icelandic), sovésk [feminine] (Icelandic), sovéskt [neuter] (Icelandic), sovetskoi (Ingrian), sovietico [masculine] (Italian), sovietica [feminine] (Italian), soviético (Portuguese), сове́тский (sovétskij) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-soviet-en-adj-gBNmlM3C Disambiguation of 'pertaining to a soviet': 100 0
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Soviet (pertaining to the Soviet Union) Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: Soviet (extra: pertaining to the Soviet Union)
    Sense id: en-soviet-en-adj-zffPAHAn

Noun

IPA: /ˈsəʊ.vi.ət/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsɒ.vi.ət/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsoʊ.vi.ət/ [US] Audio: en-us-Soviet.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-soviet.wav Forms: soviets [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian сове́т (sovét, “council”), from Old Russian borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ, “advice”). Compounded from съ- (sŭ-) + вѣтъ (větŭ, “agreement”), from Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”). Related words include наве́т (navét), изве́т (izvét), отве́т (otvét), приве́т (privét), обе́т (obét), ве́че (véče), отвеча́ть (otvečátʹ), отве́тить (otvétitʹ), завеща́ть (zaveščátʹ), and совещаться (soveščatʹsja). Probably cognate with Polish witać (“to welcome”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ru|сове́т||council}} Russian сове́т (sovét, “council”), {{der|en|cu|съвѣтъ||advice}} Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ, “advice”), {{der|en|sla-pro|*větъ||council, talk}} Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”), {{cog|pl|witać||to welcome}} Polish witać (“to welcome”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} soviet (plural soviets)
  1. (historical) 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. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Government Related terms: Soviet republic, Supreme Soviet Translations (council): sovjet [masculine] (Albanian), سوفييت (sōvyēt) [masculine] (Arabic), سُوفْيَات (sufyāt) [masculine] (Arabic), سُوفْيَات (sovyēt) [masculine] (Arabic), سُوفْيِت (sovyet) [masculine] (Arabic), խորհուրդ (xorhurd) (Armenian), սովետ (sovet) (Armenian), sovet (Azerbaijani), саве́т (savjét) [masculine] (Belarusian), ра́да (ráda) [feminine] (Belarusian), সোভিয়েত (śōbhiẏet) (Bengali), sovied (Breton), съве́т (sǎvét) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ဆိုဗီယက် (hcuibiyak) (Burmese), سۆڤیێت (sovyêt) (Central Kurdish), 蘇維埃 (Chinese Cantonese), 苏维埃 (sou¹ wai⁴ aai¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 蘇維埃 (Chinese Mandarin), 苏维埃 (sūwéi'āi) (Chinese Mandarin), sovět [masculine] (Czech), sovjet [common-gender] (Danish), sovjet [masculine] (Dutch), soveto (Esperanto), nõukogu (Estonian), soviet (Farefare), neuvosto (Finnish), soviet [masculine] (French), soviet [masculine] (Galician), საბჭო (sabč̣o) (Georgian), საბჭოთა (sabč̣ota) (Georgian), Sowjet [masculine] (German), σοβιέτ (soviét) (Greek), סוֹבְיֵיט (Hebrew), सोवियत (soviyat) [masculine] (Hindi), szovjet (Hungarian), tanács (Hungarian), munkástanács (Hungarian), sovét [neuter] (Icelandic), ráð [neuter] (Icelandic), sóivéid (Irish), soviet [masculine] (Italian), ソビエト (sobieto) (Japanese), ソヴェト (soveto) (Japanese), кеңес (keñes) (Kazakh), совет (sovet) (Kazakh), សូវៀត (souviət) (Khmer), 소비에트 (sobieteu) (Korean), 쏘비에트 (ssobieteu) [North-Korea] (Korean), совет (sovet) (Kyrgyz), ໂຊວຽດ (sō wīat) (Lao), sovieti [neuter] (Latin), padome [feminine] (Latvian), taryba [feminine] (Lithuanian), sovietas [masculine] (Lithuanian), со́вет (sóvet) [masculine] (Macedonian), soviet (Malay), зөвлөл (zövlöl) [Cyrillic] (Mongolian), ᠵᠥᠪᠯᠡᠯ (ǰöblel) [Mongolian] (Mongolian), sovyet (Northern Kurdish), sovjet [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), sovjet [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), سوويت [masculine] (Pashto), شورا (šorã) [feminine] (Pashto), سویت (soviet) (Persian), شورا (šurâ, šowrâ) (Persian), rada [feminine] (Polish), soviete [masculine] (Portuguese), soviet [neuter] (Romanian), сове́т (sovét) [masculine] (Russian), са́вјет [Cyrillic, Ijekavian] (Serbo-Croatian), са́вет [Cyrillic, Ekavian] (Serbo-Croatian), sávjet [Ijekavian, Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), sávet [Ekavian, Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), soviet [masculine] (Slovak), sovjet [masculine] (Slovene), sóviet [masculine] (Spanish), sovjet (Swedish), совет (sovet) (Tajik), шӯро (šüro) (Tajik), โซเวียต (soo-wîiat) (Thai), sovyet (Turkish), sowet (Turkmen), ра́да (ráda) [feminine] (Ukrainian), совє́т (sovjét) [masculine] (Ukrainian), سوۋېت (sowët) (Uyghur), sovet (Uzbek), xô viết (Vietnamese), סאָוועט (sovet) [masculine] (Yiddish)
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1947, Washington Education Association, Washington Education Journal:",
          "text": "Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more \"soviet\" than the same divisions in a city educational […]",
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          "ref": "1991 August 27, “Whatchamacallit”, in Boston Globe:",
          "text": "The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.",
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          "ref": "2004 November 14, “M&S coach Rose makes his pitch”, in Times Online:",
          "text": "\"It felt very soviet, very intimidating\", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.",
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          "ref": "2005, Mao Zedong, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, page 575:",
          "text": "[…] that has been enlarged most quickly and widely is the very soviet region newly created in northern Sichuan.",
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          "ref": "2006, Kate Transchel, Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural ..., page 136:",
          "text": "One tactic was to become more \"soviet\" than vanguard workers by enthusiastically participating in the regime's productivity campaigns such as shock work,",
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          "ref": "2006, SG Inge-Vechtomov, “From the Mutation Theory to the Theory of the Mutation Process”, in NATO Security through Science Series B:",
          "text": "Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.",
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          "ref": "2007 May 7, 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.”, in Washington Post:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1972, James Pinckney Harrison, “Growth of the Rural Soviets”, in The Long March to Power: A History of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-72 (Praeger University Series), Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 194–195:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 230:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 184:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "soviyat",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "सोवियत"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "szovjet"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "tanács"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "munkástanács"
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        "neuter"
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      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "sóivéid"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "council",
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        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "sense": "council",
      "word": "ソビエト"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "soveto",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "ソヴェト"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "keñes",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "кеңес"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "sovet",
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      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "souviət",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "សូវៀត"
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sobieteu",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "소비에트"
    },
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ssobieteu",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "쏘비에트"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "sovyêt",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "سۆڤیێت"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "sovyet"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "sovet",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "совет"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "sō wīat",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "ໂຊວຽດ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sovieti"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "padome"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "taryba"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sovietas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "sóvet",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "со́вет"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "soviet"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "zövlöl",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "зөвлөл"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "ǰöblel",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "Mongolian"
      ],
      "word": "ᠵᠥᠪᠯᠡᠯ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sovjet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sovjet"
    },
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      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سوويت"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "šorã",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "شورا"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "soviet",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "سویت"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "šurâ, šowrâ",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "شورا"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rada"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "soviete"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "soviet"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sovét",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сове́т"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "Ijekavian"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "council",
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        "Cyrillic",
        "Ekavian"
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      "word": "са́вет"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "Ijekavian",
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "sávjet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "Ekavian",
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "sávet"
    },
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "soviet"
    },
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sovjet"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "sovjet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "sovet",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "совет"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "šüro",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "шӯро"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "soo-wîiat",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "โซเวียต"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "sovyet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "sowet"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ráda",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ра́да"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sovjét",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "совє́т"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "sowët",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "سوۋېت"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "sovet"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "council",
      "word": "xô viết"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "sovet",
      "sense": "council",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "סאָוועט"
    }
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    "Soviet (disambiguation)"
  ],
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}

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          "ref": "1935, Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey, page 129:",
          "text": "An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.",
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          "ref": "1947, Washington Education Association, Washington Education Journal:",
          "text": "Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more \"soviet\" than the same divisions in a city educational […]",
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          "ref": "1991 August 27, “Whatchamacallit”, in Boston Globe:",
          "text": "The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.",
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          "ref": "2004 November 14, “M&S coach Rose makes his pitch”, in Times Online:",
          "text": "\"It felt very soviet, very intimidating\", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Mao Zedong, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, page 575:",
          "text": "[…] that has been enlarged most quickly and widely is the very soviet region newly created in northern Sichuan.",
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          "ref": "2006, Kate Transchel, Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural ..., page 136:",
          "text": "One tactic was to become more \"soviet\" than vanguard workers by enthusiastically participating in the regime's productivity campaigns such as shock work,",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2006, SG Inge-Vechtomov, “From the Mutation Theory to the Theory of the Mutation Process”, in NATO Security through Science Series B:",
          "text": "Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 May 7, 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.”, in Washington Post:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈsɒ.vi.ət/",
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    {
      "code": "gur",
      "lang": "Farefare",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "word": "soviet"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "word": "neuvosto-"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "sovéskur"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "sovéskt"
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      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "word": "sovetskoi"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "sovietico"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sovietica"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "word": "soviético"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sovétskij",
      "sense": "pertaining to a soviet",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сове́тский"
    }
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    "Soviet (disambiguation)"
  ],
  "word": "soviet"
}

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