soviet
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
soviet /ˈsəʊvɪət, ˈsɒv-/
▶noun
- 1 an elected local, district, or national council in the former USSR.
■ a revolutionary council of workers or peasants in Russia before 1917.
- 2 (Soviet) a citizen of the former USSR.
– derivatives
Sovietism noun,
Sovietization (or Sovietisation) noun,
Sovietize (or Sovietise) verb.
Sovietism noun,
Sovietization (or Sovietisation) noun,
Sovietize (or Sovietise) verb.
– origin early 20th cent.: from Russ. sovet ‘council’.
'soviet' also found in these Oxford entries:
AK-47
- ASSR
- Cherenkov radiation
- cold war
- commissar
- commissariat
- communism
- Finlandization
- free
- glasnost
- Gulag
- Iron Curtain
- Komsomol
- Leninism
- Marxism–Leninism
- Molotov cocktail
- nomenklatura
- oblast
- perestroika
- refusenik
- RSFSR
- Second World
- socialist realism
- sputnik
- Stalinism
- Supreme Soviet
- USSR
