soviet

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈsəʊvi.ət/]

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1. soviet (noun) — sense 1

Definition: 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.

Example: 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.

2. soviet (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).

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