soviet

noun

1. 1

   historicalA 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.

   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.

adjective

1. 1

   Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).

2. 2

   Variant of SovietAlternative letter-case form of Soviet (pertaining to the Soviet Union)

   An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.

   Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational […]

   The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.

   "It felt very soviet, very intimidating", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.

Forms

plural

soviets

comparative

more soviet

superlative

most soviet