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re-Sovietize

re-Sovietize is the alternative form of resovietize.

Meaning of resovietize

Verb

resovietize (third-person singular simple present resovietizes, present participle resovietizing, simple past and past participle resovietized)

  1. (transitive) To Sovietize again.
    • According to Crankshaw, one of the main reasons for Khrushchev's fall was his failure to “resovietize” western Ukraine quickly and thoroughly after its reannexation from the Germans in 1944.1992, David R. Marples, “Khruschev, Kaganovich and the 1947 Crisis”, in Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 86

Forms of re-Sovietize

third-person singular presentre-Sovietizes
present participlere-Sovietizing
past participlere-Sovietized
pastre-Sovietized

Questions about re-Sovietize

What is re-Sovietize the alternative form of?
Re-Sovietize is the alternative form of resovietize.

Words near re-Sovietize in the dictionary

  1. re-sounded
  2. re-sounding
  3. re-sounds
  4. re-Sovietisation
  5. re-Sovietization
  6. re-Sovietize
  7. re-Sovietized
  8. re-Sovietizes
  9. re-Sovietizing
  10. re-speak
  11. re-spec

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-Sovietize (page history and authors); resovietize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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