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soviets

soviets is the plural of soviet.

Meaning of soviet

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.
    • 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...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...

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Noun capitalized: Soviets

Soviets

  1. (plural) plural of Soviet

Phrases with soviets

Questions about soviets

What is soviets the plural of?
Soviets is the plural of soviet.
What part of speech is soviets?
Soviets is a noun.

Words near soviets in the dictionary

  1. Sovietologists
  2. Sovietology
  3. Sovietophile
  4. Sovietophilia
  5. Sovietophilic
  6. soviets
  7. Sovietwave
  8. Sovine
  9. Sovines
  10. sovite
  11. sovites

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