Definition:Soviet
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- A form of governing council in the former Soviet Union.
- 2005: James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 230)
- 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.
- 2005: James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 230)
- The main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union imposed in the bolshevik October Revolution in the former imperial Russia.
Related terms
- Soviet Republic
- Supreme Soviet
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