Soviet

(noun)

Derived from a Russian word signifying council, assembly, advice, harmony, concord, these were political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union, and which gave the name to the latter state.

Related Terms

Examples of Soviet in the following topics:

  • The Sino-Soviet Split

  • German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship

    • The German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation (later known as the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty) was a second supplementary protocol of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact.
    • Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin ordered the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September, a day after the Soviet–Japanese ceasefire agreement came into effect on 16 September.
    • This was followed by Soviet annexations of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Romania.
    • Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov signs the German–Soviet Pact in Moscow, September 28, 1939; behind him are Richard Schulze-Kossens (Ribbentrop's adjutant), Boris Shaposhnikov (Red Army Chief of Staff), Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Pavlov (Soviet translator).
    • Alexey Shkvarzev (Soviet ambassador in Berlin), stands next to Molotov.

  • The Soviet Union's Aging Leadership

  • Unrest in the Soviet Union

  • Formation of the Soviet Union

  • Rise of Anti-Soviet Sentiment

  • The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

  • A Grinding War Against Iran

    • The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran refers to the Allied invasion of Iran during World War II by Soviet and British armed forces.
    • The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran refers to the Allied invasion of Iran during World War II by Soviet and British armed forces.
    • Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, this Iran's pro-Axis lean was used as a cause for the British and Soviet invasion.
    • However, the UNSC took no direct steps in pressuring the Soviets to withdraw.
    • The Shah's pro-German stance in WWII provoked a Soviet-British attack in 1941.

  • The Long Telegram

    • Kennan's "Long Telegram" from Moscow helped to articulate the US government's increasingly hard line against the Soviets, and became the basis for the US "containment" strategy toward the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War.
    • Kennan tried repeatedly to persuade policymakers to abandon plans for cooperation with the Soviet government in favor of a sphere of influence policy in Europe to reduce the Soviets' power there.
    • Kennan believed that a federation needed to be established in western Europe to counter Soviet influence in the region and to compete against the Soviet stronghold in eastern Europe.
    • He argued that the Soviet Union would be sensitive to force, that the Soviets were weak, compared to the united Western world, that the Soviets were vulnerable to internal instability, and that Soviet propaganda was primarily negative and destructive.
    • The solution was to strengthen Western institutions in order to render them invulnerable to the Soviet challenge, while awaiting the mellowing of the Soviet regime.

  • The Soviet Socialist Republics

    • The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, abbreviated to USSR, was a union of multiple subnational Soviet republics; its government and economy were highly centralized.
    • According to Article 76 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union, a Union Republic was a sovereign Soviet socialist state that had united with other Soviet Republics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
    • Therefore, constitutionally, the Soviet Union was a federation.
    • The Soviets mandated expropriation of private property.
    • The Soviet-style "replica regimes" that arose in the Bloc not only reproduced Soviet command economies, but also adopted the brutal methods employed by Joseph Stalin and Soviet secret police to suppress real and potential opposition.