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Definition of Sovietize
1. Verb. Bring under Soviet control, of a country.
2. Verb. Model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union. "Castro sovietized Cuba"
Definition of Sovietize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sovietize
Literary usage of Sovietize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lenin's Legacy: The Story of the Cpsu by Robert G. Wesson (1978)
"As the leader of political administration in the newly acquired Carpatho-Ukraine,
his task was to help sovietize the unruly population. ..."
2. Dealignment: A New Foreign Policy Perspective by Mary Kaldor, Richard A. Falk, Gerard Holden (1987)
"... since even the Swedish conservatives frequently accused Olof Palme of wanting
to sovietize the country. But NATO doctrines rest on the premise that a ..."
3. Employers' Associations in the United States: A Study of Typical Associations by Clarence Elmore Bonnett (1922)
"... It opposed the Plumb Plan as an attempt to " sovietize " American institutions,
and urged extended " educational work " in opposition to such proposals. ..."
4. American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II by Henry Harley Arnold, John W. Huston (2001)
"This with its printing press marks makes it possible to practically sovietize
that part of Germany it occupies. It now has granted authority to reopen ..."
5. The New European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe by Michael Mandelbaum (2000)
"... that there has been a considerable reluctance to de-sovietize and de-Russify
place- names, in part explained by governmental self-restraint.86 Crimea. ..."
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