to sovietize
- verb
- /ˈsoʊviəˌtaɪz/
- Archaic
:
sovietizar
- Lenin, after victory, would likely have handed over to the new "sovietized" Germany the territories Poland had won from the defeated Germans at Versailles.
Examples
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The government aimed to sovietize the education system by introducing communist ideology into the curriculum.
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After the revolution, many countries were pressured to sovietize their political structures and align with Moscow's policies.
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He had to take over half of Poland to secure a defensive glacis to the west, had to take over part of Romania, and had to "sovietize" the Baltic states.
Academic text (1999) -
In his conclusion, Mastny argues, further confounding his reader, that Stalin believed "that Germany could be united on the foundations established in the eastern part of it, i.e., "sovietized" he controlled" (193).
Academic text (1999) -
He originally used it abroad when he sent the Red forces west in 1920 to "sovietize" Poland and to encourage the defeated Germans to rise up with Bolshevik support against their Western oppressors, the authors of the Versailles settlement that had deprived Germany of so much of its pre-World War I territory.
Academic text (1999) -
Efforts were made to sovietize local culture, transforming traditional practices into state-approved forms.
Synonyms
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8.4
To put businesses under government control
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6.8
To bring an industry or company under government control
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5.6
To move work and control into one place or under one leader
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8.6
Put farms, land, and businesses into shared ownership controlled by the government or community
To make a country or institution follow Communist ideas
Make a country or group follow strict central control like Stalin used
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sovietize comes from Soviet, which comes from a Russian word sovet meaning 'council' or 'advice', and the ending -ize means 'to make', like in modernize or Americanize. So, sovietize means to make a country, its government, or its culture more like the Soviet Union.