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Soviet vs Dedovshchina - What's the difference?

soviet | dedovshchina |

As nouns the difference between soviet and dedovshchina

is that soviet is a citizen of the union of soviet socialist republics while dedovshchina is hazing, the name given to the informal system of subjection and bullying of new junior conscripts]], formerly to the soviet [[armed forces|armed forces and today to the russian, ukrainian, etc armed forces.

As a proper noun soviet

is (history) any of the governing workers' councils in the soviet union.

As an adjective soviet

is (history|not comparable) pertaining to the soviet union or its constituent republics.

soviet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A form of governing council in the former Soviet Union.
  • * 2005 , , 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.
  • * 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 184:
  • Workers' committees were forming embryo soviets , soldiers' and sailors' collectives had whole ships and regiments under their temporary command, landless workers in the countryside were taking over abandoned farms and properties.
  • (historical) The main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union imposed in the Bolshevik in the former imperial Russia.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
  • Relating to the ideology, culture or politics of the Soviet Union.
  • * 1935 , Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey , page 129
  • An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.
  • * 1947 , Washington Education Association, Washington Education Journal
  • Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational [....]
  • * 1991 , "Whatchamacallit", in Boston Globe , Aug 27, 1991
  • The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.
  • * 2004 , "M&S coach Rose makes his pitch", in Times Online , Nov 14, 2004
  • "It felt very soviet , very intimidating", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.
  • * 2005 , Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 , page 575
  • [...] that has been enlarged most quickly and widely is the very soviet region newly created in northern Sichuan.
  • * 2006 , Kate Transchel, ''Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural ..., page 136
  • One tactic was to become more "soviet" than vanguard workers by enthusiastically participating in the regime's productivity campaigns such as shock work,
  • * 2006 , SG Inge-Vechtomov, "From the Mutation Theory to the Theory of the Mutation Process", in NATO Security through Science Series B
  • Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.
  • * 2007 , Comment on Fred Hiatt, "A Soviet Memorial -- and Mind-Set: How far Russia has regressed became shockingly evident last week when Vladimir Putin's Russia unleashed a barrage against neighboring Estonia.", Washington Post , May 7, 2007
  • There are 3 kinds of Russian speakers in Estonia: a Those that have taken out Estonian Citizenship, b Those that took out Russian citizenship and are therefore loyal to Russia, c those that have not taken either citizenship and are still very soviet in mindstate.

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    dedovshchina

    Noun

    (-)
  • hazing, the name given to the informal system of subjection and bullying of new junior conscripts]], formerly to the Soviet [[armed forces, Armed Forces and today to the Russian, Ukrainian, etc. armed forces.