Definition of "soviet"

They then established the West Hunan-Hupeh (Hsiang-O-Hsi) Special Committee and a little later transformed it into a soviet government. Party membership figures as of 1932 for a dozen counties in the area were estimated at 18,034, with the largest number, 4,468, working in Chienli County, then headquarters of the soviet.

1972, James Pinckney Harrison, “Growth of the Rural Soviets”, in The Long March to Power: A History of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-72 (Praeger University Series)‎, Praeger Publishers, pages 194–195

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, published 2006, page 230

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.

2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 184

An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.

1935, Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey, page 129

Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational […]

1947, Washington Education Association, Washington Education Journal

The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.

1991 August 27, “Whatchamacallit”, in Boston Globe

"It felt very soviet, very intimidating", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.

2004 November 14, “M&S coach Rose makes his pitch”, in Times Online

[…] that has been enlarged most quickly and widely is the very soviet region newly created in northern Sichuan.

2005, Mao Zedong, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, page 575

One tactic was to become more "soviet" than vanguard workers by enthusiastically participating in the regime's productivity campaigns such as shock work,

2006, Kate Transchel, Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural ..., page 136

Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.

2006, SG Inge-Vechtomov, “From the Mutation Theory to the Theory of the Mutation Process”, in NATO Security through Science Series B

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.

2007 May 7, 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.”, in Washington Post