Soviet Socialist Republic

American  

[soh-vee-it soh-shuh-list ri-puhb-lik] / ˈsoʊ vi ɪt ˈsoʊ ʃə lɪst rɪˈpʌb lɪk /

noun

1. a designation for any of the former countries that became centrally administered by the Soviet Union.

   Now citizens of a free Estonia, they remember the limitations of growing up in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Etymology

Origin of Soviet Socialist Republic

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

First, in 1941, when she was just 10 years old and German bombs started falling on the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

From Reuters • Jan. 26, 2023

It became a “Ukrainian intellectual, cultural, and industrial urban center in the Russian Empire” and later “served as the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1919 and 1934,” they wrote.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

Under the Soviet Union, most of Novorossiya was part of the the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic which later turned into modern-day Ukraine.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2022

Born in the former Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and raised in Eastlake and Kenmore, Tatevik Aprikyan started “playing journalist” years before she became one.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2022

A 400-kilovolt power line from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union was reported to have been completed in mid-1972.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.