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

The Ukrainians were recognized as a distinct people, and their language and culture received state support in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the founding polities of the Soviet Union.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2023

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 was the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the proving ground of wildly ambitious Constructivist architecture and the hub of purged experimental poets and writers.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 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

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.