resovietize

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verb

To Sovietize again.

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Meanings

verbresovietize (third-person singular simple present resovietizes, present participle resovietizing, simple past and past participle resovietized)

present singular third person resovietizes · participle present resovietizing · participle past resovietized · past resovietized · alternative re-Sovietize · alternative UK resovietise · alternative UK re-Sovietise

  1. transitiveTo Sovietize again.

    According to Crankshaw, one of the main reasons for Khrushchev's fall was his failure to “resovietize” western Ukraine quickly and thoroughly after its reannexation from the Germans in 1944.

    1992, David R. Marples, “Khruschev, Kaganovich and the 1947 Crisis”, in Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 86

Origin

From re- + Sovietize.

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APA

resovietize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resovietize

MLA

“resovietize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resovietize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resovietize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resovietize.

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