resovietize

English

Alternative forms

• re-Sovietize
• resovietise, re-Sovietise (UK)

Etymology

From re- +‎ Sovietize.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To Sovietize again.
   • 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:

     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.

Derived terms

• resovietization

Related terms

• desovietize