Sovietization
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Sovietization is the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviets (workers' councils) or the adoption of a way of life, mentality, and culture modelled after the Soviet Union. This often included adopting the Cyrillic script and sometimes also the Russian language.
Itself, the term soviet as a form of self-organization that arose during the 1905 Russian Revolution was positive in nature being associated with equality, justice and democracy. However, during the revolutionary period of late 1917 and the Bolshevik coup-d'état, the soviets went through transformation known in history as bolshevization of the Soviets during which the Bolsheviks or "the Reds" became the leading force in this movement, and it gradually lost all semblance of democracy. The Bolsheviks then established a one-party dictatorship, where the soviets played a role of the rubber stamp parliament. Since then, the term has been associated exclusively with communism and the Bolsheviks' state of the Soviet Union.
See also
- Sovietization of the Baltic states
- Soviet nationalism
- Soviet Empire
- Russification
- Korenizatsiya
- Finlandization
- National delimitation in the Soviet Union
