re-Sovietize

English

Alternative forms
  • re-Sovietise

Etymology

From re- +‎ Sovietize.

Verb

re-Sovietize (third-person singular simple present re-Sovietizes, present participle re-Sovietizing, simple past and past participle re-Sovietized)

  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.
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