soviets

/S OW1 V IY0 EH0 T S/
noun
  1. 1

    A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.

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