Sentences with 'soviets'

Example sentences and phrases with the word soviets and other words derived from it.


« Soon, in the industrial centres and at many of the military and naval bases, workers' and soldiers' councils (called soviets) sprang up and declared that they had the real right to political power. »
« Dubcek relaxed censorship and allowed workers to organise themselves into soviets (councils) as they had done in the early years of the communist revolution in Russia. These reforms were enthusiastically welcomed by the Czechs and Slovaks. »
« There was a stalemate between the provisional government, which had no police force to enforce its will, and the soviets, which could control their own areas but lacked the ability to bring the majority of the population (who wanted, in Lenin's words, "peace, land and bread") to their side. »

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