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1920 Glasgow Herald 16 Aug. 9 In fact, the whole of Western Europe is to be Sovietised to the cry of ‘No more wars!’

1920 Glasgow Herald 18 Aug. 7 Lenin's attempt to Sovietise the..countries possessed by the Cossacks of the Don, Terek, and Kuban.

1921 Contemp. Rev. May 579 The Bolsheviks have now overrun and ‘Sovietised’ Georgia.

1922 Glasgow Herald 29 July 8 Not long since the Bolshevists succeeded in Sovietising Bokhara.

1928 Daily Express 1 Nov. 9 The izvoschiks (cabdrivers) of Moscow are to be organised, their hours of work regulated, and..their cabs equipped with meters. The task of ‘Sovietising’ the izvoschik will not be an easy one.

1936 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Sept. 13/8 Owners of Lille textile mills, fearful lest their factories ‘be Sovietized’, tonight defied Government efforts to grant a forty-hour week to labor. Owners of the mills..demanded the right to prevent ‘establishment of Soviets’ in their plants.

1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing 138 Bokhara the noble was being sovietised more ruthlessly than any other Asiatic town.

1968 J. M. White Nightclimber xvi. 108 [He] assisted Panchevski, the Defence Minister, to Sovietize the army.

1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 20 Yiddish spelling was proletarianized, declericalized, and ‘Sovietized’ in the U.S.S.R.

1921 Glasgow Herald 17 Jan. 11 It remains to be seen how the Persian Court will take to the idea of Sovietisation.

1930 Time & Tide 24 May 657 Mussolini..stopped the spreading rot of sovietization.

1939 War Illustr. 9 Dec. 392/3 In Russian Poland conditions were on the whole rather better... The process of Sovietization was carried out gradually.

1955 Times 16 Aug. 9/7 As constituent units of the U.S.S.R., the process of sovietization has been applied to the Baltic States without mercy.

1968 V. V. Aspaturian in A. Kassof Prospects for Soviet Society vii. 159 Sovietization is here defined as the process of modernization and industrialization within the Marxist-Leninist norms of social, economic, and political behavior.

1982 Daily Tel. 30 July 12 If the Western alliance splits and the Russians establish military supremacy in Europe,..we should fear..‘Sovietisation’.

1920 Glasgow Herald 12 Aug. 7 A Sovietised Poland subject to the Moscow Government.

1922 19th Cent. Apr. 605 The strained atmosphere and Sovietised conversation of the only comfortable ‘Soviet Home’.

1939 Sun (Baltimore) 29 May 13/2 An effort by the medical profession to brand socialized medicine, ‘Sovietized medicine’ has failed.

1949 F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. vi. 70 At Talgar we boarded a lorry full of highly Sovietized Kazakh girl students.

1948 J. Towster Polit. Power in U.S.S.R. i. iv. 70 The People's Commissariat for the Affairs of the Nationalities..operated as watchdog, organizer, sovietizer, and protector of the nationalities.

1974 V. Nabokov Look at Harlequins iii. i. 132 The President of Quirn..timorously sympathized with the fashionable Sovietizers.

1922 Glasgow Herald 29 July 8 The Amir..cannot but view the Sovietising of this region with great disfavour.

1925 Glasgow Herald 26 Mar. 8 The principal virtue of wireless is its sovietising power.