Soviet Socialist Republic

[ soh-vee-it soh-shuh-list ri-puhb-lik ]

noun

1. a designation for any of the former countries that became centrally administered by the Soviet Union:

   Now citizens of a free Estonia, they remember the limitations of growing up in the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Soviet Socialist Republic¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

The Ukrainians were recognized as a distinct people, and their language and culture received state support in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the founding polities of the Soviet Union.

From Washington Post

First, in 1941, when she was just 10 years old and German bombs started falling on the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

From Reuters

In 1945, Joseph Stalin annexed it to the Soviet Union and it became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

From Washington Post

In 1945, Western Ukraine, which had never been under Moscow’s control before World War II, was officially incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

From New York Times

For Tajiks, perhaps the worst example of capricious Soviet demarcation was the decision to attach Bukhara and Samarkand, which had Persian-speaking majorities, to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan in 1924.

From New York Times