| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| In Russian, soviet means “council,” and, while colloquially referred to as Russia, the largest of the fifteen republics that until recently made up the Soviet Union, the official name of the country in English was The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). We sometimes used the Soviet or the Soviet Union as short names for the country, Soviets as a name for its citizens, and soviet (capitalized or not) as an adjective to modify many things Russian. It now appears that these terms are of historical interest only. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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