Everything about Sovietization totally explained
Sovietization is term that may be used with two distinct (but related) meanings:*the adoption of a political system based on the model of
soviets (workers' councils).
- the adoption of a way of life and mentality modelled after the Soviet Union.
The term was one of numerous "-ation" buzzwords in Soviet phraseology, along with
electrification,
collectivization,
korenizatsiya, etc.
A notable wave of Sovietization (in the second meaning) occurred during and after
World War II in
Eastern Europe. In a broad sense, this included (mostly not voluntary) adoption of Soviet-like institutions, laws, customs, traditions and the Soviet way of life, both on a national level and in smaller communities. This was usually promoted and speeded up by
propaganda aimed at creating a common way of life in all states within the Soviet sphere of influence. In many cases, Sovietization was also accompanied by forced resettlement of large categories of "
class enemies" (
kulaks, or
osadniks, for instance) to the
Gulag labor camps and
exile settlements.
In a narrow sense, the term
Sovietization is often applied to mental and social changes within the population of the Soviet Union and its satellites which led to creation of the
new Soviet man (according to its supporters) or
Homo Sovieticus (according to its critics).
Most recently the term "Sovietization" is applied in a
derogatory sense to processes in
Russia under
Putin, with various authors putting various, often mutually contradictory, meanings in the word referring to various attributes of the former Soviet Union.
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