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Sovietization is term that may be used with two distinct (but related) meanings:

The term was one of numerous "-ation" buzzwords in Soviet phraseology, along with electrification
GOELRO plan

GOELRO plan was the first-ever Soviet Union plan for national economic recovery and development. It became the prototype for subsequent Five-Year Plan s drafted by Gosplan....
, collectivization
Collectivisation in the USSR

Collectivization in the Soviet Union was a policy pursued under Joseph Stalin, between 1928 and 1940, to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms ....
, korenizatsiya
Korenizatsiya

Korenizatsiya sometimes also called korenization, meaning "nativization" or "indigenization", literally "putting down roots", was the early Soviet Union nationalities policy promoted mostly in the 1920s but with a continuing legacy in later years....
, etc.

A notable wave of Sovietization (in the second meaning) occurred during and after World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the Europe. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there i...
. 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.






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Sovietization is term that may be used with two distinct (but related) meanings:
  • the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviet
    Soviet (council)

    A soviet originally was a workers' councils in late Imperial Russia. According to the official historiography of the Soviet Union, the first Soviet was organized during the 1905 Russian Revolution in Ivanovo in May 1905....
    s (workers' councils).
  • the adoption of a way of life and mentality modelled after the Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
    .


The term was one of numerous "-ation" buzzwords in Soviet phraseology, along with electrification
GOELRO plan

GOELRO plan was the first-ever Soviet Union plan for national economic recovery and development. It became the prototype for subsequent Five-Year Plan s drafted by Gosplan....
, collectivization
Collectivisation in the USSR

Collectivization in the Soviet Union was a policy pursued under Joseph Stalin, between 1928 and 1940, to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms ....
, korenizatsiya
Korenizatsiya

Korenizatsiya sometimes also called korenization, meaning "nativization" or "indigenization", literally "putting down roots", was the early Soviet Union nationalities policy promoted mostly in the 1920s but with a continuing legacy in later years....
, etc.

A notable wave of Sovietization (in the second meaning) occurred during and after World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the Europe. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there i...
. 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
Propaganda

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to Objectivity providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience....
 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" (kulak
Kulak

Kulaks were a category of relatively affluent and well-endowed peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and early Soviet Union. The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire who emerged as a result of the Stolypin reform which began in 1906....
s, or osadnik
Osadnik

Osadniks was the Polish loanword used in Soviet Union for veterans of the Polish Army that were given land in the Kresy territory ceded to Poland by Polish-Soviet Riga Peace Treaty of 1921 ....
s, for instance) to the Gulag
Gulag

The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. Gulag is the Russian acronym for The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies of the NKVD....
 labor camp
Labor camp

A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons....
s and exile settlements
Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union

Forced settlements in the Soviet Union took several forms. Though the most notorious was the Gulag labor camp system of penal labor, resettling of entire categories of population was another method of political repression in the Soviet Union....
.

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
New Soviet man

The New Soviet man or New Soviet person , as postulated by the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was an archetype of a person with certain qualities that were said to be emerging as dominant among all citizens of the Soviet Union, irrespective of the country's long-standing cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversit...
 (according to its supporters) or Homo Sovieticus
Homo Sovieticus

Homo Sovieticus is a sarcasm and critical reference to a category of people with a specific mindset that were allegedly created by the governments of the Eastern Bloc....
 (according to its critics).

Most recently the term "Sovietization" is applied in a derogatory
Pejorative

Words and phrases are pejorative if they imply disapproval or contempt. When used as an adjective, pejorative is synonymous with derogatory, derisive, dyslogistic, and contemptuous....
 sense to processes in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 under Putin, with various authors putting various, often mutually contradictory, meanings in the word referring to various attributes of the former Soviet Union.

See also

  • Russification
    Russification

    Russification is an adoption of the Russian language or some other Russian attribute by non-Russian communities. In a narrow sense, Russification is used to denote the influence of the Russian language on Slavic languages, Baltic languages and other languages, spoken in areas currently or formerly controlled by Russia, which led to emerging...