SOVIET RUSSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Soviet Russia mean? 

• SOVIET RUSSIA (noun)
  The noun SOVIET RUSSIA has 1 sense:

1. formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia

  Familiarity information: SOVIET RUSSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOVIET RUSSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Russia; Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; Soviet Russia

Instance hypernyms:

Soviet Socialist Republic (one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991))

Meronyms (members of "Soviet Russia"):

Komi (a member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia)

Cheremis; Cheremiss; Mari (a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia)

Inger; Ingerman; Ingrian (a member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built)

Mordva; Mordvin; Mordvinian (a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia)

Veps; Vepse; Vepsian (a member of a Finnish people of Russia)

Mansi; Vogul (a member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals)

Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)

Domain member region:

Borodino (Napoleon defeated the Russians in 1812 in a pitched battle at a village in western Russia west of Moscow, but irreparably weakened his army)

Holonyms ("Soviet Russia" is a part of...):

Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)

Eurasia (the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia)