during the 1900s the term soviet was initially the name for
workers' councils
title: Soviet (council) text: Soviet (council) Soviets (singular: soviet; , , literally "council" in English) were political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union, and which gave the name to the latter state. "Soviet" is derived from a Russian word signifying council, assembly, advice, harmony, concord, and all ultimately deriving from the Proto-Slavic verbal stem of *vět-iti "to inform", related to Slavic "věst" ("news"), English "wise", the root in "ad-vis-or" (which came to English through French), or the Dutch "weten" (to know; cf. "wetenschap" = science). The word "sovietnik" means councillor. A number of title: Soviet Union text: (OSCE), the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) and the leading member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) and the Warsaw Pact. The word "Soviet" is derived from a Russian word meaning council, assembly, advice, harmony, concord and all ultimately deriving from the proto-Slavic verbal stem of "vět-iti" ("to inform"), related to Slavic "věst" ("news"), English "wise", the root in "ad-vis-or" (which came to English through French), or the Dutch "weten" ("to know"; cf. "wetenschap" meaning "science"). The word "sovietnik" means "councillor". A number of organizations in Russian history were called "council" (). For example, in the Russian title: Names of Soviet origin text: revolutionary phraseology of the day, such as "Oktyabrin/Oktyabrina", to commemorate the October Revolution, "Vladlen" for Vladimir Lenin. Richard Stites classifies the Soviet "revolutionary" names into the following categories: Most of these names were short-lived linguistic curiosities, but some of them fit well into the framework of the language, proliferated and survived for a long time. The following names were quite common and may be found in various antroponymic dictionaries. Names of Soviet origin Given names of Soviet origin appeared in the early history of the Soviet Union, coinciding with the period of intensive word formation, both being part of the title: Soviet Empire text: and extensive bilateral trade developed. In the West, this led to fears of the spread of "Finlandization", where Western allies would no longer reliably support the United States and NATO. Soviet Empire The informal term "Soviet Empire" has two meanings. In the narrow sense, it expresses a view in Western Sovietology that the Soviet Union as a state was a colonial empire. The onset of this interpretation is traditionally attributed to Richard Pipes's book "The Formation of the Soviet Union" (1954). In the wider sense, it refers to the country's perceived imperialist foreign policy during the Cold War. The nations title: History of the Soviet Union text: History of the Soviet Union The "History of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union" reflects a period of change for both Russia and the world. Though the terms "Soviet Russia" and "Soviet Union" often are synonymous in everyday speech, when referring to the foundations of the Soviet Union, "Soviet Russia" properly refers to the few years between the October Revolution of 1917 and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922. The original ideology of the state was primarily based on the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In its essence, Marx's theory stated that economic and political systems