Etymology
"Soviet" is derived from a
Russian word signifying council, assembly, advice, harmony, concord,
[trans 1] 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').[
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The word "sovietnik" means councillor.
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A number of organizations in Russian history were called "council" (
Russian: сове́т). For example, in
Imperial Russia, the
State Council, which functioned from 1810 to 1917, was referred to as a Council of Ministers after the revolt of 1905.
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