Soviet republic (system of government)
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A soviet republic (from Russian: Советская республика, tr. Sovetskaya respublika), or council republic is a republic in which the government is formed of soviets (workers' councils) and politics are based on soviet democracy.
For list of Soviet republics of the 20th century, see Soviet Republic.
For the Soviet republics of the Soviet Union, see Republics of the Soviet Union.
For other uses, see Soviet (disambiguation).
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Although the term is usually associated with Soviet member-states, it was not initially used to represent the political organisation of the Soviet Union, but merely a form of democracy.
There were several revolutionary workers' movements in various areas of Europe which declared independence under the name of a soviet republic in the immediate aftermath of the First World War.[1]