Sowdepien

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Sovdepia ( Russian Совдепия , Sowdepija) is a derogatory term for Soviet Russia and the young Soviet Union used mainly by Russian emigrants in the 1920s . Occurring in Russian émigré literature, it was mockingly referred to as “Sowdepien Unter den Linden ” also to the Soviet embassy in Berlin .

The name is derived from Sowet deputatow , or Sowdep for short . These " deputies - soviets ", ie "councils of representatives" in various compositions (workers ', peasants and soldiers' councils) exercised the local power of the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution and in accordance with the first constitution of the RSFSR of 1918 .

Remarks

1. ^ W. Dawatz and NN Lwow : Russia's last heroes. The story of suffering of the Wrangel Army . Translation into German by Duke G. von Leuchtenberg . A. Labereau, Munich 1925. p. 155.
2. ↑ Unter den Linden 7.
3. ^ Karl Schlögel : The Russian Berlin. Eastern Railway Station of Europe . Siedler Verlag, Munich 1998. p. 149.