<P> 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" = science). The word "sovietnik" means councillor . </P> <P> A number of organizations in Russian history were called "council" (Russian: сове́т). For example, in the Russian Empire, the State Council, which functioned from 1810 to 1917, was referred to as a Council of Ministers after the revolt of 1905 . </P> <P> During the Georgian Affair, Vladimir Lenin envisioned an expression of Great Russian ethnic chauvinism by Joseph Stalin and his supporters, calling for these nation - states to join Russia as semi-independent parts of a greater union, which he initially named as the Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia (Russian: Союз Советских Республик Европы и Азии, Soyuz Sovetskikh Respublik Yevropy i Azii). Stalin initially resisted the proposal, but ultimately accepted it, although--with Lenin's agreement--he changed the name of the newly proposed state to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, although all the republics began as Socialist Soviet and did not change to the other order until 1936 . In addition, in the national languages of several republics the word "Council / Conciliar" in the respective language was only quite late changed to an adaptation of the Russian "Soviet"--and never in others, e.g., Ukraine . </P> <P> The names of the Soviet Union are as follows in several languages of its 15 constituent republics: </P>

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