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 | | (Dissident existing soviets were won over or suppressed; Bolshevik soviets were organized in factories that lacked soviets.) The view was widely promoted and expressed that Bolshevik power rested on the collective will of these soviets, representing the fulfillment of the slogan. |
 | | In essentially the preceding sense, the term was used outside the Soviet Union by some Marxist-Leninist movements, for example, the Chinese Communist Party's efforts in the "Kiang-Si(?) Soviet" immediately prior to the Long March. |
 | | Based on and in support of view of the state implicit in sense 2 above, the term soviet naturally extended, or consciously was extended, to mean in effect any body formed by a group of soviets to delegate, up a hierarchy of soviets, the authority to express and effect their will. |
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