Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make Russian in character or quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To Russianize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To Russianize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make or become more
Russian .
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Examples
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In an attempt to "Russify" the country, the Soviets moved out Estonians, moved in Russians and built massive-scale, cookie-cutter apartment blocks.
HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2009
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In 1908, as the political situation worsened in Finland due to the Tsar's attempts to Russify the country, as well as internal social problems, the Sparres moved to Stockholm.
Eva Mannerheim Sparre Matterhorn 2009
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In 1908, as the political situation worsened in Finland due to the Tsar's attempts to Russify the country, as well as internal social problems, the Sparres moved to Stockholm.
Archive 2009-06-01 Matterhorn 2009
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I imagine your relatives wanted to insist that Russian was spoken to un-ghettoize the younger generation and thoroughly Russify them.
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It is not Russian, because few Russians succeed here in business; but strenuous efforts are made to Russify it, for the names of the streets, which were once written in Italian as well as in Russian, are now only set up in Russian, unreadable to most foreign visitors; and the so-called
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Minsk, and Moghilev, which he endeavored to Russify with relentless cruelty.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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Russify, the other was equally anxious to be Russified, and the natural result was an _entente cordiale_ between the new Jewish _intelligenzia_ and the Government.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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Rather than taking on the immense challenge of trying to both educate and Russify the Soviet Union's trans-Caucasus region, in the 1920s Bolshevik agents taught communist theory in classrooms using local languages, not Russian, a policy known as korenizatsya (literally, "putting down roots").
unknown title 2008
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Rather than taking on the immense challenge of trying to both educate and Russify the Soviet Union's trans-Caucasus region, in the 1920s Bolshevik agents taught communist theory in classrooms using local languages, not Russian, a policy known as korenizatsya (literally, "putting down roots").
unknown title 2008
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Rather than taking on the immense challenge of trying to both educate and Russify the Soviet Union's trans-Caucasus region, in the 1920s Bolshevik agents taught communist theory in classrooms using local languages, not Russian, a policy known as korenizatsya (literally, "putting down roots").
unknown title 2008
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