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Through painstaking negotiations and strategic compromises, the Kirov and the Bolshoi navigated through the Minister of Culture's constant demands for Soviet ballets by Soviets about Soviet life, the bureaucratic rejection of formalism, and the insistence that ballet be used as a tool to educate the public and produce the "New Man of the Communist society." Swans of the Kremlin presents the pivotal moments in both ballet companies in their respective efforts to defend and protect the purity of the art form while also appeasing the mercurial leadership desiring to sovietize ballet by reflecting the Socialist tenets of nationality, ideological content, and party spirit.

In the book's most powerful chapter, Landis discusses occupation policies designed to "sovietize" rebellious villages, including hostage-taking, mass executions, forced relocations, and the internment of thousands of men, women, and children in concentration camps.

This style of Stalinist architecture was later exported to Eastern European cities such as Warsaw, trying to Sovietize the cityscape there.

The Soviet Union would certainly attempt to avoid becoming an ally until Japan had been thoroughly defeated and would then merely use the opportunity to acquire Manchuria and Sovietize China.

Various pamphlets published by the National Catholic Welfare Council, including a Handbook for Speakers, argued that the bill would "Sovietize" education.