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Agitprop |
Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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aktiv |
party rank and file |
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ASSR |
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: administrative division of nationalities within USSR |
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GOKO |
(Gosudarstvennyi komitet oborony) State Defence Committee |
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Gosplan |
(Gosudarstvennyi plan) State Planning Committee |
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Gulag |
Main Administration of the Labour Camps |
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Komsomol |
Communist Youth League |
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krai |
an administrative region, used without a clear distinction from oblast |
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kraikom |
the party committee of the krai |
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NKVD |
People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs: the secret police; successor to the OGPU, renamed the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1946 (when commissariats became ministries) |
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obkom |
regional committee of the Communist Party |
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oblast |
an administrative region; cf. krai above |
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OUN |
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (anti-Soviet) |
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partiinost’ |
method of analyzing literature and the arts that defines the position of the party; carries the sense of being imbued with Bolshevik values |
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polpred |
abbreviation of polnomochnyi predstavitel’, meaning plenipotentiary, the equivalent of ambassador |
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praktiki |
men with practical training in education, as opposed to theoretical; also applied to type of work |
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raikom |
district committee of the Communist Party |
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RSFSR |
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; from 1937 the name of the largest of the Soviet republics, inhabited mainly by ethnic Russians |
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SMERSH |
Counterintelligence section of the Red Army |
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Sovnarkom |
Council of People’s Commissars |
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SSR |
Soviet Socialist Republic |
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Stavka |
General Headquarters of the Supreme Command |
ABBREVIATIONS
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AVP |
Arkhiv Vneshnei Politiki Rossiiskoi Federatsii, Moscow |
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GARF |
Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiisskoi Federatsii, Moscow |
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KI |
Kommunisticheskii internatsional |
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KPSS |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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Perkins et al., FRUS |
E.R. Perkins, R.P. Churchill and J.G. Reid (eds), Foreign Relations of the United States: The Soviet Union, 1933–1939 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1952) |
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RGASPI |
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-politicheskoi istorii, Moscow |
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TsK |
Central Committee |
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VIZh |
Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal |
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Volokitina et al., VE |
T.V. Volokitina et al. (eds), Vostochnaia Evropa v dokumentakh Rossiiskikh arkhivov, 1944–1953 gg., 2 vols (Moscow and Novosibirsk: Sibirskii khronograf, 1997). |