Dictionary of Abbreviations and Neologisms in the USSR
Agitprop / APO. | Department for Agitation and Propaganda at TsK VKP(b). |
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Artel. | Producers’ Cooperative. |
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BSSR. | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
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ChK. | Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage.
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Detgiz. | State Publishing House for Children’s Literature. |
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Fedkomzem. | Federal Committee about Issues of Land at VTsIK. |
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Glavlit. | General Directorate for Literature and Publishing. |
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Glavnauka. | Central Administration for Scientific, Scholarly-Artistic, and Museum Institutions. |
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Gosizdat. | State Publishing House. |
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Goslitizdat / GIKh. | State Publishing House for Fiction Literature. |
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Gosplan. | The State Planning Committee. |
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GPU. | State Political Directorate at NKVD RSFSR. |
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Gubkom. | Governorate Committee of VKP(b).
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GUBONO. | Governorate Department of Education. |
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GULAG. | Main Directorate of Camps at NKVD. |
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Ispolkom. | Executive Committee of Council of People’s Deputies.
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Knigocentr. | Soviet Iinstitution for Books and Journals Distribution. |
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Kogiz. | Bookselling Association of State Publishers. |
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Kolkhoz. | Collective Farm. |
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Kolkhozsoyuz. | Union of Agricultural Collectives. |
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Komsomol. | Young Communist League.
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Komzet. | Committee for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land at Presidium of the VTsik. |
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Komintern. | Communist International, known also as the Third International (1919-1943). |
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KP(b). | Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. |
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Kulak. | Literally ‘fist’; this is how wealthy peasants, who put in economic dependence and exploited their fellow peasants, were called in the early USSR. |
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KPB. | Communist Party of Byelorussia. |
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KUTV. | Communist University of the Toilers of the East. |
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Likbez. | Campaign of Eradication of Illiteracy in Soviet Union. |
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LKSMB. | Leninist Communist Youth League of BSSR. |
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Medgiz. | State Medical Publishing House. |
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MONO. | Moscow City’s Department for People’s Education. |
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Mossovet. | Moscow City Soviet of People’s Deputies. |
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MOZO. | Moscow Regional Agricultural Department. |
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MTS. | Machine Tractor Station; a state enterprise for maintenance of agricultural machinery. |
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Narkomfin. | People’s Commissariat of Finances of USSR. |
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Narkomnats. | People’s Commissariat of Nationalities of the RSFSR. |
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Narkompros. | People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. |
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Narkomzem / NKZem / NKZ. | People’s Commissariat of Agriculture of USSR. |
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Natsmen. | Member of National Minority. |
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NKVD. | People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of RSFSR. |
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Ogiz. | Unified State Publishing House. |
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OGPU. | Joint State Political Directorate at SNK USSR. |
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Orgburo. | Organisational Bureau of TsK VKP(b). |
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Partizdat. | Publishing House for Political Literature at the TsK VKP(b). |
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Pioneer. | Member of the All-Union Pioneer Organisation, mass youth organisation in the Soviet Union. |
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Politburo. | Political Bureau of TsK VKP(b). |
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Profizdat. | The Soviet Trade-unions Publishing House. |
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Pyatiletka. | The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the USSR. |
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Rabfak. | Workers’ Faculty; educational institution that prepared workers to higher education. |
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RKP(b). | Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), from 1925 renamed VKP(b). |
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ROSTA. | Russian Telegraph Agency. |
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RSFSR. | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. |
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Selkhozbank. | Agricultural Bank. |
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Selkhozgiz. | State Publishing House of Agricultural Literature. |
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Selsoviet. | Village council, local self-administration, a part of the Soviet system of administration. |
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Semiletka. | Secondary school with seven years of education in the USSR. |
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SNK / Sovnarkom. | Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR (from 1922 of the RSFSR).
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Sovnatsmen. | Education Department of National Minorities at Narkompros (1918-1921); renamed Council for the Education of the Peoples of the Non-Russian Language (1921-1924); Central Council for the Education of National Minorities of the RSFSR (1925-1929); Committee for the Education of National Minorities of the RSFSR (1929-1934). |
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Sovnarkhoz. | Soviet for National Economy. |
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SSP. | Union of Soviet Writers. |
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TASS. | Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union. |
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Tsentrizdat. | Publishing House of the SNK RSFSR. |
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TsK KPSS. | Central Committee of Communist Party of USSR. |
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TsK VKP(b). | Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). |
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TsIK. | Central Executive Committee of SSSR.
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TsIK UkrSSR | Central Executive Committee of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
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Tsygkhimprom / Khimprom / Tsygkhimlabor. | Gypsy artel for chemical products. |
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Tsygpishcheprom / Pishcheprom / Pishchepromartel. | Gypsy artel for food products. |
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Uchpedgiz. | State Pedagogical Publishing House of the Narkompros. |
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UkrSSR. | Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
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USSR. | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
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UzSSR. | Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. |
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VKP(b). | All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). |
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VKSKhSH. | Higher Communist Agricultural School. |
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VKSS. | Higher Courses of Soviet Construction at the VTsIK. |
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VOKS. | All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. |
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VPK. | All-Union Resettlement Committee. |
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Vsekopromsovet. | All-Union Council of the Industrial Cooperation. |
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Vserabis. | All-Union Professional Union of Art Workers. |
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VTsIK. | All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
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VSTs. | All-Russian Union of Gypsies. |
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VTsSPS. | All-Union Central Council of Professional Unions. |
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VUTsVK. | All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee.
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Yacheyka. | A primary (lowest) level in the organisational structure of VKP(b). |
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ZU. | Agricultural management.
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