Abbreviations
| ACCTU |
All-China Confederation of Trade Unions |
| AN |
Akademiia Nauk (Academy of Sciences) |
| ARAN |
Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk (Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| ARCEC |
All-Russian Central Executive Committee |
| AUCEC |
All-Union Central Executive Committee |
| AUCP(b) |
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), 1925–52 |
| AUCUTU |
All-Union Council of the Union of Trade Unions |
| AUkCEC |
All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee |
| Bund |
Allgemeiner Jüdischer Arbeiterbund (General Jewish Labour Bund) |
| CC |
Central Committee |
| CCC |
Central Control Commission |
| CCP |
Chinese Communist Party (Zhongguo Gongchandang) |
| CEC |
Central Executive Committee |
| C-in-C |
Commander-in-Chief |
| CLD |
Council of Labour and Defence [Sovet Truda i Oborony] |
| Comintern |
Communist International |
| CP(b)Uk |
Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine |
| CPC |
Council of People’s Commissars |
| CPPCC |
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference |
| CPSU |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1952–91 |
| CP USA |
Communist Party of the United States of America |
| CYI |
Communist Youth International |
| CYL |
Communist Youth League |
| CYLC |
Communist Youth League of China |
| Donugol |
Donetskii ugol (Donetsk Coal State Trust) |
| ECCI |
Executive Committee of the Communist International |
| ECCYI |
Executive Committee of the Communist Youth International |
| GMD |
[Chinese] Nationalist Party ([Zhongguo] Guomindang) |
| Gosbank |
Gosudarstvennyi Bank (State Bank) |
| Gosizdat |
State Publishing House |
| Gosplan |
State Planning Agency |
| GPU |
Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie (State Political Administration) |
| IWE&WP |
Institute of World Economy and World Politics |
| Kadet |
K.D. (Constitutional-Democrat, member of Party of People’s Freedom) |
| Khimkombinatstroi |
Chemical Trust Construction |
| Komsomol |
Communist Youth League |
| KPD |
Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Communist Party of Germany) |
| KUTK |
Kommunisticheskii Universitet Trudiashchikhsia Kitaia (Communist University of the Toilers of China) |
| KUTV |
Kommunisticheskii Universitet Trudiashchikhsia Vostoka (Communist University of the Toilers of the East) |
| Kuzbasstroi |
Kuzbas Metallurgical Trust Construction |
| Left-SR s |
Party of Left-Socialist Revolutionaries – Internationalists |
| Medgiz |
Medical State Publishing House |
| MPR |
Mongolian People’s Republic |
| MRC |
Military Revolutionary Committee |
| NKPS |
Narodnyi Kommissariat Putei Soobshchenii (People’s Commissariat for Transport) |
| NPC |
National People’s Congress [of the People’s Republic of China] |
| NRA |
National Revolutionary Army |
| OGPU |
Ob”edinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie (Joint State Political Administration) |
| Orgburo |
Organisational Bureau |
| Partizdat |
Party Publishing House |
| Politburo |
Political Bureau |
| PRC |
People’s Republic of China |
| Profintern |
Internatsional Profsoiuzov (Trade Union International) |
| RCP(b) |
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), 1918–25 |
| RCYL |
Russian Communist Youth League |
| Revcom |
Revolutionary Committee |
| RGASPI |
Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Sotsial’no-politicheskoi Istorii (Russian State Archive of Social and Political History) |
| RMC |
Revolutionary Military Council |
| RMCR |
Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic |
| RSDLP(b) |
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) (Rossiiskaia Sotsial-Demokraticheskaia Rabochaia Partiia [Bolsheviks]), 1903–18 |
| RSFSR |
Rossiiskaia Sovetskaia Federativnaia Sotsialisticheskaia Respublika (Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic) |
| SDKPiL |
Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy (Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania) |
| Sibmashstroi |
Siberian Machine Tool Trust Construction |
| Sovinformburo |
Soviet Information Bureau |
| SPD |
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) |
| SRINCP |
Scientific Research Institute on National and Colonial Problems |
| SR s |
Socialist Revolutionaries |
| SSNE |
Supreme Soviet of the National Economy [Vysshyi Sovet Narodnogo Khoziaistva] |
| TASS |
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union |
| Tsentrosoiuz |
Tsentral’nyi Soiuz Potrebitel’skikh Obshchestv (Central Union of Consumer Societies) |
| TUC |
Trades Union Congress [of Great Britain] |
| USA |
The United States of America |
| USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| UTK |
Universitet Trudiashchikhsia Kitaia (University of the Toilers of China) |
| Uralmash |
Urals Machine Tool Trust |
| WPRA |
Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army |