| AN |
Akademiia nauk (Academy of Sciences)
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| Agitprop TsK |
Agitation-Propaganda Department/Central Committee
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| agitprops |
Agitation-Propaganda departments of regional party committees
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| aktiv |
activists
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| BSE |
Bol’shaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia (Great Soviet Encyclopedia)
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| byt |
everyday life, lifestyle, existence
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| diamat |
dialectical materialism
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| doklad |
paper, report
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| FONy |
Fakul’tety obshchestvennykh nauk (social science departments)
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| GUS |
Gosudarstvennyi uchennyi sovet (State Scholarly Council) of Narkompros
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| GPU |
secret police, successor to Cheka
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| Glavlit |
Main Administration on Literature and Presses, the Soviet censorship agency
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| Glavprofobr |
Main Administration on Professional Education of Narkompros
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| Glavpolitprosvet (GPP) |
Main Committee on Political Enlightenment
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| Glavrepertkom |
Main Committee on Repertoire, censorship agency for public performances
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| gubkom |
regional party committee
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| higher school |
vysshaia shkola (higher educational institution)
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| IKP |
Institut krasnoi professury (Institute of Red Professors)
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| ikapist(y) |
student(s) of IKP
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| intelligent |
member of intelligentsia
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| istmat |
historical materialism
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| KUNMZ |
Communist University of the National Minorities of the West
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| KUTV |
Communist University of the Toilers of the East
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| Kadet |
Constitutional Democratic Party
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| Komakademiia (KA) |
Kommunisticheskaia akademiia (Communist Academy)
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| Komsomol |
Communist Youth League
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| Komvuzy |
Communist universities
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| kruzhok/kruzhki |
study circle(s)
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| MK |
Moskovskii Komitet (Moscow Committee of the Commnunist Party)
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| MKK |
Moscow Control Commission
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| narkomaty |
commissariats
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| Narkompros |
Commissariat of Education (Enlightenment)
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| nauka |
science, scholarship
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| Orgburo |
Organizational Bureau of Central Committee
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| Proletkul’t |
Proletarian Culture movement
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| Profintern |
Trade Union International
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| PSS |
Pol’noe sobranie sochinenii (complete collected works)
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| PUR |
Political Administration of the Red Army
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| partiinost’ |
party-mindedness, “partyness”
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| PZM |
Pod znamenem marksizma
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| politgramota |
political literacy
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| politprosveshchenie |
political enlightenment
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| pravlenie |
administration (of educational institution)
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| proverka |
verification; used synonymously with purge
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| rabfak |
workers’ faculty (preparatory section)
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| raikom |
district party committee
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| raion |
district
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| RANION |
Russian Association of Social Science Scientific Research Institutes
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| SAON |
Sotsialisticheskaia akademiia obshchestvennykh nauk (Socialist Academy of Social Sciences)
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| SR |
Socialist Revolutionary Party
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| sluzhashchie |
white-collar employees
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| social minimum |
mandatory courses in Marxist social science
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| sotrudniki (nauchnye) |
researchers, research associates
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| sovpartshkoly |
soviet-party schools
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| studenchestvo |
student body
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| Sovnarkom (SNK) |
Council of People’s Commissars
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| spetsy |
abbreviation of spetsialisty; specialists
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| Sverdlovets/Sverdlovtsy |
student(s) of Sverdlov University
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| Sverdloviia |
nickname for Sverdlov Communist University
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| TsKK |
Central Control Commission
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| third front |
cultural front, as opposed to military and political fronts
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| ukom |
uezd party committee
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| VKA |
Vestnik Kommunisticheskoi akademii
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| VKP(b) |
All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
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| VSA |
Vestnik Sotsialisticheskoi akademii
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| VSNKh |
All-Union Council of the National Economy
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| VTsIK |
All-Union Central Executive Committee of Soviets
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| VUZy |
vysshie uchebnye zavedeniia (higher educational institutions)
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| velikii perelom |
Great Break
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| Vpered |
“Forward” group of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP)
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| vydvizhensty |
socially promoted cadres
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