Cheka |
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission |
CPSU |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
FSB |
Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation |
GPU |
State Political Directorate (state security), former Cheka |
IISH |
International Institute of Social History |
KGB |
Committee for State Security |
NEP |
New Economic Policy |
NKVD |
State Political Directorate (state security, former OGPU) |
OGPU |
Joint State Political Directorate (state security, former GPU) |
PPS |
Polish Socialist Party |
RSDLP |
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party |
RSFSR |
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
SR |
Socialist-Revolutionary Party (the SRs) |
SPD |
Social Democratic Party of Germany |
SSR |
Soviet Socialist Republic |
TsIK |
Central Executive Committee |
TsK |
Central Committee |
USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
VTsiK |
All-Russian Central Executive Committee |