AOK |
Armeeoberkomando (Austro-Hungarian Supreme Command in 1914–18 war) |
ARA |
American Relief Administration |
BMO |
Bolshevik Military Organisation |
Cheka |
Chrezvechainaya komissiya (literally, the extraordinary commission – the first Soviet security organisation) |
C-in-C |
Commander-in-chief |
Comintern |
Communist International |
CP |
Central Powers |
CPGB |
Communist Party of Great Britain |
CPSU |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation (US) |
Gensek |
Generalny Sekretar (General Secretary of the CPSU) |
GPU |
Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravleniye (Soviet security organisation 1922–23) |
HQ |
headquarters |
KGB |
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (last Soviet state security organisation) |
LSR |
Left Socialist Revolutionary (Party) |
NCO |
non-comissioned officer |
NEP |
Novy Ekonomicheski Politik (New Economic Policy) |
NKVD |
Narodny Komitet Vnukhtrennikh Del (Soviet state security organisation 1934–46) |
NRZ |
Neue Rheinische zeitung |
OGPU |
Obyedinonnoye Gosudarstvennoye Polititicheskoye Upravleniye (Soviet state security organisation 1923–34 |
OHL |
Oberste Heeresleitung (German Supreme Command in 1914–18 war) |
Okhrana |
Otedleniye po Okhraneniyu Obshchestvennoi Bezopasnosti i Poryadki (Tsarist secret police) |
Orgburo |
organisational office of the CPSU |
Politburo |
governing body of CPSU Central Committee (literally policy office) |
POUM |
Partit Obrer d’Unificació Marxista (Catalan Marxist Party in Spanish Civil War) |
POW |
prisoner of war |
PR |
public relations |
RSDLP |
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party |
RSFSR |
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
SDLP |
Social Democratic Labour Party |
SIGINT |
signals interception |
Sovnarkom |
Soviet Narodnikh Komissarov (Council of National Commissars) |
SR |
Socialist Revolutionary (Party) |
Stavka |
Stavka Verkhovnovo Glavnokomanduyushchevo (Russian Supreme Command 1914–18) |
Tseka |
Tsentralny Komitet (Central Committee of CPSU) |
US/USA |
United States of America |
USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–91) |