LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
A Administration
AKFD Archive of film and photographic documents
ASSR Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
CA Central board
CB Central bureau
CC Central committee
Cominform Information bureau of communist and workers? parties
CP Communist Party : RKP(b) or VKP(b) unless otherwise stated
Detkomissia VTsIK commission for improvement of the life of children
DVR Far-eastern republic
EC Economic council
Fedkomzem VTsIK federal committee for land
FK Federal committee
GARF State archive of the Russian Federation
GK State office
GKO State committee for defence
Glavarkhiv Main administration for archives
Glavlit MA for the protection of state secrets in the press, Sovmin USSR
Gosizdat State publishing house
Goskomizdat State committee for publishing houses
Goskomtrud State committee for work and pay
Gosplan State planning committee
Gosstroi State committee for construction
GT State trust
GU Main Administration
GUGB Main Administration for State Security
IMEL Institute of Marx-Engels-Lenin
KIM Communist International of Youth
KPK Committee for Party Control
KPSS Communist Party of the Soviet Union
KSK Committee for Soviet Control
KVZhD China-East railway
MA Main administration
MCA Main construction administration
MGB Ministry of State Security
MID Ministry of foreign affairs
MOPR International organization for aid to revolutionaries
MRC Military-Revolutionary Council
MTA Main territorial administration
MVD Ministry of Internal Affairs
Narkomat People痴 commissariat
Narkomfin People痴 Commissariat of finance
Narkomiust People痴 Commissariat of justice
Narkomnats People痴 Commissariat for nationalities
Narkompros People痴 Commissariat of education
Narkomtrud People痴 Commissariat of labour
NII Research institute
NKID People痴 Commissariat of foreign affairs
NKRKI/Rabkrin People痴 Commissariat of worker-peasant inspection
NKVD People痴 Commissariat of Internal Affairs
OB Orgburo
OGPU United State Political Administration
OO Extraordinary department
OP Osobaia papka
OS Extraordinary sector
PA Political administration
PB Politburo
POW Prisoner/s of war
RCE Republic-level committee
RK Republic-level office
RKP(b) Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
RRS Russian republic council
RSDRP Russian social-democratic workers party
RT Republic-level trust
RTsKhIDNI Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of
Most Recent History
RU Regional administration
SC State committee
SCS Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
SD Social-democrat party and its members
SNKh Council for national economy
Soviet (n) Council of Workers? and Soldiers? Deputies
Sovinformburo Soviet information bureau, USSR Sovmin
Sovmin Council of ministers
Sovnarkom Council of People痴 Commissars
SR Socialist revolutionary party and its members
SS Secret section
SSR Soviet Socialist Republic
ST Secretariat
STO Sovnarkom labour and defence council
T Trust
TASS USSR Telegraph Agency
TsGANKh Central state archive of the national economy
TsGAOR USSR central state archive of the October revolution, organs of
state and administration
TsGIA Central historical archive
TsIK Central executive committee
TsK Central Committee
TsKhSD Centre for the preservation of contemporary documentation
TsKK Central Control Commission
Turkomburo VTsIK and Sovnarkom bureau for Turkestan
UD Administration of affairs
UkSSR Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic
VChK All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for combatting counter-revolution
and sabotage
VIKZhEL All-Union executive committee of railway trade unions
VKP(b) All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
VOKS All-Union society for cultural links with foreign countries
VSNKh Supreme Council for National Economy
VTsIK All-Russian central executive committee
VTsSPS All-Russian central council of trade unions