Dictionary of Abbreviations and Neologisms in the USSR
| Agitprop / APO. | Department for Agitation and Propaganda at TsK VKP(b). |
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| Artel. | Producers’ Cooperative. |
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| BSSR. | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
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| ChK. | Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage.
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| Detgiz. | State Publishing House for Children’s Literature. |
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| Fedkomzem. | Federal Committee about Issues of Land at VTsIK. |
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| Glavlit. | General Directorate for Literature and Publishing. |
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| Glavnauka. | Central Administration for Scientific, Scholarly-Artistic, and Museum Institutions. |
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| Gosizdat. | State Publishing House. |
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| Goslitizdat / GIKh. | State Publishing House for Fiction Literature. |
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| Gosplan. | The State Planning Committee. |
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| GPU. | State Political Directorate at NKVD RSFSR. |
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| Gubkom. | Governorate Committee of VKP(b).
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| GUBONO. | Governorate Department of Education. |
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| GULAG. | Main Directorate of Camps at NKVD. |
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| Ispolkom. | Executive Committee of Council of People’s Deputies.
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| Knigocentr. | Soviet Iinstitution for Books and Journals Distribution. |
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| Kogiz. | Bookselling Association of State Publishers. |
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| Kolkhoz. | Collective Farm. |
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| Kolkhozsoyuz. | Union of Agricultural Collectives. |
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| Komsomol. | Young Communist League.
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| Komzet. | Committee for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land at Presidium of the VTsik. |
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| Komintern. | Communist International, known also as the Third International (1919-1943). |
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| KP(b). | Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. |
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| Kulak. | Literally ‘fist’; this is how wealthy peasants, who put in economic dependence and exploited their fellow peasants, were called in the early USSR. |
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| KPB. | Communist Party of Byelorussia. |
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| KUTV. | Communist University of the Toilers of the East. |
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| Likbez. | Campaign of Eradication of Illiteracy in Soviet Union. |
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| LKSMB. | Leninist Communist Youth League of BSSR. |
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| Medgiz. | State Medical Publishing House. |
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| MONO. | Moscow City’s Department for People’s Education. |
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| Mossovet. | Moscow City Soviet of People’s Deputies. |
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| MOZO. | Moscow Regional Agricultural Department. |
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| MTS. | Machine Tractor Station; a state enterprise for maintenance of agricultural machinery. |
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| Narkomfin. | People’s Commissariat of Finances of USSR. |
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| Narkomnats. | People’s Commissariat of Nationalities of the RSFSR. |
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| Narkompros. | People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. |
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| Narkomzem / NKZem / NKZ. | People’s Commissariat of Agriculture of USSR. |
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| Natsmen. | Member of National Minority. |
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| NKVD. | People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of RSFSR. |
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| Ogiz. | Unified State Publishing House. |
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| OGPU. | Joint State Political Directorate at SNK USSR. |
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| Orgburo. | Organisational Bureau of TsK VKP(b). |
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| Partizdat. | Publishing House for Political Literature at the TsK VKP(b). |
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| Pioneer. | Member of the All-Union Pioneer Organisation, mass youth organisation in the Soviet Union. |
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| Politburo. | Political Bureau of TsK VKP(b). |
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| Profizdat. | The Soviet Trade-unions Publishing House. |
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| Pyatiletka. | The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the USSR. |
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| Rabfak. | Workers’ Faculty; educational institution that prepared workers to higher education. |
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| RKP(b). | Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), from 1925 renamed VKP(b). |
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| ROSTA. | Russian Telegraph Agency. |
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| RSFSR. | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. |
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| Selkhozbank. | Agricultural Bank. |
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| Selkhozgiz. | State Publishing House of Agricultural Literature. |
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| Selsoviet. | Village council, local self-administration, a part of the Soviet system of administration. |
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| Semiletka. | Secondary school with seven years of education in the USSR. |
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| SNK / Sovnarkom. | Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR (from 1922 of the RSFSR).
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| Sovnatsmen. | Education Department of National Minorities at Narkompros (1918-1921); renamed Council for the Education of the Peoples of the Non-Russian Language (1921-1924); Central Council for the Education of National Minorities of the RSFSR (1925-1929); Committee for the Education of National Minorities of the RSFSR (1929-1934). |
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| Sovnarkhoz. | Soviet for National Economy. |
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| SSP. | Union of Soviet Writers. |
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| TASS. | Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union. |
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| Tsentrizdat. | Publishing House of the SNK RSFSR. |
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| TsK KPSS. | Central Committee of Communist Party of USSR. |
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| TsK VKP(b). | Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). |
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| TsIK. | Central Executive Committee of SSSR.
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| TsIK UkrSSR | Central Executive Committee of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
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| Tsygkhimprom / Khimprom / Tsygkhimlabor. | Gypsy artel for chemical products. |
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| Tsygpishcheprom / Pishcheprom / Pishchepromartel. | Gypsy artel for food products. |
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| Uchpedgiz. | State Pedagogical Publishing House of the Narkompros. |
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| UkrSSR. | Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
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| USSR. | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
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| UzSSR. | Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. |
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| VKP(b). | All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). |
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| VKSKhSH. | Higher Communist Agricultural School. |
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| VKSS. | Higher Courses of Soviet Construction at the VTsIK. |
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| VOKS. | All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. |
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| VPK. | All-Union Resettlement Committee. |
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| Vsekopromsovet. | All-Union Council of the Industrial Cooperation. |
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| Vserabis. | All-Union Professional Union of Art Workers. |
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| VTsIK. | All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
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| VSTs. | All-Russian Union of Gypsies. |
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| VTsSPS. | All-Union Central Council of Professional Unions. |
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| VUTsVK. | All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee.
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| Yacheyka. | A primary (lowest) level in the organisational structure of VKP(b). |
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| ZU. | Agricultural management.
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