Abbreviations
| Comintern |
Communist International |
| GA RF |
State Archive of the Russian Federation |
| Gosbank |
State Bank |
| Gosizdat |
State Publishing House |
| Gosplan |
State Planning Commission |
| IKKI |
Executive Committee of the Communist International |
| IMEL |
Institute of Marx-Engels-Lenin |
| Komvnutorg |
Commissariat of Internal Trade |
| Narkompochtel’ |
People’s Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs |
| Narkomprod |
People’s Commissariat of Food |
| Narkomtyazhmash |
People’s Commissariat of Heavy Industry |
| Narkomzem |
People’s Commissariat of Agriculture |
| NEP |
New Economic Policy |
| NKF, Narkomfin |
People’s Commissariat of Finance |
| NKVD |
People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs |
| OGPU |
Joint State Political Directorate |
| Pomgol |
Committee for Famine Assistance |
| Proletkult |
‘Proletarian Culture’ |
| RAN |
Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Revvoensovet |
Revolutionary War Council |
| RKP |
Russian Communist Party |
| RSDRP |
Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party |
| SNK |
Council of People’s Commissars |
| STO |
Council of Labour and Defence |
| TsK |
Central Committee |
| TsSU |
Central Statistical Directorate |
| USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| VChK |
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Struggle against Counter-revolution and Sabotage |
| VSNKh |
Supreme Soviet of the National Economy |
| VTsIK |
All-Russian Central Executive Committee |