Abbreviations
| Agitprop |
Agitation and Propaganda |
| CC |
Central Committee |
| CCC |
Central Control Commission |
| Cheka |
→ VChK |
| CI |
Communist International |
| Com. |
Comrade |
| Comfaction |
Communist Faction |
| Comintern |
Communist International |
| CP |
Communist Party |
| DHM |
Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) |
| EC |
Executive Committee |
| ECCI |
Executive Committee of the Communist International |
| GARF |
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii (State Archives of the Russian Federation) |
| Glavpolitprosvet |
Glavnoe upravlenie politicheskogo prosveshcheniia Narkomprosa RSFSR (Main Administration for Political Education at the People’s Commissariat for Enlightenment of the → RSFSR) |
| IAH |
Internationale Arbeiter-Hilfe, German name of the → IWR |
| IRA |
International Red Aid |
| ITUC |
International Trade Union Confederation |
| IWR |
International Workers’ Relief |
| KJVD |
Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (Communist Youth League of Germany) |
| Komsomol |
Kommunisticheskii soiuz molodezhi (Communist Youth League) |
| KP(b)U |
Kommunisticheskaia partiia (bol’shevikov) Ukrainy (Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine) |
| KPD |
Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Communist Party of Germany) |
| Krestintern |
Krest’ianskii Internatsional (Red Peasant International) |
| Mezhrabpom |
Mezhdunarodnaia Rabochaia Pomoshch’, Russian name of the → IWR |
| MOPR |
Mezhdunarodnaia organizatsiia pomoshchi bortsam revoliutsii (International Organisation for Aid to the Fighters of the Revolution, Soviet section of the → IRA, also: Russian name of the → IRA). |
| NEP |
New Economic Policy |
| NKID |
Narodnyi komissariat inostrannykh del (People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs) |
| OMS |
Otdel mezhdunarodnykh sviazei (International Liaison Department [of the → ECCI]) |
| Orgburo |
Organisational Bureau (of the → CC of the → RKP(b)/VKP(b)) |
| Orgraspred |
Organizatsionno-raspredelitel’nyi otdel (Organisation and Allocation Department [of the → CC of the → RKP(b)/VKP(b)]) |
| PermGANI |
Permskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii (Perm State Archive for Recent History) |
| PLSR |
Partiia levykh sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov (Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries) |
| Polburo |
Political Bureau (of the → CC of the → KPD) |
| Politburo |
Political Bureau (of the → CC of the → RKP(b)/VKP(b)) |
| Profintern |
Profsoiuznyi Internatsional (Red International of Labour Unions, RILU) |
| PSR |
Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov (Party of Socialist Revolutionaries) |
| PUR(KKA) |
Politicheskoe upravlenie Raboche-Krest’ianskoi Krasnoi armii (Political Administration of the Red Workers’ and Peasants’ Army). |
| RFB |
Rotfrontkämpferbund (Alliance of Red Front-Fighters) |
| RGAE |
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv ekonomiki (Russian State Economic Archives) |
| RGASPI |
Rossiiskii gosudarsvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-politicheskoi istorii (Russian State Archive of Social and Political History) |
| RGVA |
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voennyi arkhiv (Russian State Military Archive) |
| RHD |
Rote Hilfe Deutschlands (German section of the → IRA) |
| RKI |
Raboche-krest’ianskaia inspektsiia (Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate). |
| RKP(b) |
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (from 1918 to 1925, afterwards → VKP(b)) |
| RSDRP |
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party |
| RSDRP(b) |
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) |
| RSFSR |
Rossiiskaia Sovetskaia Federativnaia Sotsialisticheskaia Respublika (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) |
| SAPMO-BArch |
Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR im Bundesarchiv (Foundation Archives of the Political Parties and Mass Organisations of the GDR in the Federal Archives) |
| SAT |
Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (‘Nationless World Association’, World Association of Left Esperantists) |
| SEU |
Sovetrespublikara Esperantista Unio (Union of Soviet Esperantists) |
| SNK |
Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov (Council of People’s Commissars) |
| SPD |
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland (Social Democratic Party of Germany) |
| TsAGM |
Tsentral’nyi arkhiv goroda Moskvy (Central Archive of the City of Moscow). |
| TsK |
Tsentral’nyi Komitet (the → CC) |
| TUC |
Trade Union Congress |
| USPD |
Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany) |
| VTsIK |
Vserossiiskii tsentral’nyi ispolnitel’nyi komitet (All-Russian Central Executive Committee) |
| VTsSPS |
Vsesoiuznyi tsentral’nyi sovet professional’nykh soiuzov (All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions) |
| VChK |
Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia komissiia po bor’be s kontrrevoliutsiei i sabotazhem (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Fight against Counterrevolution and Sabotage) |
| VKP(b) |
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (from 1925 to 1952) |
| VVRS |
Vysshii voenno-redaktsionnyi sovet (Supreme Military Publishing Council) |
| YCI |
Young Communist International |