Abbreviations
| AAP |
Association of American Publishers |
| AAUP |
Association of American University Presses |
| ACLS |
American Council of Learned Societies |
| Agitprop |
Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| ASA |
American Studies Association |
| BAI |
Book Aid International |
| CCP |
Chinese Communist Party |
| CEIP |
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
| CPSU |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (from 1952) |
| FBP |
Franklin Book Programs |
| ESU |
English-Speaking Union |
| FO |
Foreign Office (UK) |
| GDR |
German Democratic Republic |
| IAC |
International Advisory Council |
| ICA |
International Cooperation Administration |
| ICS |
Information Center Service |
| IRD |
Information Research Department |
| IBRD |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| IMA |
International Mind Alcove Collections |
| IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
| IMG |
Informational Media Guaranty Program |
| IRC |
International Relations Clubs |
| IRD |
Information Research Department |
| KGB |
Committee for State Security |
| MVD |
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NKVD |
People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs |
| OEEC |
Organization for European Economic Co-operation |
| OSS |
Office of Strategic Services (US) |
| OWI |
Office of War Information (World War II) |
| PCI |
Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano) |
| PRC |
People’s Republic of China |
| PSPD |
Publication and Special Projects Division |
| SAR |
Society of Authors’ Representatives |
| SSOD |
Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Contacts |
| TASS |
Russian News Agency |
| UN |
United Nations |
| USIA |
United States Information Agency |
| USIBA |
United States International Book Association |
| USIS |
United States Information Service |
| VAAP |
All-Union Agency on Copyrights (Vsesouznoye Agenstvo po Avtorskim Pravam) |
| VKP |
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks; 1925–1952) |
| VOKS |
All-Union Society for Cultural Ties Abroad |
| UDL |
United Democratic Left (Greece) |