Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926

Acronyms and Abbreviations

AFSR

Armed Forces of South Russia (Vooruzhennie sily Iuga Rossii or VSIuR)

Agitprop

Agitation and propaganda: specifically, the department of that name attached to the central committee of the RKP(b)

ARA

American Relief Administration

ASSR

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Cheka

Chezvychainaia komissiia: “Extraordinary Commission [for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage]” (formally, the “All-Russian Commission”: Vserossiiskaia chrezvychaynaia komissiia po bor′be s kontr-revoliutsiei i sabotazhem)

FER

Far Eastern Republic

Gulag

Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel′no-trudovikh lagerei i kolonii: Chief Administration of [Labor] Camps and Settlements

Istpart

Kommissiia po istorii Okt′iabrskoi revoliutsii i RKP(b): Commission for the History of the October Revolution and the RKP(b)

kombedy

Komitety [derevenskoi]bednoty: Committees of the Village Poor

Komintern

The Communist International

Komuch

Komitet chlenov Uchreditel′nogo sobraniia: Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly

NEP

New Economic Policy

Profintern

Red International of Labor Unions (formally, the Red International of Labor Unions: Krasnyi internatsional profsoiuzov)

PSR

Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov: Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs)

PUR

Political Administration of the Red Army: Politicheskoe upravlenie pri Revvoensovete respublika

Rabkrin

People’s Commissariat of Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection

RKP(b)

The Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

RSDLP

Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

RSDLP(b)

Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks)

RSFSR

Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic

Rosta

Rossiiskoe telegrafnoe agentstvo: Russian Telegraph Agency

ROVS

Russkii Obshche-Voinskii Soiuz: Russian All-Military Union

Sovnarkom

Sovet narodnykh komissarov: Council of People’s Commissars

SR

A member of the PSR

SSR

Soviet Socialist Republic

STO

Sovet truda i oborona: Council of Labor and Defense

UGA

Ukrains′ka Halits′ka Armiia: Ukrainian Galician Army

UNR

Ukrayins′ka Narodnia Respublika: Ukrainian National (sometimes People’s) Republic

USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

VSNKh

Vysshii sovet narodnogo khoziastva: Supreme Council of the National Economy

VTsIK

Vserossiiskii tsentral′nyi ispol′nitelnyi komitet: All-Russian Central Executive Committee

Zemgor

Ob″edinennyi komitet Zemskogo soiuza i Soiuza gorodov: United Committee of the Union of Zemstvos and Municipal Councils