GLOSSARY

NOTE: The accent of a Russian letter indicates the stress. The letter ë is pronounced “yo” and stressed.




agit-prop

agitation and propaganda


agit-sud/y

agitational trial/s


agitka/i

short agitational performance/s


ataman

Ukrainian and Cossack headman or warlord


Basmachis

Central Asian anti-Communist partisans


besprizornyi/e

abandoned children


burzhui

“bourgeois” (in the pejorative sense)


Cheka

Political police, 1917–1922


chervonets/y

gold-based currency introduced in 1922


dacha

country retreat


denznak/i

“money token”/s


duvan

Turkish word signifying division of loot


Evsektsiia/ii

Jewish section/s of the Communist Party


Glavlit

Central Censorship Bureau created in 1922


Gosizdat

State Publishing House


Gosplan

State Planning Committee


GPU

Successor to Cheka


guberniia/ii

Province/s


gubkom/y

Provincial Committee/s of Communist Party


inogorodnyi/e

“outlander/s” in Cossack regions


jadidism

Muslim reform movement


Kavbiuro

Caucasian Bureau of Communist Party


khozrazchët

self-supporting enterprise


Komsomol

Communist Youth League


Komuch

Committee of the Constituent Assembly (1918)


kulak

well-to-do peasant or peasant hostile to the Communists


meshchanin/ne

burgher/s


muzhik

familiar term for peasant


Narkompros

Commissariat of Enlightenment


nomenklatura/y

person/s qualified for high positions in the Communist Party


OGPU

successor to GPU


paëk

ration


pogrom

beating and looting, usually of Jews


Polrevkom

Polish Committee of Communist Party (1920)


Pomgol

Committee to aid victims of 1921 famine


prodnalog

food tax in kind introduced in 1921


prodrazvërstka

food extraction


Proletkul’t

“Proletarian Culture” movement


Rabfak/i

“Worker Faculty/ies”


Rabkrin

“Worker and Peasant Inspection”


razgrom

assault on property


Revvoensovet

Revolutionary Military Council


Sovnarkom

Council of People’s Commissars


STO

Council of Labor and Defense


uchraspred/y

Communist Party personnel bureaus


uezd

lowest administrative entity


vlast’

power, authority, government


vozhd’

leader


zam/y

deputy chairman/men of Sovnarkom


zemstvo/a

organs of local self-rule in late tsarist Russia


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