List of Abbreviations

Cheka

Chrezvychainaia Komissiia pri sovet Narodnykh Komissarov po borbe s kontrrevoliutsiei i sabotazhem (Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage attached to the Council of People’s Commissars)

Goelro

Gosudarstvennaia Komissiia po Elektrifikatsii Rossii (State Commission for the Electrification of Russia)

Gosplan

Gosudarstvennaia Obshcheplanovaia Komissiia (State General Planning Commission)

Kombedy

Komitety Bednoty (Committees of Poor Peasants)

NEP

Novaia Ekonomicheskaia Politika (New Economic Policy)

Rabkrin

Narodnyi Komissariat Rabochei i Krestianskoi Inspektsii (People’s Commissariat of Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection)

RKP(b)

Rossiiskaia Communisticheskaia Partiia (Bolshevikov) (Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks))

RSFSR

Rossiiskaia Sotsialisticheskaia Federativnaia Sovetskaia Respublika (Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic)

Sovnarkom

Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov (Council of People’s Commissars)

SR

Sotsial-Revoliutsioner (Social-Revolutionary)

SSSR

Soiuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

TsIK

Tsentralnyi Ispolnitelnyi Komitet (Central Executive Committee)

Vikzhel

Vserossiiskii Ispolnitelnyi Komitet Soiuza Zheleznodorozhnikov (All-Russian Executive Committee of Union of Railwaymen)

VSNKh

Vysshii Sovet Narodnogo Khoziaistva (Supreme Council of National Economy)

VTsIK

Vserossiiskii (Vsesoiuznyi) Tsentralnyi Ispolnitelnyi Komitet (All-Russian (All-Union) Central Executive Committee)