Academy of Sciences (Akademiia nauk)
active measures (aktivnye meropriiatiia)
Agitprop (Otdel agitatsii i propagandy)
AirLand Battle doctrine
all-union
all-union ministries
apparatchik
army
autocephalous
autonomous oblast
autonomous okrug
autonomous republic (autonomous soviet socialist republic--ASSR)
babushka
balance of payments
balance of trade
BAM (Baykalo-Amurskaya Magistral'--Baykal- Amur Main Line)
Basmachi Rebellion
bilateral clearing agreements
blat
Bolshevik
Bolshevik Revolution
boyar
Brezhnev Doctrine
cadre
capitalist encirclement
Carpatho-Ukraine (before October 1938 known as Subcarpathian Ruthenia)
Charter to the Nobility
Cheka
Chernobyl'
chernozem
class struggle
CoCom--Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls)
collective farm (kollektivnoe khoziaistvo--kolkhoz)
collectivization
combat readiness
combine (kombinat)
Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
Cominform (Communist Information Bureau)
Comintern (Communist International)
communism/communist
complex (kompleks)
Congress of People's Deputies
Congress of Soviets
correlation of forces and resources (sootnosheniie sil i sredstv)
cossacks
Council of Ministers
CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
cult of personality
Cyrillic
Defense Council
democratic centralism
demokratizatsiia (democratization)
dialectical materialism
dictatorship of the proletariat
Donbass (Donetskiy basseyn)
DOSAAF (Dobrovol'noe obshchestvo sodeistviia armii, aviatsii i flotu)
duma
Duma
East Slavs
enterprise
extensive economic development
False Dmitrii
February Revolution
first secretary
fiscal year
five-year plan
FOFA (Follow-on-Forces-Attack)
free trade zones
front
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
GDP (gross domestic product)
general secretary
glasnost'
Glavlit
Glavrepertkom (Glavnyi Komitet po Kontroliu za Zrelishchami i Repertuarom--Glavrepertrom)
GNP (gross national product)
Golden Horde
Gosbank (Gosudarstvennyi bank)
Goskino (Soyuzno-Respublikanskiy gosudarstvenyy komitet po kinematografii)
Goskomizdat (Soyuzno- Respublikanskiy gosudarstvennyy komitet po delam izdatel'stv poligrafii i lnizhoy torgovli)
Goskompriroda
Goskomtsen (Goudarstvennyi komitet po tsenam)
Gosplan (Gosudarstvennyi planovyi komitet)
Gostelradio (Soyuzno- Respublikanskiy gosudarstvennyy komitet po televideniyu i radioveshchaniyu)
GPU (Gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie)
Great Patriotic War
Great Terror
GRU
GUGB (Glavnoe upravlenie gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti)
Gulag (Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no- trudovykh lagerei)
hard currency
Helsinki Accords
Helsinki watch groups
horde
IMF (International Monetary Fund)
intelligentsia
internal passport
Izvestiia (News)
Julian calendar
just wars
Karakum Canal
Kazakhstan
KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti)
khanate
khozraschet
Kievan Rus'
kolkhoz (pl., kolkhozy)
Komsomol (Vsesoiuznyi Leninskii kommunisticheskii soiuz molodezhi)
krai (pl., kraia)
kremlin (kreml')
kulak
Kuzbass (Kuznetskiy basseyn)
League of Nations
Lend-Lease Law
liquidity shortage
local war
Main Intelligence Directorate (Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie--GRU)
Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy
Marshall Plan
Marxism/Marxist
Marxism-Leninism/Marxist-Leninist
Menshevik
metropolitan
MGB (Ministerstvo gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti)
military commissariat (voennyi komissariat--voenkomat)
mir
Mongol "yoke"
MOOP (Ministerstvo okhrany obshchestvennogo poriadka)
moral-political capabilities
most-favored-nation status
mujahidin (sing., mujahid)
mullah
Muscovy
MVD (Ministerstvo vnutrennykh del)
nationality
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
NEP (Novaia ekonomicheskaia politika)
net material product
"new Soviet man"
"new thinking"
NKGB (Narodnyi komissariat gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti)
NKVD (Narodnyi komissariat vnutrennykh del)
nomenklatura
nonchernozem (nechernozem'e)
Novosti (Agentstvo pechati novosti)
nuclear war-fighting
oblast (pl., oblasts)
(OECD) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OGPU (Obedinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie)
Okhrana
okrug (pl., okruga)
Old Believers
Old Church Slavonic (also known as Church Slavonic)
opportunity cost
oprichnina
Pale of Settlement
party congress
party program
Party Rules (Ustav kommunisticheskoi partii Sovetskogo Soiuza)
passenger-kilometer
patriarch
peaceful coexistence
people's court
perestroika (restructuring)
permafrost
permanent revolution
Pioneer (Pioner)
Politburo
popular front
Pravda (Truth)
Presidium (of the Central Committee of the CPSU)
Presidium (of the Council of Ministers)
Presidium (of the Supreme Soviet)
primary party organization
procurator
proletarian internationalism
raion (pl., raiony)
readiness
Red Army
Red Terror
rehabilitation/rehabititated
repressed inflation
RSFSR (Rossiiskaia Sovetskaia Federativnaia Sotsialisticheskaia Respublika)
ruble
Rus'
Russian Empire
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Rossiiskaia sotsial- demokraticheskaia rabochaia partiia)
Russianization
Russification
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
samizdat
samofinansirovanie
sblizhenie
serf
Shia (or Shiite)
Slavophiles
sliianie
socialism/socialist
socialist countries
socialist internationalism
socialist legality
socialist property
socialist realism
soft-currency goods
soviet (sovet)
sovkhoz (pl., sovkhozy)
Spetsnaz (Voiska spetsial'nogo naznacheniia, meaning)
sputnik
SSR (sovetskaia sotsialisticheskaia respublika)
Stakhanovite
state farm (sovetskoe khoziaistvo--sovkhoz)
steppe
Sufism
Sunni
Table of Ranks
taiga
tamizdat
TASS (Telegrafnoe agentstvo Sovetskogo Soiuza)
territorial production complex (territorial'no proyvodstvennyi kompleks)
Time of Troubles
ton-kilometer
tons originated
transmission belt
Trans-Siberian Railway
trust (trest)
tundra
Turkestan
turnover tax
TVD (teatr voennykh deistvii)
Uniate Church
Unified Electrical Power System (Ob''edinennaia elektroenergeticheskaia sistema)
union republic
union-republic ministries
united front
uskorenie (acceleration)
USSR
Varangians
Vecheka (Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia komissiia po bor'be s kontrrevoliutsiei i sabotazhem--VChK)
virgin land campaign
voenkomat
Volga Germans
war communism
Warsaw Pact
Westernizers
White armies
World Bank
world socialist system
Yalta Conference
Young Octobrists (Oktiabriata)
zampolit (zamestitel' komandira po politicheskoi chasti)
zemskii sobor
zemstvo
Zhdanovshchina
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