Abbreviations and Acronyms

ASSR

Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

AUCP(B)

All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)

CC

Central Committee

CCP

Chinese Communist Party

CDU

Christian Democratic Union

CEC

Central Executive Committee (of Soviets)

CENTO

Central Treaty Organization

CER

Chinese Eastern Railway

Cheka

Extraordinary Commission for Combating Sabotage

and Counterrevolution (original name of the Soviet

secret police)

CMEA or Comecon

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

Comintern

Communist International

CP(B)U

Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine

CPA

Communist Party of Austria

CPD

Communist Party of Denmark

CPI

Communist Party of Indonesia

CPN

Communist Party of Norway

CPSU

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

FLN

National Liberation Front (of Algeria)

FRG

Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)

GDR

German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Gosplan

State Planning Commission

Gosstroi

State Committee for Construction

GPU

State Political Administration (Soviet secret police)

KGB

Committee for State Security (Soviet secret police)

Komsomol

Young Communist League

MFA

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MGB

Ministry of State Security (Soviet secret police)

MPR

Mongolian People’s Republic

MTS

Machine and Tractor Station

MVD

Ministry of Internal Affairs

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NKVD

People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (Soviet

secret police)