Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine • Terms and Abbreviations

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Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine
by Hryhory Kostiuk

published in the U. S. A. by
Frederick A. Praeger, Inc.
New York

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p. xiv Terms and Abbreviations

All‑Union CP(b)	All‑Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)
Borotbists	Members of the Ukrainian Communist Party (Borotbist)
Bundists	Members of the Jewish Social Democratic Workers' Party
CC	Central Committee
CCC	Central Control Commission
Cheka	Extraordinary Commission for the Suppression of Counterrevolution
CP(b)U	Communist Party (Bolshevik) of the Ukraine
CPSU	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CPWU	Communist Party of the Western Ukraine
DVU	Ukrainian State Publishing House
GPU	State Political Administration
Komnezamy	Committees of Poor Peasants
MTS	Machine-and‑Tractor Station
NKVD	People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs
NTS	National Labor Alliance
OGPU	Unified State Political Administration
POW	Polish Military Organization
Rabfak	Worker's Faculty
Russian CP(b)	Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)
SD	Social Democrat
SR	Social Revolutionary
SSR	Soviet Socialist Republic
SUM	Union of Ukrainian Youth
SVU	Union for the Liberation of the Ukraine
UCEC	Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
UCP	The Ukrainian Communist Party
UCP(b)	The Ukrainian Communist Party (Borotbist)
Ukapists	Members of the Ukrainian Communist Party
UkSSR	Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
UNTs	Ukrainian National Center
USSR	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
UVO	Ukrainian Military Organization
VUAMLIN	All‑Ukrainian Association of Marx and Lenin Institutes
VUSPP	All‑Ukrainian Society of Proletarian Writers
VUTsVK	All‑Ukrainian Central Executive Committee

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