Kadets Constitutional Democratic Party
kolkhoz collective farm
Komuch antiBolshevik government established in Samara during the summer of 1918; its full title was the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly
Krug Cossack assembly
kulak capitalist peasant (see here)
mir village commune
NEP New Economic Policy (1921–9)
obshchina peasant land commune
Octobrists liberal-conservative political party
pud measurement of weight, equivalent to 16.38 kg
SDs Social Democrats: Marxist party (known in full as the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party); split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions after 1903
skhod communal or village assembly
sovkhoz Soviet farm
SRs Socialist Revolutionaries: non-Marxist revolutionary party (PSR); split into Right and Left SRs during 1917
Stavka army headquarters
uezd district (subdivision of guberniia)
versta measurement of distance, equivalent to 0.66 miles
voisko Cossack self-governing community
volia freedom; autonomy
volost rural township and basic administrative unit usually comprising several villages
zemstvo elected assembly of local government dominated by the gentry at the provincial and district level (1864–1917); a volost-level zemstvo was finally established in 1917 but was soon supplanted by the Soviets.
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Archives in Russia
AG Gorky Archive, Institute of World Literature, Moscow
GAKO State Archive of Kuibyshev Oblast’
GARF State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow
GATO State Archive of Tambov Oblast’
GAVO State Archive of Voronezh Oblast’
IM Historical Museum, Moscow
RGAE Russian State Archive of the Economy, Moscow
RGIA Russian State Historical Archives, St Petersburg
RGVA Russian State Military Archive, Moscow
RGVIA Russian State Military History Archive, Moscow
RTsKhIDNI Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Most Recent History, Moscow
TsGALI Central State Archive of Literature and Art, Russia
TsGASP Central State Archive of St Petersburg
TsGAVMF Central State Archive of the Military Naval Fleet, St Petersburg
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Delo derevni
Den’
Izvestiia
Izvestiia gosudarstvennogo kontrolia
Izvestiia vserossiiskogo soveta krest’ianskikh deputatov
Kievskaia mysl’
Krasnaia armiia
Krasnaia byl’
Krasnaia gazeta
Krasnoarmeets
Narodnoe pravo
Narodnyi pisatel’
New York Times
Novaia zhizn’ [NZh]
Novoe vremia
Pamiat’
Petrogradskaia pravda
Poslednie novosti
Pravda
Pravitel’stvennyi vestnik
Proletarskaia revoliutsiia
Rabochii i soldat
Rus’
Russkie vedomosti
Sovetskaia Rossiia
The Times
Trud
Vekhi
Vestnik komiteta uchreditel’nogo sobraniia
Volia Rossii
Znamia truda
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