Abbreviation |
Organisation Name (English) |
Organisation Name (Original) |
Country |
State Security Agencies
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AVH |
State Protection Authority |
Államvédelmi Hatóság
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Hungary (formally merged into the Ministry of the Interior in 1953, abolished in 1956)
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DS |
(Committee for) State Security
|
(Komitet za) dǎržavna sigurnost
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Bulgaria |
KGB |
Committee for State Security |
Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti
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Soviet Union |
MBP |
Ministry of Public Security |
Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego
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Poland (to 1954) |
SB |
Security Service |
Służba Bezpieczeństwa |
Poland (from 1954) |
Securitate |
Department of State Security |
Departamentul Securității Statului
|
Romania |
Sigurimi |
Directorate of State Security |
Drejtoria e Sigurimit të Shtetit
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Albania |
Stasi |
Ministry for State Security |
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
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East Germany |
StB |
State Security |
Státní bezpečnost (Czech), Štátna bezpečnosť (Slovak) |
Czechoslovakia |
UB |
Office of Security |
Urząd Bezpieczeństwa |
Poland (to 1954) |
UDBA |
State Security Administration |
Služba državne sigurnosti, Služba državne bezbednosti |
Yugoslavia |
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International Organisations |
COMECON |
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance |
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Cominform |
Communist Information Bureau |
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NAM |
Non-Aligned Movement |
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Warsaw Pact |
Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance |
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WFDY |
World Federation of International Youth |
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WFTU |
World Federation of Trade Unions |
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WPC |
World Peace Council |
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Political Organisations |
Glavlit |
Main Administration for the Protection of Military and State Secrets in the Press |
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Soviet Union |
Gosplan |
State Planning Committee |
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Soviet Union |
MVD |
Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union |
|
Soviet Union |
Politburo |
Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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Soviet Union (equivalents existed in most other communist parties, usually under the name Political Committee) |
Presidium |
Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
|
Soviet Union |
Sovnarkom |
Council of People's Commissars |
Soviet narodnykh kommissarov
|
Soviet Union |
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Non-governing Political Parties and Organisations |
OF |
Fatherland Front |
Otečestven Front |
Bulgaria |
BZNS |
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union |
Bǎlgarski Zemedelski Naroden Sǎjuz |
Bulgaria |
ČSL
|
Czechoslovak People's Party |
Československá strana lidová |
Czechoslovakia |
ČSS |
Czechoslovak Socialist Party |
Československá strana socialistická |
Czechoslovakia |
SSO |
Party of Slovak Revival |
Strana slovenskej obrody |
Czechoslovakia |
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National Front |
Národní fronta/Národný front |
Czechoslovakia |
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Freedom Party (Slovakia) |
Strana slobody |
Czechoslovakia |
DBD |
Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany |
Demokratische Bauernpartei Deutschlands |
East Germany |
LDPD |
Liberal Democratic Party of Germany |
Liberal-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands |
East Germany |
NDPD |
National Democratic Party of Germany |
National-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands |
East Germany |
NF |
National Front (of the German Democratic Republic) |
Nationale Front (der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik) |
East Germany |
HNF |
Patriotic People's Front |
Hazafias Népfront |
Hungary |
FJN |
National Unity Front |
Front Jedności Narodu |
Poland |
SD |
Alliance of Democrats |
Stronnictwo Demokratyczne |
Poland |
ZSL |
United People's Party |
Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe |
Poland |
FDP |
People's Democratic Front |
Frontul Democrației Populare |
Romania |
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Youth Organisations |
ČSM |
Czechoslovak Youth Union |
Československý svaz mládeže |
Czechoslovakia (to 1968) |
SSM |
Socialist Youth Union |
Socialistický svaz mládeže |
Czechoslovakia (from 1968) |
PO SSM, Pionýr |
Pioneer Organisation of the Socialist Youth Union |
Pionýrská organizace Socialistického svazu mládeže |
Czechoslovakia |
DISZ |
Union of Working Youth |
Dolgozó Ifjúság Szövetsége |
Hungary (to 1957) |
KISZ |
Hungarian Young Communist League |
Magyar Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség |
Hungary (from 1957) |
FDJ |
Free German Youth |
Freie Deutsche Jugend |
East Germany |
Komsomol |
All-Union Leninist Young Communist League |
kommunisticheskiy soyuz molodyozhi |
Soviet Union |
Young Pioneers |
Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organisation |
Vsesoyuznaya pionerskaya organizatsiya imeni V. I. Lenina |
Soviet Union |
NOJ |
People's Youth of Yugoslavia |
Narodna omladina Jugoslavije |
Yugoslavia |
OP |
The Pioneers Organisation |
Organizata e Pionierëve |
Albania |
SNM |
Union of People's Youth |
soyuz na narodnata mladezh |
Bulgaria |
UTC |
Union of Communist Youth |
Uniunea Tineretului Comunist |
Romania |
ZMP |
Union of Polish Youth |
Związek Młodzieży Polskiej |
Poland |
ZHP |
Polish Scouting and Guiding Association |
Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego |
Poland |
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Other Organisations and Key Terms |
AND |
General German News Service |
Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst |
East Germany |
GSFG |
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany |
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Gulag |
Main Administration of Corrective Labour Camps |
Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerej |
Soviet Union |
Intourist |
Foreign Tourist |
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Soviet Union |
Kolkhoz |
Collective Farm |
kollektivnoye khozyaystvo (Russian) |
Eastern European Region |
MTI |
Hungarian News Agency |
Magyar Távirati Iroda |
Hungary |
MTS |
Machine and Tractor Station |
mashinno-traktornaya stantsiya (Russian) |
Eastern European Region |
PAX |
PAX Association |
Stowarzyszenie PAX |
Poland |
ROH |
Revolutionary Trade Union Movement |
Revoluční odborové hnutí |
Czechoslovakia |
Sovkhoz |
State farm |
sovetskoye khozyaystvo (Russian) |
Eastern European Region |
VOKS |
All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries |
Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo Kul'turnoi Sviazi s zagranitsei |
Soviet Union |