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xxvii Acronyms ABM Treaty Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty CFE Treaty Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ČSSR Czechoslovak Socialist Republic CDU/CSU Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union of Bavaria CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance COCOM Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls Comintern Communist International CPCz Communist Party of Czechoslovakia EC European Community FRg Federal Republic of germany gATT general Agreement on Tariffs and Trade gDR german Democratic Republic gosplan State Committee for Planning, USSR gRU Main Intelligence Directorate, Glavnoe Razvedyvatel’noe Upravlenie HPR Hungarian People’s Republic HSWP Hungarian Socialist Workers Party IMF International Monetary Fund INF Treaty Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty KgB Committee for State Security, Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti KNDR Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea Komsomol Communist Union of Youth, Kommunisticheskii Soyuz Molodezhi MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization PB Politburo PCC Political Consultative Committee PCI Communist Party of Italy, Partito Comunista d’Italia PDPA People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan PUWP Polish United Worker’s Party PRC People’s Republic of China PPR Polish People’s Republic RENAMO Mozambican National Resistance, Resistência Nacional Moçambicana SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Melyakova book.indb 27 2010.04.12. 16:20 xxviii SDI Strategic Defense Initiative SED Socialist Unity Party of germany, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands SFRY Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia SPD Social Democratic Party of germany, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands SRR Socialist Republic of Romania START Strategic Arms Reduction Talks STR Scientific-Technological Revolution TASS Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization WTO Warsaw Treaty Organization Melyakova book.indb 28 2010.04.12. 16:20 ...

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