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ABBREVIATIONS Agitprop Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Central Committee, All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) ARK Antireligious Commission of the Central Committee, AllRussian Communist Party (Bolshevik), also called the Commission for Separation of Church and State ASSR Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Cheka secret police, also known as VChK, (1917–1922) GAKO State Archive of the Kaluga Region GARF State Archive of the Russian Federation (formerly TsGAOR SSSR) GPU secret police (1922–1923) Kadet Constitutional Democrats (liberal political party, 1905– 1917) Komsomol Young Communist League NEP era of the New Economic Policy (1921–1928) NKIu People’s Commissariat of Justice NKID People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs NKVD People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs OGPU secret police (1923–1934) Orgburo Organization Bureau of the Central Committee, All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) Politburo Political Bureau of the Central Committee, All-Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) RGASPI Russian State Archive for Sociopolitical History (formerly the Central Party Archive and then RTsKhIDNI, Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Modern History) RGIA Russian State Historical Archive (formerly TsGIA SSSR) RSFSR Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic SODATs League of Communities of the Ancient Apostolic Church SOTsDNI Saratov Province Center for Documents of Modern History (formerly the Saratov Province Party Archive) Sovnarkom Council of People’s Commissars SR Socialist Revolutionary Party TsGAMO Central State Archive of the Moscow Region TsGA TASSR Central State Archive of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic TsGAIPD Central State Archive for the Study of Political Documents (formerly the Leningrad Party Archive) TsGIAgM Central State Historical Archive of the city of Moscow TsKhIDNIT Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Modern History, Tatarstan (formerly the Tatar ASSR Party Archive) TsMAM Central Municipal Archive of the city of Moscow VChK security police, also known as the Cheka (Civil War era) VIRA Voprosy istorii religii i ateizma [Questions of the History of Religion and Atheism] VTsIK All-Russian Central Executive Committee VTsS Supreme Church Soviet VTsU Supreme Church Administration ZhMP Zhurnal Moskovskoi Patriarkhii [Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate ] Archival abbreviations using the Russian system: f. fond [collection] op. opis’ [inventory] d. delo [file] l., ll. list, listy [leaf, leaves] ob. oborot [verso] xviii ABBREVIATIONS [3.133.109.211] Project MUSE (2024-04-18 22:08 GMT) red priests ...

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