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Glossary  artel cooperative system in which the communal element is confined to marketing and does not extend to production. An artel can be devoted to either agricultural work or light industry. bedniaks poor peasants cenobitic communal model of the Egyptian ascetic Pachomius chistka purge desiatina land measurement equal to . acres GAKO State Archive of Kaluga Oblast GAMO State Archive of Moscow Oblast GARF State Archive of the Russian Federation GPU acronym for Chief Political Administration (the secret police agency formed after the civil war) guberniia province hesychasm prayer of the heart igumen superior (of a monastery) klobuk a hat with a veil attached given to a monastic kolkhoz a communal farm where workers pooled their land and resourcesand marketed the produce collectively Komsomol the All-Union Leninist Communist Union of Youth krasnii ugol beautiful corner krasnii red krestian peasant kulak See chapter , note , for discussion lavra originally, a large community of monks. Now, a large monastery of any kind lichnyi personal lishenets (plural lishentsy) person deprived of citizenship mera (plural meri) unit of agricultural measurement NARKOMIUST People’s Commissariat of Justice narodniki those who demonstrated on behalf of the peasants nastaitel dean oblast region obnovlentsy renovationist obshchestvennost the emerging social identity of the educated, propertied , urban middle strata Philokalia a collection of mystical, ascetic texts from ancient Christian tradition podvorye diocesan inns pud measure of weight approximately equal to  pounds or . kilograms rassaphore second stage of Orthodox monasticism schema final stage of entry into monasticism skete a small community of from three to ten monks or nuns skhod village assembly sobor church council sovdep Soviet of Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants’ Deputies soviet village council sovkhoz a state-owned farm that practiced large-scale agriculture. The workers were paid wages by the state. sredniaks middle peasants starchestvo tradition of Othodox eldership starets/staritsa an older monk or nun who is highly regarded for spiritual wisdom symphonia partnership between church and state trapeze refectory uezd district volost village district or county VTsIK the all-Russian central executive committee Zemotdel land department zhenskie obshchiny women’s communities  +  ...

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