|
arshin
|
0.71
meters |
|
Baltflot
|
the
Baltic Fleet |
|
Cheka
|
the
secret police |
|
Gorkommuna
|
Town
Commune |
|
Gorprodkom
|
Town
Produce Committee |
|
Ispolkom
|
Executive
Committee |
|
Kadets
|
Constitutional
Democrats |
|
katorga
|
hard
labor prison regime |
|
makhorka
|
low
grade tobacco |
|
Narodniks
|
Populists |
|
Okhrana/Okhranka
|
tsarist
secret police |
|
Oprichnina
|
military
and administrative elite under Tsar Ivan IV ("The Terrible") |
|
Politotdels
|
Political
Departments |
|
politruk
|
head
of the politotdel |
|
pood
|
15.38
kilograms |
|
Rabkrin
|
Worker-Peasant
Inspection |
|
Raikoms
|
Regional
Committees |
|
Retroika
|
Revolutionary
Tribunal |
|
SR
|
Socialist
Revolutionary |
|
sazhen
|
2.134
meters |
|
Sevtsentropechat
|
North
Central Publishing |
|
spets
|
military
"specialist" formerly in the tsarist armed forces |
|
Uchkoms
|
District
Election Committees |
|
Uchredilka
|
(slang)
Constituent Assembly |
|
versta
|
1.06
kilometers |
|
zolotnik
|
about
4.65 grams |