Glossary
Cheka
Chrezvychainaya komissiya; Extraordinary Comission against Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
FSB
Federalnaya sluzhba bezopasnosti, the Russian Federal Security Service
Gulag
from Glavnoe upravlenie lagerey (Main Camp Administration), the secret police division that managed the Soviet concentration camps
MONO
Moscow Department of National Education
Narkompros
Narodnyy komissariat prosveshcheniya; People's Commissariat of Education
NKVD
the People's Comissariat of Internal Affairs; secret police of the Soviet Union
OCO
Special Council of the NKVD which had judicial rights but had no authority to order death sentences
OGPU
Unified State Political Administration
Sovnarkom
Council of People's Comissars; theoretically the ruling government body, but in practice subordinate to the Politburo
Lettering: Live newspaper Pulse