Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War
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Cheka (or Vecheka): Chrezvychainaia Kommissiia (Extraordinary Commission), the original Soviet secret police, 1917–22; members of the secret police continued to be called Chekists even after 1922
Cominform: Communist Information Bureau, founded in 1947 as the successor to the Comintern
Comintern: Communist International organization, founded in 1919
GPU–OGPU: Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie (State Political Administration)–Obedinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie (Joint State Political Administration), the secret police, 1922–34
General Secretary: Stalin’s title as head of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, in fact, as head of government and leader of the country
Gulag: Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei (main camp administration), eventually in charge of Soviet concentration camps
Kremlin: A fortified series of buildings in Moscow; also, the official residence of the Soviet head of government; also, the Soviet government