Abbreviations
- AB
Anti-Bolshevik
- ARM
Anti-Rightist Movement
- CAC
Cyber Administration of China
- CAS
Chinese Academy of Sciences
- CASS
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- CBE
Commune-Brigade Enterprise
- CCP
Chinese Communist Party
- CDL
China Democratic League
- CEC
Central Executive Committee
- CEE
Central Eastern Europe
- Comintern
Communist International
- CPC
Council of People’s Commissars
- CPPCC
Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference
- CPSU
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- CR
Cultural Revolution
- CRG
Cultural Revolution Group
- CRP
Chinese Revolutionary Party
- DPP
Democratic Progressive Party
- EU
European Union
- FCA
Friends of the Constitution Association
- FSU-EE
Former Soviet Union and Eastern European Countries
- GAC
Government Affairs Council
- GDP
Gross Domestic Product
- GLF
Great Leap Forward
- Gosplan
State Planning Committee
- GPU
State Political Directorate (Soviet)
- GUGB
Main Directorate of State Security (Soviet Union)
- HRE
Holy Roman Empire
- IPO
Initial Public Offering
- KGB
Committee for State Security (Soviet Union)
- KMT
Kuomintang
- KSC
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
- NEP
New Economic Policy
- NGO
Nongovernmental Organization
- NKVD
People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Soviet)
- NPC
National People’s Congress
- NRA
National Revolutionary Army
- OGPU
Joint State Political Directorate (Soviet Union)
- PBOC
People’s Bank of China
- PLA
People’s Liberation Army
- PRC
People’s Republic of China
- PUWP
Polish United Workers’ Party
- RADT
Regionally Administered Totalitarianism
- RCP
Russian Communist Party
- RDA
Regionally Decentralized Authoritarianism
- ROC
Republic of China
- RPL
Railway Protection League
- RPM
Railway Protection Movement
- RSDLP
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
- RUC
Renmin University of China
- SAMR
State Administration for Market Regulation
- SASAC
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission
- SBC
Soft Budget Constraint
- SDP
Social Democratic Party of Germany
- SEZ
Special Economic Zone
- SME
Small and Medium-sized Enterprise
- SOE
State-Owned Enterprise
- SPQR
Senatus Populusque Romanus (The Senate and the Roman People)
- SR
Socialist Revolutionary (Party)
- TFP
Total Factor Productivity
- TVE
Township Village Enterprise
- UFWD
United Front Work Department
- URW
Union of Railway Workers
- USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- WTO
World Trade Organization
