Various kinds of Soviet committees
Robert Chandler
kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM
Sun May 11 14:52:12 UTC 2008
Dear all,
Vasily Grossman has a penchant for long lists, like the following:
и сотни тысяч людей -
крестьян, рабочих, мастеровых, студентов, молодежь из вологодских деревень и
еврейских местечек - стали заправлять в ревкомах, в уездных и губернских
чрезвычайных комиссиях, в укомах, в совнархозах, утопах, губпродкомах,
политпросветах, в комбедах.
I’ve worked out most of it, but my abbreviations dictionary does not include
‘utop’. Can anyone help? Nor am I entirely sure of ‘politprosvet’ - should
I translate it as ‘political enlightenment committee’?
Is a ‘uezd’ subordinate to a ‘guberniya’ much the same as a ‘raion’ is
subordinate to an ‘oblast’’?
Vsego dobrogo,
R.
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