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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