The Great Break:

  • New Economic Policy (NEP)
  • smychka (“union”)
  • partiinost’
  • Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938)
  • “Permanent revolution”
  • “Socialism in one country”
  • kulak
  • kolkhoz (“collective farm”)

“Five in Four:”

  • GOELRO (State Electrification of Russia)
  • GosPlan
  • stroiki [EX: Magnitogorsk; Dnieprostroi]
  • propiska
  • Aleksei Stakhanov

Stalinist Culture, I: Literature & Film:

  • kul’turnost’
  • agitational trains (“agit-trains”)
  • Maksim Gor’kii
  • Socialist Realism
  • Positive Heroes
  • Chapaev (1934)
  • Ivan Bolshakov

Stalinist Culture, II: Art & Architecture:

  • icon
  • Andrei Rublev, “Holy Trinity”
  • Itinerants (or, “Wanderers”)
  • Il’ia Repin
  • Kuz’ma Petrov-Vodkin, “Petrograd in 1918” (aka “Petrograd Madonna”)

Daily Life:

Changes to Shopping vocabulary:

  • “Buy” (kupit’)
  • “Get hold of” (dostat’)
  • “Difficult to get hold of” (trudno dostat’)
  • “Deficit Goods” (defitsitnye tovary)

Other terms:

  • Avos’ka
  • Na levo (On the left)
  • Svyazi (Connections)
  • Blat (Pull)
  • Kommunalka (Communal apartment)

GULag:

  • katorga
  • concentration camp (konstlager)
  • Solovki
  • Naftaly Frenkel
  • GULag (Glavnoe upravlenie lagerei or, “Main Camp Administration”)
  • the “conveyor”
  • sharashka
  • Belomor (White Sea – Volga Canal)