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| AGITPROP Agitation and Propaganda / Agitats i propaganda. Colloquial for Department of Agitation and Propaganda in the Central Committee and local committees of the Communist party until 1934. AKhRR Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, AKhRR (Assotsiatsiya khudozhnikov revoliutsionnoi Rossii). Founded 1922, changed name to Association of Artists of the Revolution in 1928. Disbanded 1932. ASNOVA Association of New Architects / Assotsiatsiya novykh arkhitektorov. Registered in 1923., split in 1928. COMINTERN Communist International / Kommunisticheskii internatsional. 1919–1943. GINKhUK State Institute of Artistic Culture / Gosudarstvennyi institut khudozhestvennoi kultury. It was located in Petrograd / Leningrad, originally within the Museum of Artistic Culture there. Formally authorised in 1924. GITIS A. V. Lunacharskii State Institute of Theatrical Art of the Order of the Labour Red Banner / Gosudarstvennyi ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni institut teatralnogo iskusstva imeni A. V. Lunacharcheskogo. Founded 1922. GLAVNAUKA State Administration for the Arts / Glavnoe upravlenie nauchnym nauchno-khudozhestvennymi, muzeinymi i po okhrane prirody uchrezhdeniiami. 1921–1930. GUVUZ Main Administration of Higher and Secondary Pedagogical Institutions / Glavnoe upravlenie vysshikh i srednykh pedagogicheskikh uchebnykh zavedenii. GVYRM State Higher Directors' Workshop / Gosudarstvennye vysshie rezhisserskie masterskie. 1921–1922 when merged with GITIS. GVYTM State Higher Theatre Workshop / Gosudorstvennye vysshie teatralnye masterskie. 1921–1922 when merged with GITIS. InKhUK Institute of Artistic Culture, InKhUK / Institut khudozhestvennoi kultury. It was located in Moscow and linked to the Museum of Artistic Culture there. Founded May 1920. IZO Department of Visual (or Plastic) Arts, Otdel izobrazitelnykh iskusstv. It was the arts section within the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment, Narkompros. Founded 1918. KOMFUT Communists-Futurists / Kommunisty-futuristy. Founded by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1918. LEF Left Front of the Arts / Levyi front iskusstv. 1922–1928. NARKOMPROS People's Commissariat of Enlightenment / Narodnyi komissariat prosveshcheniia. It replaced the former Ministry of Culture. Anatolii Lunacharsky was the first Commissar in 1918, resigning under pressure in September 1929. NEP New Economic Policy / Novaia ekonomicheskaia politika. Set up in May 1921. OBMOKhU Society of Young Artists / Obshchestvo molodykh khudozhnikov. 1919–1923 . OST Society of Painters / Obshchestvo stankovistov. 1925–1931. PROLETKULT Proletarian Culture / Proletarskaia kul'tura. 1917–1932. PROUN Project for the Affirmation of the New / Proekt utverzhdeniia novogo. 1919-mid-1920s. RAKhN Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences / Rossiiskaia Akademiia khudozhestvennykh nauk. Established October 1921 in Moscow. Became GAKhN after 1925: State Academy of Artistic Sciences / Gosudarstvennaia akademiia khudozhestvennykh nauk.. Closed 1931. RAPKh Russian Association of Proletarian Artists / Rossiskaia assotsiatsiia proletarskikh khudozhnikov. May 1931–1932. RAPP Russian Association of Proletarian Writers / Rossiskaia assotsiatsiia proletarskikh pisatelei. 1925–1932. ROSTA Russian Telegraphic Agency / Rossiiskoe telegrafnoe agentstvo. RSFSR Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic / Rossiiskaia Sovetskaia Federativnaia Sotsialisticheskaia Respublika. 1917–1991. SVOMAS State Free Art Studios / Svobodnye gosudarstvenne khudozhestvenne masterskie. Founded 1918. Transformed into VKhUTEMAS in 1920. UNOVIS Affirmers of the New Art / Utverditeli novogo iskusstva. Vitebsk, 1920–1922. USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik. 20 December 1922–1991. VKhUTEIN Highter State Artistic and Technical Institute / Vysshi gosudarstvennyi khudozhestvenno-tekhnicheskii institut. 1926–1932. VKhUTEMAS Higher State Artistic and Technical Workshops / Vysshie gosudarstvennye khudozhestvenno-tekhnicheskie masterskie. Founded 1920. Replaced by VKhUTEIN in 1926. VOKS All-Union Society for Foreign Cultural Contacts / Vsesoyuznoe obshchestvo rultumykh svyazei s zagranitsei. 1925–1958. ZORVED See-Know / Zorkoe vedanie (literally, sharp-sighted knowledge). 1923–1926. |
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