Abbreviations and Explanatory Notes¶
This section provides a key to abbreviations and explanatory notes used throughout the volume. It decodes acronyms for key organisations and texts, including the Communist International (CI), the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), and the Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs). It also clarifies shorthand references to major works such as Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism and The Proletariat Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky. Practical notes cover the renaming of St Petersburg to Petrograd in 1914, the use of the old Julian calendar (13 days behind the Western calendar) for dates before 1 February 1918, and the formatting of original emphasis within quotations.