p The translation has been made from the second Russian edition produced by the Political Literature Publishers (Moscow) in 1981.

The Dictionary entries are printed in heavy-faced type, are arranged in alphabetical order and are in essay form. References to books and cross-references are given in italics. Where additional information on related subjects is supplied elsewhere in the Dictionary, cross-references are preceded by the word “see”. References to works by classics of Marxism-Leninism are made to Collected Works of K. Marx and F. Engels and to Collected Works by V. I. Lenin and their individual works put out by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in English, unless otherwise indicated.