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Shcherbakov, Aleksandr (1901–1945): colonel general; close associate of Stalin; held many important posts in the party and government, including that of head of the Red Army’s political administration.SR (Socialist Revolutionary): a member of the Socialist Revolutionaries, an important political party in early twentieth-century Russia. Its roots were in the earlier populist movement, and it enjoyed broad support among the peasantry. The party was essentially destroyed by the Bolsheviks during and after the Civil War. A “Combat Organization” within the party subscribed to terror as a political weapon and was responsible for assassinations of a number of high-ranking officials. This organization supported itself by “expropriations” in the form of bank robberies and blackmail.
Suslov, Mikhail (1902–1982): major Soviet political figure during the Cold War. He led the conservative resistance to Khrushchev’s reforms.
Telegin, Konstantin (1899–1981): lieutenant general, political officer; Zhukov’s deputy during his term as commander of Soviet occupation forces in Germany. In 1948 he was arrested for alleged corruption and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison but was rehabilitated after Stalin’s death.
Timoshenko, Semyon (1895–1970): marshal, close associate of Stalin. Although a competent commander, he suffered a serious defeat at the Second Battle of Kharkov and was removed from front-line command by Stalin.
Tukhachevsky, Mikhail (1893–1937): marshal and head of the Red Army from 1925 to 1928. He played a key role in the modernization of the Red Army in the 1930s but was arrested in May 1937 on charges of treason and espionage and executed in June of the same year.
Uborevich, Yeronim (1896–1937): former tsarist officer; held important commands during and after the Civil War. He fell victim to Stalin’s purges and was executed along with Tukhachevsky in June 1937.
Ulagai, Sergei (1875–1945): commander of a Kuban Cossack division that fought the Bolsheviks during the Civil War. In August 1920 he landed a large body of troops from the Crimea in the Kuban area in hopes of rallying the Kuban Cossacks against the Reds.
Ulbricht, Walter (1893–1973): first secretary of the East German Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971.
Vagranka (The Cupola Furnace): short-lived group of proletarian writers.
Vasilevsky, Aleksandr (1895–1977): former tsarist officer; one of the most effective Soviet commanders during World War II. He was chief of the general staff from 1942 to 1945.
Vatutin, Nikolai (1901–1944): military commander; served in many staff positions and led troops in the defense of Leningrad, the defense of Moscow, and the Battle of Stalingrad. He was fatally wounded in a clash with Ukrainian nationalist partisans.
Vlasov, Andrei (1900–1946): commander of the Soviet 2nd Shock Army. He was captured by the Germans in July 1942 and with their encouragement formed the Russian Liberation Army of several hundred thousand Soviet war prisoners to fight against Stalin. After the war ended he was kidnapped from Europe by Soviet troops and executed in Moscow in 1946.
Voronov, Nikolai (1899–1968): artillery specialist and marshal of artillery (1944).
Voronsky, Aleksandr (1884–1937): Marxist literary critic and theorist. Skeptical about the possibilities for a separate proletarian literature, he supported the Fellow Travelers, for which he was severely attacked by Marxist literary groups.
Voroshilov, Kliment (1881–1969): military commander and politician, close associate of Stalin. His leadership of Soviet troops during the Winter War with Finland (1939–1940) was disastrous, and his failure to prevent the Germans from surrounding Leningrad led to his replacement by Georgi Zhukov.
verst: from Russian versta, a pre-revolutionary unit of length, about 0.66 mile. Although abandoned when Russia adopted the metric system in 1917, it remained in popular usage long thereafter.
Vrangel (Wrangel), Pyotr (1878–1928): former officer in the tsarist army who commanded anti-Bolshevik (White) forces in southern Russia in the later stages of the Civil War.
Vuchetich, Yevgeny (1908–1974): Soviet sculptor, major representative of the socialist realist style, and specialist in military monuments.
A Week (Nedelya): early proletarian novel (1925) by Yury Libedinsky (1898–1959).
Workers’ Faculty (Rabfak): post-revolutionary institutions that prepared workers for study in institutes of higher education.
Yakir, Iona (1896–1937): Red Army commander. In the 1930s he worked closely with Mikhail Frunze to modernize the army. He was arrested in 1937 and executed along with Tukhachevsky.
Yeliseev: a luxurious food emporium, in operation in Moscow since 1898.
Yeryomenko, Andrei (1892–1970): general who held many important commands during World War II and who helped plan the defense of Stalingrad.
Young Pioneers: an organization for children ages ten to fifteen, formed in part to replace the scouting movement and instill Soviet values in its members. Virtually all children joined the movement.
Zinoviev, Grigory (1883–1936): Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician. He broke with Stalin in 1925, was arrested in 1934 and tried in 1935 and again in 1936.
Copyright © 2011 by the estate of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
“No Matter What” was translated by Stephan Solzhenitsyn. All other stories were translated by Kenneth Lantz.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008.
[Short stories. English. Selections]
Apricot jam, and other stories / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-582-43846-7
1. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008—Translations into English. 2. Soviet Union—
Fiction. 3. Russia (Federation)—Fiction. I. Title.
PG3488.O4A613 2011
891.73’44—dc22
2011012332
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