Soviet War News Film Agency, 133
Soyfer, Valery, 188
Spanish Civil War, 46–60, 93, 154
Spanish Earth (film), 60
Spectator, 187
Spender, Stephen, 59
Spiegelman, Sol, 357n95
Spratt, Philip, 29
Sprunt, Alexander Dalzell, 17, 340n27
Spurway, Helen (second wife): affairs and, 220; animal behavior research and, 219, 221–222, 227; emigration to India, 226; Indian Statistical Institute and, 229; newts and, 196; police dog incident, 223–224; relationship with Haldane, 61, 99, 193, 218; submarine testing and, 113; trip to Russia, 121. See also Haldane, Charlotte (first wife)
Spycatcher (Wright), 101
Stalin, Joseph, 58, 69, 74, 76, 88, 92, 131; death of, 132, 189; Doctors’ Plot and, 132; eugenics and, 79–80, 346n32; Haldane and, 156–157, 238; Lysenko and, 83, 175; Second World War and, 92–93; Spanish Civil War and, 53; VENONA and, 104
“Stalin as a Scientist” (Bernal), 189
Stalin Peace Prize, 189
Stasi, 115
Statistical Methods for Research Workers (Fisher), 145
Stern, Lina Solomonovna, 36, 129–132
stick-bombing, 113
Strachey, Lytton, 22
Strand Magazine, 41
submarines, 108, 112–113
Sudoplantov, Pavel, 127
Suez Crisis of 1956, 225
Swedish intelligence, 104
Sylvester, James Joseph, 10
Thälmann, Ernst, 54
39 Steps, The (film), 25
Thompson, E. P., 237
timber exports, 236
Time magazine, 139
Times, The (London), 236
Timofeev-Ressovsky, Nikolay, 79, 85, 164, 347n41, 353n10
Tinbergen, Niko, 219–220
Tirpitz (ship), 113
Tolstoy, Aleksandra, 78
Torr, Dona, 68
Towndrow, M. B., 116
Trinity College, 23, 29, 285–286. See also Cambridge
Trotsky, Leon, 25, 234
Trotter, Coutts (grandfather), 10
Truman, Harry, 103–104
Truth Will Out (C. Haldane), 60
twin studies, 78–80. See also eugenics
UCL (University College London), 1, 6, 43, 110, 218, 225, 230, 294–295
Ultra project, 109–110
United Kingdom, 102, 104. See also Britain
United States, 74, 102–104, 153
University of California, Berkeley, 43
University of Moscow, 139
University of Texas, 80
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 188
Varley, C. H., 113
VASKhNIL (Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences), 83, 85–88, 131, 163, 175–176, ix
Vavilov, Nikolai, 33–34, 51, 76, 82–88, 121–125, 126, 173, 209
VENONA, ix, 8, 101–110, 314–329. See also embassy communications
Venona (Allason), 104
vernalization, 81–82, 123, 161–164, 168, 170, 185–186, 201
Vernalization (journal), 82
VOKS (All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries), 33, 35
Weaver, Harriet Shaw, 347n14
Weisband, William, 104
Wells, H. G., 177
Werner, Ruth. See K2ynski, Ursula
West, Nigel, 104–105
“Why I am [a] Cooperator” (Haldane), 244–98
Wiener, Norbert, 41, 57, 238
Wilkinson, “Red Ellen,” 25, 111–112
Wilson, James Thomas, 41
Winge, Øjvind, 357n95
Women in Love (Lawrence), 22
Woolf, Barnet, 29, 45, 143–148
Woolf, Leonard, 95
Woolf, Virginia, 22
Workers Gazette, The, 141
World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace, 151, 176
World War I, 17–20
World War II, 89–94, 96–99
Wright, Peter, 101, 104
Wright, Sewall, 43, 213
Wyatt, Woodrow, 11
X-3. See submarines
X-craft. See submarines
X Group, 8, 26, 102, 104–107, 109–110, 118–120, 195, 238, 348n7
YMCA, 40–41
Younger Son (Montagu), 156
Zhdanov, Andrei, 175
Zhdanov, Yury, 175–176
Zhebrak, Anton, 171, 174
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