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by Gavan Tredoux


  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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