Carter, Jimmy, 26, 224, 291
Central Park adventure, 300–304
Chelyabinsk, 60–66
Chernobylsky, Boris, 210–212
Chernobylsky, Leah, 213
China, “cartographic aggression” of, 72–73
Chmykhalov family, 226–227
Christian Emigration Movement, 222–225, 259–260, 311
Christianity
anti-Christian prejudice in Starotitarovskaya, 235–239; Christian emigration movement, 222–225; documentation records, 265; Jews, relationship to, 195–197; prison discussions on, 28–30.
See also Evangelicals; Pentecostals
Chumikan, 195
Communist Party
AP’s membership in, 66, 123–128, 278; influence, extent of, 43; Latvian nationalists exposed, 96–97; Russians as members, 21–23; Stern as member, 138; visited Goretoi about voting, 253–255; Vlad S.’s alcoholism and money owed, 106–107
The Complete Works of Josef Stalin, 304–305
construction workers/church members, 255
Cossacks, 234–238
Criminal Code Article-227, 201, 244
Czechoslovakia, Soviet invasion, 102
Dalstroy (Remote Construction Sites), 104
Davidkovo, 97
Democratic Party National Convention, 291–292, 292
demonstrations, 12, 25–26, 128–129
Derbent, 177, 178, 180, 182–183
Derksen, Arnie, 313
Design Institute of Marine and Riverine Structures, 190–193
Doctors’ Plot (1952), 138
Dognat and Peregnat (Catch-Up and Overtake), 32
Dolgoruky, Yuri “Longhanded,” 179
Door of Hope International, 283, 310–312, 317
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 74
Elistratov, Victor, 116, 205–206, 205, 213, 226
Elkind, Isaac, 26, 205–206, 213
emigration considerations, 250, 252–253
Evangelicals
AP’s work for emigration rights, 220–226, 283, 307–310, 323; jail discussion about, 28–30; persecution of, 224; staying with AP, 195–197.
See also Goretoi, Nikolai Petrovich; Pentecostals
Evangelism to Communist Lands.
See Door of Hope International
Fascell, Dante, 280
Faust, Dr., 274–275, 279
Federal Security Service (FSB), 92
fifty somoni bill, Tajikistan, 69
Fishman, Yaakov, 121–122
five-year economic plans, 31–32
forced labor camps, 104
Ford, Gerald, 202–203
foreign correspondents, 81, 83, 167, 206–207, 232
Friendly, Alfred, Jr., 280
Fybish, Ira, 285–287
Galushkin, Alla, 336, 337
Galushkin, Nellie, 336, 337
Gerasimchuk family, 268
Geyvandov, Constantine, 84, 89, 90
Ghafurov, Bobojon Gahfurovich “Bobo,” 69, 69, 72–74
Ginsburg, Alexander, 233, 271, 341
Glendale, California, 312
Goldfarb, Alexander, 134
Gordievsky, Anna Andreevna, 337
Gordievsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich, 337
Goretoi, Enoch, 242, 248–249
Goretoi, Ilia, 239–241, 241
Goretoi, Nikolai Petrovich
with AP, 195–197, 237–238, 240, 241; arrested at American embassy, 225; Christian emigration movement, 222–225; exit visas offered for family only, 311; illegal sentencing, 240; in internal exile, 195; on persecution of Christians, 194, 198–201; released after embassy action, 228–229; re-sentenced to labor and exile, 249; sermonizing at church service, 244–245; visit from District Party Committee and KGB, 253–255
Goretoi, Valery, 336, 337
Goretoi, Victor, 251, 336, 337
Gotha, Oleg, 157
Grigorenko, Peter Grigorievich, 226, 290, 339
Grigorenko, Zinaida Mikhailovna, 339
Guinea Pigs (Berkovich), 119
Gurevich, Aharon, 213
Gvinter, Alexander, 213
H., Blahoslav, 299
H., Olga, 298–299, 310–311
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), 273, 275
Helsinki Human Rights Group, 258
“Ideology and Practice of Zionism,” 176
Ilisarov, Asaf, 177–178
Institute of Asia and Africa, 69
Institute of Oriental Studies, 92
Institute of the Peoples of Asia, 93–94
International Andrei Sakharov Human Rights Hearings (1979), 162, 269, 278–279
International Rescue Committee (IRC), 274–275
International Sakharov Hearings, 279
International symposium on magnetic resonance imaging, 340
Israel
emigration invitations from, 19, 122, 262; Netherlands Embassy and, 261; Six-Day War, 101
Jackson-Vanik Russian trade law amendment, 219–220
Jewish Center, Queens, 285–286
Jewish emigration allowed, 117
Jewish gold myth, 152–153
Jews
anti-Semitism in New York, 311–312; Christians, relationship to, 195–197; as international travelers, 270–271; Mountain Jews, 178, 180–181; plans to export from USSR, 97; Russian Jews’ Jewish values, 177.
See also refuseniks
Journalist, 341
Kallistratova, S. V., 339
Kandel, Felix, 26
Kaploon, Irina, 265–266
Karpovich, Cyril, 89
Kennedy, Edward, 291
KGB
actions with AP, 164–165, 173–175, 193, 216–220, 223, 261, 293–295; AP’s report on Dushanbe, 75; Asia and Africa Today correspondents, 81–84; in Berkovich trial, 188; “found” money in Ginsburg toilet, 271; Goretoi and, 243–244, 253–255; at Levinson profiteering trial, 170–171; “No-Face” (KGB agent), 267–269; presence in New York, 293; refuseniks as informers, 206; threats about emigration, 131–132; view of Christianity as gang, 200; visa sit-in beatings, 210–213; in Yukhananov trial, 184–185.
See also spies/spying
Khrushchev, Nikita, 21, 30, 32, 61, 69, 179
Kiev, Ukraine, 317–318
Koenig, Franz, 278
Kolesnichenko, Svetlana, 293–294, 297–298
Kolesnichenko, Tom
at 1966 New Year’s Eve party, 84–87; in Angola, 91; with AP at Asia and Africa Today, 67–68; on AP’s desire to emigrate, 111; on AP’s marriage ending, 98–99; conversations with “Supreme Military Council,” 42–46; Russian offical image after death, 298; as loved friend, 93, 292–297; as Pravda correspondent in New York, 292–294, 297; sent to Czechoslovakia, 103; tried to persuade AP not to emigrate, 130–131
Kolyma Territory, 104
Korenfeld family, 118
Korzhavin, Naum, 279
Kostroma, 36, 40
Koval, Colonel, 155
Krachenko, Vitaly, 152
Krasnodasky Territory, 194–195
Kremen, Michael, 205, 213
Krivoruchko, Gregory, 138, 145
Kudryavtsev, Victor, 84–85
Kunitsa, Nikolai, 222, 263, 264, 271, 290
Kurgantsev, Michael, 74
Kwachevsky, Lev, 274, 276
Laane, Nickolas, 95–96
Laktionov (judge), 157
Landa, Alexei, 229, 231
Landa, Malva, 198, 229, 230, 271
Lasaris, Vladimir, 134, 136
Latvian nationalists exposed in newspaper, 96–97
Lefortovo prison, 216–220
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 25
Lenin’s Banner (regional newspaper), 42
Levinson, Sender, 165–171
The Life of the Blind (magazine), AP as journalist for, 44, 44–66
Ligachev, Yegor, 80
Lipavsky, Alexander “Saniya,” (KGB provacateur), 179–180, 214
Literaturnaya Gazeta (Literary Gazette), 36, 290–291, 324
Litvinov, Lucy, 185�
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Mager, Mike, 152–153
Mamlakat, 76
Maria (AP’s sister), 113–115, 125
Markevich (Rabotnitsa editor), 36–37
Matyash, Daniel, 336, 337
Matyash, Elena, 336, 337
Matyash, Olga, 228–229, 336, 337
McWhirter, Norris, 341
McWhirter, widow of Ross, 341
Meiman, N. N., 339
Melnechuk, Petr Alexeevich, 337
Melnechuk, Sofia Petrovna, 337
Michael, Kremen, 25
Mikhailovna, Zinaida, 226
Mnyukh, Yuri, 263, 265, 272
Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, 226, 233
Moscow Komsomolets (youth newspaper), 41
Moscow-Helsinki Group Document #23, 259–260
Nakhodka, 197–200, 204, 239, 242
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 101
Natasha’s self-blinding offer to American communists, 104
National Review, 287
Nekrasov, Vadim, 99–100
Netherlands Embassy, 260–261
Nigeria, Geyvandov as correspondent to, 84
Nikolaevna, Varvara, 238–239, 241–243, 241, 245–246
Nixon, Richard, Chelyabinsk visit cancelled, 61–62
NKVD. See KGB
“No-Face” (KGB agent), 267–269
Novosibirsk, Siberia, 56–59, 104–105
Novosti Press Agency (APN), 105
Nyerere, Julius, 82
Odessa, AP in, 173
Odessa in America, 282
Orlovsky, Vasily, 137–139, 146–149, 154, 156, 157, 159–160
Overchuk, Hanna, 141–144
Overchuk, Ivan, 142
Overchuk, Victor, 143–144
Patrushev, Vasyli, 202
Pentecostal World Conference, 306–310
Pentecostals
American embassy asylum for, 226–227; Cossack’s view of, 235–238; Pentecostal family from Ukraine, 337; Pentecostal Tabernacle, 314–316; persecution of, 239–241.
See also Evangelicals; Goretoi, Nikolai Petrovich; Sidenko, Feodor
People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD), 65n1
Pharaoh, Let My People Go (Polishchuk), 311, 330–335
Pishchenko, Anatoly, 336, 337
Pishchenko, Klava, 242
Pishchenko, Nick, 308–309
Pishchenko, Valya, 336, 337
Pishchenko, Vladimir, 336
Podrabinek, Alexander, 263
Podrabinek, Alexander P., 339
Polishchuk, Arkady
as agriculture journalist, 39–40; allowed into U.S. from Vienna, 280; authored satire piece, 23; Berkovich trial for unpaid wages, 187–190; “The Black Mark of Apartheid,” 341; in Butyrskaya prison, 11–34, 212; Central Park adventure, 300–304; Christianity, learning about and discussing, 195–197; Communist Party membership, 39, 66, 123–128; at Democratic National Convention, 292; departure activities, 262–264, 266–267; detained during Stern trial, 154–155; at Door of Hope International, 313, 317; emigration preparations, 123–125; escaped summons to Visa Office, 232; expired visa, 260–261, 261; false story of mishandled Evangelical money, 290–291; family members killed in Kiev, 317–318; farewell to mother, 264, 266; fasting at Pentecostal Conference, 307–310, 308; on friendship, 297–298; in Glendale, California, 312; with Goretoi, 240, 241; grandmother’s fate, 252; homesickness for Russian friends, 325–326; ice dancing, 109–110; injuries after police attack, 211; inquiries into emigration, 116; jailed after Brezhnev Reception Room demonstration, 11–34; KGB interactions, 40–41, 118–121, 131–132, 193, 216–220, 261; with Kremen and Elistratov, 205; language adventures, 314–316; learning American customs and language, 281–286; at Levinson profiteering trial, 165–171; in Life magazine, 283; on Literary Gazette staff in Kostroma, 36–37; living with parents, 37; living with Shvartsmans, 320–321; marriage ended, 98–99; matchmaking for, 284–285; attending McWhirter Human Rights Foundation Award ceremony, London, 341; at Monino Military Academy, 90; Nikolaevna, conversation with, 246–248; in Odessa, 173–176; participant in Brezhnev’s Reception Room demonstration, 213; at Pentecostal Tabernacle in British Columbia, 314–315; Pharaoh, Let My People Go excerpts, 330; with Pravda magazine, 98–100, 108–109; on prison release, 35; questioned and detained by police, 227–228; on RCDA editorial staff, 299, 310; reluctance to toast Brezhnev, 84–85; reunion with Kolesnichenko, 292–298; Sakharov, failed interview with, 340; in Santa Monica, 323; on socialism, 323–324; solitary confinement threat, 33–34; as Soviet Militia journalist, 46; in Starotitarovskaya, 237–258; at Stern trial, 134; stolen ballot, 110–111; strip-search on train, 160; in Sweden, 323; on Takik television, 75; telephone disconnected, 164; on theft attitudes, 283–284; thoughts of mother and family, 312–314; thoughts on flight to Vienna, 270–272; travel to underground churches, 232–233; in Vienna, 272–274; Why a Physician Was Tried, 161–162, 163; as Zionist, 86–87, 115, 119, 188
Polishchuk, Irina, 43, 78, 98–99
Polyakov, Nikolai Nikolayevich “Nik-Nik,” 67–68, 73–75, 95–96, 97, 105–106
poplin profiteering trial, 165–171
Popov, Paul, 306, 309–310, 316
Pravda (newspaper), 22, 70–71, 76, 98–100, 100, 108–109, 157
Primakov, Yevgeny, 71, 84–87, 87, 88, 88n1, 92, 101, 294–295, 298
pripiski (exaggerated results and fake reports), 118–119
Putin, Vladimir, 87
Rabotnitsa (Working Woman magazine), 36
Rachlenko, Arik, 213
Radio Liberty, 25, 294, 340, 350
Rashidov, Sharaf, 77–78, 80
refuseniks
American financial support for, 166; AP as journalist for, 125; arrests of, 118, 121; Brezhnev’s Reception Room demonstration participants, 12, 204–209, 211, 213; protests by, 128; as KGB informers, 206; at Moscow synagogue, 116–117, 194; police attack, 209–211, 213; poverty of, 173; Stern trial and, 134, 140, 152–153, 156–157; tailed by KGB, 215; Western support, rumors of, 166
Religion in Communist Dominated Areas (RCDA), 299
Research Center for Religion and Human Rights in Communist Dominated Areas, 299
Roitburd, Leo, 171, 173, 176
Rovno, Ukraine, 222
Rusinovo, 47–56
Russian Christian signatories on emigration petition, 329, 338
Russian dissidents in New York, 290–291
S., Vlad, 75, 90, 95, 106–107
Sakharov, Andrei D.
at activist’s birthday party, 339; AP consulted about Christian emigration, 258; atomic bomb development, 278–279; with Bonner and Mnukh, 265; with Bonner and Sharansky, 230; Christian emigration movement, 258; death, 340; in exile, 298; at International Sakharov Hearings, 279; Landa apartment-fire trial involvement, 198, 229, 231; at magnetic resonance symposium, 340
Sapozhnikov, Boris, 72–73
satirical pieces, 23, 36–37, 41, 71
Savelyev, Vladimir, 89, 93–95
Seytmuratova, Aishe, 292
Shabashov, Leonid, 213
Shakhnovsky, Vladimir (Zeev), 213
Sharansky, Anatoly (Natan), 121–122, 131, 160–161, 164–165, 213, 213–215, 230, 233
Shchukin, Vera, 244
Shchukina, Nadezhda “Nadia,” 336, 337
Shereshevsky, Valentine, 165–166, 168
Shriglik, Dmirti, 213
Shvartsman, Arkady, 317–318, 319
Shvartsman, Faina, 317–318, 319, 321–322
Shvartsman, Oscar, 321–322
Sidenko, Feodor, 194, 196–203, 239–240, 271
Simon (AP’s brother-in-law), 113–115, 125
Six-Day War, 101
Slepak, Vladimir, 121, 122, 205, 206–207, 213
Snegiryov, Gennady “Gena,” 43, 71, 112, 324–326
Solyanov, Fred, 43, 102, 112, 264, 325–326
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 89
The Soviet Militia (police magazine), 46
speaking in tongues, 250, 314–316
spie
s/spying, 75, 81–84, 89, 92, 236
Stalin, Josef, 30, 86
Stalingrad war casualties, 318
Starotitarovskaya, 233–234, 235–239, 244–246, 249, 251, 253–258, 255
Stepanov, Vladimir, 228–229
Stern, August, 136, 159
Stern, Ida, 135, 159
Stern, Mikhail, 134, 137–138, 148–149, 153–155, 158–160, 161
Stern, Victor, 136, 148–149, 154–155
Supreme Military Council, 42–45
Sushko, Mikhail, 144–147
Swedish Slaviska Mission, 323
Tanzania, Biryukov in, 81–83
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 77–79
TASS, Jews on staff, 37–38
Tatars, 96, 108–109, 292
Tats as Jews, 177–178
Temryuk, 234–238
Tesker, Zakhar, 210, 213
Thorne, Lyudmila “Lucy,” 281–282, 304–305
Timchenko, Ivan, 156
Tolstoy, Leo, 132–133
Tsypin, Leonid (KGB informer), 211, 213
Tufeld, Igor, 213
Turchin, Valentin, 269, 279
Turchina, Tatyana, 279
Tuvan hunters, 43–44
Twelfth Pentecostal World Conference, 306–309
Uldzhabaev, Tursun, 76–77
V., Boris, 276–277
Vance, Cyrus, 280
Vavilina, Valentina, 36–37
Velikanova, N. A., 339
Velikanova, Tatiana, 274
Verbitsky, Simon, 71–73, 90, 106, 121, 167
Victor, Elistratov, 25
Vienna, Austria, 272–280
Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 134–135
Visa Office summons, 232, 260
visa sit-in beatings, 210–213
Vushchenko family, 226–227
Vushchenko-Chmykhalov families, 333
Why a Physician Was Tried (Polishchuk), 161–162, 163
women of the forest essay, 36
Yakovlev, Yegor, 41–42, 341
Yarim-Agaev, Yuri, 292
Yukhananov, Yuri, 177–187
Zelinii (refusnik), 213
Zheludkov, S. A., 339
Zhukov, Vladimir, 103–106
Zhurkin, Vitaly, 84–85
Zilberstein, Boris, 289
Zilberstein, Lucy, 289
Zimmerman, Thomas, 306–307
Zionism/Zionists
AP as, 86–87, 115, 119, 188; “Ideology and Practice of Zionism,” 176; interrogations by KGB, 127, 216; Sharansky as, 214; Stern trial and, 162; “world Zionism,” 170
Zlobin, Nahl, 43, 46, 112, 263
Zorin, Valentin, 84–85, 87
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