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  Orekhov, Vladimir, 385, 988

  Orekhova, Elizaveta Ermolaevna, 499, 988

  orphanages, 801, 899

  Orthodox Church, 19, 94–95, 524

  Osepian, Gaik Aleksandrovich, 873

  Osepian, Vladimir (“Vova”), 873–74, 920

  Osinskaia (Filatova), Nadezhda Dmitrievna (“Dina”), 804–6, 830–31, 989

  Osinskaia (Obolenskaia), Svetlana Valerianovna: apartments of, 748, 989; on A. Sverdlov, 886; education of, 890; family life of, 547–48, 653–54; father’s arrest and, 804–6; photographs of, 653–54, 804, 806, 890, 895, 899, 904; post-arrests life of, 806, 828, 830–31, 894, 898, 900–904, 921, 927; reading habits of, 514; on Soviet youth, 656; on Stalin’s death, 934

  Osinsky, Ilya, 805–6, 989

  Osinsky, Vadim (“Dima”), 67, 251, 253, 304, 653, 670, 748–49, 804–5, 830–31, 885, 943, 989

  Osinsky, Valerian (“Valia”): apartments of, 748, 989; childhood of, 261, 654, 668–70; education of, 890; father’s arrest and, 804; photographs of, 653, 670, 895–96, 898; post-arrests life of, 806, 828, 830–31, 894–98, 943; war with Germany and, 920–21

  Osinsky (Obolensky), Valerian Valerianovich: apartments of, 147, 253, 440, 488, 748, 988–89; arrest/interrogation/trial/execution of, 741–43, 749–50, 804–7, 845–47; clothing styles of, 498; dacha stays of, 547–48; on disciplining the faithful, 294, 301–4, 307–8; documentary sources on, xiii; government assignments of, 185, 252, 308, 426, 440; kinship patronage and, 554; on Lenin, 213; letter to Stalin from, 301–4, 722–23; love/faith/revolution and, 66–68, 75, 251, 750–51, 943, 951; marriages/lovers/family life of, 251–54, 261, 555, 560, 622, 646, 749; millenarian outlook of, 150; on peasants and bourgeoisie, 135, 151; photographs of, 24, 66, 252, 742, 804; political awakening of, 24, 29, 31–32; in prison, 44; public holidays and, 531, 533–34; reading and study by, 279, 509, 514, 542–43; rest home stays of, 542–43; return from exile of, 126; work schedules of, 497

  Osten (Gresshöner), Maria, 382, 560, 602–6, 855–56, 986; Hubert in Wonderland, 511–12, 528–29, 603–5, 652

  Ostroumova, Valentina Petrovna, 801, 870, 989

  Ostrovsky, A. N.: The Forest, 396

  Ostrovsky, Nikolai, 640–41; How the Steel Was Tempered, 510, 641–44, 657, 954

  Ottawa (Canada), 587

  Otto, Adolf, 150

  Owen, Robert, 106, 583

  Ozerskaia, Maria (Mirra), 500

  Ozersky, Aleksandr Vladimirovich, 488, 622, 657, 989

  Ozersky, Vladimir, 657, 989

  Pakhomov, N. I., 617, 813

  Palace of Soviets, 357–62, 390, 408–9, 582, 585, 589, 946; designs for, 358, 360–61, 363

  Panferov, F.: Bruski, 448

  Paris (France), 586, 596

  Pastanogov, K. K., 765

  Pasternak, Aleksandr, 337–39, 346

  Pasternak, Boris, 242, 245, 247, 281

  patriotism, 25, 592–96, 848; Komsomol “honor” as, 906; “Party,” 289

  Paul (disciple of Jesus), 85, 210, 275, 953

  Pavlunovsky, Ivan, 791–92

  Pazder, Lawrence, 707, 753

  peasants, 14–15, 19, 135, 151, 292–93, 422, 455–56

  Pentagon (Washington, D.C.), 589–90

  Pentecostals, 98–99

  Perelman, Evgenia. See Zbarskaia (Perelman), Evgenia

  Pertsov, V., 639

  Peshkov, Zinovy, 147, 885

  Peshkova, Elizaveta, 886

  Peter (disciple of Jesus), 86–87, 711–13

  Peters, Antonina Zakharovna, 935–36

  Peters, Igor, 880–81, 935

  Peterson, Maria Stepanovna, 499–500, 926–28, 932–33, 989

  Peterson, Marina, 927, 989

  Peterson, Maya, 525, 926–29, 932–33, 989

  Peterson, Rudolf Avgustovich (Rūdolfs Petersons), 489, 491, 525, 774, 989

  Petriaevskaia, Nadezhda (“Nadia”), 556–58

  Petrov, Evgeny, 234, 603; The Golden Calf, 362–63, 365, 374; “How Robinson Was Created,” 613–14, 643

  Petrovsky, Daniil Ivanovich, 543, 545

  Petrovsky, Grigory Ivanovich, 44, 54, 425, 437, 939, 989

  Petrovsky, Leonid, 425, 989

  Petrovsky, Petr, 425, 886

  philistinism, 56–57, 235, 257, 494, 500, 593

  photography, as entertainment, 510

  physical culture and hygiene, 237, 276–77, 341

  Piatakov, Georgy, 328, 725, 730

  Piatnitskaia (Sokolova), Yulia Iosifovna, xv, 241–42, 379, 797–99, 823–27, 989

  Piatnitsky, Igor, 242, 798–800, 823, 827, 990

  Piatnitsky, Osip Aronovich (Iosif Tarshis): apartment of, 379, 989–90; arrest/execution of, 797–800, 863; early prison/exile and return of, 44, 47–48, 51, 126; government assignments of, 185, 379; marriages/family life of, 241–42, 379, 621; photographs of, 47, 242, 798–99

  Piatnitsky, Vladimir (“Vova”), xv, 242, 798–99, 824–25, 827, 889, 990

  Pickel, R. V., 718–19

  Pilnyak, Boris, 247, 599; Works: The Naked Year, 196–98, 203, 280; The Tale of the Unextinguished Moon, 286–87, 610–11, 630; The Volga Flows into the Caspian Sea, 363, 366, 368–71, 481

  Pius XI, pope, 306–7

  Plains Indian groups, 99

  Plant No. 5, Hydrofilter. See List Metal Works

  Plato, 583, 955

  Platonov, Andrei, 198, 204, 628; Works: Chevengur, 198–201, 220, 223–24, 270–71, 683; “Doubting Makar,” xv, 317–18, 321, 323–27, 363, 456–57, 628; Dzhan, 203; “For Future Use,” 446–48, 454, 628; The Foundation Pit, 363–66, 369, 371, 375–76; “Immortality,” 626–29; The Town of Gradov, 183, 196

  plea bargains, 708

  Podvoiskaia, Nina Nikolaevna, 234–35, 383, 646, 885, 990, 993

  Podvoiskaia-Didrikil, Nina Avgustovna, 235–37, 491, 530, 990

  Podvoisky, Lev, 235, 383, 990

  Podvoisky, Nikolai Ilich: apartment of, 388–89, 491, 990; dacha stays of, 546; death of, 936; encounters with collectivization, 441–42; government assignments of, 185, 237; Lenin’s return and, 130–31; marriage/family life of, 234–38, 261, 383, 530, 560, 620, 646; October Revolution and, 132, 137–38, 142, 234; photographs of, 137, 237, 537; physical culture/hygiene and, 237, 276–77, 344; public holidays and, 534; rest home stays of, 221

  polar explorations, 565, 574–75, 592

  policing, 18

  political parties, 58

  Polovinkin, Leonid, 505

  Poloz, Rada Mikhailovna, xv, 309–10, 387, 566, 569, 572–74, 785–86, 828, 928–29, 934, 990

  Poloz (Polozov), Mikhail Nikolaevich (“Mikhas”), 309–10, 312, 387, 497, 569, 571–72, 576, 578–80, 861, 990

  Poluian, Dmitry, 173, 175, 178, 305, 774

  Poluian, Nadezhda. See Smilga-Poluian, Nadezhda Vasilievna

  Popov, Aleksandr Serafimovich. See Serafimovich (Popov), Aleksandr Serafimovich

  Popova, Anna Mikhailovna, 443–44

  Postolovskaia, Tatiana Semenovna. See Postysheva (Postolovskaia), Tatiana Semenovna

  Postyshev, Leonid, 427, 660–61, 807–8, 888, 990

  Postyshev, Pavel Petrovich: on accusations against/trials of oppositionists, 719, 740–41; apartment of, 990; arrest/execution of, 807–8, 864; Christmas/New Year’s celebrations and, 524–25; confession of, 807–8; disciplining the faithful and, 300; on enforcement, 466; exile of, 48, 51–52; government assignments of, 184, 426–27, 439, 472–73, 486; photographs of, 37, 467, 541, 808; political awakening of, 37–38, 40; rest home stays of, 544–45

  Postyshev, Valentin, 427, 990

  Postyshev, Vladimir, 427, 990

  Postysheva (Postolovskaia), Tatiana Semenovna, 427, 807–8, 990

  Pototsky, Viktor Ivanovich, 890

  Power Station. See Main Electric Tram Power Station

  Preobrazhensky, Evgeny, 305, 467–70

  Pretoria (South Africa), 586

  prisons, 42–46, 562–63

  private property, 110, 116, 149, 160, 180, 229, 298, 336, 339, 408, 623, 952; millenarian s
ects and, 93, 96, 103

  privileges and status stratifications, 187–91, 222, 224, 260–62, 273–74, 406, 484, 537

  proletarian writers, 19, 281, 285. See also Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP)

  Prologue, 401

  propaganda, 35

  public holidays, 527–34

  Pudikovich, Yakov. See Gamarnik, Yan

  Puritans and the Puritan Revolution, 90, 96, 107–8, 290–91, 344, 620–21

  Pushkin, Alexander, 510, 629, 657, 891–92; The Bronze Horseman, 126, 365, 372, 375

  Rabichev, Vladimir, 655, 661, 754, 802, 991

  Rabichev (Zeidenshner, Zaidenshner), Naum Natanovich, 648, 754, 802–3, 990–91

  Rabicheva (Kliachko), Vera Semenovna, 754, 991

  Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 13, 17, 20, 126, 141–42, 657

  Radek, Karl Berngardovich (Karol Sobelsohn): apartments of, 386, 726, 991; arrest/interrogation/trial/murder of, 723, 726, 728–33, 740, 782, 815, 864–65; confession of, 470, 615; cult of Stalin and, 244; descriptions of, 243–45; disciplining the faithful and, 293, 297, 305; exile of, 297, 301; friendships of, 281, 552; government assignments of, 386, 601–2; leisure entertainments of, 517; on Lenin, 212; marriage/family life of, 243, 247, 386; photographs of, 26, 245, 602; political affiliations of, 26, 244; Soviet literature and, 473, 477–78; on Trotsky’s fall, 719

  Radek, Sofia, 517, 654, 991

  Radimov, Pavel, 519–20

  radio broadcasts, 509

  Radzivilovsky, A. P., 718

  Raikhin, David Yakovlevich, 659

  RAPP. See Russian Association of Proletarian Writers

  Raskolnikov, Fedor, 245, 518

  Rastafarians, 101

  Ratmanova, Elizaveta Nikolaevna. See Koltsova (Ratmanova), Elizaveta Nikolaevna

  Ravich, Nikolai, 400

  Ravich, Sarra, 938

  reading and study: of the “classics” of literature, xii, 281, 510, 660–61, 953–54; of the “classics” of Marxism-Leninisn, 276, 618, 953; collective, by students, 29–35; extension of, to the masses/workers, 35, 39–40; importance of, 26, 30–34, 44–46, 63–64, 276, 279, 610, 953–55; as leisure entertainment, xii, 509–10, 513–14, 610, 659–60. See also friendships

  “Real Day” expectations, as metaphor, 18–22, 195; arrival of, 297, 461, 848; failure of prophecy and, 272–73, 481; propaganda/agitation and, 35–36; societal malaise and, 220, 223; us-and-them thinking and, 58. See also millenarianism

  Redens (Allilueva), Anna, 533, 939–41

  Redens, Leonid, 879

  Redens, Stanislav (Stanislaw), 533, 550, 763, 767, 862, 865, 870, 940

  Red October Candy Factory, 353, 389, 813–14

  Red Terror, 158–59; against Cossacks, 159–65

  Red Torch. See List Metal Works

  reformations, 122, 299; Orthodox, 94–95; Protestant, 90–94, 111; Russian, 957

  Regler, Gustav, 601–2, 604–5

  rehabilitation procedures, 936–37

  Reisner, Larisa, 243, 245–47

  religion: definition of, 73–75; linear time, development of, in, 75–77, 79; sects and, 58–59, 93; secularization of, 103–9

  resorts. See rest homes

  rest homes, 190–91, 220–22, 535–45

  Revelation, Book of, 19, 72, 85–86, 101–2, 218, 290, 565

  Revenko, Anna Arkhipovna (“Ania”), 630, 987

  Revenko, Stefania Arkhipovna. See Kuchmina (Revenko), Stefania Arkhipovna

  revolutions: American, 193; definitions of, 121–22; February (1917), 65, 123–26; French, 105, 107–8, 192–93, 711; Mongolian (1921–22), 272; October (1917), 135–38, 142–45, 193, 209, 527, 530

  Riazanov, David, 188

  Rightists, 298, 300, 723

  rituals, 192–93, 195

  Riutin, Martemyan Nikitich, 296–97, 299, 728

  Robespierre, Maximilien, 105, 711, 718

  Rodiukova, Glikeria Flegontovna (“Lusha”), 726, 747

  Rodos, B. V., 841

  Rodov, Semen, 281

  Rodzianko, Mikhail, 124

  Rogers, John, 94

  Roizenman, Boris, 471

  Rolland, Romain, 510, 610, 954

  Romanova, Tamara Nikolaevna, 809–10, 984

  Roma quadrata, 585

  Rome (Italy), 586–87

  Romm, Mikhail Davidovich: The Champion of the World, 462–65, 615

  Ronin, Anatoly (“Tolia”), 649, 934, 991

  Ronin, Solomon Lazarevich, 309, 386, 426, 440, 622, 991

  Roshal, Mikhail, 245

  Rotov, Konstantin, 234

  Rozanov, S. G.: A Little Negro and a Monkey, 672

  Rozengolts, Arkady Pavlovich: accusations against/trials of oppositionists and, 753; apartment of, 377, 991; arrest/interrogation/trial/execution of, 797, 852; clothing styles of, 498; dacha of, 549; government assignments of, 134, 184–85, 377; marriages/family life of, 234, 260, 377, 622; October Revolution and, 138–40; photographs of, 138, 378

  Rozovsky, Naum, 826–27

  Rudenko, Roman, 935

  Rudzutak, Yan (Jānis Rudzutaks), 466

  Rukhimovich, Moisei, 538–39

  Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP), 285, 289, 401, 456–57, 521

  Rykov, Aleksei Ivanovich: apartments of, 726, 748, 991; arrest/interrogation/trial/execution of, 720, 723–28, 734–36, 738–40, 744–46, 754, 824, 852; friendships of, 745; government assignments of, 191, 555; House of Government construction and, 318, 328; marriage/family life of, 241, 531–33; as oppositionist, 298, 300, 468–69; Party loyalty and, 296; photographs of, 727, 853; rehabilitation for, 937

  Rykova, Faina, 44

  Rykova, Natalia, 532, 543, 726, 745, 747–48, 803, 814, 887–88, 991

  Rykova (Marshak), Nina Semenovna, 241, 726–27, 745, 747–48, 991

  Rykov Club, 346, 393. See also Kalinin Club

  Sabsovich, L. M., 336–39, 345

  Saint-Simon, Claude de, 106

  St. Petersburg (Russia), 586–87, 591, 908–9

  Salkovsky, Oleg (“Salo”), 674–76, 681, 683, 776

  Salt Yard. See Wine and Salt Yard

  Sasso-Ruffo, Olga Fabritsievna. See Iofan (Sasso-Ruffo), Olga Fabritsievna

  Sats, Igor, 382, 447

  Sats, Natalia Ilinichna, xv, 233–34, 382, 496–97, 504–5, 526, 560–61, 604, 801–2, 855, 994; A Little Negro and a Monkey, 672

  Sats, Roksana, 504

  Sawicki, Ludowik, 28

  scapegoats, 701–3, 710–12, 731, 753

  School No. 19, 389, 657–59, 889–90

  Scriabin, Alexander, 20

  seas and waves (as metaphors), 148, 150, 156–57

  sects, 58, 93; Bolsheviks as, 59, 182, 469, 552–53, 951, 955–56; disciplining the faithful and, 292; morality/ethics and, 228–29, 259. See also specific ones

  Sedov, Lev, 719

  Selivanovsky, Aleksei, 639

  Semushkin, A. D., 539

  Serafimovich, Iskra, 380, 991

  Serafimovich (Belousova), Fekla (Fekola) Rodionovna, 284, 380, 558, 991

  Serafimovich (Popov), Aleksandr Serafimovich: apartment of, 380, 991; on benefits/class stratification, 224; death of, 936; documentary sources for, xv; friendships of, 284, 443–45, 457, 519, 561, 920; marriage/family life of, 380, 556–58, 560; name of, 645; Paris described by, 596; photographs of, 284, 380, 641; Works: The Iron Flood, 205–9, 284–85, 380; The Kolkhoz Fields, 446

  Serebrovsky, Aleksandr, 621, 863

  Sergeev, Artem, 497, 611, 700, 879

  Seventeenth Party Congress (1934), 466–72, 611–12, 712

  Seventh-Day Adventists, 98, 272–73

  sexual abuse cases, 705–10

  Shaburova (Karabaeva), Maria Aleksandrovna, 621, 992

  Shaginian, Marietta: Hydrocentral, 363, 368–69, 371

  Shakespeare, William, 477, 510, 953; All’s Well That Ends Well, 399

  Shakhurin, Volodia, 878–79, 887

  Shalamov, Varlam, 247, 415–16, 418–19

  Shamberg, Abram Solomonovich, 499

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bsp; Shapiro, Isaak Ilich, 755, 864–65, 870, 992

  Shaternikova, Anna Mikhailovna, xiii, 67, 147, 251–54, 514, 555, 749–52, 942

  Shatov, Vladimir, 758

  Shatskin, L. A., 728

  Shaw, George Bernard, 598

  Shchadenko, Efim Afanasievich, 219, 254–56, 378, 442–43, 486, 549, 561, 820–22, 936, 992

  Shcheglov, D.: The Recasting, 399–400, 462

  Shcherbakov, A. S., 550, 837–38, 925

  Shchuko, V. A., 359–60

  Sheiniuk, Matvei Yakovlevich, 829, 833

  Shimshelevich, Yakov. See Boiarsky (Shimshelevich), Yakov Iosifovich

  Shklovsky, Viktor, 640

  Shkvarkin, V. V.: Harmful Elements, 398–99

  Shmaenok, Maria (Mirra) Abramovna. See Demchenko (Shmaenok), Maria Abramovna (“Mirra”)

  shock workers, 528

  Sholokhov, Mikhail: Virgin Soil Upturned, 448

  Shpektorov, Anton Ionych, 831, 833

  Shteppa, Konstantin F., 840, 843

  Shubrikov, V. P., 765

  Shumiatsky, Boris Zakharovich, 272, 297, 426, 440, 789, 863, 992

  Shuniakov, Vasily Petrovich, 492, 834–35, 992

  Shuniakova, Tamara, 834, 992

  Shuniakova (Charnaia), Iudif Aleksandrovna, 834, 992

  Shvarts, David, 515, 517, 534, 541–42, 818

  Shvarts (Felinzat), Revekka, 541–42

  Shvetsov, S. P., 142–43

  Simonov, Ruben, 396, 547

  sin and sinful thoughts, 78, 96, 301, 345, 405–6, 731, 737, 844

  Skobelev Square (Moscow), 127, 139, 186

  Skriabin, Viacheslav. See Molotov, Viacheslav Mikhailovich

  Slovatinskaia, Tatiana Aleksandrovna, 134, 167, 239–40, 379, 672, 776, 829, 933–34, 971, 993

  Slovatinsky, Andrei Grigorievich (“Undik”), 776–77, 993

  Smilga, Ivar (Ivars) Tenisovich, xiv; apartments of, 296, 386, 488, 773, 992–93; arrest/execution of, 773–74, 861; confession of, 615; disciplining the faithful and, 296–97, 305; exile and return of, 297, 301, 304–5; family life of, 622; government assignments of, 185, 386; F. Mironov’s trial and, 172–75, 177–78, 976; photographs of, 175, 177, 305, 775; rest home stays of, 221

  Smilga, Natalia, 775, 993

  Smilga, Tatiana, xiv, 304, 660, 773, 775, 891, 993

  Smilga-Poluian, Nadezhda Vasilievna, 296, 304–5, 491, 499–500, 533, 773–75, 861, 993

  Smirnov, Rem Vladimirovich, 304, 670, 748, 804, 806, 828, 831, 890, 894, 989

  Smirnov, Sergei Sergeevich, 10

  Smirnov, Vladimir, 150, 301, 304, 748

  Smirnova, Ekaterina Nartisissovna, 828, 989

 

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