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  Smirnova, N. A., 399, 401–2

  Smirnova, Sonia, 310, 860–61, 960

  Smirnov and Sons’ Vodka Factory, 10, 140

  Smirnova-Osinskaia, Ekaterina Mikhailovna, 67, 251–53, 304, 491, 513, 748, 895, 901, 927–28, 934, 941–42, 989

  Smith, Joseph, 97

  Smolich, Yuri: The Other Side of the Heart, 402–7, 471, 714, 837

  Smolny Palace (St. Petersburg), 134, 136–38, 145

  Smushkevich, Roza, 559, 654–55

  Smushkevich, Yakov, 546–47, 559

  Sobelsohn, Karol. See Radek, Karl Berngardovich

  Sochi Group rest homes, 537–40

  Social Democrats, 19

  socialist realism, 473, 475–77, 489, 590, 611, 616, 639, 656, 848

  Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs), 19, 25, 31, 36, 57, 142, 161

  Society of Old Bolsheviks, 222–23, 553–54, 674

  Sokolnikov, Zhenia, 250

  Sokolnikov (Brilliant), Grigory, 27, 28, 29, 167, 723, 864

  Sokolova, Yulia. See Piatnitskaia (Sokolova), Yulia Iosifovna

  Solovyov, Vladimir: “The Tale of the Antichrist,” 19

  Solts, Aron Aleksandrovich: apartments of, 379, 993; death of, 936; on disciplining the faithful, 290, 292; documentary sources on, xiv; exile of, 48; family life of, 239–40, 260, 379, 620; friendships and, 167, 552; government assignments of, 292, 836–37; on marriage/family life, 230–31, 240; on morality/ethics, 227–28, 259–60; photographs of, 24, 227, 240, 836; political awakening of, 23; on societal malaise, 224

  Solts, Esfir, 239, 379, 836, 993

  Solts, Evgeny (“Zhenia”), 379, 655, 836, 993

  Soskin, Grigory (“Grisha”), 263

  Soskin, Lazar, 261–63

  Soskin, Semen, 261

  Soskina, Sarra Lazarevna. See Kritsman (Soskina), Sarra Lazarevna

  South Africa, 100–101

  Spain, 606–7, 718

  spas and sanatoria. See rest homes

  special occasions, 522–27

  Speer, Albert, 502–3, 588

  Speransky, A. D., 599

  Stakhanov, Aleksei, xi

  Stalin, Joseph (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili): accusations against/trials of oppositionists and, 722–23, 728–29, 737, 740, 754–55, 778, 797, 807, 844, 846, 864; as “architect,” 334; break with Bukharin and emergence of, 297, 299; on collectivization, 421–22, 429, 455–56; on the Cossacks, 160; as cult figure, 244, 469, 922, 934; death of, 932–35, 939; disciplining the faithful and, 301–4; exile and return of, 49, 126; as government official, 183; granting of privileges by, 188; on growth of socialism, 614–15, 956; on Kuibyshev’s drinking, 520; millenarianism and, 273, 481; names of, 152, 723–24, 738; on peasants and bourgeoisie, 135; photograph of, 54; praise for, at Congress of Victors, 466–72; residence of, xi, 727; smoking and, 533; on socialist realism, 473; Soviet literature and, 473–75, 477; on suicide, 725; on violence and coercive measures, 435, 455; work schedule of, 497

  Stalina, Svetlana. See Allilueva, Svetlana

  Stalin revolution. See Five-Year Plans

  Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 236, 397, 661

  Stankevich, Aleksei, 24

  Starynkevich, S., 157

  Stasova, Elena Dmitrievna, xiv, 26, 131, 133–34, 543, 936–39, 993

  State Candy Factory No. 1. See Einem Chocolate Candy and Cookie Factory

  State Historical Preservation Workshop, 319, 389

  State New Theater. See New Theater

  Stechkina, Lydia Mefodievna, 829, 833

  Stepanov, I. I., 864

  Stetsky, Aleksei, 458, 472–73, 521

  strikes, 18, 65

  students: children of, 946, 951; communal houses for, 342, 342; distinctiveness of, 484; exile of, 47–48; family support of, 40–41; friendships of, 26–31; as House of Government residents, 486; political awakening of, 23, 39; in prison, 42–46

  Stukov, M. V., 415

  Suetenkova, Nadezhda, 170–71, 173, 178–79

  Sukhanov, N. N., 135–36

  Svarog, Vasily Semenovich, 519–20, 522

  Sverdlov, Andrei Yakovlevich (“Adia”): apartments of, 906, 932, 993; arrest of, 784, 882–83, 931; as a child, 46, 52, 147–48; description of, 929; documentary sources for, xiv; marriage of, 234–35, 383; as NKVD agent, 883–86; photographs of, 54, 749, 932; post-arrest life of, 931–32; on Stalin, 304, 383; Works: A Thin Thread, 931–32

  Sverdlov, Veniamin, 40, 147, 164, 784, 885

  Sverdlov, Yakov Mikhailovich: apartments of, 145, 147; appearance and character of, 152–53; Bolshevik/Communist takeover and, 142–45; dacha stays of, 546; death of, 164; description of, 152–53; documentary sources for, xiv; education of, 28; exile and return of, 47–54, 126; February Revolution and, 65–66; friendships of, 29; love/faith/revolution and, 66; marriage/family life of, 40, 46, 147–48, 610; murder of Nicholas II and, 155–56; October Revolution and, 135–36; photographs of, 28, 46, 54; political awakening of, 20, 22; in prison, 43, 45–46, 610; reading and study by, 63–64, 279; Red Terror and, 158–59; as revolutionary/government official, 133–34, 146, 153, 164–65, 183; spiritual crises/doubt and, 63–65; on violence and coercive measures, 154, 161–62, 166

  Sverdlov, Zinovy. See Peshkov, Zinovy

  Sverdlova, Sarra, 40, 65–66, 147

  Sverdlova, Vera, 52, 147

  Sverdlova-Novgorodtseva, Klavdia Timofeevna: apartments of, 145, 147, 383, 993; exile and return of, 47, 52, 134; government assignments of, 190, 383; on Kremlin staff, 186; marriage/family life of, 46; personality of, 253; photographs of, 46, 54; privileges of, 188, 190

  the swamp (as metaphor), 33–34, 41–42, 57, 129, 150, 152, 195, 290, 341, 365, 714, 842–43

  the Swamp (Moscow neighborhood), 5–9, 15; changes in, 389–90; daily life and activity in, 5, 9–10, 14–15; flooding in, 21–22; housing in, 6, 9, 618–19; map of, 6; as pro-Bolshevik, 140

  Symbolists, 19–20

  Syrtsov, Sergei, 165, 167, 426, 774

  Tairov, Vladimir, 769

  Takser, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 381, 994

  Tarasov-Rodionov, Aleksandr: “Chocolate,” 518

  Tarshis, Iosif. See Piatnitsky, Osip Aronovich

  Tauride Palace (St. Petersburg), 123–25, 145

  Terekhov, Gennady, 425, 993

  Terekhov, Roman Yakovlevich, 38, 184, 424–25, 427, 439, 542, 647, 993

  Terekhova, Efrosinia Artemovna, 424–25, 993

  Terekhova, Victoria (“Tora”), 424–25, 682, 993

  Ter-Gabrielian, Saak, 539

  theater, as entertainment, 350–51, 395–407, 512–13, 610, 615–17

  Tikhomirnov, German, 550, 552, 554

  Tivel-Levit, Aleksandr, 755

  Tolstaya, Anna Ilinichna, 521

  Tolstoy, Aleksei, 478; The Golden Key, 526; Peter the First, 375, 510

  Tolstoy, Leo, 194, 282, 287–88, 510; War and Peace, 646, 954, 980

  Tomsky, Mikhail, 300–301, 304, 306, 406, 469, 720–21, 725, 738–39, 793

  torture, 840, 842

  Trans-Moskva District Party Committee, 322, 327

  Travina, Alexandra (“Sasha”), 248–49

  trials and purges, 715–19, 728–33, 755, 760–64, 760–65, 767, 769–70, 789–90, 800–801, 814, 862, 864, 914; confessions and, 459–62, 467–72, 615, 703–10, 779, 840; friendships/loyalty during, 833–34; interrogations and, 840; news coverage of, 815–16; plea bargaining and, 708; reactions to, 817–18, 833–34. See also individual defendants

  Trifonov, Evgeny, 776

  Trifonov, Valentin Andreevich: apartment of, 379, 491, 993; arrest of, 774, 836; dacha stays of, 546; de-Cossackification and, 166–68; exile of, 48, 167; government assignments of, 166, 185, 379; marriage/family life of, 239–40, 379; photographs of, 43, 167, 177, 239, 545, 966; in prison, 43; rehabilitation of, 937

  Trifonov, Yuri, xiii; apartment of, 993; childhood of, 239, 379, 546, 671–75; descriptions of, 671; drawings by, 491, 675, 676, 963–65; parents’ arrest and, 774, 776–78; photographs of, 892, 966–69, 971, 973; post-arrests life o
f, 828, 889, 892, 933; as rememberer, 961–80; on Stalin’s death, 933–34; Works: Another Life, 967, 971–74, 978–80; The Disappearance, 489, 625–26, 672–73, 971–72; The Exchange, 971; The House on the Embankment, xv, 962–63, 969–72; Impatience, 974; It Was a Summer Afternoon, 972; The Long Goodbye, 967–68, 973; The Old Man, 238–39, 974–78, 980; The Quenching of Thirst, 969; Time and Place, 961, 970, 972

  Trifonova, Olga, xv

  Trifonova, Tatiana (“Tania”), 379, 776, 828, 968, 971, 993

  Trifonova (Lurye), Evgenia Abramovna, 239, 379, 776–77, 933, 993

  Troeltsch, Ernst, 93

  Trofimovna, Natalia, 900–901, 921

  troikas, 760, 763, 790, 812, 864

  Trotsky, Leon: Bolshevik/Communist takeover and, 135–36, 138, 142, 144; exiles of, 126, 301; government assignments of, 146; Kirov assassination and, 719; on Mironov, 173, 176–77, 178; on murder of Nicholas II, 156; on politics, 306; on Reisner, 245, 247; rest home stays of, 221; as a speaker, 129–30; on the state reflected in family life, 231–32, 531; on violence and coercive measures, 165

  Trotskyites, 300, 467, 701, 718, 730, 870

  Tsivtsivadze, Ilya (“Ilko”), 798

  Tuchin, Mikhail Andreevich, 325–26, 392–93, 492, 525, 531, 560, 611, 994

  Tuchina, Zinaida, 390, 393, 492, 526, 994

  Tuchina (Chizhikova), Tatiana Ivanovna, 392–93, 531, 994

  Tukhachevskaia, Svetlana, 654

  Tukhachevsky, Mikhail, 768, 820–21

  Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, 104

  Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 526, 682–83, 954; Huckleberry Finn, 526, 682–83

  Tyutchev, Fedor, 20

  Ulrikh (Ulrich), Vasily, 185, 755, 797, 836, 856, 861

  Umanskaia, Nina, 878–79

  United Opposition coalition, 295, 297–98

  Uritsky, Moisei, 158

  us-and-them thinking: free fellowships as, 55–62; friendship circles as, 31–33; Israelites’ God as, 79–80; philistines as, 56–57; Zulus as, 31

  Ushakova, Nadezhda. See Mikhailova (Ushakova), Nadezhda Ivanovna

  Usievich, Elena Feliksovna, 381–82, 497, 499, 519, 549, 626, 628, 639, 994

  Usievich, Grigory Aleksandrovich, 381, 994

  Usievich, Grigory Grigorievich, 381–82, 986

  Usievich, Iskra-Marina, 381, 549, 994

  Uspenskii, A.: Korenkovshchina, 268

  Uspensky, Gleb, 57

  Varshavskaia, Mirra, 310, 312, 788

  Vasiliev, Pavel, 500, 519, 622

  Vasilieva, Ania, 776–77

  Vedeniapina, Vera Vladimirovna, 873

  Vedernikov, A. S., 139

  Veitser, Izrail Yakovlevich, 382, 439, 496–98, 526–27, 560–61, 753, 802, 994

  Verhaeren, Émile: “Blacksmith,” 67–68, 279

  Verkhneuralsk prison, 562–63, 716

  Verne, Jules, 510, 637; The Children of Captain Grant, 660–61, 859

  Versailles (France), 586–87

  Vesnik, Yakov, 165, 167, 774

  Vienna (Austria), 586

  Vinogradov, Ivan, 639

  Vinogradskaia, Polina, 134

  Vinogradskaia, Sofia, 233

  violence and coercive measures, 151–55, 165–66, 261, 273–74, 405, 422, 434–35, 712–13

  Vishera Paper Mill, 414

  Vishnevsky, Vsevolod, 245

  Vitruvius, 583

  Vlasik, Nikolai Sidorovich, 538

  Vodopyanov, Mikhail, 592

  Volin, Boris Mikhailovich (Iosif Mikhailovich Fradkin), 234, 247, 297, 387, 389, 457, 488, 546, 657, 779, 818, 934, 994

  Volina, Dina Davydovna, 387, 994

  Volina, Victoria, 387, 512, 994

  Volkova, Galina, 902–4

  Volodarsky, Vladimir, 145, 153

  Vorobiev, Vladimir, 216–17, 243, 409–10

  Voronskaia, Galina, 280, 386–87, 782–83, 937–38, 994

  Voronskaia, Sima Solomonovna, 280, 305, 386–87, 783, 994

  Voronsky, Aleksandr Konstantinovich (“Valentin”): agitation speeches of, 35; apartment of, 386–87, 994; arrest/interrogation/trial/execution of, 733, 778–80, 782–84, 842; autobiographies/memoirs of, 55, 127–28, 196, 288, 305–6, 387; confessions of, 459–62, 615, 778–79, 842; description of, 29; documentary sources for, xiv; exile and return of, 47–48, 50–51, 54–55, 127–29, 297, 305–7; friendships of, 29, 280–81, 289; government assignments of, 184, 279, 289, 386–87, 779; on the intelligentsia, 521; literary critiques by, 195, 198, 200–201, 270–71, 629; marriage/family life of, 40–41, 261, 280; photographs of, 55, 281, 387, 783; political awakening of, 19–20, 23; in prison, 44–45, 280–81, 610; reading and study by, 35, 279, 281, 610, 782; rehabilitation for, 937; on Reisner, 246–47; rest home stays of, 221; on the revolution, 148–49; Soviet literature and, 203–4, 279–84, 286–89, 307; spiritual crises/doubt and, 60–63, 128, 623; us-and-them thinking and, 55–58; Works: The Eye of the Storm, 127–28, 130, 132–33, 780; Gogol, 780–83; In Search of the Water of Life, 635; Zheliabov, 564–65, 592

  Voroshilov, Kliment, 244, 380, 529, 719, 722, 728, 736, 755, 794, 797, 807, 844, 846

  Voroshilova, Ekaterina Davydovna, 538

  Vyshinsky, A. Ia., 731–32, 764, 825, 836

  Wallenberg, Raoul, 931

  Walzer, Michael, 291

  War Communism, 185, 209–12, 293–94, 298

  Washington, D.C. (United States), 588–89

  Weber, Max, 58, 181

  weddings, 522–24

  White Sea-Baltic Canal, The, 363, 365, 372

  Wine and Salt Yard, 5, 10–12, 11, 140, 319

  witch hunts, 703–11, 753–54, 864

  women: Bolshevik attitudes toward, 246, 559; as government leaders, 484; as returnees, 942–43; as revolutionaries, 42. See also marriage and family life

  Wool Yard, 5, 13

  Wordsworth, William, 105

  workers: children of, 946; exile of, 47–48; friendships/family support of, 41–42; on House of Government, 321–25, 329; on industrialization projects, 413–18, 423; New Year’s celebrations and, 525; political awakening of, 23, 36–37, 39–40; in prison, 42–46; separateness of, 40, 484–86; shock, 528

  work schedules, 496–98, 508–9

  Wounded Knee (South Dakota), 99

  Xhosa, 100, 220

  Yagoda, Genrikh, 234, 414–15, 507, 739, 741, 745, 784, 852

  Yagoda (Averbakh), Ida, 147, 234, 784, 885

  Yakir, Iona, 163, 165, 760, 774

  Young, Brigham, 97

  Young Pioneers, 275, 522, 525, 620, 952

  Yuriev, Akim, 515

  Yurovsky, Mikhail, 155–58

  Yusim, Maria Aleksandrovna. See Lande (Yusim), Maria Aleksandrovna

  Yusis, Ivan, 539

  Zagorsky, Vladimir, 28

  Zaidenshner, Naum. See Rabichev (Zeidenshner, Zaidenshner), Naum Natanovich

  Zaitsev, Igor, 873–74

  Zaitsev, Maksim Vasilievich, 873

  Zarudin, Nikolai, 842

  Zbarskaia (Perelman), Evgenia, 242–43, 410, 994

  Zbarsky, Boris Ilich (Ber Elievich), xiv, 216–17, 242–43, 409–11, 546, 934–35, 994

  Zbarsky, Feliks-Lev, 243, 410, 994

  Zbarsky, Ilya, xiv, 242–43, 243, 410, 441, 454–55, 994

  Zeidenshner, Naum. See Rabichev (Zeidenshner, Zaidenshner), Naum Natanovich

  Zelenskaia, Anna Grigorievna, 239–40, 379, 836, 993

  Zelenskaia, Elena, 240, 379, 836, 888, 993

  Zelensky, Andrei, 240, 379, 836, 888, 993

  Zelensky, Isaak, 239, 240, 379, 439, 470, 753–54, 852

  Zemliachka, Rozalia, 936, 939

  Zetkin, Clara, 547

  Zhdanov, Andrei, 473, 755, 797, 811, 846

  Zhemchuzhina, Polina Semenovna, 550–51, 622

  Zholtovsky, Ivan, 358

  Zhukov, Ivan, 754, 925

  Zimin, Pavel Ivanovich, 900–902

  Zinoviev, Grigory, 715–16, 718–19, 817

  Zinovievites, 715–16, 718

  Zlatkin, Ilya, 384, 526

&nbs
p; Zlatkina, Elena. See Ivanova (Zlatkina), Elena Yakovlevna

  Zorin, Sergei, 297, 778–80, 784

  Zoroaster, 76–77

  Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 280

  Zulus, 31

 

 

 


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