Agrarian-Marxists, 293, 455
agro-industrial cities, 334
Agroskina (Dementieva), Maya, 822
Alafer, Georgy Leongardovich, 861
Aleksandrov, G. G., 616
Alekseev, M., 160
Aleksei Mikhailovich, Tsar, 5
Alksnis, Yakov (Jēkabs), 517
Alliluev, Pavel, 501–2, 621
Alliluev, S. Ya., 221, 489, 936
Allilueva, Anna. See Redens, Anna
Allilueva, Evgenia, 494, 500–503, 532, 939
Allilueva, Kira, 494, 500–501, 532, 939
Allilueva, Nadezhda, 188, 409, 717
Allilueva (Stalina), Svetlana, 248, 939
All-Russian Constituent Assembly (1917), 142–44
All Saints Stone Bridge, 5, 12, 12, 140, 353, 356, 800
All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, 201, 472–78, 593, 601, 849, 949, 954
Amaglobeli, Sergei Ivanovich, 405–6, 616, 837, 839
American Revolution, 193
Amundsen, Roald, 592
Anabaptists, 92–93, 122, 180, 710, 953
Anarchists, 19
Andreae, Johann Valentin, 583
Andreev, A. A., 719, 807, 811
Andreev, Leonid, 125–26, 176, 245, 306
Andreev, Vadim, 245–46
apartments (House of Government), 348–49, 487–95, 554; no. 4, 390, 649; no. 8, 654; no. 10, xv, 378, 886, 992; no. 13, 822; no. 14, 464; no. 16, 383, 499; no. 17, 822; no. 18, xiii, 459, 472, 726, 747, 985, 989, 991; no. 19, 687, 938; no. 20, 386; no. 25, 379; no. 26, 410; no. 39, xiv, 388, 789, 988; no. 43, 992, 994; no. 49, 880; no. 52, 409, 987; no. 53, 882; no. 54, 379, 439, 753; no. 55, 386, 991; no. 60, 837; no. 61, 797; no. 65, 492–93, 983; no. 82, xv, 380, 991; no. 89, 827; no. 93, 385, 983; no. 96, 546–47, 888; no. 98, 660, 803; no. 100, 517; no. 103, xiii, 378, 983; no. 104, xiii, 378, 983; no. 107, 392, 985; no. 108, 993; no. 110, 483, 987; no. 116, 441; no. 130, 485, 988; no. 137, xv, 379, 993; no. 140, 385, 387; no. 141, 621, 754, 809, 865, 983, 984; no. 143, xv, 382, 865, 986; no. 144, 458, 472, 985; no. 153, 893, 987; no. 159, xv, 382, 439, 753, 994; no. 162, xiv, 984; no. 163, 886; no. 166, 699; no. 167, 386, 390, 790, 992; no. 170, 992; no. 176, 816, 987; no. 181, 880; no. 186, 385, 986; no. 190, 386, 790, 986, 993; no. 193, 994; no. 194, 381, 994; no. 197, 381, 935, 985; no. 198, 381, 986; no. 199, xv, 387, 986, 990; no. 200, 553, 865; no. 204, 617; no. 206, 380–81, 409, 985, 986, 991; no. 208, 989; no. 209, 811; no. 212, 657; no. 221, 820; no. 225, 439, 747, 754; no. 226, xv, 630, 987; no. 228, 383, 435, 984; no. 229, 986; no. 230, xiv, 386, 993; no. 234, 809, 984; no. 235, 518; no. 237, xiv, 377, 632, 753, 991; no. 245, xiv, 543, 993; no. 249, 518; no. 262, xiv, 450, 676, 984; no. 268, 880; no. 274, 990; no. 276, 387, 538, 994; no. 279, 755; no. 280, xiv, 383, 990; no. 291, xiv, 937, 993; no. 307, 385, 987; no. 319, xiv, 383, 932, 993; no. 321, 989; no. 334, 829, 882, 988; no. 338, 439; no. 342, 699, 800, 983; no. 349, 984; no. 357, xiv, 386, 623, 994; no. 362, 987; no. 365, 624; no. 372, xiv, 383, 985; no. 377, 834; no. 380, 611, 700; no. 382, 538; no. 384, 385, 988; no. 389, xiii, 539, 820, 989; no. 393, xiv, 379, 993; no. 398, 992; no. 400, xv, 379, 800, 989–90; no. 401, 881; no. 402, 789, 876; no. 409, 383, 441; no. 416, 803; no. 417, 754, 990–91; no. 418, xiv, 412, 984; no. 422, 834; no. 424, 390, 445, 502; no. 426, 985; no. 429, 992; no. 436, 801, 989; no. 443, 674; no. 445, 390, 658; no. 453, 864, 992; no. 467, 515; no. 468, 873; no. 470, xiv, 987; no. 505, xv, 378, 992
Apletin, Mikhail, 612
apocalypse stories, 196–97, 201–2, 206
April Theses (Lenin), 131, 135
aquatic imagery (as metaphors): floods, 193, 195, 208, 211, 365–66, 368; seas and waves, 148, 150, 156–57; the swamp, 33–34, 41–42, 57, 129, 150, 152, 195, 290, 341, 365, 714, 843
Aquinas, Thomas, 105, 307, 406
Arctic explorations, 565, 574–75, 592
Argiropulo, Agnessa Ivanovna. See Mironova (Argiropulo), Agnessa Ivanovna
Argiropulo, Agulia, 756, 759, 988
Arosev, Aleksandr Yakovlevich: apartments of, 378, 389, 488–89, 554, 983; arrest of, 792–97; on Bolshevik organizational strategies, 134; as celebrity guest, 517–19; Chelyuskinites and, 592; clothing styles of, 499; as cultural liaison, 595, 598, 600; dacha of, 549–51; death of Lenin and, 213, 217; documentary sources for, xiii; European experiences of, 494, 596–99; on evictions, 186; friendships of, 28–31, 281, 552, 554, 794; government assignments of, 184, 219, 378, 517, 598, 600; leisure entertainments of, 513–14, 517–18; marriages/family life of, 240–41, 560, 612–13, 620, 645–46; on October Revolution, 138–41, 215; pettiness of life and, 611–13; photographs of, 30, 241, 379, 518, 598, 795; political awakening of, 32; in prison, 42–43; public holidays and, 533–34; rest home stays of, 221, 535; return from exile of, 126–27; on revolutionary progress, 272, 275, 615; spiritual crises/doubt and, 624–25; on trials/purges, 817–19; Works, 186–87, 378–79, 509, 611, 645–46; Nikita Shornev, 267; The Notes of Terenty the Forgotten, 198, 266–68, 270–71; On Vladimir Ilich, 217–18; Recent Days, 268–69; “A Ruined House,” 264–66, 268, 623; “The White Stairway,” 264
Arosev, Dmitry (“Dima” or “Mitia”), 513, 795–96, 983
Aroseva, Elena (“Lena”), 513, 657, 796, 983
Aroseva, Natalia, 513, 657, 796, 983
Aroseva, Olga, 513, 550, 657, 796, 983
arts and culture. See leisure entertainments
Artuzov, Artur, 235, 441
Association of State Book and Magazine Publishers (OGIZ), 457–58
Augustine, Saint, 86, 107, 273, 405, 481, 585, 844, 953
Avanesov, Varlam (Suren Martirosian), 145, 153, 158–59
Avdeenko, Aleksandr, 853–54
Averbakh, Ida. See Yagoda (Averbakh), Ida
Averbakh, Leonid, 147
Averbakh, Leopold, 147, 234, 281, 285–87, 456–57, 459, 519, 784, 842–43, 885
Averbakh, Sofia Mikhailovna, 147, 784, 801
Baabar, 769
Babel, Isaak, 196, 247, 473–75, 870; Red Cavalry, 198, 200–201, 204, 280
Babylon stories, 195–97, 201–2, 364, 366, 606
Bak, Boris, 422–23, 440, 554, 728, 761
Bak, Solomon, 554, 870
Bakaleishchik, Tsetsilia Bentsionovna. See Lakhuti (Banu), Tsetsilia Bentsionovna
Bakhtin, M. M., 198
Bakulev, Petr, 879
Balabanoff, Angelica, 244
Balitsky, Vsevolod Apollonovich, 515, 523, 543–45, 759–60, 869
Bamberg witch trials, 703–5, 753–54
Banu, Tsetsilia Bentsionovna. See Lakhuti (Banu), Tsetsilia Bentsionovna
Baptists, 19, 23
Barabanov, Leonid, 879
Barbusse, Henri, 517–18
Barkov, I. I., 761, 767
Barshch, M. O., 342
Bashtakov, L. F., 841–42
Baxter, Richard, 275
Bazovskaia, Olga Nikolaevna, 834–35, 985
Bazovsky, N. A., 834, 846
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 288, 510, 610, 905
Beilin, Naum. See Beliaev, N.
Belenkaia, Nadezhda (“Nadia”), 882
Belenkaia, Tatiana, 445
Belenky, Abram, 882
Belenky, Mark, 439, 445, 497, 499, 542, 648
Beliaev, N. (Naum Beilin), 234, 497
Belousova, Fekla (Fekola) Rodionovna. See Serafimovich (Belousova), Fekla Rodionovna
Berdyaev, Nikolai, 23
Berezniki Chemical Works, 411–20, 423
Bergelson, David, 819
Beria, Lavrenty, 547, 561, 754–55, 812, 841–42, 870
Berkovich, Yakov. See Bykin, Yakov
Berlin (Germany), 588
Berman, Boris Davydovich, 554, 728, 747, 865
Berman, Matvei Davydovich, 416–19, 423, 440, 554, 761, 810, 865, 983
Bezymensky, Aleksandr, 281, 548, 599
Big Stone Bridge. See All Saints Stone Bridge
Bin Laden, Osama, 89
birthdays, 522
Blok, Aleksandr, 197
Blokhin, V. M., 841
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Bogachev, Serafim Yakovlevich, 492–94, 510, 621, 810–12, 864, 983
Bogacheva (Kozlova), Lydia Aleksandrovna, 492–93, 620–21, 810–12, 983
Bogucki, Waclaw. See Bogutsky, Vatslav Antonovich
Bogutskaia (Novitskaia), Mikhalina Iosifovna (Michalina Nowicka), 699, 832, 983
Bogutsky, Vatslav Antonovich (Waclaw Bogucki), 699, 800–801, 832, 983
Bogutsky, Vladimir, 699, 801, 832, 983
Boiarsky, Igor Aleksandrovich, 525, 926–27, 989
Boiarsky (Shimshelevich), Yakov Iosifovich, 838–39, 870
Boichevskaia, Maria, 404–5
Bokii, G. I., 414
Bolsheviks, 19, 24–25; class aliens/enemies of, 240, 273–74, 298, 406, 408, 613, 615–16, 818; competing holidays and, 524; consolidation of power and, 148; conversion strategies of, 36, 273, 275–78; death/immortality and, 128, 235, 624–25, 628–29, 634–36, 640, 645–46, 665, 943; disciplining the faithful and, 273, 289–97, 299–300, 306, 713; education of, 44–46; gender attitudes of, 246, 256, 559, 942–43; great breakthrough of, 298; human emotions and, 744–45; internationalism and, 203, 242–43; marriage/family life and, 229–31, 235–36, 243, 620, 952–53; as millenarians, 129, 149, 180, 297–98, 481, 620, 656; as one-generation phenomenon, xii, 943, 951–52; organizational strategies of, 134–35, 182–86; privileges/status among, 187–91, 222, 224, 260–62, 484, 537; rehabilitation procedures for, 936–37; Russia’s Reformation and, 957; as a sect, 59, 182, 469, 552–53, 951, 955–56; takeover by, 142–45; us-and-them thinking and, 57; violence and, 151–55, 165–66, 261, 273–74, 712–13; work ethic of, 277. See also New Economic Policy
Bolshoi Theater, 512–13, 610, 749
Bonch-Bruevich, Vladimir, 23, 234
Braginsky, Mark Abramovich, 381
Brandenburgskaia, Anna, 380
Brandenburgskaia, Elsa, 235, 379
Brandenburgsky, Yakov, 229–30, 379–80, 426, 440, 510, 835–36, 936
Brazil, 99–100
Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 150
Brethren, 19
Brik, Lilya, 255
Brik, Osip, 255
Brilliant, Grigory. See Sokolnikov (Brilliant), Grigory
Brinton, Crane, 121
Briusov, Valery, 68
Bruce, Steve, 73
Brunner, Arnold W., 590
Bruskin, Aleksandr, 880
Bubnov, Andrei, 814
Budennyi, Semen, 173, 549, 754–55
Bukharin, Ivan Gavrilovich, 251, 261, 727, 746–47, 987
Bukharin, Nikolai: apartments of, 248, 251, 727, 734, 987; arrest/interrogation/trial/execution of, 720–29, 733–47, 815–16, 824–26, 846–53, 864–65; Bolshevik/Communist takeover and, 32–33, 144; break with Stalin and, 299; on Catholic Church’s authority, 306–7; childhood of, 23; confession of, 468–69, 720–23, 847–48, 850; description of, 27; disciplining the faithful and, 289–90, 292–95, 298–300, 306–7, 713; early prison and exile of, 44, 126; education of, 26–27; European experiences of, 494, 596–97; friendships of, 28; government assignments of, 146, 186; Lenin’s death and, 212–14, 221; marriages/family life of, 247–51; millenarianism and, 150–51, 273, 290; on morality/ethics, 227, 231–32; on peasants and bourgeoisie, 135, 151; photographs of, 24, 144, 250, 853; reading and study by, 19, 279; rehabilitation for, 937; Soviet literature and, 285, 287–88, 473, 475–77, 656; spiritual crises in writings of, 59–60; on “the Swamp,” 7, 9, 16; on violence and coercive measures, 151, 154–55, 159, 261, 405, 712; Works: Philosophical Arabesques, 848; Socialism and Its Culture, 848–50
Bukharin, Yuri, 251, 727, 747, 987
Bulatkin, Konstantin, 171, 173
Bulgakov, Mikhail, 891; The Days of the Turbins, 616; Master and Margarita, 980
Bulgakov, Sergei, 23
Bunyan, John: The Pilgrim’s Progress, 643–44
Burke, Edmund, 121
Burliuk, David, 68–69
Burnet, Thomas, 104
Butenko, Konstantin Ivanovich, 504, 757–58, 809–10, 984
Butenko, Sofia Aleksandrovna, 503–4, 561–62, 621–22, 757, 809–10, 984
Butovo “special site,” 862–63
Bykin (Berkovich), Yakov, 735–36, 741
Calvin (John) and Calvinists, 36, 90–91, 96, 276, 711
Campanella, Tommaso, 583–84
Canberra (Australia), 586–87
card playing, as entertainment, 515–16, 543
cargo cults, 101–2
Case, Thomas, 122–23
Cathedral of Christ the Savior, 5, 357, 366–67, 390–91, 621–22, 946
Celsus, 81–82, 113, 946–47
censorship office (Glavlit), 457
Cervantes, Miguel de: as a “classic,” 510, 610, 656, 953; Quixote as personal description, 66, 147, 396, 428; Don Quixote, 198–99, 203, 238, 476, 510, 607–9, 611, 613, 643, 646, 682–83, 764, 897
Charnaia, Iudif Aleksandrovna. See Shuniakova (Charnaia), Iudif Aleksandrovna
Chayanov, A. V., 293, 455–56
Chelkar, 310–12, 365, 429, 788, 858, 860
Chelyuskinites, 574–75, 592
Chernov, Mikhail, 790, 792
Chertok, Leonid, 234, 779, 784
chess, as entertainment, 510, 515, 536
Cheynell, Francis, 91
children: of arrestees, 801, 828–32; collectivization of, 342, 345–46; daily schedules of, 508–9; delinquency/criminal justice system and, 655, 717; education of, 116, 647–48, 657–61, 814, 953; elitism of, 654–55; friendships of, 651–53, 655–56, 903, 955; as the future, 130, 147, 337, 481, 566, 646–47; as immortality, 235, 635, 646, 665; leisure entertainments of, xii, 26, 510–15, 649, 650–51, 954; pursuit of happiness and, 236; recreation facilities for, 648; of revolutionary students/workers, 946, 951
Chinese millenarianism, 102–3, 710
Chizhikova, Tatiana. See Tuchina (Chizhikova), Tatiana Ivanovna
Choibalsan, Khorloogiin, 769–71
Christians and Christianity, 23, 36; marriage/family and, 953; millenarianism and, 82–87, 89–99, 103–4, 114, 180, 273; morality/ethics and, 228; reformations and, 90–95
Christmas celebrations, 524
church and state, 75, 87–91, 180–81
Church of St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker, 7, 9, 140, 319–20, 329, 353, 389
city plans, ideal or utopian, 582–89
civilizing processes, 276–79, 344
Civil War (1917–1922), 142–44, 178, 195–96, 201–2, 205, 209, 211
class aliens/enemies, 240, 273–74, 298, 406, 408, 613, 615–16, 818
clothing/decorative styles: of male officials, 418, 498–99; of students, 26–27, 40; of women officials and housewives, 499–506
collectives and collectivization, xi, 211, 914; Five-Year Plans and, 413, 421–24, 426–29, 454–55, 508; House of Government’s encounters with, 439–45; in literature, 446–48; as social units, 275–76, 338–41; troikas and, 760
communal houses, 342, 344–46
Communists and Communism, 73–74, 88, 115–17, 150; compared to building a house, 169, 333–46, 611; expulsion from the Party and, 717; literature as myth and, 202; marriage/family life and, 952–53; morality/ethics and, 227–32; non-Russian varieties of, 956–57; as a sect, 182, 469, 951; superiority of all things Soviet and, 592–98
Comte, Auguste, 74
Condorcet, Marquis de, 105
confessions, 102, 290–91, 295, 323, 459–62, 467–72, 615, 703–10, 779, 840
Congress of Soviet Writers. See All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers
Congress of Victors. See Seventeenth Party Congress (1934)
construction/building stories, 362–76, 402, 446, 606, 969
Construction Workers’ Union, 322, 324–25
constructivist aesthetic, 344, 347, 353
conversion, ideological, 36, 273, 275–78, 454, 914; in the agrarian sector, 455–56; confession/purge and, 102, 290–91, 295, 323, 459, 467–68; in literature and arts, 279–89, 403–4, 456–59, 472–78<
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Cossacks, 159–70, 176
Country Property, Department of, 191
creation stories, 122, 124, 365, 372, 403–4, 446, 701
Cromwell, Oliver, 93, 135
crucifixion stories, 196, 197–98, 201–2, 206
Cui, César, 20
cultural revolution. See conversion, ideological
dachas, 190–91, 545–51, 653–54, 963–66; Lenin’s, 215
The Dakota (New York City), 347
dancing, as entertainment, 532–33, 543, 545, 648
Dante Alighieri, 117–18, 576, 578; as architectural model, 583, 585; as a “classic,” 510, 514, 610, 806
Davies, Joseph E., 549
Dawkins, Richard, 75
Day of the World, The, 593–94
death and immortality, 128, 235, 624–25, 628–29, 634–36, 640, 645–46, 665, 943
Decadents, 19
decorative styles. See clothing/decorative styles
Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe, 476, 610–11, 613, 615, 643–44, 646, 656
Deich, Yakov, 757, 761
Delbene, Bartolommeo, 583
Delibash, Nina Zakharovna, 386, 773–74, 861, 993
Demchenko, Feliks, 425, 789, 829–30, 984
Demchenko, Nikolai (“Kolia”), 425, 789, 829–30, 876, 888, 984
Demchenko, Nikolai Nesterovich, 425, 439, 789, 829, 863, 984
Demchenko (Shmaenok), Maria (Mirra) Abramovna, 425, 829, 984
Denikin, Anton, 160, 170, 173–74
Denisova-Shchadenko, Maria Aleksandrovna, xv, 68–69, 219, 234, 254–57, 378, 549, 821–23, 992
Dickens, Charles, 478, 510, 896, 953; David Copperfield, 478, 702, 954; Great Expectations, 514; Our Mutual Friend, 278; The Pickwick Papers, 773; The Tale of Two Cities, 121, 954
Didrikil, Nina Avgustovna. See Podvoiskaia-Didrikil, Nina Avgustovna
Dik, Iosif, 934
Dimanshtein, Marta (Matla), 755
Dimanshtein, Semen M., 755, 847
Dimitrov, Georgi, 483–84, 511–12, 517–18, 934, 936
Dimitrova, Roza Yulievna, 518
disurbanists and disurbanism, 337–42
“the Ditch.” See Drainage (Vodootvodnyi) Canal
Dogadov, A. I., 671
Doletsky, Yakov (Jacób Dolecki/Fenigstein), 521–22
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 262, 375, 610, 639, 643, 816, 947–48, 961; The Adolescent, 59, 279, 732; The Brothers Karamazov, 368, 732–33; Crime and Punishment, 564, 974; Demons, 879; The Possessed, 934
Drabkin, Yakov (Sergei Gusev), 289, 291
Drabkina, Elizaveta, 143, 146, 245, 289, 886, 932
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