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Koltsov (Fridliand), Mikhail Efimovich, xv; apartment of, 382, 498, 865, 986; arrest/interrogation/trial/execution of, 853–56, 865, 870; as celebrity guest, 517; on class aliens, 273–74; clothing styles of, 498–99; collectives and, 275, 446; as cultural liaison, 595, 602; description of, 233; on Lenin, 212–15, 724; marriages/lovers/family life of, 232–34, 382, 383, 560, 602–3, 606, 855; on Moscow city, 357; on murder of Nicholas II, 156–57; personality of, 605; photographs of, 123, 233, 605, 854, 856; on Reisner, 245; on the state reflected in family life, 278–79, 345, 531; teaching assignment of, 660; on trials and purges, 815–16; as witness of the revolution, 123–25; Works: “Courage,” 640–42; The Day of the World, 593–94; “My Crime,” 232; “October,” 137; The Spanish Diary, 606–9, 611, 853; work schedules of, 497–98
Koltsova (Ratmanova), Elizaveta Nikolaevna, 382, 603, 986
Komarova, Maria Filippovna (“Mara”), 555–56, 645
Komsomol (organization), 275, 522, 525, 530, 620, 888, 952; purge of, 810–11
Komsomol “honor,” 666–67, 906
Kon, Feliks Yakovlevich: apartment of, 381, 986; dacha stays of, 547; death of, 936; friendships of, 28, 31; government assignments of, 381; marriage/lovers/family life of, 381, 513, 555–56, 560, 645, 820; photograph of, 25; political awakening of, 25–26; in prison, 43–44; on socialist proselytizing, 37
Kon (Grinberg), Khristiana Grigorievna (Khasia Girshevna), 381, 556, 986
Konchalovsky, Petr, 518, 521
Kondtratiev, N. D., 456
Kork, August, 539, 748, 820
Korkmasov, Erik, 880–82
Korkmasov, Jelal-Ed-Din, 880–81
Korol, Mikhail Davydovich, 1073n63
Korol, Miron Iosifovich. See Mironov, Sergei Naumovich
Korostoshevsky, Isaak, 699
Korshunov, Mikhail (“Misha”), 390, 536, 658–59, 674, 677, 681, 683
Korshunov, P. S., 658
Korzhikov, Ivan Stepanovich, 537–38
Kosarev, Aleksandr, 811
Kosior, Stanislav (Stanislaw), 524, 741, 755
Kosterin, Aleksei Evgrafovich, 904–5
Kosterina, Anna Mikhailovna, 904
Kosterina, Nina Alekseevna, 905–8, 915–20
Kozlova, Lydia Aleksandrovna. See Bogacheva (Kozlova), Lydia Aleksandrovna
Kraiushkin, Vasily Stepanovich, 829
Krasikov, Petr, 499, 547
Krasin, Leonid, 215–16
Krasovsky, Tikhon Nikolaevich, 890
Kraval, Elena, 652, 660, 986
Kraval, Ivan Adamovich (Jānis Kravalis), 309, 386, 440, 494, 510, 533, 560, 863, 986
Kreindel, Fanni Lvovna. See Moroz (Kreindel), Fanni Lvovna
Kremlin (Moscow), 582; residents of, xi, 145, 147, 186–88, 727; services provided in, 188–90
Krestinsky, Nikolai, 183
Kristson, Misha, 894
Kritsman, Lev Natanovich: Agrarian-Marxists and, 293, 455–56; apartment of, 385–86, 986; on class aliens, 273; government assignments of, 293, 385–86, 440, 600; health of, 221, 482; on how to live, 341; marriage/family life of, 261–62; photograph of, 262; on revolutionary progress, 272, 275; Works: The Heroic Period of the Great Russian Revolution, 209–12, 260–61, 263–64, 275, 341
Kritsman, Yuri, 263–64
Kritsman (Soskina), Sarra Lazarevna, 261–63, 262, 986
Kron, Aleksandr, 396, 464
Krupskaia, Nadezhda, 184, 217, 235, 248, 294–95, 333, 335, 547, 939
Krzhizhanovsky, Gleb, 235, 260, 547
Kuchmin, Ivan Fedorovich, xv, 630–31, 647–48, 803, 987
Kuchmina, Elena, 630–31, 890, 987
Kuchmina (Revenko), Stefania Arkhipovna, 630, 803, 987
Kuhlmann, Johann, 409
Kuibyshev, Valerian, 34, 41, 309, 519–21, 536, 552, 560, 574, 889
Kuibyshev, Vladimir, 661
Kukharchuk, Nina. See Khrushcheva (Kukharchuk), Nina Petrovna
kulaks, 422–23, 455
Kuliabko, N., 612
Kulkov, Aleksandr, 880–81
Kulman, Maria Nikolaevna, 496, 987
Kun, Béla, 797, 847
Kurella, Alfred, 345
Kuriatov, John, 891
Kursky, V. M., 758, 765
Kutuzovsky Avenue (Moscow), 926
Kuusinen, Ainu, 938
Kuusinen, Otto, 687, 939
Kuzmin, N., 340–41, 344–45
Lakhuti, Abulkasim (Abulqosim Lohuti), 476, 483–84, 488, 816, 987
Lakhuti (Banu, Bakaleishchik), Tsetsilia Bentsionovna, 483–84, 987
Lakota (Sioux), 99
Lande, Efim Zosimovich, 893, 987
Lande (Yusim), Vladimir (“Volodia”), 893–94, 987
Lande (Yusim), Maria Aleksandrovna, 893, 987
Lander, Karl Ivanovich (Kārlis Landers), 37, 185, 195, 221, 385, 482, 987
Larin, Yuri, 247, 250–51, 261, 340, 345, 508, 546
Larina-Bukharina, Anna Mikhailovna, xiv, 247–51, 261, 596–97, 720, 727, 747, 801, 883–87, 987
Lavrenev, Boris, 197; The Forty-First, 201–2, 214
Lebedev, Platon. See Kerzhentsev (Lebedev), Platon Mikhailovich
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), 341
Left Communists, 150–51, 742
Leftists, 298, 301
leisure entertainments: of children, xii, 510–15, 650–51; dancing as, 532–33, 543, 545, 648; museums, 610; public holidays, 527–34; radio/newspapers as, 509; reading and study as, xii, 509–10, 513–14, 610, 659–60; recreation facilities for, 393–407, 495, 536, 648; socializing in homes as, 515–22, 552, 650; special occasions, 522–27; theater as, 350–51, 395–407, 512–13, 610, 615–17. See also dachas; rest homes
Lelevich, G., 281, 306, 784
Lengnik, Fridrikh (Fridrihs Lengniks), 553–54
Lenin, V. I.: April Theses of, 131, 135; attempted assassination of, 158; Bolshevik takeover and, 144; death and preservation of, 212–17, 410; family life of, 260; on governmental/political organization, 58, 149; intelligentsia and, 24; leadership of, 131–33, 137–38, 142, 283, 468; on Marxism, 115; millenarian outlook of, 150–51, 297; on morality/ethics, 227; murder of Nicholas II and, 155; names of, 724, 738; on proselytizing, 36; reminders of the old regime and, 186, 266, 290; return of, 130; Russianness of, 288; sculpture of, 219; Sverdlov praised by, 164–65; on violence and coercive measures, 151–52, 154
Leningrad (USSR), 908–9
Lenin Mausoleum, 217, 337, 353, 409–10, 441, 529, 582
Leonov, Leonid, 473–74, 476, 599, 609–10, 629, 631, 934, 947–50; Works: The Badgers, 280; The Pyramid, 947–50, 961; The Road to Ocean, xv, 629–40, 642, 947–48, 978, 987; The Sot’, 363–65, 368–69, 371, 375–76, 411, 474, 948
Leontiev, Yakov, 462–63
Lepeshinsky, Panteleimon, 657, 936
Lesskis, Georgy, 657–59
letter-writing, 554–55
Levidov, Mikhail, 640; A House on Prechistenka, 616
Levin, Boris, 234, 377
Levina, Elena Borisovna, 377–78, 991
Levina-Rozengolts, Eva Pavlovna, xiv, 234, 377–78, 549, 632, 943–44, 945, 991
Lezhnev, I., 732
L’Hoste, Hubert, 603–6, 657, 669, 856, 986
Libedinskaia, Lydia, 891–92
Libedinsky, Yuri, 245, 281; A Week, 195–96, 201, 204; The Birth of a Hero, 269–70, 337
linear time, development of, 75–77, 79
List, Gustav, 14
List Metal Works, 14–15, 18, 140, 389
literature, Soviet: apocalypse stories in, 196–97, 201–2, 206; Babylon stories in, 195–97, 201–2, 364, 366, 606; collectivization in, 446–48; construction/building plots in, 362–76, 402, 446, 969; creation stories in, 122, 124, 365, 372, 403–4, 446, 701; crucifixion stories in, 196, 197–98, 201–2, 206; exodus stories in, 77, 193–94, 202–5, 208, 369, 606; ideological conversion and, 279–89, 403–4, 456–58, 472–78; inferno stories in, 205; as leisure entertainment, 510, 610; long journey, 449, 452; love/marriage/family and, 264–71; as myth, 19
5–209; proletarian writers and, 19, 281, 285; socialist realism and, 475–77, 611, 616, 639, 656, 848
Litovsky, Valentin (“Valia”), 891, 920
Litovsky (Kagan), Osaf, 664, 891
Litvinov, Maksim, 387, 464, 936
Liubchenko, A. P., 524
Liushkov, G. S., 715
Loginov, Zhenia, 827, 834
Lohuti, Abulqosim. See Lakhuti, Abulkasim
long journey literature, 449, 452
Lopatin, German, 125–26
love, faith, and revolution, 66–72, 75, 227–28, 236, 251, 259–60, 887–89, 904
Lozovskaia, Milena, 235, 260, 383
Lozovskaia, Vera, 235
Lozovsky (Dridzo), Solomon Abramovich, 235, 260–61, 383, 499
Lubotsky, Vladimir, 28
Lukacs, Georg, 954–55
Lukina-Bukharina, Nadezhda Mikhailovna, 248–49, 251, 727, 747, 801, 870, 987
Lunacharsky, Anatoly, 23, 136, 138, 143, 146, 335, 341, 353, 359, 478
Lundberg, Evgeny, 242
Lunts, Lev: “In the Desert,” 204–5
Lurye, Evgenia Abramovna. See Trifonova (Lurye), Evgenia Abramovna
Lurye, Pavel, 776, 778
Luther, Martin, 90, 92, 111, 299
Luxemburg, Rosa, 198, 203, 244
Maeterlink, Maurice: The Blue Bird, 236, 248, 646–47, 980
Magidov, Boris, 462
Main Electric Tram Power Station, 11–12, 140, 329
Malashkin, Sergei: Moon from the Right Side, 268
Malia, Martin, 121
Malkov, Pavel, 158–59, 186–87, 215, 931
Maltsev, Nikolai, 441, 550, 552, 554, 612
Malyshkin, Aleksandr: The Fall of Dair, 195, 196–97, 201–2, 204
Maly Theater Studio, 395, 397, 610
Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 245
Mann, Klaus, 605
Maria Women’s College, 13, 389, 657–58
Mark, Gospel of, 81, 82
markets, 5, 12–13, 15–16, 319
marriage and family life, 96–97, 116, 180, 228–31, 235–36, 243, 259, 335–41, 508–14, 555, 560, 620–21, 647, 952–53
Marshak, Nina Semenovna. See Rykova (Marshak), Nina Semenovna
Marshak, Samuil, 476
Martirosian, Suren. See Avanesov, Varlam
Marx, Karl: as “architect,” 333–34; on family life, 335–36; on modernity, 74, 276; A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 110–13; “Critique of Modern German Philosophy…,” 117; “Critique of the Gotha Programme,” 117; Manifesto of the Communist Party, 114–16; On the Jewish Question, 109–10, 112–13
Marx-Engels archive, 494–95, 596
Marxists and Marxism, 23–25, 109–18; economic determinism of, 952; millenarianism of, 73, 109–18, 151; one-generation Bolshevism and, 951; political awakening to, 31; proselytizing by, 36; reading/study of, 276, 618; religion and, 73–75, 951–52; us-and-them thinking and, 57
Matiukhina, Tamara, 649
Matusov, Yakov Naumovich, 883, 931
Matveev, Mikhail Rodionovich, 861
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 68–69, 70–72, 219, 246, 255, 271, 341; The Bedbug, 271; A Cloud in Pants, xv, 69, 255, 992; Mystery-Bouffe, 193–95, 198
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 109
Medvedev, S. S., 831
Melanesia, 101–2
Melnikov, Konstantin, 340
memoirs and biography, 645
memory and ritual, 192–93, 195, 222
Mensheviks, 19, 24, 57, 58, 131, 467
Mercurians, 88, 95
Metro construction (Moscow), 409
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 397, 513, 870
Mezhlauk, Charna Markovna, 538
Mezhlauk, Ekaterina Mikhailovna, 537–38
Mezhlauk, Valery Ivanovich (Valērijs Mežlauks), 537–38, 740–41
Mgijima, Enoch, 100, 108
Miagkov, Volia, 573–74
Miagkova, Feoktista Yakovlevna, 62, 387, 566, 573, 592, 828–29, 933, 990
Miagkova, Lelia, 573
Miagkova-Poloz, Tatiana Ivanovna (“Tania”): apartment of, 387, 491, 990; arrest/exile/interrogation, and execution of, 309–12, 365, 562–81, 784–88, 857–61; as a child, 62, 309; confession of, 615; daughter’s development and, 647; documentary sources for, xv; photographs of, 309, 311–12; reading and study by, 611; views on Chelyuskinites by, 574–75, 592
Mickiewicz, Adam, 109, 244
Mikhailov, Vasily Mikhailovich, 323, 325, 409, 486, 488, 490–91, 524, 546, 611, 621, 863, 987
Mikhailova, Margarita, 492, 987
Mikhailova (Ushakova), Nadezhda Ivanovna, 409, 490–92, 494, 499–500, 987
Mikoyan, Anastas, 425, 544, 755, 831, 936
Mikoyan, Sergo, 879
Mikoyan, Vano, 878–79
Milinis, I. F., 343
Miliukov, Pavel, 124
Miliutin, N. A., 336, 344
Miliutin, V. P., 886
millenarianism, 180; in American society, 96–99, 103; during collapse of USSR, 947, 951; in European society, 89–95, 103–9; gender attitudes and, 246; Israelites and, 77–82, 88, 104, 180, 711; Jesus and, 82–87, 89, 115; marriage/family life and, 96–97, 229, 952–53; of Marx, 73, 109–18, 151; Muhammad and, 87–88; in non-Christian societies, 99–103; private property and, 952; revolutions and, 121; scapegoats and, 710–12. See also “Real Day” expectations
Miller, P. P., 415, 418
Miller, William, 97–98, 273
Mironov, Filipp, 160–61, 167–68, 168–79, 205, 864, 976
Mironov, Sergei Naumovich (Miron Iosifovich Korol): accusations against/trials of oppositionists and, 755–63, 765–67, 769–70, 790, 792, 816, 866; apartments of, 772, 988; arrest/interrogation/trial and execution of, 866–70; collectivization enforcement and, 430–34, 436–40; documentary sources for, xv; government assignments of, 257–58, 429, 437–38, 507, 767, 769, 771–72, 809, 866; Kirov’s death and, 700; marriage/family life of, 256–59, 261, 505–7, 515–16, 522–24, 562; photographs of, 258, 439, 544, 758; rest homes stats of, 543–45; rest home stays of, 540–41
Mironov (Kagan), Lev, 759–60
Mironova (Argiropulo), Agnessa Ivanovna: apartments of, 772, 988; dacha stays of, 766; documentary sources for, xv; Kirov’s death and, 700; marriages/family life of, 256–59, 261, 505–7, 515–16, 522–24, 562, 622, 866, 1073n63; Mironov’s assignments and, 430–32, 436–39, 755–59, 765–69, 771–72, 866–69; photographs of, 258, 437, 439, 544; political education of, 257–58; rest home stays of, 540–41, 543–45
Mitskevich, Olympiada, 221–22, 385, 482
Mitskevich, Sergei, 26, 47, 221–22
modernization, 17, 95, 276, 597
Mogilny, A. M., 539
Molochnikov, N. V., 939
Molotov (Skriabin), Viacheslav Mikhailovich: accusations against/trials of oppositionists and, 719, 728, 737–40, 755–58, 794, 797, 844, 846; apartments of, 925; collectivization and, 426; dacha stays of, 550–51; friendships of, 28–29, 552; government assignments of, 183; marriage of, 613; name of, 152; photograph of, 30; political awakening of, 32; return from exile of, 126; Soviet literature and, 55; speeches of, 611–12
Monchadskaia, Elena, 897–98
Mongolian Revolution (1921–22), 272
morality and ethics, 227–32, 259
More, Thomas, 582–83
Mormons, 97, 180
Moroz, Aleksandr, xiv, 388, 789, 874, 988
Moroz (Kreindel), Fanni Lvovna, xiv, 388, 789, 878, 988
Moroz, Grigory Semenovich, xiv, 187–88, 296–97, 299, 388, 546, 559, 789, 988
Moroz, Samuil (“Mulia”), xiv, 388, 655, 659, 789, 830, 876–78, 988
Moroz, Vladimir (“Volodia or Vova”), xiv, 388, 789, 874–78, 906, 988
Morozov, Savva, 215
Morozova, Zinaida, 215, 216
Morozovka rest home, 535–37
Moscow: bombing of, 918; map of, 591; Metro construction in, 409; physical geography of, 4–5; policing in, 18; rebuilding of, 357–62, 582, 589–92; state government in, 16–18
Moscow Art Theater, 397, 610
Moscow Exemplary School, 657, 890–91
Moscow Sailing Club, 7–8
Muhammad, 87–88, 97, 299, 953
Mukhina, Vera: Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, 502
Muklevich, Anna Yakovlevna, 829, 840, 988
Muklevich, Irina, 499, 541, 654, 817, 829, 831–32, 834, 882, 988
Muklevich, Romuald Adamovich (Romuald Muklewicz), 489, 510, 522, 533, 541, 829, 863, 988
Müntzer, Thomas, 91–92, 108, 110, 114, 122, 848
Muralov, Nikolai, 140–41, 296, 817–18
Murzin, Pavel Gerasimovich, 484–86, 988
Murzina, Maria Stepanovna, 485
Musrepov, Gabit, 433–34
Mussolini, Benito, 587
Nakoriakov, Nikolai, 460
Narkomfin House, 343–44
nationalists, 24–25
New Delhi (India), 586
New Economic Policy (NEP, 1922–1928): disappointment under, 266, 468; impact on officials of, 188, 222; industrialization and, 279; Lenin’s description of, 297; revolutionary progress during, 212, 224, 275–76, 279
New Theater, 350–51, 395–407, 615–17
New Year’s Eve celebrations, 524–27
New York City housing, 347
Nicholas II, Tsar, murder of, 155–57
Nicolaevsky, Boris, 597
Nikiforov, Georgy, 473
Nikitin, Nikolai, 281
Nikolaev, Ivan, 342
Nikolaev, Leonid, 715
Nikolaeva, Klavdia, 547
Novgorodtseva, Klavdia. See Sverdlova-Novgorodtseva, Klavdia Timofeevna
Novitskaia, Mikhalina Iosifovna. See Bogutskaia (Novitskaia), Mikhalina Iosifovna
Novitsky, Pavel Ivanovich, 406, 664, 837–39
Nowicka, Michalina. See Bogutskaia (Novitskaia), Mikhalina Iosifovna
Obolenskaia, Svetlana. See Osinskaia (Obolenskaia), Svetlana Valerianovna
Obolensky, Valerian. See Osinsky (Obolensky), Valerian Valerianovich
Obraztsov, Sergei, 521
October Revolution (1917), 135–38, 142–45, 193, 209, 527, 530
Ogarev, Boris, 408
OGIZ (Association of State Book and Magazine Publishers), 457–58
Okhitovich, Mikhail, 333, 338–40
Olberg, V. P., 718–19
Old Believers, 94–95
Olesha, Yuri: Envy, 277, 362, 366–68, 374–75, 383
oppositionists, 292–97, 716–17, 789
Ordzhonikidze, G. K. (“Sergo”), 419, 467, 728, 733
Orekhov, Vasily Andreevich, 38–39, 43, 183–84, 220–21, 223, 385, 482, 988