The House of Government

INDEX

Page numbers in italics refer to maps or photographs.

Adoratskaia, Varvara (“Varia”), 385, 983

Adoratsky, Vladimir Viktorovich, 191–92, 385, 390, 482, 494–95, 499, 535, 542, 596–97, 936, 983

Africa, 100–101

agitation, 35–36, 135

Agranov, Yakov, 297, 305, 715, 718, 783, 789

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

Bloody Sunday massacre (1905), 213–14

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

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

Drainage (Vodootvodnyi) Canal, 5, 9, 10, 15, 17, 321, 329, 355, 386, 445, 511, 651

Dreitser, E. A., 718–19

Dubrovina, L. V., 814

Dukhobors, 19

Dürer, Albrecht, 583

Durkheim, Emile, 73–74

Dushechkina, Katia, 834

Dzerzhinsky (Dzierżyński), Feliks, 216–17, 243, 388, 425, 819

Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich. See Stalin, Joseph

Edson, Hiram, 98, 220, 272

Edwards, Jonathan, 96

Efimov, Boris, 233–34, 560, 603, 784, 856

Efron, Ariadna, 886

Egon-Besser, Kira, xiv, 64–66, 126, 134, 152, 165

Ehrenburg, Ilya, 27, 247, 476–77; The Second Day (aka: Out of Chaos), 363–65, 369–73

Eikhe, Robert Indrikovich (Roberts Eihe), 434, 516, 755–58, 760–61, 766–67, 809, 840–43, 864, 870, 984

Eikhe (Rubtsova), Evgenia Evseevna, 809, 984

Einem Chocolate Candy and Cookie Factory, 5–7, 18, 140, 149–50. See also Red October Candy Factory

Eisenstadt, S. N., 121

Elchugina, Shura, 834

Eliade, Mircea, 74

émigrés, 600–606, 647

Engels, Frederick, 57, 115–17, 152

Enlightenment, 104

entertainments. See leisure entertainments

entryways (House of Government), 347, 353, 377

Enukidze, Avel, 188, 190–91, 217, 318, 395, 717

Epstein, Motia, 894, 896

Esaulov, A. A., 841

Esenin, Sergei, 280, 287–88, 794

estates. See dachas

Eternal Law, 405–6, 471, 844

exile, 46–55

exodus stories, 77, 193–94, 202–5, 208, 369, 606

Ezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich: arrest/interrogation/trial and execution of, 865–66, 870; descriptions of, 792; government assignments of, 507, 516, 866; personal life of, 839–40; purges and, 715, 718–19, 724, 728, 735, 754, 758, 760–64, 767, 790, 794, 801, 865; replacement of, 812, 864

Fadeev, Aleksandr, 197, 447, 476, 934; The Rout, 201–3

family life. See marriage and family life

famines, 190, 424–26, 428–34, 436, 438–39

fascism, 714, 848

February Revolution (1917), 65, 123–26

Fedin, Konstantin: The Garden, 280

Fedorov, Nikolai, 20

Fedotov, Fedor Kallistratovich, 449–53, 676, 770, 984

Fedotov, Lyova, xiv, 450, 451–52, 674–93, 713, 908–14, 921–23, 954, 963, 984

Fedotova (Markus), Roza Lazarevna, 449, 676, 923, 935–36, 984

Fedulov, Ivan Mikhailovich. See Gronsky (Fedulov), Ivan Mikhailovich

Feuchtwanger, Lion, 595, 730, 733, 954

Fifth Monarchists, 93–94, 180

Filarete, 584–85

Filatova, Nadezhda Dmitrievna (“Dina”). See Osinskaia (Filatova), Nadezhda Dmitrievna (“Dina”)

Finney, Charles, 96

Finnish War (1939), 685–87

Fischer, Louis, 244

Fishman, Emmanuil Grigorievich (“Monya”), 684, 908

Fishman, Raisa Samoilovna (“Raya”), 684, 908

Five-Year Plans (1928–1932): collectivization and, 413, 421–24, 426–29, 454–55, 508; coming to an end of, 465–66; cultural revolution and, 454–56, 459, 472–78; industrialization and, 279, 345–46, 408, 415, 421, 454; modernization and, 597; result of, 468

Fleischmann, Rosa, 518

floods (as metaphor), 193, 195, 208, 211, 365–66, 368

forced labor, 414–18, 422

Fourier, Charles, 106, 335

Fradkin, Iosif Mikhailovich. See Volin, Boris Mikhailovich

Fradkina, Raisa Efimovna, 234

Fradkina, Sofia, 234, 784

France, Anatole: The Gods Are Athirst, 906, 954

free fellowships, 55–62

French Revolution, 105, 107–8, 192–93, 711

Frenkel, Aron, 166–67, 774

Frenkel, N. A., 414

Freund, Gertrude (“Gera”), 241, 795–97, 983

Fridliand, Mikhail. See Koltsov (Fridliand), Mikhail Efimovich

friendships: building and growth of socialism and, 560–62; of children, 651–53, 655–56, 903, 955; comradeship and, 55, 552–54, 794; letter-writing and, 554–55; during purges, 833; of students, 26–31; of workers, 41–42. See also reading and study

Frinovskaia, Nina, 507

Frinovsky, Mikhail, 440, 506–7, 516, 755, 758, 762–64, 767–69, 865–66, 870

Frunze, Mikhail, 281, 283, 286–87

Frye, Northrop, 702

F. T. Einem. See Einem Chocolate Candy and Cookie Factory

Furmanov, Dmitry: Chapaev, 201–2, 204

Gaister, Aron Izrailevich, 308–9, 386, 440, 455, 517, 522, 541, 548–49, 622, 790, 843–45, 863, 984

Gaister, Igor, 889

Gaister, Inna, xiv, 390, 499, 541, 548–49, 654, 660, 790–91, 828, 888–90, 926, 928–29, 984

Gaister, Natalia (“Natalka”), 790–91, 828, 984

Gaister, Semen (“Siunia”), 803–4, 889

Gaister, Valeria (“Valiushka”), 790–91, 828, 984

Gaister (Kaplan), Rakhil Izrailevna, 386, 499, 790–91, 830, 926, 984

Gamarnik, Yan (Yakov Pudikovich), 820–21, 869

Ganetskaia, Khanna (Hanna Hanecka), 886

Gavrilova, Sonia, 443, 561

Gavrilovna, Feodosia, 280

Geertz, Clifford, 74

Gelfreikh, V. G., 359–60

Gelman, Ruslan, 822–23

Germany, 588, 601, 606, 647, 714; coming of war and, 912–14

Gershman, Lena, 907, 918

Gevorkian, Elizaveta Fadeevna, 873–74

Gibbon, Edward, 180

Gide, André, 594–95, 598, 641

Gilinskaia, Nelly, 829

Gilinsky, Abram, 494, 515, 829

Gilinsky, David, 829

Ginzburg, M. Ya., 342–45

Gladkov, Fyodor, 285, 519; Cement, 268; Energy, 363, 365, 368–71, 409

Glavlit (censorship office), 457

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 288; as a “classic,” 510, 610, 656, 953; Faust, xiii, 105, 271, 476–78, 592, 634, 643, 646, 661, 848–49, 881, 897, 979–80

Gogol, Nikolai, 57, 282, 623, 780–82; Dead Souls, 196; “Viy,” 780–81

Goldstein, Moisei. See Volodarsky, Vladimir

Goloshchekin, Filipp Isaevich (Shaia Itskov, “Georges”): almost marriage of, 937; apartment of, 383, 435, 984; arrest and interrogation of, 840, 843; on collectivization, 426, 840; description of, 428; on disciplining the faithful, 294–95; exile of, 49; February Revolution and, 65–66; friendships of, 147, 281; government assignments of, 184, 383, 428–29, 434–35, 439; murder of Nicholas II and, 155–56; photographs of, 54, 428; reading and study by, 279; rehabilitation for, 937

Goloshchekina (Vinogradova), Elizaveta Arsenievna, 435, 984

Golovkova, Lydia, 862

Golubchik, Mikhail, 771, 870

Golubovsky, B. G., 402, 616–17

Goppen, Olga, 241

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 946, 948

Gordon, Nina, 854

Gorky, Maxim, 23, 55, 57, 147, 279, 458, 473, 593, 639; The Day of the World, 593–94

Gorky Park, 511–12, 594–95, 605, 651

Gosset, Hélène, 518

Gotfrid, Mirra, 561, 819

Gounot, Charles: Faust, 905

Governor General’s (Soviet) Building (Moscow), 127–28, 138–40

Granovskaia (Kolosova), Zinaida, 412, 930–31, 985

Granovsky, Anatoly, xiv, 412, 420, 654, 700–701, 803, 812, 879–82, 921, 929–31, 985

Granovsky, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, xiv, 411–16, 419–20, 440, 503, 539–40, 803, 846, 984–85

Granovsky, Valentin, 412, 921, 985

Granovsky, Vladimir, 420, 930–31, 985

Great Awakenings (America), 96

“the great breakthrough,” 298, 340, 353, 357. See also Five-Year Plans

Grekova, Inna Fedorovna, 889

Gresshöner, Maria. See Osten (Gresshöner), Maria

Griadinsky, F. P., 765

Grinberg, I., 639–40

Grinberg, Khristiana Grigorievna (Khasia Girshevna). See Kon (Grinberg), Khristiana Grigorievna

Grinberg, Ya. A., 837–39

Grinblat, Grigory Abramovich (“Grisha”), 907, 918, 920

Gronskaia, Elena, 500

Gronskaia, Lydia Aleksandrovna, 499, 521, 536, 985

Gronsky (Fedulov), Ivan Mikhailovich: apartments of, 458–59, 489, 726, 985; arrest/interrogation/trial of, 840; Congress of Soviet Writers and, 472–73; friendships of, 519–20; government assignments of, 472–73, 519, 521; on OGIZ, 457–58; photographs of, 472, 521, 542; on socialist realism, 477, 489; on trials, 861–62; worker origins of, 486; work schedules of, 497

Guber, Boris, 842

Guillaume de Trie, 91

Gurov, Zhenia, 677, 680, 908–11, 913, 936

Gurvich, A. S., 628–29

Gurvich, Esfir, 248–49

Gusev, Sergei (Yakov Drabkin), 289, 291

Guskova, Tatiana Nikolaevna, 901

Gustav List Metal Works. See List Metal Works

Gutzkow, Karl: Uriel Acosta, 616, 661–64, 837–38

Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 101

Hamilton, Hector, 358

Hammer, Armand, 879

Hamsun, Knut: Victoria, 68, 249–53, 745, 905

Hanecka, Hanna (Khanna Ganetskaia), 886

Heavenly Jerusalem, as ideal city, 582

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 111, 113, 117, 288

Heine, Heinrich, 57, 146–47, 669, 895; “Belsazar,” 156, 279; “Germany,” 279

Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls, xv

Heuss, Oskar, 6

Heuss, Vladimir, 150

history, 104–5, 951–52. See also linear time, development of

Hitler, Adolf, 588, 714

Home for Party Veterans (Peredelkino), 936

Hong Xiuquan, 102–3

Housekeeping Department, 186–88, 440, 535, 813

House of Government (Moscow): address of, 380; administration of, 615, 618–19, 924–25; architect/designer of, 318–19, 325, 327, 389, 408; as a besieged fortress, 713–14; completion of, 329; construction of, 320–21, 324–26; construction photographs of, 320–26, 329, 330–33; constructivist elements of, 347, 353, 494; cost of, 328–29, 393; courtyards of, 649–50, 650–52, 659, 800, 870; critiques of, 362, 494; encounters with collectivization, 439–45; end of, 914; floor plans of, 348, 651; food services in, 495–96, 618; guards and staff of, 391–93, 496, 528, 618–19, 621, 924; holiday decorations on, 527–28; initial plans for, 318–19; interiors of, 487–95; kindergarten in, 482, 648; photographs of, 349–51, 354–56, 394–95, 407, 617, 649, 650; recreation facilities in, 393–407, 495, 615, 648; regulations of, 388–89; remembrances of, 950, 962–63; residents of, 377–93, 391, 482–87, 619–22, 773, 801, 813, 862–63, 924–25, 935–36, 983–94; services in, 495, 618; site plan of, 352; summary descriptions of, xi–xii, 320, 346–47, 353, 482; as transitional type, xi, 346–47, 508, 615, 648, 650; workers on, 321–25, 329

House of the Commissariat of Finance (Narkomfin), 343–44

Houses of Revolution: Governor General’s (Soviet) Building, 127–28, 138–40; Smolny Palace, 134, 136–38, 145; Tauride Palace, 123–25

Houses of Soviets (Moscow), 186–89, 318; behavior in, 224–26, 266; establishment of, 145; post-war returnees to, 925; services provided in, 188, 190

Houtermans, Fritz, 840, 843

Howard, Ebenezer, 583

hygiene. See physical culture and hygiene

Ibsen, Henrik, 64, 281; Brand, 61–63, 279; Peer Gynt, 61–62, 646

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

immortality. See death and immortality

Inca Empire, 99

individualism, xi, 45, 211, 276, 340–41, 405–6, 508, 623

industrialization, 17, 914; Five-Year Plans and, 345–46, 408, 415, 421, 454; NEP and, 279

inferno stories, 205

Institute of the Peoples of the East, 389

intelligentsia, 23–24, 36–37, 106, 109, 520–21

International Art and Technology Exposition (1937), 501–3

internationalism, 203, 242–43

interrogations, 840. See also trials and purges

Ioannites, 19

Iofan, Boris Mikhailovich: apartment of, 489–90, 985; architectural criticism by, 590–91; friendships of, 745; House of Government and, 318–19, 325, 327, 389, 408; Palace of Soviets and, 357–59, 585; Paris Expo (1937) and, 502–3; photographs of, 319, 328

Iofan (Sasso-Ruffo), Olga Fabritsievna, 408, 985

Ioselevich, Aleksandr, 386, 622

Ippo, Boris, 802

Irbe, V. A., 528, 813

Isaev, Uraz, 434

Isbakh, Aleksandr, 284, 450–52, 457

Islam, 87–89, 180, 299, 953

Israelite millenarianism, 77–82, 88, 104, 180, 711

Itskov, Shaia. See Goloshchekin, Filipp Isaevich

Ivanov, Anatoly, 655, 667, 834, 985

Ivanov, Boris Ivanovich, xiv; apartment of, 383–85, 389, 492, 834–35, 985; exile of, 47–48, 50–51, 53; government assignments of, 146, 150, 383–84, 835; New Year’s celebrations and, 525; photographs of, 51, 384, 933, 935; privileges requested by, 222–23, 384; public holidays and, 532, 534; on Stalin’s death, 933–35

Ivanov, Vladimir (“Volodia”), 665–68, 713, 921, 985

Ivanov, Vsevolod, 247, 280; Armored Train, 195, 203, 281; Colored Winds, 197, 202, 204; Partisans, 201, 281

Ivanova, Galina (“Galya”), 667, 834, 933, 985

Ivanova (Zlatkina), Elena Yakovlevna, 384, 499, 525–26, 532, 834–35, 935, 985

Ivan Smirnov and Sons’ Vodka factory. See Smirnov and Sons’ Vodka Factory

Ivan III, Tsar, 5

Ivchenko, Anna Vladimirovna, 391–92, 985

Ivchenko, Elsa, 392, 985

Ivchenko, Emelian Mikhailovich, 391–92, 528, 813–14, 985

Ivchenko, Vladimir, 813, 985

Izeckman, Sam (“Senia”), 600–601

Jackson, Andrew, 96

Jacobins, 105, 114, 180, 274, 954

Jamaica, 101

Jasienski, Bruno: Man Changes His Skin, 363–65, 368–69

Jaspers, Karl, 75

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 98, 273

Jesus, 82–87, 89, 97, 104, 115, 228–29, 273, 953

Jewish Question (Marx), 109–10, 112–13

Jews and Judaism: millenarianism of, 77–82, 88, 104, 180, 711; as revolutionaries, 23, 109, 484, 486–87

Job (biblical story), 59, 78, 847, 850, 860

Johnson, Phillip E., 75

Johnson, Samuel, 643

Josephus (Flavius), 81, 918

Junius, Johannes, 703–5

Kabakov, Ivan, 470, 538–39, 738

Kadochnikov, Artemy Mikhailovich, 860

Kagan. See Litovsky (Kagan), Osaf; Mironov (Kagan), Lev

Kaganovich, Lazar, 362, 483, 719, 723, 728, 737–38, 755, 793–94, 797, 844, 846

Kalinin Club, 393, 615, 648

Kalmanson, Labori Gilelevich. See Lelevich, G.

Kamanin, Nikolai, 592

Kamenev, Lev, 54, 295, 299, 467, 715, 719, 817

Kamensky, Vasily, 68–69

Kaminsky, Grigory, 439, 737, 747, 754, 863

Kanatchikov, Semen: accusations against/trial of, 784; exile of, 47, 306; family support of, 40; government assignments of, 184, 306; political awakening of, 20, 39, 42; in prison, 44; Soviet literature and, 55–56, 284, 306; on “the Swamp,” 9–10, 14–15; worker origins of, 486; on workers’ family support, 41–42

Kangelari, Valentin, 754, 809

Kaplan, Fannie, 158–59

Kaplan, Rakhil Izrailevna. See Gaister (Kaplan), Rakhil Izrailevna

Kaplan, Veniamin, 522, 548, 830

Karabaeva, Maria Aleksandrovna. See Shaburova (Karabaeva), Maria Aleksandrovna

Karpov, Lev Yakovlevich, 216, 243

Karpov, Viktor, 790

Karutsky, V. V., 429–30

Kashketin-Skomorovsky, Efim, 870

Kataev, Ivan, 842

Kataev, Valentin: Time, Forward!, 363–66, 369, 373, 671

Katsnelson, Z. B., 515–16

Kaverin, Fedor Nikolaevich, 395–405, 462–65, 610, 616–17, 661–62, 664, 837, 933–35

Kaverin, Veniamin: The Two Captains, 896, 954

Kazakhstan, 310–12, 428–35

Kedrov, Mikhail, 235, 383, 441

Kedrova-Didrikil, Olga Avgustovna, 441

Kerensky, Aleksandr, 125

Kerzhentsev (Lebedev), Platon Mikhailovich: apartment of, 380–81, 389, 985; arrest of, 802; civilizing process and, 277–78, 344; on Communism, 298; dacha stays of, 549; death of, 936; government assignments of, 185–86, 381, 509; leisure entertainments of, 510, 524; on Lenin, 219; memory/ritual and, 192–93; personality of, 611; photographs of, 381, 820; in prison, 44; reading and study by, 31, 514; Soviet literature/arts and, 284, 288; on trials/purges, 819; Voronsky and, 55, 306

Kerzhentseva, Maria Mikhailovna, 381, 985

Kerzhentseva, Natalia, 381, 491, 985

Khalatov, Artemy Bagratovich, 276–77, 382–83, 389, 457–59, 488–89, 521–22, 546, 754, 791, 863, 986

Khalatova, Svetlana, 382, 791, 986

Kharitoneniko (Pavel Ivanovich) mansion, 15, 389–90

Khatskevich, A. I., 488

Khatskevich, Lydia, 500

Khatskevich, Zaria, 888, 890

Khmelev, Nikolai, 533

Khmelnitsky, Artem, 879

Khodorovsky, Iosif, 162, 167, 624, 774

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 409, 425, 484, 496–97, 524, 561, 699, 808, 925, 934, 969, 986

Khrushcheva (Kukharchuk), Nina Petrovna, 409, 986

kindergarten (House of Government), 482, 648

kingdom of freedom, 36, 42, 54, 58, 115–17, 147, 291

Kinoroman, 398–99, 401–2

kinship patronage networks, 554

Kirillov (Averky) mansion, 7–8, 319, 389

Kirov, Sergei, 301, 466, 470–72, 481, 614, 684, 686, 699–701, 713, 715, 914

Kirpichnikov, Feliks, 879

Kirshon, V.: Korenkovshchina, 268

Kisis, Elina, 390, 445, 489, 502, 517

Kliachko, Vera Semenovna. See Rabicheva (Kliachko), Vera Semenovna

Klintsova, Anna Zinovievna, 889

Knorin, Vilgelm, 797

Kobulov, B. Z., 654

Kobulova, Lelia, 654

Kogan, Sasha, 894

Kolchak, Alexander, 160

Kolosova, Zinaida. See Granovskaia (Kolosova), Zinaida

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