siege of Moscow White House, 501; Presidency of Georgia, 512
Shevchenko, Taras, 203, 368
Shkiryatov, M.F., 213
Shklovski, Viktor, 248
Shlyapnikov, Alexander, 118, 161
‘shock therapy’, 534
Shokhin, Alexander, 512
Sholokhov, Mikhail, 201
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 249, 281, 319, 573
show trials: of Socialist-Revolutionaries (1922), 128; of Shakhty engineers (1928), 175; of ‘Industrial Party’ (1930), 185; of supposed nationalist opponents, 200
Shushkevich, Stanislav, 506
Sikhinova, Xenia (Miss World 2008), 559
Silaev, Ivan, 495, 500
Simonov, Konstantin, 284
Singing Together (pop duo), 558
Sinyavski, Andrei, 381, 390
Skobelev, Mikhail, 36–7
Skokov, Yuri, 512
Skoropadskyi, Hetman Pavlo, 84
Skrypnik, Mykola, 200
Slensky, Rudolf, 311
slave labour
Slavs, 283
Slivyak, Vladimir, 556
Slovaks, 103
Slutski, Boris, 191
Smirnov, A.P., 188
Smolensk, 136, 146, 261
Sobchak, Anatoli, 548
social acquiescence
social sciences, 419
Social Democratic Party (Germany)
Social-Democrats of Russian Empire
‘Socialism in One Country’, 156, 159, 177
Socialist Revolutionaries, Party of, 14–15, 19–20, 29, 35, 45–6, 48–9, 51–3, 58–9; anti-capitalism, 62–3; and October Revolution, 65–6; non-cooperation with Lenin’s 1917 government, 67; and land redistribution, 68; and Constituent Assembly election, 74, 81; excluded from Sovnarkom, 74; repressed by Bolsheviks, 93; flee to Samara, 101; Kolchak’s coup against, 106; excluded from soviets, 107; purged, 128, 185; denounced, 134; excluded from politics, 161; and opposition to Bolshevik Party, 188
socialists: co-operate with Provisional Government, 46; seek end to World War I, 51–2; demand radical change, 63; and Lenin’s ideas, 63–4, 529; anti-communist, 82
social welfare, 305, 406, 534, 558
Sokolnikov, Grigori, 78, 102
Sokurov, Alexander, 543
soldiers
Solidarity movement (Poland), 411
Soloukhin, Vladimir, 415;
Soloviev, Yuri, 473
Solovki island (White Sea), 478
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 224, 298, 366, 412–14, 476, 511;
Sorge, Richard, 259
South Korean airliner KAL-007, 432
South Osetiya, 560
Soviet Army (
Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, St Petersburg, 14, 35–6, 47
soviets: support Bolsheviks, 58; as alternative government, 60; and October Revolution, 62, 474; power under October Revolution, 69; size, 73; working-class apathy on, 83
sovkhozes (collective farms), 183, 224, 243, 350, 440, 470;
Sovnarkom
Spain: economic improvement, 398
Spanish Civil War, 154, 230
Spanish Communist Party, 398
Spartacus, 93
Spartakists (Germany), 112
Special Transcaucasian Committee, 60
spies: anxiety over, 249–50
Spitak (Armenia): 1988 earthquake, 468
sport, 140, 191, 247, 357, 420–21;
sputniks, 351
SS-20 missiles, 400
Stakhanov, Aleksei (and Stakhanovism), 217, 244
Stalin, Iosif: favours co-operation with Mensheviks, 47; supports Lenin’s plan to seize power, 61; aims to retain old empire, 69; relations with Lenin, 72, 151, 153, 196–7; and 1918 peace agreement, 77; aims for unitary state, 83; Georgian origins, 85, 195–6, 201, 315; antipathy to Trotski, 112; in Politburo, 112; federalism and republics, 114, 129–30, 132; and Georgian nationalism, 133; cultivates common touch, 142; opposes Trotski at 11th Party Congress, 151; as Party General Secretary, 151, 157; Lenin criticizes, 152, 174, 227, 339; and Lenin’s death, 153; and succession to Lenin, 154–5, 157, 197; attacks Trotski, 156; on ‘socialism in One Country’, 156, 159, 177; manner and methods, 157, 175, 315; defeats United Opposition, 160, 162, 164; discontinues NEP, 164, 172, 187, 190, 275; opposes higher agricultural prices, 164; hardens policies, 169, 171–6, 195; orders grain collection, 170, 172, 174; introduces first Five-Year Plan, 171–8, 182, 188, 190, 198–9; and industrial development, 175–6, 194,