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and Norilsk strike, 533

rape of Okunevskaia, 402n

Berlin, Isaiah, 488

Berman, Matvei, 100

Berzin, Eduard, 116–17, 118, 215, 526, 633

Bezgodov, Viktor, 355

Bezymensky, Aleksandr, 286

Bikin transit camp, Khabarovsk, 629–30

Bindel, Riab, 273–4

biographies, spoilt, 199, 401, 462, 476, 598, 647

concealment from authorities, 131, 137, 147, 167, 329, 334, 473–8, 473–9, 563–4, 598, 599, 601, 603, 604

concealment from families, 147, 548, 601, 649–50, 652, 653–4

consequences of, 199, 436, 473, 476, 510, 647

remedying, 262, 344–5, 347, 401, 435, 473, 478

wartime relaxation of controls, 435

See also questionnaires

birthrate, decline (1930s), 160

Black Book, The (Grossman & Ehrenburg), 494

black market, 172, 242

black people, 183–4

Bliukher, Marshal V. K., 289

Bobrovskaia, Tsetsiliia, 288

Bolshevik Cake Factory, 138

Bonner, Elena, 14, 36–7, 42, 243, 285, 289, 295–6, 540–41

Bonner family, 14, 36–7, 41–3, 48, 137, 540–41

Borshchagovsky, Aleksandr, 490, 494, 497–501, 501, 502, 622

Botova, Afanasia, 581–2‘bourgeois culture’, 7, 8, 16

bourgeoisie post-war, 470–73

‘Red Terror’ against, 5

repression, 136

return feared, 72–3

Soviet, emergence (mid 30s), 157–63

‘bourgeois specialists’, 42, 55, 73, 113, 153

Bragin family, 435, 437, 526

Brezhnev, Leonid, 155

political clampdown, 605, 616–17, 623

and wartime suffering, 621

Brik, Lilia, 625

Britain

appeasement policy, 371

declares war on Germany (1939), 372

negotiations with Soviet Union (1939), 372

Briukhova, Marfa, 326

Brodsky, Iosif, 646, 648

Bronshtein, Katia (nee German), 545n

Bronshtein, Svetlana, 511, 606–7

Bronshtein, Vera, 511, 529

Bubennov, Mikhail, 519

Budkevich family, 14, 245, 286–7, 343–4, 583–4

Bukharin, Nikolai, 9, 309

alleged crimes, 238, 272, 276

on Moscow Master Plan, 150

and NEP, 6–7, 71, 72, 83, 154

recants (1934), 197

Right Opposition, 230

Stalin and, 72, 74, 595