The Whisperers

Stalin’s defeat, 71

trial and execution, 238, 297, 309

Bulat family, 335–6, 449

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 194, 489, 622

Bulgakova, Elena, 408, 622, 623

Bulganin, Nikolai, 536, 537

bullying, 393, 528

in orphanages, 319, 335, 340

in school, 289, 307, 334, 348, 417, 512

in university, 348, 354

Bunin, Ivan, 482

burials, 54

Bushuev family, 316–20, 356–9, 455, 456, 458, 475–6, 525, 556–7, 580, 581, 600–601, 601, 606 316, 317, 318, 358, 359, 455, 600

Bykov, Rolan, 185

careerists, 29, 266, 461, 472, 474

carnivals, 159

cattle, numbers, 93

Caucasus, German successes in, 410, 429

Cement (Gladkov), 15

censorship, 623

labour camp letters, 218

relaxation, 561 (1960s), 605, 621

wartime, 371, 383, 443, 464

Central Committee, 230, 231, 458

decree against Akhmatova/ Zoshchenko (1946), 488, 489, 491, 500n

and dissent (1956), 597

Kliueva/Roskin censure, 492

members’ execution or imprisonment (1937–8), 238

Central Control Commission, 35, 36

Central House of Literature, 623, 624

Chapaev (Furmanov), 59

Chaplin, Charles, 482

Chausova, Maria, 164–6, 166

Chechens, 420, 424

Chechik, Elizaveta, 185

Chechneva, Marina, 407

Cheka, 30, 36, 58, 167, 283, 293

See also KGB; MVD; NRVD; OGPU

Cheliabinsk, 43, 167, 394, 405, 460, 462, 476, 511

Cheliuskin, SS, 220

Cherdyn, 39–40, 118, 347–8, 553, 576

Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk, 104, 450

Cherkassy orphanage, 450–52

Cherkesov, Vsevolod, 582

Cherkesova, Elena, 559, 582

Cherkesova, Svetlana, 296–7

Chermoz, 297, 348

‘special settlement’, 103, 353–4, 355

Chernoutsin, Igor, 595–6

childcare, 41–50

grandmothers’ role, 41–5

as mother’s role, 161

children

abandoned, 99, 106–7, 160, 285, 289–92, 329–35

of arrested parents, 221–3, 224–6, 246–7, 249,