The Whisperers

consumer culture, Soviet (mid-30s), 158–9, 166

consumer goods, 467

demand (1928–), 119

post-war shortage, 457, 458–9

consumer industries, 466n

investment in, 157–60

conversations, private, 36–40, 183–4, 251–5

Cooper, Gary, 482

cooperative sector, 466n

Cossacks, 429

cremation, 54n

Crimea, Soviet Germans, 651

Crimean Tatars, 420, 424

Criminal Code, 82, 204

criminal responsibility, age of, 99, 247–8, 329

currency reform (1947), 467

Czechoslovakia

German invasion (1939), 371, 372

Soviet invasion (1968), 541n, 623

dachas, 161, 163, 165, 169, 184

Dallag Gulag complex, 553

Dalstroi (Far Northern Construction Trust), 117, 215, 602, 632, 633

dancing, 159

Daniel, Iulii, 605

Daniets, Aleksandr, 430–31

Danilova, Natalia, 253

Darvina, Anna, 429

death certificates, fabricated, 582

Decembrists, 543

Degtiarev, Aleksandr, 578

Delibash, Elizaveta, 349–53, 351, 645–8

Delibash, Nina, 349, 350

Democratic Party (Norilsk), 531–2

Denikin, Anton, 218

denunciation, 35–40, 259, 261–2

by children, 122–6, 128, 129–30

denouncers confronted, 583–9

forgiveness for, 586–7

for living space, 173

lovers, unwanted, 265

motivated by malice, 263–5

rhetoric of, 137

Russian culture of, 36

Diakonov, Volodia, 271

diary-writing, 255–8, 280, 309

Dimitrov, Georgi, 229

disappearances, 87, 272, 276, 278, 280, 305, 646

‘dissidents’, persecution, 605

dissimulation, as survival skill, 472–8, 563–4, 598

Ditsklan, Aleksei, 210

divorce, 160, 161, 173, 305

Dmitrov labour camp, 213

Dmitruk, Vasilina, 427–9

Dobriakova, Alina, 184

Doctors’ Plot (1948), 521, 522, 527, 528, 529, 627

Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak), 431, 593&n

Dolgun, Aleksandr, 634

Dolmatovsky, Yevgeny, 29, 199, 269–70, 409

Simonov’s denunciation, 269–70, 369

Dovzhenko, Aleksandr, 442

Drabkin, Iakov, see Gusev, Sergei

Drabkina, Elizaveta, 1–2, 3, 4, 349, 430–31

Drozdov family, 26, 214– 15, 217, 252, 365, 469–70, 526, 565–6, 579, 632–3

Dubcek, Alexander, 623