The Whisperers

Dubov family, 137–8

Dudarev family, 305–7, 583

Dudinka, 427

Dudintsev, Vladimir, 592, 615

dug-outs, living in, 100, 101, 110, 173, 189, 397, 457, 576

Dunsky, Iurii, 529, 566

Dzerzhinsky, Feliks, 283, 284

Dzhugashvili, Iakov, 411

Dzhugashvili, Vasily, 395, 402

Eastern China Railway, 240

East Germany, Soviet rule, 537

economy

agricultural sector, terminal decline, 87

boom (1950s), 561

civilian and Gulag, merging, 468

forced labour in, 467

market, return to (1921), 5, 6– 7

mixed, 6–7, 65, 71, 466n

planned, 5–6, 81, 171, 423, 466–7, 471

post-war, 457–8, 466– 7

prisoners’ contribution, 638, 640

reform, discussion of, 444

ruin (1921), 5

tempo, speeding up, 187

wartime, 423, 425– 31,466

See also New Economic Policy (NEP)

‘economy of favours’ (blat), 172, 182

education, Bolshevik policy, 20–25

Ehrenburg, Ilia, 335, 410, 421, 459, 492, 494, 495, 590–91

attacked, 494, 495n

and hate campaign (1941), 414

Simonov and, 591, 625– 6

Eidinov, Aleksandr, 515

Eikhmans, Fyodor, 210

Eisenstein, Sergei, 270

Eismont, N. B., 154

Elagin family, 478–9

Eliashov family, 16–18, 188, 462–4

elite (Soviet),

children of, 276–7

dachas granted to, 161, 163, 165

family and political allegiance, 248

Party members as, 32–3, 68

post-war, 470–73

resentment of, 263–4, 274, 508

Emergency Measures (1928), 82

emigres, return, 482

‘enemies of the people’, 91

belief in, 137, 145, 262, 272, 273, 274–6

children of, 145, 257, 274–5, 435, 452, 473, 474, 510

denunciation, 277, 473, 474

evidence fabricated, 231

families helped, 292–8

families ostracized, 285–92

families separated, 316, 335

hidden, 278

purge (1937–8), 352

See also arrests

Engels, Friedrich, 155n

engineers

acceptance of planned economy, 471

arrest, 113

demand for, 118, 153, 471

purged (1928–32), 153

Epshtein family, 511–12

Erofeev family, 626–7