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Estonia, 372–3, 469, 470, 531

Estonians, post-war arrests, 467, 468, 469

Etinger, Iakov, 521

etiquette, 158–9eviction, 57, 107, 115, 141, 174, 219, 250, 256, 266, 286, 288, 290, 291, 292, 305, 308, 324, 367, 509, 660

executions (1930s), 238–9, 241, 248, 285, 311

exiles, 192, 201, 248, 292

children, 106, 108, 116, 143, 145, 297, 320, 350, 351, 353, 354, 356, 358–9, 363–4, 462

escape, 105–10

and family, value, 218

‘kulaks’, 85, 87–91, 93, 94, 95, 99–106, 186

parcels sent to, 142, 203, 278, 311, 331, 332, 359, 360, 361

‘specialists’, 214–15, 216

factories

transported east (1941), 388, 423

wartime destruction, 457

Factory Apprentice Schools (FZU), 63, 64, 118, 138, 139, 153

Fadeyev, Aleksandr, 3n, 461n, 482, 494–5&n, 495, 496, 498, 589–90

Fadeyev, Seryozha, 129

Faivisovich family, 326, 568– 70 (569), 599–600, 644–5

family

as basic unit of state, 162

bourgeois, 8

collective responsibility for crime, 248–9, 300–307, 308

disintegration, 99

egotism of, 82

eradication, 8–9, 10–11, 160

patriarchal, 50, 53

‘petty-bourgeois’, 20

as primary unit of production and consumption, 9

reconstitution (1945–6), 449

renouncing, 130–32

restoration, 161–4

sexual politics, 164

stability under pressure, 540–48

trust, Great Terror and, 298–313

value placed on, 218

family life

influences on, 48–50

prisoners and, 216–17, 220– 26

famine (1921), 5–6, 43, 49 (1932–3), 81, 98, 103–4, 273

post-war, 457

Far Eastern Army, 289

Far Eastern Timber Trust, 289

farming, see agriculture

Far North labour camps, 112, 113, 123, 357, 362, 467, 515, 517

Fascism, struggle against, 37, 192, 200, 230, 236, 373, 374

fashion, 159

fear, 255, 603, 652

children’s, 352