The Whisperers

Gaister family, 49, 69, 163, 324, 326, 510, 529

Galitsky, Pavel, 155n

games, childrens’, 24–5, 32– 3

Garmash family, 650

Gavrilov, Boris, 45

Gefter, Mikhail, 432

‘generation of 1941’, 416, 419

generation split (1920s), 40–41

German army battle for Stalingrad, 412, 413

containment, 229

drive south-east, 410

hatred of, 414

Karlshorst, surrender, 446

retreat, 421–2, 441

and Russian winter, 393

siege of Leningrad (1941–4), 334–5, 381, 386–7, 388–9, 419, 444, 648

Soviet counter-offensive (1941–2), 393

German family, 389–91, 491, 545

Germany

Britain and France declare war (1939), 372

invasion of Czechoslovakia, 371, 372

invasion of Poland (1939), 372

invasion of Russia (1941), 379–87

Japanese pact (1936), 236

military aggression, 235

Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939), 372, 373, 374, 381

potential war with, 235–6, 270

Rhineland occupation, 235

See also German army

Gershtein, Emma, 252–3

Gershtein, Margarita, 253–4

Ginzburg, Moisei, 10

Ginzburg, Yevgeniia, 243, 271, 634, 635, 636, 638

Girl of My Dreams, The (Okudzhava), 552–3

Gladkov, Fyodor, 15, 484

glasnost (1980s), 580, 581, 595, 623, 631, 632, 646, 652

Glavlit, 623

Gliner, Zina, 390

Goldenshtein family, 390–92, 544, 546

gold production, 113, 117, 210

Golovina, Antonina, 50, 52– 3, 79, 81, 94, 586, 655 exiled, 94–5, 99–103

family reunited, 121, 122

identity, concealment, 65, 147, 652–3

returns to Obukhovo (1995), 654–6

schooldays, 145–7, 147

at university, 436–7

Golovin family, 43, 50–53, 76–81, 86&n, 94, 99–103, 113, 121, 145, 417n, 586, 655–6

exiled, 94–5, 101–3, 121

forgive denouncer, 586

reunited, 121–2

Golovko, Semyon, 429, 533– 4

Golovnia, Anatoly, 166–8, 168, 169, 195, 254, 366–9, 557

FILMS: The Deserter, 166, 195; Mother, 166; Storm Over Asia, 166

Golovnia, Liuba (nee Ivanova, later Babitskaia), 43, 167–70, 168, 366, 367–9, 557– 9