The Whisperers

Golovnia, Oksana, 43, 44, 167, 168, 169, 170, 254, 366–7, 557, 558–9

Golovnia, Pyotr, 166, 167

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 595, 623

Gorbatov, Anatoly, 272

Gorbatov, Boris, 402&n, 502–3

Gordon, Iosif, 485–6, 574– 5

Gordon, Marianna, 460

Gordon, Nina, 485–6, 574– 5

Gorky, Maksim, 4, 22, 124, 125, 499

and labour camps, 194

and White Sea Canal, 192–3, 194

Goslitizdat (State Publishing House), 195

Gosplan, 49, 163, 466

Gotman, Elfrida, 650–51, 651

Gotman, Rudolf, 424

graffiti, anti-Soviet, 154

grain

crisis (1927–8), 82

harvests, 97–8

hoarding, 78n

requisitioning, 49, 72, 78n, 81, 82, 92

shortage (1920s), 72

state procurement, 72, 97, 98

grandparents

child care, 13, 41

as correspondents, 326

religious faith, 44–6

rescue abandoned children, 317, 318–23, 325–7, 336, 350, 351

as transmitters of traditional values, 41–4

Grankina, Nadezha, 273

‘Great Break’ (1928–32), 84, 136, 153, 160

‘Great Patriotic War’, 652

in collective memory, 637

commemoration, 617, 618– 20

See also Second World War

Great Terror (1937–8), 37, 74, 154, 218, 234–66, 268, 272

collective responsibility of family, 248–9, 300–307, 308

communication in, 251–5, 255–8, 313

and family trust, 298–313

ignorance of, 276–7

justification of, 239–40, 272, 275–6

loyalty and, 191

as mass murder, 234

military purges, 237–9, 383, 422, 615

opposition to, 282–5

origins, 234–6

and orphan numbers, 335

people’s view of, 272–81

propaganda, 261, 273

recantations in, 268–9

silent collusion in, 203–4, 266–7

victims, and Stalin’s death, 525–30

See also arrests; executions; informers; ‘kulak operation’; labour camps; purges; ‘show trials’

Grigorevna, Rakhil, 298

Gromov, Vladimir, 136–7Gromyko, Andrei, 155

Grossman, Vasily, 409–10, 490n, 494, 619

Guberman, Samuil, 231n

Gudzenko, Semyon, 608

Gulag Archipelago

(Solzhenitsyn), 634, 635

Gulag system, 192

abolition, 529–30, 534, 536

amnesty (1956), 424