The Whisperers

Arctic, 55, 213

Beria’s plans for, 527, 530

change in prisoners’ values and priorities, 218

children in, 99

cities, 426

and civilian economy, merging, 468

economic motive, 112

as form of industrialization, 116–17, 214, 467–70

labour force, 81, 467, 468

legal justification for, 206

legitimation of, 193

letters from, 218, 220– 22

mass release (1945–6), 449

material incentives in, 468, 470

memoirs, 633–7

mortality, wartime, 426

officials, 631, 632– 3

population growth, 208, 234, 467

relaxation (1950), 516–17

‘special installations’, 629

specialists in, 214

in wartime economy, 423, 425–31

See also labour camps; prisoners; ‘special settlements’

Gumilyvov, Nikolai, 268

Gurevich, Mikhail, 558

Gusev, Sergei (Iakov Drabkin), 1–2, 3–4, 36, 430

Hasek, Jaroslav, 622

hierarchy, see social hierarchy

higher education

entry to, 63, 435–6, 473, 510

lishentsy barred, 66, 74

post-war expansion, 471

unreliables, weeding out, 478–9

See also universities Hindus, Maurice, 96

History of European Philosophy (Aleksandrov), 492

History of the CPSU, The, 343

Hitler, Adolf, 191, 235, 371–4, 386–7,

holidays, 12, 46, 159, 161, 163

homelessness, 99, 457

‘honour courts’, 492

‘hooliganism’, 575

housekeepers, 13

housing

austerity, 14–19, 161

‘condensation’ policy, 9, 174– 5

lishentsy barred, 74

nationalization, 74

ownership rights, NEP, 71

policy change (1930s), 152–3

postwar crisis, 457, 458

private family, 153, 160– 61, 162–3, 168–9

private ownership, abolition, 74

shortage (1930s), 120–22, 172, 174

See also communal apartments; eviction

How the Steel Was Tempered (Ostrovsky), 43n

Hungary, Uprising (1956), 575, 614, 616

Iagoda, Genrikh, 112, 113, 237, 238

Iakir, General, 237–8, 272

Iakovlev, Aleksandr, 595

Iakovlova, Nina, 38–9

Iakutsk rebellion (1927), 208

Ianin, Vladimir, 275

Ianson, N. M., 113

Iaroslav jail, 430

Iaskina, Olga, 641

Ideology and Utopia

(Mannheim), 187

Ielson-Grodziansky family, Dina, 361, 362, 554–5

Ilin family, 244–5, 449– 54, 561–3

individualism