The Whisperers

eradication, 1, 2, 3–4, 8–9, 30

peasants, 50

industrialization, 67, 72, 81, 111, 564

industrial terror (1928–32), 153

industry internal market proposal, 444

labour force, 5, 81, 83, 98, 355, 423–5, 467, 526

post-war priorities, 458

wartime reorganization, 422–3

inflation, 1920s, 72

informers, 251, 258–71, 478–81

children, 107, 122–6, 129

confronted by victims, 583–9

forced, 259

material rewards, 265–6

motives, 39, 259, 261–3, 264–6, 478–80, 587

recruitment, 144, 259–61, 262, 267

registered, 258

‘reliables’, 258–9

voluntary, 259

Institute of Foreign Trade, 13

Institute of Librarians, 156

Institute of Peat, 165

Institute of Red Professors, 49

Institute of Steel, 67

Inta labour camp, 529, 536, 566

intelligentsia

attacks on, 5, 241, 487–94, 494, 506, 648

barred from universities, 63

children of, 471

and Fadeyev, 589

and freedom of speech, 597–9

‘lishentsy’, 39n

NEP and, 7

and political reform, 443

proletarian, 153

public service ethos, 55

and Soviet regime, 53–64, 190, 488

support for Bolsheviks, 593

values, 15, 16, 296, 485, 591

women, 11

Internationale, 17, 92, 414

internationalism, 67, 487, 494, 509

International Society of Workers’ Aid (MOPR), 64

Ioganson, Boris, 653, 654

Iosilevich, Aleksandr, 349, 350

Isaev, Mikhail, 276

Israel, 493, 494, 509, 515

Iurasovsky, Alexei, 648–9

Iusipenko, Mikhail, 358, 364, 631–2, 632

Ivanishev, Aleksandr, 58, 60, 63, 203, 394–5, 405

arrest, 139–41, 142, 202, 278

and Laskin family, 516

military principles, 58–9, 200, 406

Ivanisheva, Aleksandra (nee Obolenskaia), 56–8, 60, 201, 202, 203, 394–5, 513, 514

criticizes Simonov, 403–6, 514

and Laskin family, 394–5, 516

and Serova, 404

Ivanov, Vsevolod, 622

Ivanova, Elizaveta, 338

Ivanova, Marina, 162–3

Ivanova, Tamara, 193

Izmail-Zade, Ibragim, 585–6

Iznar, Natalia, 571–2

Izvestiia, 201, 486

JAFC, see Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee