The Whisperers

Kharkov University, 69, 301

Khataevich, Mendel, 84–5

Kherson, Noble Assembly, 166, 167

Khrushchev, Nikita, 239, 497

‘anti-Soviet plot’, 536

and Beria, 536, 537

denunciation of Stalin (1956), 575, 593–6, 597–9, 614, 615, 646

growing power, 536, 537, 538, 594

and Simonov, 591

and Stalin Factory Affair, 515 ‘Thaw’, 433, 486, 504, 561, 562, 593, 599, 604–5, 611, 616, 619

Kiev

Babi Yar massacre (1941), 570, 571

German capture (1941), 387

Gorky Tank Factory, 527

recaptured (1943), 422

Kipling, Rudyard, 268

Kirov, Sergei, 169, 192, 201, 234–5, 236, 264, 265

Kirov Ballet, 648

Kirov mine, Khakasin, 104

Kirsanov, Semyon, 400

Kliueva, Nina, 492

Kogan, Rebekka, 69

Kogan, Rita, 417–19

Kolchak, Admiral Aleksandr, 4, 227–8

Kolchina, Klavdiia, 293

Kolibin, Pronia, 129

kolkhoz (collective farms), 76, 88

brigades, 96–7

campaign for, 79

failure of, 96, 97– 8

forced organization, 84, 85, 128

grain stealing, 129

growth, 83

‘kulaks’ and, 86, 103, 118

opposition to, 76–7, 84, 85, 93, 94, 124, 128, 154

peasants leave, 93, 98

post-war demographic loss, 457

production, 83, 96– 7

refusal, 106, 128

second wave, 93–4

strikes on, 442

TOZy, 83

Virgin Lands Campaign, 544, 547, 561

voting for, 81, 85, 128

workers’ livestock, 158

Kolobkov, Viacheslav, 242

Koltsov, Mikhail, 267, 485

Kolyma gold-fields, 56, 117, 208

Kolyma labour camps, 55, 206, 223, 265, 268, 281, 402n, 435, 567, 570, 576, 602–3, 636, 638, 650

Kolyma Tales (Shalamov), 117–18, 607

Komi labour camps, 106, 107, 607–8, 651

Komsomol (Communist Youth League), 28–30, 39, 45, 126, 303, 304, 343–4, 480, 560, 561

admission to, 29, 47,