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xlink:href='#calibre_link-1081'>191, 197, 347

civic defence, 444

and collectivization, 77–81, 84

commitment to proletariat, 10

conformist culture, 344, 461‘cult of struggle’, 73

domination by ‘careerist’ elements, 461

and ‘enemies of the people’, 274–5, 344

ethos (1920s), 30–31

exclusion from, 35, 40, 142, 143, 146, 397

function, 20, 29, 79, 80

hypocrisy of, 615 lishentsy barred, 67

membership, 28

militarism, 417

organizers (Komsorg), 296

portrayed as ‘big family’, 162

privileges, 28

propaganda, 344

purge meetings, 473

renunciation, pressure, 300, 343

‘reviews’, 27

self-criticism, spirit of, 269

and social acceptance, 347, 352–3, 354

student recantations, 268

and Virgin Lands Campaign, 547

volunteer labour, 469

war against ‘kulaks’, 87, 92‘work plans’, 27

Komsomolskaia Pravda, 162, 519

Kondratiev, Nikolai, 223–6, 225

Kondratiev, Viacheslav, 417, 431–2, 433, 448, 618

Kondratieva, Elena (‘Alyona’), 224–6, 225

Kondratieva, Yevgeniia, 224

Konev, Marshal, 418, 465

Konstantinov family, 320–23 (322), 365–6, 567–8, 568

Kopelev, Lev, 92, 191, 575, 606

Korchagin, Ivan, 630–31, 631

Korchagin, Pavel, 43n

Koreans in labour army, 424

seen as spies, 240

social exclusion, 137

Korenkov, Konstantin, 35

Korneichuk, Aleksandr, 497, 592

Kornilov, Vladimir, 41

Korsakov, Vladimir, 648

Kosaryov, Aleksandr, 376

Kosheleva, Galina, 338

Kosior, Stanislav, 248

Kosterina, Nina, 304–5Kostikova, Antonina, 47

Kosygin, Aleksei, 155

Kotlas labour camps, 100, 107, 108, 248, 424

Kovach, Nikolai, 338–41, 343, 547 Krasnaia zvezda newspaper, 383, 397, 399, 401, 506

Krasnodar, 457, 528, 645

Krasnoe Selo, 252, 565

Krasnoiarsk, 427

Krasnokamsk brick factory, 576

Krasnokamsk pulp-and-paper mill, 424, 437

Krasnovishersk, 214–15pulp-and-paper mill, 117, 118

Kremenchug, 62, 141

Kresty jail, 294

Krivitsky, Aleksandr, 519, 625

Krivko, Anna, 301

Kronstadt mutiny (1921), 5, 6, 13

Kropotina, Valentina, 89–90, 90,