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and ‘reforging’, 101, 117, 193–4, 196, 206–7, 207, 215

sexual relations in, 362, 364–6

and Stalin’s death, 529–31, 532–4

strikes and protests (1953–4), 529–34

torture in, 303

‘trusties’, 361

victims’ silence, 560, 564, 565, 599–604, 605–7

voluntary workers, 213, 214–15, 469, 567, 576

See also Gulag system

‘labour-educational colonies’, 99

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

See also labour camps Large Soviet Encyclopedia, 117

Laskin, Boris, 611

Laskin, Iakov, 382

Laskin, Mark, 67, 280, 447, 524

Laskin, Moisei, 65

Laskin, Samuil, 64, 65–6, 447, 514, 535, 539, 539–40

in exile, 71, 74–5

fish business, 64, 66, 75, 512

Jewish background, 64, 65, 68–9, 516

Laskin family, 64–9, 67, 382, 408, 447, 487, 512, 514, 535, 539, 539–40, 611–12, 614

and Simonov, 518, 612

Laskina, Berta, 65, 68, 69, 74, 447, 512, 513, 514, 514, 515, 516, 535, 539, 614

Laskina, Fania, 65, 66, 67, 68, 74, 148, 148, 152, 394, 447, 512, 515, 518, 539 Laskina, Sonia, 65, 66–7, 74, 394, 408, 447, 514, 517, 540

release from Vorkuta, 535, 572, 573

and Simonov, 514–15

at Stalin Factory, 512, 539

in Vorkuta, 515–17, 566

Laskina, Yevgeniia (Zhenia), 65, 67, 74, 394, 405, 408, 447, 497, 514, 515, 516–17, 517, 540

marriage to Simonov, 198, 369–70, 370, 377, 394, 401, 402

at Moskva, 612&n, 622, 623

and Simonov, 369–70, 405, 512–13, 515, 517–18, 612

Latvia, Soviet invasion (1939), 372–3

Latvian Rifle Brigade, 469

Latvians post-war arrests, 467, 468, 469

seen as spies, 240

Lazarev, Lazar, 433, 434, 439, 441, 616, 624

Lebedev, Yevgeny, 62, 141

Lebedeva, Elena, 320–23, 322,