The Whisperers

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Left Opposition (1920s), 154, 219, 230

‘legality, socialist’, 537

Lend-Lease Agreement, 410, 443

Lenin, V. I., 2

on Bolsheviks, 32

followers of, 579

and mixed economy, 71

and NEP, 6–7, 8, 72

and rebellions (1921), 5, 6

and surveillance, 36

‘Lenin and the Guard’ (Zoshchenko), 489

Leningrad anti-Moscow feeling, 460, 465

anti-Semitism, 511–12

anti-Soviet mood (1941), 385

Astoria Hotel, 14, 192

citizens’ defence, 420

communal apartments, 174, 176, 177, 181, 183, 185

Communist Academy, 204, 205, 207

defence, 444

Ethnographic Museum, 528

Hermitage, 389

House of Pioneers, 329, 330

House of the Soviet, 294

housing conditions (1929), 120–21

housing shortage, 511

Institute of Electrical Engineering, 478

Institute of Pediatrics, 436–7, 652

Institute of Technology, 257

intelligentsia, persecution, 487–92

Kirov Factory, 351

life in, 79–80

mass arrests (1934), 235

Mining Academy, 35

Museum of the Defence of, 466

nobility and bourgeoisie, purging, 192

Party leadership, 465–6

People’s Volunteers, 331

Polytechnic Institute, 344–5, 461, 473, 477

post-war, 461 Public Library, 334, 445–6, 585

Pulkovo Observatory, 365

Red Triangle Factory, 201

siege of (1941–4), 330, 334– 5, 381, 386–7, 388–9, 419, 444, 648

Smolny Institute, 1, 3, 43, 44n, 56, 349, 365, 430

Stalin and, 488

symbolic importance, 386

Workers’ Faculty, 344, 345

‘Leningrad Affair’, 466, 473, 512, 537– 8

Leningrad journal, 488

Leningrad-Murmansk railway, 115–16 ‘Leningrad Opposition’, 237

Leningrad University, 334, 462, 466, 584, 645

Leninskaia smena

newspaper, 632

Leonhard, Wolfgang, 142–3, 189, 191, 259

Lesgaft, Pyotr, 22

Levanevsky, Sigizmund, 384

Levidova, Ada, 432, 440

Levin, Daniil, 570

Levin family, 570, 571, 598, 650

Levitan, Iurii, 460

Lialia ‘special settlement’, Urals, 133

Liberman family, 645–8

Lie, The (Afinogenov), 256–7

Life and Fate (Grossman), 410, 619

Likhachyov, Ivan, 444

Lileyev, Nikolai, 607–8