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as bourgeois convention, 30

as camouflage, 137–8

certificates, 161

civil, 10

de facto, 10

encouraged in 1930s, 161

with foreigners, 493

inherited fear and, 649–51

labour camps, 566–71

patriarchal, 8

secrecy in, 649–50, 653

Martinelli family, 553–4

Marx, Karl, 8, 463

Master and Margarita, The (Bulgakov), 622–3

Matveyev, Vladimir, 426

Mazina, Antonina, 450, 451

Medvedev family, 127–8

Medvezhegorsk labour camp, 195–6

Meir, Golda, 493

memoirs, 633–7

Memorial Society, 587, 634n

memories borrowed, 634

intermingling with myth, 633

suppression, 604

traumatic, 634

Mensheviks, 3n, 18, 39, 218

Merridale, Catherine, 607, 637

Meshalkin family, 650–51, 651, 654

Mesunov, Anatoly, 111

Metropol’, 626–7

Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 280

Mezhrabpomfilm studios, 167–8, 195, 198, 366, 557

MGB, 464, 465, 515, 521, 564

See also Cheka; KGB; NKVD; OGPU

Miachin, Ivan, 265

middle class

NEP and, 7

post-war, 470–73

Soviet, emergence, 157–63

Mikheladze family, 364

Mikhoels, Solomon, 68, 493, 494, 496, 536

Mikoian, Anastas, 137, 460, 538, 540

Military-Medical Academy, Petrograd, 13

military purges (1946–8), 464–5, 625 (1930s), 237–9, 383, 422, 615

Miller, Henry, 499

Milosz, Czeslaw, 472

minorities deportation and execution (1937–8), 240–41

post-war arrests, 467, 468, 469

Minsk Front, 411

German forces capture, 381

recapture (1944), 441

seizure of power (1917), 164

Minusova, Vera, 26, 26, 27, 643, 643– 4, 649

Mironov, Mikhail, 329–30

Mirsky, Dmitry, 193, 194

Mogilyov battle (1941), 628

jail, 205

Moiseyenko, Mitrofan, 181–2

Moiseyev family, 254

Molostvov, Mikhail, 646

Molotkov, Boris, 264

Molotov (V. M. Skriabin), 379, 481, 522

and Beria, 537

and Great Terror, 239, 249, 594

Khrushchev and, 538, 604

and Piatnitsky, 231–2

Mongolia Japan’s imperial ambitions, 371

under Soviet influence, 371

MOPR, see International Society of Workers’ Aid morality Communist, 244

subordinated to needs of Revolution, 33

Morozov, Pavlik, 122–5, 126, 129, 261