The Whisperers

cult, 124–5, 129, 162, 297, 300, 303, 341

Moscow Arbat area, 148, 149, 293, 512

Architectural Institute, 215

Avtozavod Station, 151, 151

battle for (1941), 330, 384, 392–3, 394, 395, 419

Bolotnaia Square, 65

Bolshevik seizure of power (1917), 511

Bolshoi Theatre, 66, 163

Butyrki jail, 75, 215–16, 250, 261, 285, 308, 310, 311, 324, 395

citizens’ defence, 420

Comintern Hotel, 168–9

Committee of Artists, 293

communal apartments, 174–7

Danilov Monastery detention centre, 314, 336–7, 343

Dinamo, 532n

Electromechanical Institute, 478

Energy, 214–15 energy supplies, 165

Experimental School (MOPSh), 297

Film School, 475, 564

First Meshchanskaia St, 66, 70

food, 170–71, 392

Gorky Film Studios, 574, 575

Gorky Literary Institute, 198, 199, 200, 259, 267–8, 369, 374, 408, 486, 487

Gorky Street, 150, 158, 189, 484, 498, 608

Historical-Literary Society, 634n

Hotel Lux, 231

House on the

Embankment, 163, 219, 228, 241–2, 249, 324

housing shortage (1930s), 120, 149, 152–3, 172

informers, 258

Institute of Economics and

Science, 650

Institute of Soviet Law, 204

Jewish population, 68

Jewish Theatre, 493, 494, 496, 515, 536

Kamerny Theatre, 376

Kremlin Hospital, 521

labour camps, 151

Lefortovo prison, 311, 515

Lenin Komsomol Theatre, 374, 375, 376

Lenin Mausoleum, 150, 447

living space, 172

Lubianka prison, 284, 606

Maiakovsky Station, 151, 151

Master Plan for Reconstruction, 149–50, 189

Memorial Society, 587, 634n

Metro system, 149, 150– 51, 468

NEP and, 6, 65

Palace of the Soviets, 150, 151

pay rates, 171

Pedagogical Institute, 510

Polytechnic Museum, 489

population growth (1930s), 149poverty (1930s), 119–20

Power Engineering Institute, 562

private housing, 153, 160– 61

propaganda, 149

Red Square, 150

Revolution Day parade (1941), 393

Riabushinsky mansion, 194

St Basil’s Cathedral, 150