The Whisperers

School No. 19, 297– 8

show trials (1937–8), 237–8

Soviet Theatre, 609

Sretenskaia Street, 66

Stalin Factory, 444, 512, 515, 536, 538, 539

State Yiddish Theatre, 68

Sukharevka market, 64, 65

as symbol of socialist

utopia, 189

Third House of Soviets, 177–9, 182

Tverskaia (later Gorky) St, 43, 150, 189

victory celebrations, 446–7, 465n

wartime destruction, 457

Yeliseyev store (Grocery No. 1), 158

Young Guard publishing house, 336

Zubov Square, 71, 74–5, 148, 539

Moscow Soviet, 314

and city reconstruction, 149, 150

‘condensation’ policy, 175

Moscow University, 214–15, 435, 468, 474, 510

Moscow–Volga canal, 111, 151, 206, 213

Mosgaz Trust, 165, 379, 381 Moskva journal, 612&n, 622, 623

mothers, working, 11–12

Motovilikha steelworks, 287

Mozhaisk, 292, 360

Muravsky, Valentin, 542–8, 543

Murmansk Railway, 338

Museum of the Armed Forces, 619

Muslim nationalism, 290, 291

MVD, 486, 512, 548

deceives relatives of executed prisoners, 582–3

formation (1946), 464

labour camp guards, 468

murders, 493

official’s suicide, 588

Political Department, 571 See also Cheka; KGB; NKVD; OGPU

names, Soviet, 11n, 31

nannies, 47–50, 48– 50

Narkomfin house, Moscow, 10, 14

nationalism ‘Jewish’, 499, 509–10, 584

Muslim, 290, 291

Soviet-Russian, 487, 509

xenophobic, 487, 493

‘nationalists’, post-war arrests, 467, 468, 469

‘national operations’, 235, 240–41

Nazi movement, 37

anti-Semitic propaganda, 509

propaganda, 420

Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939), 372, 373, 374, 381

Neiman, Julia, 433

Nekrasov, Viktor, 619n

Nenets people, 210

NEP, see New Economic Policy Nestorova, Maria, 528

Netto, Igor, 532n

Netto, Lev, 469, 530, 531–2, 533, 579

Nevskaia, Veronika, 323–4, 323

New Economic Policy (NEP), 6–7, 75, 443, 466

‘bourgeois’ culture and, 7, 16, 157

campaign against, 71–5

class war halted by, 62