The Whisperers

collective farms in, 83

and family, 9

and grain shortage (1920s), 72

housing ownership rights, 71

introduction (1921), 6–7, 93

market mechanism, 6, 65, 83

overturning, 71–5, 224

peasants and, 52, 86

support, 154

working class resentment, 66, 508

New Year customs, 146n, 163

New York Times, 597

Nicholas II, Tsar, 162

Nikitin family, 287–8

Nikolaev, Mikhail, 125–6, 341–3, 559–60

Nikolina Gora, 163, 286

Niva-GES hydro-electric

station, 313, 314

Nizhny Novgorod, 71, 74, 244

Nizovtsev, Pyotr, 11–13, 48, 264

NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs), 216, 431, 557, 631

arrests, opposition to, 283

‘blocking units’, 413

career advancement, 208, 283

children’s labour colonies, 329

and child runaways, 343

complaints to, 459

corruption, 283

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

evidence, fabrication, 231, 234, 235, 237

and families of ‘enemies’, 316

and Great Terror (1937–8), 239, 240, 242

Gulag administration, 208, 426, 631

informers, recruitment, 180, 258–66, 259, 270, 271, 445, 478–81, 587

Katyn massacre (1939), 373

OGPU merger, 113

partisans unit, 469

recruiting grounds, 341

reorganization (1946), 464

and student dissent, 462

torture, use, 303, 427–9 in troikas, 283

Trotsky murders, 248

victims’ passivity, 242

and wartime labour, 423, 424

See also Cheka; KGB; MVD; OGPU

Nomonham Incident (Khalkin Gol), 370–71, 373, 374

Norilsk labour camp complex, 313n, 327, 426–31, 549, 565

conditions, 426–7, 429

Gorlag prison, 530–34

labour force, 327, 430, 468–70

mineral reserves, 327, 426

post-Gulag, 638, 639–41 uprising (1953), 529, 530–34, 579

wages, 470

Norkina, Maia, 330–31

Not by Bread Alone

(Dudsintsev), 592, 615

Novikova, Minora, 177, 182, 186

Novoseltseva, Roza, 275, 439

Novyi mir journal, 483, 484–5, 486, 489, 497, 499, 590, 591, 592, 593, 615