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Obolenskaia, Aleksandra, see Ivanisheva, Aleksandra

Obolenskaia, Daria (‘Dolly’), 61, 201–2, 203, 573

Obolenskaia, Liudmila (later Tideman), 61, 201, 202, 203, 573–4

Obolenskaia, Sonia, 61, 202, 203, 204, 573

Obolensky, Leonid, 56

Obolensky, Nikolai, 61

Obolensky family, 56, 58, 201–4

Obruchev, Vladimir, 12

Obukhovo village, 50, 51, 52, 53, 76–81, 121, 586, 654–6

kolkhoz, 76, 93–4, 146

‘October children’, 21

October Revolution (1917), see Revolution (1917)

OGPU (political police), 32–3, 80, 81, 112, 195, 216, 349

Cultural-Educational Department, 198

informers, recruitment, 39, 144‘kulaks’, quotas, 87, 144

and labour camps, 112, 113, 114, 116

NKVD merger, 113

on peasants, 84

searches, 62, 140– 41

‘special settlements’, 93, 100

and White Sea Canal tour (1933), 192, 194 See also Cheka; KGB; MVD; NKVD Oklander, Sofya, 567

Okorokov family, 108–10

Okudzhava, Bulat, 552–3

Okunevskaia, Tatiana, 402&n

Old Believers, 48n, 215, 242, 264

Old Bolsheviks, 230, 281

Great Purge (1937), 154, 155

mass arrests, 231&n

seen as Jews, 420, 508

show trials, 235, 248

spartan cult, 14–19, 30, 157, 161

Olgino, dacha resort, 55, 56, 208, 209, 213

Olgino orphanage, 339–40

Olitskaia, Yekaterina, 46–7Omsk, 283, 354, 388, 389, 525, 629

Agricultural Institute, 354

Factory No. 174

strike, 458–9

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

(Solzhenitsyn), 604–5

Oparino orphanage, 338

Orakhelashvili, Ketevan, 364–5, 365

Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, 267

Orenburg, 201, 202, 203, 573

Orlov, Vladimir, 520

Orlova, Liubov, 557–8

Orlova, Raisa, 188–9

Orlova, Vera, 176–7

orphans bullied, 319, 335, 340

damaged, 335

labour, 342

mutual support groups, 340

names, changed, 125–6, 316, 327, 342

numbers, 99, 329, 335 See also children’s homes, orphanages

Orsha, 65, 66, 382

Ortenberg, David, 420, 506– 7Osipenko, Polina, 377

Osipovichi, Belarus, 106, 108, 260

Osorgin family, 253