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Priestley, J. B., 482

priests arrest, 85, 113, 347, 348

social exclusion, 136, 137

under Soviet regime, 54

Prishvin, Mikhail, 251, 255– 6, 257–8, 440

prisoners amnesty (1945–6), 467, 468

amnesty (1953–4), 530, 534, 535–7, 538, 539, 542, 552–73

amnesty (1956), 424

attitudes towards, 575

camp marriages, 566–71

children, conception, 364, 570

commitment to Soviet ideal, 578

compensation, 580–81

contribution to economy, 638, 640

correspondence, 142, 203, 218, 220–22, 224–6, 278, 311, 322, 359, 360–61, 368

demand for human dignity, 532–3, 534

effect of labour camps on, 553–60, 563, 571–2

employment on release, 575–6

and family, 218

fear of rearrest, 605–7

friendships, 565–72

Gulag change in values

and priorities, 218

housing on release, 572–5

informers, confronted, 583–9

in labour force, 467

loyalty to regime, 360

memoirs, 633–7

murder (1937–8), 234

patriotic pride, 447

political, 536, 538, 575

politics on release, 561–3, 564–5

promotion, 208‘redeeming guilt’, 425

rehabilitation (1953–7), 576–80

release certificates, 572, 573, 576

secrecy about fate, 581–3

silence on release, 560, 564, 565, 599–604, 605–7

speaking out, 598–9

and Stalin’s death, 529–31, 532–4

stoicism, 607

unknown crimes, 241

visits, 517

work for Gulag after release, 213, 214–15, 567, 576 See also

‘reforging’ (perekovka)

prisoners-of-war (POWs) Axis nationalities, 467

‘filtration camps’, 469, 531

German, 467

Soviet, 469–70, 531

US camps, 531

privacy, 161, 173

communal apartments

and, 180, 182–4 private housing, 152

private life, 7

public scrutiny, 34–40, 160, 183, 474

rejection of idea, 160

subordination to Party, 1, 2, 3–4, 8–9, 19

private property attitudes towards, 168, 169

eradicated, 5, 9

peasants’ loss, 97

return to (mid 30s), 158

Prokofiev, Sergei, 492

Proletarians of Zion, 70

‘proletariat’ dilution, 136

portrayed as ‘big family’, 162

propaganda, 111, 113,