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xlink:href='#calibre_link-2417'>507, 510, 616, 622, 624–5

‘slave rebellions’, 529–30

specialists in, 35, 56, 213

traders and, 75

urban nature, 126

values, 186, 188, 618

wartime criticism of, 434, 438–40, 442, 443, 444–6

wartime relaxation, 432, 434, 435, 437– 8

wartime victory and, 618

and women, 163–4

writers and, 256, 270, 590

Soviet Union air force, 376

and Allies, 443

anti-Semitism, 420, 508– 12, 518, 521, 570, 646, 647, 648

border conflict with Japan, 371

Britain, negotiations with (1939), 372

collective leadership, 536

cultural/political superiority, 487

ethnic divisions, 420

foreign policy (1930s), 229–30, 236

international threat (1937–8), 235–6

invasion of Baltic States (1939), 372–3

invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968), 541n

invasion of Finland (1939), 373

invasion of Poland (1939), 372, 373

joins League of Nations (1934), 229

Lend-Lease Agreement, 443

mineral reserves, 113, 327, 426, 427, 533, 639

national unity, wartime, 419–20, 440

speed of change (early 1930s), 189

wartime devastation, 455–8

See also Russia; Soviet regime

Spain, Popular Front government (1936), 230

Spanish Civil War, 200, 230, 236, 267, 373, 376

Spaso-Yefimeyev Monastery, Suzdal, 224

‘special settlements’, 87, 88, 101 conditions in, 100– 103

escapes from, 105–10

for ‘kulaks’, 93, 100, 353

population reduction, 102

runaways from, 242

wages, 354

spoilt biographies, see biographies, spoilt

SR, see Socialist Revolutionary Party

Stakhanov, Aleksei, 159n

Stakhanovism, 159 & n, 416, 427, 429, 430, 640

Stalin, Iosif

and Afinogenov, 256

agricultural policy, 82, 83– 4, 93, 564

and Akhmatova, 489

‘anti-cosmopolitan’ campaign, 494–503, 508, 509, 518, 521, 625

belief in, 275, 300, 460

body moved from Lenin’s Mausoleum, 604

on bourgeois culture, 7

breakdown (1941), 384

and Bukharin, 72, 74

bureaucrats, 156, 157

children, 161n

children’s loyalty to, 300, 303, 341, 342, 344

Civil War humiliation, 240–41

and Civil War virtues, 73

and collective responsibility of family, 248–9

and Comintern, 230–31, 234

on Communists, 31

and consumerism, 158, 159