The Whisperers

on Russians, importance, 487

and satire, 489

on selflessness, 2

and Serova, 377

Short Course, The, 156, 354, 511

and Simonov, 402, 491, 497, 498, 504, 505

on socialism, 158

and Soviet writers, 192

and Spanish Civil War, 230, 236

and ‘struggle’, 73–4, 124, 191

support, 352, 410–11, 433, 463, 475, 477, 480, 507, 560

and victory, 447

view of politics, 236

and ‘Wait For Me’, 401

wartime leadership, 383, 384–5, 386, 392, 393, 395, 410, 411, 413, 422, 605, 615–16, 619

Western influences, campaign against, 488

and White Sea Canal, 114

and Zhukov, 465

See also Great Terror (1937–8)

Stalin Factory Affair, 515, 536, 538

Stalingrad (later Volgograd)

battle (1942), 412, 413, 418, 419

mourning site, 619

post-war gender imbalance, 457

Soviet counter-offensive, 418

Stalinsk, 110

Starostin, Andrei, 532n

state commission stores, 172, 333

State Museum of Modern Western Art, 492

Stavsky, Vladimir, 267–8, 269, 270, 280–81, 371

steel, production, 426, 427

Stepan Razin (Zlobin), 507–8

Streletsky, Dmitry, 87–9, 103, 275, 297, 353–6, 355

Streletsky, Iurii, 387–8, 477– 8

Streletsky, Nikolai, 89

Streletsky family, 103

Stroikov family, 215, 216– 17, 292–3

students

as informers, 478–81

post-war dissent, 460–64

post-war expansion, 471

recantations, 268

Subbotniki, 27n

Sukhobezvodny labour camp, 349, 350

Surkov, Aleksei, 414, 506, 520

surveillance

level of, 258

mutual, 35, 37, 180

system of, 34–40, 174, 180, 264, 385, 464, 605

See also informers

survival mechanisms, 601

conformism strategy, 277, 472–8

memories, suppression, 604

Suslov, Mikhail, 619, 625

Suzdal special isolation prison camp, 38

Sverdlov, Iakov, 3, 4

Sverdlovsk, 395

Mining Institute, 354

University, 436

synagogues, closure, 68

Tagirov family, 290–92 (291)

Taishet labour camp, 430

Taisina, Razeda, 251

Tambov uprising (1921), 38