The Whisperers

trust, Great Terror and, 298–313

truth

based on experience, 273

Party, 273

Revolutionary, 190–91

subjective, 191

Tselmerovsky, Lev, 300

Tukhachevsky, Marshal M. N., 237, 245, 272, 278, 298, 642

Turkin family, 252, 287, 303, 579, 580

Tvardovsky, Aleksandr, 132–6, 523, 591

Tvardovsky family, 132–6

Tychina, Pavlo, 452

Uborevich, General, 237

Uglitskikh, Ivan, 118, 119, 553, 576

Ukraine

anti-Semitism, 509

Hitler and, 386

mortality (1930–33), 98

nationalist partisans, 427

Pioneer Organization, 570

post war famine, 457

Soviet rule, 218, 537

wartime, 418–19, 427– 8

Ukrainians post-war arrests, 467, 468, 469

Ulbricht, Walter, 597

unemployment, 438

Union of Contemporary Architects, 10, 152

United Labour Schools, 20, 22– 3

United Opposition, 72, 237

United States

Israeli alignment with, 493, 494

Jews seen as allies of, 509

Lend-Lease Agreement, 410, 443

POW camps, 531

Simonov visits (1946), 481–2

See also Cold War

universities

admission to, 435–6, 473, 510

‘kulak’ children excluded, 142, 145, 301

post-war expansion, 471

Urals labour camps, 87, 88, 89

‘special settlements’, 93

Ustiuzhna, 79, 80, 81

utopia, Communist, 187–9

Vaigach expedition (1931), 209–13

Vaigach Gulag, 55

values

schools and, 32–3

wartime change, 432, 440

Vavilov, Nikolai, 502

Vavilov, Sergei, 502

Vdovichenko, Viktor, 497

Venivitinov, Dmitry, 229

Verkneuralsk prison camp, 219, 222

Verzhbitsky, N. K., 384, 385, 392

Vesnin Brothers’ architectural workshops, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152

Vetlag Gulag complex, 349

Vetukhnovskaia, Roza, 385–6

VGIK, see All-Union State Film Institute Viatka labour camps, 511, 529, 606

Victory Day, 618, 619– 20

vigilance

lack of, 129, 239, 249, 259, 262, 268

as Soviet virtue, 87, 143, 265, 281, 519

Virag, Terez, 645n

Virgin Lands Campaign, 543–4, 547, 561

Vishlag pulp and paper mill, 116, 117, 118, 214– 15