The Whisperers

Vishnevsky, Vsevolod, 443

Vishniakova, Nina, 28–9

Vitkevich, Maria, 606

Vitkovsky, Dmitry, 114

Vittenburg, Pavel, 55–6, 113, 208–14, 209, 212, 275–6

Vittenburg family, 55–6, 56, 208–14, 217

Vladivostock, Siberia, 55, 331–2

Vlasov, Vladimir (Zikkel), 475

Vlasova, Olga, 475

Voitinsky family, 18–19 (19)

Volga–Don Canal, 468, 591

Volga Germans, 420

in labour army, 424

social exclusion, 137

Volkonskaia, Elena, 44n

Vologda region, 52, 79, 100

Volovich, Hava, 362–4

Vorkuta labour camps, 248, 329, 515, 517, 535

friendships, 566

uprising (1953), 529

Vorobyov family, 327–9 (328)

Voronezh, 75

Komsomol, 126

loss (1942), 410

post-war gender imbalance, 457

Voroshilov, Kliment, 77, 231, 536, 538, 594

Voshchinsky, Mikhail, 148, 148, 152

Voznesensky, Aleksandr, 463, 466

Voznesensky, Nikolai, 466

Vyshinsky, Aleksandr, 235

vydvizhentsy, 155–7, 160, 170–71

wall-newspapers, 143

War Communism, 5–6

war scare (1927), 73

wedding rings, 161

Werth, Alexander, 415

Western states

influence, 441–3, 488

Soviet relations with, 229–30, 236, 371–2

whispering, 40, 44&n, 110, 184, 207, 230, 253, 264, 294

White Army, 4, 5, 58, 167, 218, 648, 654

White Sea Canal, The, 193–4

White Sea Canal (Belomorkanal), 94, 111, 206, 624

construction, 114–15, 121, 136, 196

in propaganda, 192–5, 624

writers tour (1933), 192–7

wives

arrest, 305

pressured to renounce husbands, 305, 306

unwanted, denunciation, 265

Wolf, Christa, 506

women

childcare role, 161

domestic slavery, 164, 165– 6

equality, 8

husband’s innocence, belief in, 305–7

independence, 127

in labour camps, 356–68

marriage as camouflage, 137–8

military service, 417–19

in Norilsk, 427–9

rape by guards, 248, 364, 631, 632

regime and, 163–4

See also Akmolinsk Labour Camp; grandparents; mothers; wives

workers

anti-Soviet mood (1941), 385

complaints, 154, 187