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Viktorin, Bishop, 674

VIKZHEL, 45

Virgin Lands, The (Brezhnev), 660

Vinhranovsky, Mikola, 587

Vins, Petr, 622

Virun, Stepan, 586

Vishnevsky, Vsevolod, 489

Vissarionovich, Joseph, see Stalin, Joseph

Vladimirovich, Kirill, 177

Vladimov, Georgy, 680

Vlasov, Andrei, 427, 430-38

Vlasovites, 382, 432-38

Voikov, Petr, 215

Voinovich, Vladimir, 680

Volga Flows to the Caspian, The (Pilnyak), 271

Volga Germans, 379, 381-82

Volga Tatars, 73

Volsky, A. (Jan Machaiski), 57

Volunteer Army, 78-79, 82-83, 85, 86

Voronin (Voronov?), leader of labour camp

uprising, 497 Voronov, Nikolai, 446 Voronsky, Aleksandr, 199, 270 Voroshilov, Kliment, 190, 304, 323, 324,

337, 346, 376, 530 Voroshilov amnesty (1953), 517 Voskresensky, Sergei, 409, 513 Voss, August, 713 voting rights, 287 Vovsy, Miron, 503

Voznesensky, Nikolai, 376, 498, 499 Vprok (Platonov), 243

VSNKH (Supreme Economic Council), 204 Vvedensky, Aleksandr, 137, 138 Vyshegradsky, 228 Vyshinsky, Andrei, 425 Vysotsky, Vladimir, 681

wages, 168, 202, 283-84, 475-76, 478,

645-46 Wagner, Richard, 364 Walesa, Lech, 688 Wallace, Henry, 382-83 war communism, 59—60, 126 war scare of 1927, 215-16 Ward Number Seven (Tarsis), 587 Warsaw Pact, 563, 717-19

in Czechoslovakia invasion, 629 NATO forces compared to, 642 Warsaw uprising, 415—16 Washington Post, 639, 690, 705 Wavell, Archibald Persival, 410 We (Zamyatin), 195-96, 270 Webb, Beatrice, 257 Webb, Sydney, 257 Week, The (Libedinsky), 130-31 Weizsaecker, Ernest von, 330 What's Life from the Standpoint of Physics

(Schrodinger), 484 Welles, Sumner, 362 wheat production, 16 White Army, 78-79, 82-85, 86, 87, 91, 103

in Poland, 92-93 White Book, 683 Wilson, Edmund, 257, 258 Wilson, Woodrow, 123

Winter, Ella, 257 Witte, Sergei, 18 Wolf, Erwin, 352

Wojtyla, Carol Cardinal (Pope John

Paul II), 676 women's rights, 466—67 Worker and Theater, 292, 294 workers:

absenteeism of, 710 under Andropov, 708-9 benefits for, 475

under Brezhnev constitution, 686

canteens for, 226—27

from Central Asia, 672-73

in civil war, 98—99

food consumption of, 282—83

in free trade union movement, 689—90

under labor code, 259—60

material incentives for, 227

under NEP, 116, 127-28, 134-35

under 1940 labor laws, 321-22

in 1962 plant disturbances, 592-97

under 1983 law, 709-10

after October revolution, 56—58

pensions for, 558—59

political impact of, 478

in pre-World War I period, 17

productivity of, 57, 58, 116, 168, 478,

644-45 purchasing power of, 475—77 right to change jobs and, 558 shortage of, 226

in Stakhanovite movement, 282, 284

on state farms, 633—34

wages of, 168, 202, 283-84, 475-76,

478, 645-46 work week for, 224, 475, 559 during World War II, 376 Workers' Group, 165 Workers' Opposition, 129, 131, 279 World War I:

army authority crisis in, 19—20 army unprepared for, 18—19 Brest-Litovsk negotiations in, 51—52 Czech surrender in, 79 governmental instability in, 18 munitions shortage in, 19 October revolution as consequence of, 15

Russian civil war and, 89 World War II, 370-449 atomic bomb in, 441 Battle of Moscow in, 383-86 Battle of Stalingrad in, 399-402

casualties in, 443—45 Deportations during, 379—82 factories relocated in, 376—77 fall of France in, 351—52 German occupation of USSR in, 393— 399

German-Soviet border preparations in,

367-69 heroism in, 445 Japanese surrender in, 442 Kursk offensive in, 402—3 Leningrad Front in, 386—87 Nazi-Soviet pact in, 322-42, 348-50 Northwestern Front in, 387 partisans in, 397—99 Poland invaded in, 339-42, 349, 351 repatriation after, 450—52 second front issue in, 412 social conditions during, 374—83 Southwestern Front in, 388, 414—15 Soviet leadership errors in, 445—49 Soviet peace program in, 412—13 Soviet prisoners in, 389—90 Soviets warned of German invasion in,

360-67 Volga offensive in, 390—93 Western allies in, 410—16 Yalta conference on, 414, 416—26 Wrangel, Petr, 95, 98, 145 wrecker trials, 208, 228-30, 231-32 Writers' Union, 270, 275, 488-89, 580

Yagoda, Genrikh, 272, 278, 302, 304, 315

Yakhimovich, Ivan, 655—66 Yakir, Iona, 304, 307, 531, 582 Yakir, Petr, 582

arrest of, 663

in dissident movement, 662 Yakovlev, A., 169 Yakovlev, A. J., 536 Yakovlev, Nikolai, 500 Yakovlev, Yakov, 234 Yakubovich, Mikhail, 229 Yakunin, Father Gleb, 590 Yalta conference (1945), 414, 416-26 Yamada, General Otodzo, 441 Yaroslavsky, Emelyan, 175, 229 Yasnov, Mikhail, 536 Yellow House, The (Zinoviev), 656 Young Bukhara party, 111-12, 152 Young Communist League, 175 Young Guard, The (Fadeev), 487, 490

Young Russia party, 179, 180 youth:

disenchantment among, 611—13 Marxism-Leninism taught to, 612 "truth" meetings organized for, 612 youth circles, 583—85 Yudenich, Nikolai, 84 Yugoslav Communist party, 458, 562 Yugoslavia, 359-60, 365, 418, 562 Yurenev, Konstantin, 252 Yuri Dolgoruky, 10

zaandropit, 708

Zalkind, A., 291-92

Zalygin, Sergei, 680

Zamyatin, Evgeny, 56, 195-96, 197,

270-71 Zaporozhets, Aleksandr 368 Zaporozhets, Viktor, 277-78 Zarubin, NKVD General, 406, 407 Zaslavsky, V. I., 318 Zasulich, Vera, 67 Zatikyan, Stepan, 668 Zetkin, Clara, 114, 170-71 Zharov, Aleksandr, 196 Zhdanov, Andrei, 318

in Politburo rival groupings, 498—500 Zhebrak, Anton, 484 Zheleznyakov, Anatoly, 48, 53—54 Zhemchuzhina, Polina, 517 Zhilenkov, Georgy, 428, 432, 434 Zhivkov, Todor, 624 Zhizn Natsionalnostei, 154 Zhukov, Georgy, 369, 370, 384, 388, 400

Khrushchev and, 554—55 Zhukovsky, Nikolai, 141 Zhukovsky, Petr, 484 Zinoviev, Aleksandr, 656 Zinoviev, Grigory, 33, 37, 39, 46, 82,

123, 124, 125, 132, 138, 157, 160, 163, 166, 181, 252 as Comintern chairman, 210 on German Communists, 254—55 in prison, 279 "Secret Letter" of, 212 trial of, 304

in United Opposition, 181, 183, 188, 190, 205 Zionism, 501, 670-71 Zorin, S., 608

Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 200, 488 Zvezda, 489 Zweig, Stefan, 302 Zykov, Milety,