Masaryk, President Thomas, 576, 817
Maslakov, peasant rebel leader, 756
Masurian Lakes, 255; Battle of (1914), 256
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 601–2, 736, 737, 806; ‘150,000,000’, 742
Maynard, Sir John, 79–80
Melitopol, 665
Meller-Zakomelsky, A. N., 185
Mensheviks, Menshevik Party, Menshevism, 136, 152, 153–4, 180n, 190, 198, 210, 211–12, 232, 293, 294, 301, 325, 371, 372, 382–3, 388, 457, 459, 461, 467, 468, 471, 472, 478, 482, 489, 490–1, 508, 578, 624–5, 626, 667, 685 and n, 692, 714, 715, 722, 760, 769, 798; reluctance to form Soviet government, 331–4, 384, 431, 436, 464–9, 490
Menzhinsky, V. R., 501
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry, 179, 208, 352, 412, 437
Meshcherskaia, Countess, 527, 609
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 736, 738
Miasoyedov, Colonel, 268, 272–3, 284
Mickiewicz, Adam, 73, 74, 697
Mikhail Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 288, 327, 334, 342, 343–4, 345, 642n
Mikhail Romanov, Tsar, 3, 4, 5, 10, 61, 62
Mikhailov, V. M., 515–16
Mikhailovsky, Nikolai, 127
Mikoyan, Anastas, 693
Military Revolutionary Committee, 455, 480–1, 482, 485–6, 488, 495, 504, 507, 509, 510, 520, 562
Miliukov, Pavel, 51, 162, 193, 194, 195, 204, 215, 273, 275, 276, 286–7, 288, 326, 334, 335, 336, 338, 344, 345, 356, 360, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 390, 393, 420, 439, 443, 559, 571, 717; Miliukov Note (1917), 381, 383
Miliutin, Dmitry, 42, 499, 511
Miller, General K. E., 652
Minsk, 149n, 697, 750, 753
Minusinsk, 657
Mirbach, Count Wilhelm, assassination of, 632–3
Mironov, Philip, 562, 756
Mirsky: see Sviatopolk-Mirsky, Prince
Mogilev, 269, 275, 276, 312, 346, 406, 449, 450, 541, 596
Molotov, V. M., 297
Morozov, Savva, 179
Moscow State Conference (1917), 447–9, 557
Moscow, 5–6, 8, 9, 49, 192, 194–5, 199–200, 233, 234, 273, 274, 333, 345, 370, 389, 624, 701, 771, 820; Alexandrovsky Station, 6, 448; anti-German riots (1915), 285; Arts Theatre, 437n; Bauman’s funeral procession, 198–9; Bolshoi Theatre, 192, 447, 633, 634, 740, 805; Brusilov’s funeral (1926), 817–18; Butyrka jail, 195, 642, 643, 644, 662; capital moved to, 550–1, 603; Constituent Assembly elections in, 508; Denikin’s advance on, 662–4, 679, 680; Duma elections, 457, 458; food shortages, 299, 758–9; general strike (1905), 189, 199–200; Khamovniki barracks, 759; Lenin’s funeral (1924), 805–6; Lubianka prison, 629, 631, 634, 643, 644, 684; National and Metropole Hotels, 683; October insurrection, 497, 498, 511; officials and bureaucracy in, 688–9; peasants living in, 108, 109; Pokrovsky barracks, 633–4; post-Revolution, 605, 609; Proletarian University, 736; Red Square, 6, 108, 285, 597–8, 805; St Basil’s Cathedral, 511; Sukharevka market, 623; Taganka jail, 196, 198, 643, 645; University, 50, 161, 181; uprising (1905) in, 200–1, 202, 208; Uspensky Cathedral, 6
Moussorgsky, Modest: Boris Godunov, 493
Mstislavsky, Sergei, 323, 324, 327, 333–4
Munich, 150
Murav’ev, Lieutenant-Colonel M. A., 592
Murmansk, 573
Nabokov, Vladimir, 172, 328, 345, 355, 479, 480, 501, 652n
Nagorno-Karabakh, 713 and n
Nakhichevan, 713
Napoleon: Bonapartism, 357, 410, 411, 439, 443, 455, 589, 675
Nashe slovo (Our Word), 294, 296
National Bolshevism, 699–700
National Centre, 568, 642n
Nationalism, 69–83, 372–5, 702–3; cultural, 71–5, 708, 710, 711, 716; Russian, 70, 80, 169, 246, 247, 248, 249, 412; and socialist parties, 70–1, 82–3. See also Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Tatar region, Ukraine
Nationalist Party, 228, 229–30, 244 and n, 246
Naval General Staff Bill, 226, 227
Navy: see Black Sea Fleet, Kronstadt Naval Base
Nechaev, Sergei, 122, 132–4 and n, 137, 146; Revolutionary Catechism, 133
Neigardt, O. B., 222
Nekrasov, Nikolai, 117, 336 and n, 344, 354, 356, 384, 390, 446, 450–1
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir, 437 and n
New Economic Policy, 613, 705, 711, 715, 742, 758, 765, 766, 769–72, 778, 789, 791–2, 806, 807, 814, 815, 816, 819; ‘Nepmen’, 771–2
New Lessner factory, 301, 302, 396, 610
Nicholas I, Tsar, 9, 56, 123
Nicholas II, Tsar, 7, 8–9, 11, 12–13, 15–24, 25, 35, 45, 54, 55, 61, 81–2, 124, 164, 165, 168, 169, 171, 172–3, 175, 176, 177, 178, 184, 185, 195, 196, 201, 203, 219, 220, 221–2, 226, 229, 231, 232, 243, 271, 273, 274, 283, 287–8, 293, 326, 360, 438, 478; abdication of (1917), 192, 221, 285, 338, 339–53, 379, 635; Alexandra’s relations with and influence on, 26–7, 229, 275, 276, 277, 278–9, 281, 284, 286, 289; assumes supreme command of army (1915), 269–70, 275, 277; autocratic rule and ideology of, 6–12, 14–15, 19–24, 165, 191–2, 226, 245–6, 259, 275–9; coronation (1896), 18; and Duma, 213–17, 275–6; early years, 16–18; February Revolution, 312, 327, 332; First World War, 249, 250–1, 252, 259–60, 275–9, 281, 284; and Jewish pogroms, 197–8; last days and murder of (1918), 242, 635–41, 642; and murder of Stolypin, 230; in 1905 Revolution, 176, 178, 186–7; October Manifesto, 191–2; and Rasputin, 28, 30, 33–4, 245, 289, 290; Repin’s portrait of, 217, 348; tercentenary celebrations (1913), 3–6, 9–12, 13
Nihilists, nihilism, 131–4
Nikitin, Alexei, 455n, 492
Nikolaev, 604–5
Nikolaevsky, Boris, 801
Nikolai Mikhailovich, Grand Duke, 289–90
Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke, 191, 249, 256, 259, 267, 269, 285, 287, 288–9, 342, 657
Nizhnyi Novgorod, 5, 84, 110, 367, 527, 600, 662, 693, 762, 818; renamed Gorkii, 821; Sormovo plant strike in, 371
Nobility, 35–6, 44, 47–50, 365–6; ‘gentry reaction’, 206–7, 227–8, 229; in rural administration, 47, 53–4; in Soviet Russia, 529–30, 605–6, 609
Nogin, V. P., 396, 397, 499, 511
Nolde, Emil, 345
North Caucasian Soviet Republic, 564
Noulens, Joseph, 421
Novaia zhizn’, Gorky’s newspaper, 393, 399, 402, 435, 436, 477, 502, 505, 511, 514–15, 518, 535–6, 606, 821; closed down, 626–7
Novgorod, 520, 596
Novo-Nikolaesvk, 577
Novocherkassk, 556, 557, 558–9, 561, 562, 565, 566
Novoe vremia, newspaper, 11, 248
Novorossiisk, 574, 679
Novouzensk, 757, 778
Obolensky, Vladimir (V. A.), 51, 193, 213, 214, 216, 218
Obukhovsky factory, 496, 514, 759
October insurrection (1917), 189, 321, 386, 409, 428, 456–7, 460–1, 462, 470–3, 474–551, 763, 815, 819
October Manifesto (1905), 191, 192, 193–4, 195, 197, 203, 209, 214, 215
Octobrist Party, 170, 193–4, 224–5, 228, 229, 244 and n, 246, 247, 273, 278, 285, 286, 302, 336, 449, 571
Odessa, 174, 184, 185, 520, 575, 646, 647, 663, 722, 750; pogrom in (1905), 197, 198
Officers’ Union, 443, 445
Okhrana, 124, 174, 210, 350, 645n, 811
Old Believers, 64 and n, 69, 227, 233, 786
Olminsky, M. S., 143, 649
Omsk, Omsk Government, 535, 577, 584, 585–8, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 657, 658–9, 675, 753
Order Number One, Soviet, 330–1, 378, 411, 414, 440, 591
Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, 297, 707, 712, 713, 715, 716, 798, 799
Orekhovo-Zuevo, 65
Orel, 463, 520, 600, 611, 662, 666, 668, 669–70, 697; prison, 124, 648
Orenburg, 157, 653, 654, 710, 755
Orphans, 780–2
Os’kin, Dmitry, xiii, 413, 601, 669, 687, 690, 725, 813, 818; command of Second Labour Army (1920), 721, 818; command of Soviet Republic’s Reserve Army, 818; death of (1934), 818; and defence of Tula in civil war, 666–8, 674; in First World War, 264–5, 268, 269, 818; joins the Red Army, 582; joins SR Party underground in Siberia, 269; leg amputated, 269; military memoirs of, 818; peasant revolt against conscription put down by, 596, 600; returns as military commissar to Tula, 589, 590, 591, 592, 595, 596, 599
Osowiec, 267