Yet with all this, if there are faults in this translation, as no doubt there are, mine is the responsibility.
Glossary
NAMES
Abakumov, Viktor Semyonovich (1894-1954). Stalin’s Minister of State Security, 1946-1952. Executed in December, 1954, under Khrushchev.
Agranov, Yakov Savlovich (7-1939). Deputy People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs under Yagoda and Yezhov. Played important role in preparing show trials of 1936-1938. Shot in purges.
Aikhenvald, Yuli Isayevich (1872-1928). Critic and essayist, translated Schopenhauer into Russian. Exiled in 1922.
Akhmatova (Gorenko), Anna Andreyevna (1889-1966). Acmeist poet, wife of Nikolai Gumilyev. Denounced in 1946 as “alien to the Soviet people.” Long unpublished in Soviet Union; some works published after 1956.
Aldanov (Landau), Mark Aleksandrovich (1886-1957). Writer of historical novels; emigrated 1919 to Paris, and later to New York.
Aldan-Semyonov, Andrei Ignatyevich (1908-). Soviet writer; imprisoned in Far East camps, 1938-1953. Author of memoirs.
Aleksandrov, A. I. Head of Arts Section of All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; purged in 1935.
Alliluyevs. Family of Stalin’s second wife, Nadezhda Sergeyevna.
Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr Yalentinovich (1862-1938). Russian writer; emigrated 1920.
Anders, Wladyslaw (1892-1970). Polish general; formed Polish military units in Soviet Union and led them out to Iran in 1943.
Andreyev, Leonid Nikolayevich (1871-1919). Playwright and short story writer, close to Expressionism; died in Finland.
Andreyushkin, Pakhomi Ivanovich (1865-1887). Member of Narodnaya Volya terrorist group; executed after attempt to assassinate Alexander III in 1887.
Antonov-Saratovsky, Vladimir Pavlovich (1884-1965). Old Bolshevik, served as judge in Shakhty (1928) and Promparty (1930) trials.
Averbakh, I. L. Soviet jurist; associate of Vyshinsky.
Babushkin, Ivan Yasilyevich (1873-1906). Russian revolutionary.
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (189S-). Literary scholar, expert on Dostoyevsky. Unpublished in Soviet Union from 1930 to 1963.
Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1814-1876). A founder of Anarchism.
Bandera, Stepan (1909-1959). Ukrainian nationalist; led anti-Soviet forces in Ukraine after World War II until 1947; assassinated in Munich by a Soviet agent.
Bedny, Demyan (1883-1945). Soviet poet.
Belinsky, Vissarion Grigoryevich (1811-1848). Literary critic and ardent liberal, champion of socially-conscious literature.
Benois, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (1870-1960). Scenic designer; emigrated 1926 to Paris.
Berdyayev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (1874-1948). Philosopher, religious thinker; opposed atheism and materialism. Expelled in 1922; lived in Paris after 1924.
Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich (1899-1953). Georgian Bolshevik, became close Stalin associate in 1938, in charge of secret police and national security. Executed after Stalin’s death.
Biron or Biren. Russian name of Count Ernst Johann Buhren (1690-1772). A favorite of Empress Anna Ivanovna, under whom he instituted a tyrannical rule.
Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1880-1921). Symbolist poet.
Bliicher, Marshal Vasily Konstantinovich (1890-1938). Commander of Far East Military District, 1929-1938; shot in purge.
Blyumkin, Yakov Grigoryevich (1898-1929). A Left Socialist Revolutionary; assassinated German Ambassador Mirbach in Moscow in 1918; later joined Cheka; executed after he took message from Trotsky to Radek.
Boky, Gleb Ivanovich (1879-1941). Secret police official; member of Supreme Court after 1927; arrested in 1937.
Bonch-Bruyevich, Vladimir Dmitriyevich (1873-1955). Bolshevik revolutionary; administrative officer of Council of People’s Commissars, 1917-1920.
Bondarin, Sergei Aleksandrovich (1903-). Children’s writer.
Budenny, Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich (1883-1973). Civil War hero; commander of Bolshevik cavalry; commander Southwest Front in early phase of World War II.
Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich (1888-1938). Prominent Party official and economic theorist; member of Politburo after 1924 and general secretary of Comintern after 1926; expelled from Party in 1929; executed after 1938 show trial.
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasyevich (1891-1940). Satirist, most of whose writings have not been published in Soviet Union.
Bulgakov, Sergei Nikolayevich (1871-1944). Religious philosopher; exiled in 1922, lived in Paris.
Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich (1870-1953). Writer; emigrated 1920 to France; won Nobel Prize in 1933.
Bunyachenko, Sergei K. (7-1946). Commander of 1st Division of Vlasov’s forces in World War II; executed in Soviet Union in 1946.
Charnovsky, N. F. (1868-?). Soviet economic official; among defendants in 1930 Promparty trial.
Chekhovsky, Vladimir Moiseyevich (1877-?). Ukrainian nationalist.
Chernov, Viktor Mikhailovich (1873-1952). Socialist Revolutionary Party leader; emigrated in 1920.
Chubar, Vlas Yakovlevich (1891-1939). High Soviet Ukrainian official; shot in purges.
Chukovskaya, Lidiya Korneyevna (1907-). Soviet literary critic and writer (samizdat).
Dal (Dahl), Vladimir Ivanovich (1801-1872). Lexicographer.
Dan (Gurvich), Fyodor Ilyich (1871-1947). Menshevik leader, physician; exiled in 1922.
Denikin, Anton Ivanovich (1872-1947). Tsarist military leader; commanded anti-Bolshevik (White) forces in south, 1918-1920; emigrated.
Derzhavin, Gavriil Romanovich (1743-1816). Poet and statesman under Catherine II.
Dimitrov, Georgi Mikhailovich (1882-1949). Bulgarian Communist leader; chief defendant in 1933 Reichstag trial in Leipzig.
Dolgun, Alexander M. (Alexander D.) (1926-). American-born former employee of United States Embassy in Moscow; spent eight years (1948-1956) in Soviet prisons and labor camps; allowed to leave Soviet Union in 1971.
Donskoi, D. D. (1881-1936). Right Socialist Revolutionary.
Doyarenko, Aleksei G. Soviet agronomist; a defendant in Working Peasants Party case of 1931.
Dukhonin, Nikolai Nikolayevich (1876-1917). Commander in Chief of Tsarist Army; slain by soldiers.
Dyakov, Boris Aleksandrovich (1902-). Author of labor-camp memoirs.
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich (1877-1926). First chief of the secret police (Cheka-GPU-OGPU); succeeded by Menzhinsky.
Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigoryevich (1891-1967). Soviet writer and journalist; spent many years in Paris; author of memoirs of Stalin era.
Etinger, Y. G. (7-1952). Soviet physician, arrested in 1952 in so-called “doctors’ case.” Died under interrogation.
Fedotov, A. A. (1864-?). A Soviet official; defendant in Shakhty trial.
Figner, Vera Nikolayevna (1852-1942). A leader of Narodnaya Volya group, took part in successful conspiracy to assassinate Alexander II in 1881.
Filonenko, Maksimilian Maksimilianovich. Right Socialist Revolutionary; led anti-Bolshevik forces in Archangel in 1918.
Frank, Semyon Lyudvigovich (1877-1950). Religious philosopher, pupil of Sblovyev; exiled in 1922.
Fyodor Ivanovich (1557-1598). Halfwit son of Ivan the Terrible, whom he succeeded in 1584. His regent was Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar, 1598-1605.
Gaaz, Fyodor Petrovich (Haas, Friedrich-Joseph) (1780-1853). German-born physician of Moscow prison hospital; sought penal reforms.
Gamarnik, Yan Borisovich (1894-1937). Soviet military leader who committed suicide during purge.
Garin, N. (Mikhailbvsky, Nikolai Georgiyevich) (1852-1906). Marxist writer, who depicted young Tsarist engineers.
Gernet, Mikhail Nikolayevich (1874-?). Writer on the death penalty.
Ginzburg, Yevgeniya Semyonovna (1911-). Author of labor-camp memoirs, Journey into the Whirlwind.