civilizing processes, 276–79, 344
Civil War (1917–1922), 142–44, 178, 195–96, 201–2, 205, 209, 211
class aliens/enemies, 240, 273–74, 298, 406, 408, 613, 615–16, 818
clothing/decorative styles: of male officials, 418, 498–99; of students, 26–27, 40; of women officials and housewives, 499–506
collectives and collectivization, xi, 211, 914; Five-Year Plans and, 413, 421–24, 426–29, 454–55, 508; House of Government’s encounters with, 439–45; in literature, 446–48; as social units, 275–76, 338–41; troikas and, 760
communal houses, 342, 344–46
Communists and Communism, 73–74, 88, 115–17, 150; compared to building a house, 169, 333–46, 611; expulsion from the Party and, 717; literature as myth and, 202; marriage/family life and, 952–53; morality/ethics and, 227–32; non-Russian varieties of, 956–57; as a sect, 182, 469, 951; superiority of all things Soviet and, 592–98
Comte, Auguste, 74
Condorcet, Marquis de, 105
confessions, 102, 290–91, 295, 323, 459–62, 467–72, 615, 703–10, 779, 840
Congress of Soviet Writers. See All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers
Congress of Victors. See Seventeenth Party Congress (1934)
construction/building stories, 362–76, 402, 446, 606, 969
Construction Workers’ Union, 322, 324–25
constructivist aesthetic, 344, 347, 353
conversion, ideological, 36, 273, 275–78, 454, 914; in the agrarian sector, 455–56; confession/purge and, 102, 290–91, 295, 323, 459, 467–68; in literature and arts, 279–89, 403–4, 456–59, 472–78
Cossacks, 159–70, 176
Country Property, Department of, 191
creation stories, 122, 124, 365, 372, 403–4, 446, 701
Cromwell, Oliver, 93, 135
crucifixion stories, 196, 197–98, 201–2, 206
Cui, César, 20
cultural revolution. See conversion, ideological
dachas, 190–91, 545–51, 653–54, 963–66; Lenin’s, 215
The Dakota (New York City), 347
dancing, as entertainment, 532–33, 543, 545, 648
Dante Alighieri, 117–18, 576, 578; as architectural model, 583, 585; as a “classic,” 510, 514, 610, 806
Davies, Joseph E., 549
Dawkins, Richard, 75
Day of the World, The, 593–94
death and immortality, 128, 235, 624–25, 628–29, 634–36, 640, 645–46, 665, 943
Decadents, 19
decorative styles. See clothing/decorative styles
Defoe, Danieclass="underline" Robinson Crusoe, 476, 610–11, 613, 615, 643–44, 646, 656
Deich, Yakov, 757, 761
Delbene, Bartolommeo, 583
Delibash, Nina Zakharovna, 386, 773–74, 861, 993
Demchenko, Feliks, 425, 789, 829–30, 984
Demchenko, Nikolai (“Kolia”), 425, 789, 829–30, 876, 888, 984
Demchenko, Nikolai Nesterovich, 425, 439, 789, 829, 863, 984
Demchenko (Shmaenok), Maria (Mirra) Abramovna, 425, 829, 984
Denikin, Anton, 160, 170, 173–74
Denisova-Shchadenko, Maria Aleksandrovna, xv, 68–69, 219, 234, 254–57, 378, 549, 821–23, 992
Dickens, Charles, 478, 510, 896, 953; David Copperfield, 478, 702, 954; Great Expectations, 514; Our Mutual Friend, 278; The Pickwick Papers, 773; The Tale of Two Cities, 121, 954
Didrikil, Nina Avgustovna. See Podvoiskaia-Didrikil, Nina Avgustovna
Dik, Iosif, 934
Dimanshtein, Marta (Matla), 755
Dimanshtein, Semen M., 755, 847
Dimitrov, Georgi, 483–84, 511–12, 517–18, 934, 936
Dimitrova, Roza Yulievna, 518
disurbanists and disurbanism, 337–42
“the Ditch.” See Drainage (Vodootvodnyi) Canal
Dogadov, A. I., 671
Doletsky, Yakov (Jacób Dolecki/Fenigstein), 521–22
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 262, 375, 610, 639, 643, 816, 947–48, 961; The Adolescent, 59, 279, 732; The Brothers Karamazov, 368, 732–33; Crime and Punishment, 564, 974; Demons, 879; The Possessed, 934
Drabkin, Yakov (Sergei Gusev), 289, 291
Drabkina, Elizaveta, 143, 146, 245, 289, 886, 932
Drainage (Vodootvodnyi) Canal, 5, 9, 10, 15, 17, 321, 329, 355, 386, 445, 511, 651
Dreitser, E. A., 718–19
Dubrovina, L. V., 814
Dukhobors, 19
Dürer, Albrecht, 583
Durkheim, Emile, 73–74
Dushechkina, Katia, 834
Dzerzhinsky (Dzierżyński), Feliks, 216–17, 243, 388, 425, 819
Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich. See Stalin, Joseph
Edson, Hiram, 98, 220, 272
Edwards, Jonathan, 96
Efimov, Boris, 233–34, 560, 603, 784, 856
Efron, Ariadna, 886
Egon-Besser, Kira, xiv, 64–66, 126, 134, 152, 165
Ehrenburg, Ilya, 27, 247, 476–77; The Second Day (aka: Out of Chaos), 363–65, 369–73
Eikhe, Robert Indrikovich (Roberts Eihe), 434, 516, 755–58, 760–61, 766–67, 809, 840–43, 864, 870, 984
Eikhe (Rubtsova), Evgenia Evseevna, 809, 984
Einem Chocolate Candy and Cookie Factory, 5–7, 18, 140, 149–50. See also Red October Candy Factory
Eisenstadt, S. N., 121
Elchugina, Shura, 834
Eliade, Mircea, 74
émigrés, 600–606, 647
Engels, Frederick, 57, 115–17, 152
Enlightenment, 104
entertainments. See leisure entertainments
entryways (House of Government), 347, 353, 377
Enukidze, Avel, 188, 190–91, 217, 318, 395, 717
Epstein, Motia, 894, 896
Esaulov, A. A., 841
Esenin, Sergei, 280, 287–88, 794
estates. See dachas
Eternal Law, 405–6, 471, 844
exile, 46–55
exodus stories, 77, 193–94, 202–5, 208, 369, 606
Ezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich: arrest/interrogation/trial and execution of, 865–66, 870; descriptions of, 792; government assignments of, 507, 516, 866; personal life of, 839–40; purges and, 715, 718–19, 724, 728, 735, 754, 758, 760–64, 767, 790, 794, 801, 865; replacement of, 812, 864
Fadeev, Aleksandr, 197, 447, 476, 934; The Rout, 201–3
family life. See marriage and family life
famines, 190, 424–26, 428–34, 436, 438–39
fascism, 714, 848
February Revolution (1917), 65, 123–26
Fedin, Konstantin: The Garden, 280
Fedorov, Nikolai, 20
Fedotov, Fedor Kallistratovich, 449–53, 676, 770, 984
Fedotov, Lyova, xiv, 450, 451–52, 674–93, 713, 908–14, 921–23, 954, 963, 984
Fedotova (Markus), Roza Lazarevna, 449, 676, 923, 935–36, 984
Fedulov, Ivan Mikhailovich. See Gronsky (Fedulov), Ivan Mikhailovich
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 595, 730, 733, 954
Fifth Monarchists, 93–94, 180
Filarete, 584–85
Filatova, Nadezhda Dmitrievna (“Dina”). See Osinskaia (Filatova), Nadezhda Dmitrievna (“Dina”)
Finney, Charles, 96
Finnish War (1939), 685–87
Fischer, Louis, 244
Fishman, Emmanuil Grigorievich (“Monya”), 684, 908
Fishman, Raisa Samoilovna (“Raya”), 684, 908
Five-Year Plans (1928–1932): collectivization and, 413, 421–24, 426–29, 454–55, 508; coming to an end of, 465–66; cultural revolution and, 454–56, 459, 472–78; industrialization and, 279, 345–46, 408, 415, 421, 454; modernization and, 597; result of, 468
Fleischmann, Rosa, 518
floods (as metaphor), 193, 195, 208, 211, 365–66, 368
forced labor, 414–18, 422
Fourier, Charles, 106, 335
Fradkin, Iosif Mikhailovich. See Volin, Boris Mikhailovich
Fradkina, Raisa Efimovna, 234