and Koshchenko, 490, 491–2 and Laskin family, 612
liberalization, 622–7
liberal writers, attack on, 591, 592–3lifestyle, 483–4 literary talent, 198, 199, 269
at Literaturnaia gazeta, 483, 518–19, 520, 591
marriage to Larisa Zhadova, 608, 611
marriage to Valentina Serova, 401–2, 403, 608–9
marriage to Natalia Tipot (Sokolova), 198, 369
marriage to Zhenia Laskina, 198, 369–70, 370, 378, 517
as moderate conservative (1956–64), 616
mother’s criticism, 403–6 and Nazi–Soviet Pact, 373–4
at Novyi mir, 483, 484–5, 486, 489, 497, 499, 591, 592, 593, 615
as parent, 513–15, 612–14 and Pasternak, 484–5patronage, exercise, 485–7, 518, 574–5personal appearance, 199, 409, 483, 484, 507
political obedience, 278, 501–6, 507–8, 519, 612
pressured to inform, 267–8, 270–71 proletarian identity, 197, 203
public duty, sense of, 503
recycles love poems, 369, 377–8 and ‘reforging’, 197–8, 200
and relative’s arrest, 278
remorse, 622, 624, 625, 629
self-censorship, 506
self-criticism, 269, 506
and Serova, 375, 377–8, 394–7, 401–3, 403, 609
social origins, 56–7, 60–62, 63, 64, 139, 141, 197, 198, 199, 268
as Soviet deputy, 457
and Stalin, 266, 385, 409, 410–11, 503–6, 591, 593, 595, 611, 615, 621–2, 624–5, 626
Stalin and, 497
and Stalin’s death, 522–3, 524
success, 401, 415, 481, 482–3
support for regime, 60, 64, 141, 198, 204, 270, 406, 409, 410, 411, 507, 510, 616, 622, 624–5
and ‘thaw’ (1956–64), 615, 616
as war correspondent, 370–71, 381–4, 394, 399, 406–12, 446
wartime archive, 620n
whispering campaign against, 520
and White Sea Canal, 195–7
in Writers’ Union leadership, 482–3, 489
writings banned, 621
and ‘Zhdanovshchina’, 487, 489–90, 491, 506
WORKS: Alien Shadow, 505; Days and Nights, 419, 482; ‘Father’, 59; ‘Five Pages’, 369; Four Is, 627–8; ‘The General’, 200; ‘Horizon’, 198; A Hundred Days of War, 621; ‘Ice Battle, 270; If Your House is Dear to You (film), 621; ‘Kill Him!’, 414–15; The Living and the Dead, 383, 411, 614, 615–16, 619n; ‘New Year’s Toast’, 201; ‘Ode to Stalin’, 591; ‘An Open Letter to the Woman of Vichuga’, 399; ‘Parade’, 270; ‘Pavel Chorny’, 198; ‘Photograph’, 370; The Russian People, 415; Smoke of the Fatherland, 503–5; So
It Will Be, 449; Soldiers Are Not Born (film), 621; A Soldier Went (film), 620–21; ‘Tank’, 371; Through the Eyes of a Person of My Generation, 628; Various Days of War, 621; Wait For Me (film), 397; ‘Wait For Me’, 378, 396–401, 403–4, 449, 482; ‘The White Sea Canal’, 195;
With You and Without You, 400; A Young Man from Our Town, 374–5, 377
Simonov, Mikhail, 57
Simonova, Aleksandra (daughter), 611, 612, 626–7Simonova, Aleksandra (née Obolenskaia, later Ivanisheva), 56–8, 140–41, 142
Simonova, Maria (Masha), 403, 608, 609, 610–11Siniavsky, Andrei, 605
Sinilov, K. R., 393
Sinkevich, Zinaida, 609–10Skachkov, Pyotr, 46
Skachkova, Maria, 46
Skachkova, Nadezhda, 174
slave labour, 112, 468, 641 See also labour camps; prisoners ‘slave rebellions’, 529–30Slavin, Ilia, 69–70, 204–7, 206
arrest, 245–7, 293
death, 582–3 and perekovka, 205–7Slavin, Isaak, 70
Slavin family, 69–70, 71 Slavina, Esfir, 70, 71, 293–4, 360–61, 555–6, 556 Slavina, Ida, 247, 540, 555–6, 556, 582–3childhood, 28, 69, 70, 71, 204–5, 206
parents’ arrest, 245–7, 274–5, 293, 294, 360
schooldays, 22, 294–5, INDEX
296, 345–7, 346, 360, 361
SLON, see Solovetsky Camp of Special Significance Slutsky, Boris, 652
Smeliakov, Iaroslav, 487, 529
Smidovich, Sofia, 35
Smirnov, Fyodor, 531
Smirnov, I. N., 154, 219
Smirnov, Ivan, 248
Smith, Hedrick, 432, 435
Smolensk, 133, 134, 305
bombing, 457
German capture, 383, 386, 429
Pedagogical Institute, 132
Sobolev, Ivan, 121
social acceptance, children’s desire for, 341, 343, 345–7, 352–3, 354, 355–6
social class, manipulation, 136–47 social hierarchy, 159, 171
Socialist Realism, 188, 200, 397, 400, 590, 592
Socialist Revolutionary Party, 38n, 39, 47, 218, 224
Sofronov, Anatoly, 496
Sokolniki Industrial School, Moscow, 67
Sokolova (Tipot), Natalia, 198, 369, 498
Sokolovskaia, Aleksandra, 248
soldiers bravery, 411, 412–17, 419, 422
comradeship, 420–21criticism and debate, 434, 439–43 determination to fight, 411, 412, 415–16female, 417–19 future expectations, 441–2medals awarded, 422
memories, 620–21 penal battalions, 413
power on battlefield, 433
return home, 448–9 wartime executions, 411, 413
Western influences, 441–3 and wives’ fidelity, 397–401, 448
wounded, 448, 456
Solomein, Pavel, 125
Solovetsky Camp of Special Significance (SLON), 81, 112–13, 114, 116, 121, 219, 338–9, 390
efficiency, 112–13Gorky’s praise, 194
Solts, Aron, 16, 31–2, 37, 288
Solzhenitsyn, A., 285–6, 604–5, 623, 634, 635, 636
Soviet Information Bureau, 383
Soviet Procuracy, 283, 536, 537, 538–9Soviet regime, atheism, 46, 54
bureaucracy, 32, 187
chaos of, 234, 235
collapse (1991), 581, 601, 629, 641, 652
conduct in war, 615, 618
consolidation, 81, 159
crimes, exposure, 594, 604–5criticism of, 385, 458–64 currency reform (1947), 467
and dancing, 159
denunciation culture, 36
as deviation from Marxist principles, 531
and educated middle class, 470–72, 476
elite, 153, 156, 159, 265, 661‘enemies’, 131, 214, 234–5, 240, 275, 444, 464
ethnic scapegoating, 420
family metaphor, 162
and family values, 160, 161, 162
and famine, 98
Five Year plans and, 81, 111, 172
glasnost, 652
and Gulag, 112, 529–30, 534
and Jews, 420, 493, 614
justification, 618
Komsomol ethos, 30
legacies of, 645
and Leningrad intelligentsia, 488
loyalty to, 61, 77, 139, 153, 355, 360, 393
mutual surveillance in, 265
and Norilsk, 427
opposition to, 154, 201, 263, 283, 385, 426, 460, 461, 463, 468, 530, 599
peasants and, 82, 93, 99
private sphere, control, 561
propaganda, 125, 341, 401, 444
questioning, 439, 444
‘shock labour’, 159n
silent collusion with, 190, 266–7, 276, 502
Simonov’s support, 60, 64, 141, 198, 204, 270, 406, 409, 410, 411, 507, 510, 616, 622, 624–5
‘slave rebellions’, 529–30
specialists in, 35, 56, 213
traders and, 75
urban nature, 126
values, 186, 188, 618
wartime criticism of, 434, 438–40, 442, 443, 444–6
wartime relaxation, 432, 434, 435, 437–8
wartime victory and, 618
and women, 163–4
writers and, 256, 270, 590
Soviet Union air force, 376
and Allies, 443
anti-Semitism, 420, 508–12, 518, 521, 570, 646, 647, 648
border conflict with Japan, 371
Britain, negotiations with (1939), 372
collective leadership, 536