Dambrot, Irwin, 20
Daud, Mohammed, 200
Davis, Nat, 51
Davis, William C., 15, 17
Day, John F., 276
De-Stalinization’s effects: on Baku, 159, 162; on Central Asia, 140, 154, 155, 159; confusion generated by, 187–89, 230; factory workers on “strike,” 224–25; lasting effects of, xiii; Russian desire for truth in reporting of world events, 199–203, 205; on Tbilisi, 170–72. See also Hungary, uprisings in and Soviet response; Students; Thaw of 1956
Diary from 1956 Moscow assignment as source material for author, xiii–xiv; no names used in, xiii–xiv, 73
Diversity of Soviet Union, 109
Doctors’ plot against Stalin, 74
Draddy, Miss, 7
Dragon in the Kremlin (Kalb), 277
Dudintsev, Vladimir, Not by Bread Alone, 230–36, 239
Dulles, John Foster, 212
Dulles-Eisenhower doctrine, 242
Eastern Europe: desire to be rid of Soviets and communism in, 104, 105, 251, 260, 268, 271; Khrushchev’s determination to keep under Soviet rule, 203, 229, 241, 268–69; opposing Khrushchev’s anti-Stalin policy, 98; Stalin’s push into, 10, 12; in World War II, 67. See also Hungary; Kiev; Poland
Eastern Exposure (Kalb), 277
East Germany, uprisings in, xii, 204
Economic situation in Russia, 35, 97, 118–19, 206, 244, 269–70
Eden, Anthony, 212
Ed Sullivan Show, 20–21
Education in Soviet Union, 168. See also Students; specific universities and libraries
Egypt and Suez Canal crisis, 212–15, 242
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 212
Eliot, T. S., 249
Elizabeth II (Queen), 91
Enver Pasha, 129
Fascism, 21, 41, 204, 211, 226, 240–41, 260–61
Fingerprinting policy of United States for foreign visitors, 92, 177, 246
Fort Dix, New Jersey, 37–38
Fort Meade, Maryland, 38
France: demonstrations over Suez Canal at embassy of, 213–14; Suez Canal crisis and, 212, 242
Friedrich Engels Cotton Collective Farm (Samarkand), 141–43
Frost, Robert, 249
Gard, Eddie, 22, 24
George Washington High School (Washington Heights, N.Y.), 3–4, 6–7
Georgia: pro-Stalin stance of, 75, 176–79; Tbilisi, 165–79
Georgian Communist Party, 171
Georgian State Museum, 169–70
Germany, rearmament of, 13–14. See also East Germany
Gero, Erno, 205–08
Gerschenkron, Alexander, 35
Glazer, Nathan, 11
Gogol, Nikolai, 36, 232
Gomulka, Wladyslav, 199, 202, 203, 204, 206
Goodman, Theodore (Teddy), 27–33
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 86
Gorky, Maxim, 114; Lower Depths, 239
Gorky Park (Moscow), 229
Goryunov, Dmitril, 68
Great Depression, 1–2
Griboyedov, Alexander, 174–75
Haimson, Leo, 116
Harvard: Kalb in Ph.D. program at, 41, 43–44, 79–80, 218, 220, 273, 276; Russian Research Center, Kalb attending, 33–37; Widener Library, 253
Hayter, William, 91, 214
Herzen, Alexander, 227
Hewitt, Don, 1
Historical Library (Moscow), 79–81, 82, 88
History Institute (Moscow), 226
Hogan, Frank, 21, 23
Holdcroft, Anna, 45, 46, 57–58, 73, 104, 218, 228
Holman, Nat, 15–16, 18–24
Howe, Irving, 11
Hungary, uprisings in and Soviet response, xii, 104, 199, 201, 203–15; Catholicism and, 205–06; communist leaders’ meeting (January 1–4, 1957) on, 240–41, 243; Gero replaced by Nagy, 207–08; Hungarian troops joining with insurgents, 209; Khrushchev’s vacillation during, 204, 209–11, 268–69; Nagy’s appeals during, 208; Rakosi replaced by Gero, 205; Russians’ views on, 208–09, 226, 251–52, 258, 260–61; signaling end of year of the thaw, 265; Soviet military operations and Operation Whirlwind, 207, 211, 229; Voshchenkov speaking on, 240–42; world reaction to, 212
Ibn Battuta, 132
Icons, 167, 169–70, 190, 238
Indonesia, 242
Inferiority complex of Russians, 102–03, 193
Information, access to, 199–203. See also Truth
Inkeles, Alex, 35
Institute for Russian Literature (Leningrad), 244–46, 253
Institute of Art (Moscow), 196
Internal passports for travel with Soviet Union, 245–46
Intourist guides: at Aktyubinsk, 125; in Baku, 157, 160, 163; in Bukhara, 151; at Friedrich Engels Cotton Collective Farm (Samarkand), 141; in Georgia, 169–70; in Samarkand, 131–32; in Tashkent, 127; in Tbilisi, 166, 170; traveling without, 136, 172, 182; travel schedule arranged by, 153; at Uzbek State University (Samarkand), 138, 140
Iskra (Spark) newspaper, 163–64
Islam, 129, 148, 159–60, 180, 190
Israel, in Suez Canal crisis, 212
Izvestia on Dudintsev, 232–33
Jaeger, George, 22
Jews: in Bukhara, 148–50; on City College basketball team, 17–18, 19–20; in Kiev, 119–22; in Klin, 115; in Tashkent, 154. See also Anti-Semitism
Joint Press Reading Service (JPRS), 45–47, 52–53, 58–59, 65, 73, 89, 98, 106
Journalism as Kalb’s career choice, 7, 14, 27, 32, 33, 36–37, 218–21, 276
Joyce, James: Dubliners, 28, 30; “A Little Cloud,” 29–30, 31
Kadar, Janos, 205
Kaganovich ball bearing plant workers, sit-in by, 224–25
Kalb, Bernard (brother), 7, 14, 21–22, 28–29, 44, 93–95, 274, 276
Kalb, Marvin: CBS News career, 276–77; childhood years of, 1–3; college experiences of, 9–32; diary kept during 1956 Moscow assignment, xiii–xiv; Dragon in the Kremlin, 277; Eastern Exposure, 277; Harvard graduate school experiences of, 33–37; high school experiences of, 3–7; journalism as career choice, 7, 14, 27, 32, 33, 36–37, 218–21, 276; Khrushchev nicknaming “Peter the Great,” x, 101, 104, 275; military service experiences of, 37–41; mistaken for Yves Montand, 248; New York accent of, 24–25; New York Herald Tribune letter (1946), 5; parents of, 1–3, 121–22, 144–45; The Red Sell (documentary), 277; State Department preparing for Moscow assignment, 44–50; teaching and writing career, 277; writing memoir, motivation for, ix–x, xiv. See also City College of New York; State Department assignment; specific locations in Soviet Union
Kalischer, Peter, 24
Karamzin, Nikolai, 259
Karpovich, Michael, 34–35, 246
Kazin, Alfred, 29
Kennan, George, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” 12–13
Kessler, Alex, 3
KGB, 46, 52, 113, 258
Khanate of Bukhara, 147
Khrushchev, Nikita: attending British embassy party celebrating Queen’s birthday, 91; attending U.S. embassy party celebrating July 4, 98–104; at Bolshevik Revolution thirty-ninth anniversary celebration, 214–15; countering antiparty propaganda, 98; crushing opposition, 107; distribution of attack on Stalin, 72–73, 127; Dudintsev’s Not by Bread Alone and, 236; Gorbachev on, 86; Hungarian uprising and, 204, 209–11, 268–69; Kalb’s encounters with, 92–93, 101–04; Molotov vs., 94, 189; Murrow interviewing Kalb about, 275; on peaceful coexistence, 228; personality characteristics of, 103; personality cult of, 65–66, 87; Peter the Great as nickname for Kalb, x, 101, 104, 275; public view of, 78; reversion to hard line from thaw, xii–xiii, 187–89, 204, 229–30, 270–71; Russian opinion of leadership of, 198–99; on socialism’s coming triumph over capitalism, 226–27; Stalin denunciation by, xi–xii, 66–70, 97, 265; Suez Canal crisis and, 212–13; Tito and, 206; at 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 61, 62–70; warning opportunists against defiance, 98. See also De-Stalinization’s effects; Thaw of 1956