Khrushchev, Sergei, 70, 72, 171
Khrushcheva, Rada, 204
Kiev, 115–22; division into parts, 118; Khreshchatyk (main street), 116–17; Nizhny Val of the Podol, 119; Podol marketplace, 118; at synagogue, 119–22
Kiev Pechersk Cathedral and Monastery, 117–18
Kissinger, Henry, x
Klin, 114–15
Knickerbocker, William E., 15, 17
Kohn, Hans, 13–14, 246
Komsomol ball (Moscow), 192–93
Korean War, xi, 9, 10, 13, 21, 37, 38–39
Kremlinologist, xi, 218
Kristol, Irving, 10–11
Kropotkin, Peter, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 53–54
Kropotkin home as location of JPRS, 53, 65
Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 90
Lamb, Harold, Tamerlane, the Earth Shaker, 124
Lavra cathedral (Kiev), 117–18
Layne, Floyd, 19, 20
Leichter, Norma, 3
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich: exile of Kropotkin by, 54; images of, with Stalin, 76; Lenin Testament, 89–90, 104; newspaper publishing and, 163, 164; play based on (Kremlyovskiye Kuranty), 193–94; recommending Stalin’s removal from official post, 90; Russian reverence for, 193–94, 196, 198
Leningrad, 50, 81, 111, 116, 237–63; Central Lecture Hall, 240; design of, 237–38; history of, 237; Institute for Russian Literature, 244–46, 253; “The International Position of the USSR” lecture by Voshchenkov, 240–43; Narva Triumphal Arch, 255; Nevsky Prospekt area and shops, 238, 254; Prospekt Gaza area, 254–55; “real” city with true proletariat, experience at bar in, 255–57; Russian Museum, 262; Saltykov-Shchedrin Library, xii, 237–38, 243–48, 253, 262–63; “Sasha” conversations in, 249–53, 254–58, 259–61; siege during World War II, 238, 255; St. Nicholas Cathedral, 238
Leningrad Division of the All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge, 240
Leningrad University, 258–59
Leninism, 140, 178, 266. See also Marxism-Leninism
Lenin Library (Moscow), xii, 86–88, 105, 137, 192, 196, 200, 220, 222–24; “Latest Tasks of Modern Soviet Literature” and Dudintsev’s Not By Bread Alone, 233–34; “The Vigilance of the Soviet Man” speaker announcement, 223–24. See also Students
Lenin Museum (Moscow), 76
Lenin Testament, 89–90, 104
Lesueur, Larry, 277
Levine, Irving R., 217–18, 221
Lippmann, Walter, Cold War, 12
Lively, Colonel, 39–41
Locke, John, 140
Long Island University, 23
MacArthur, Douglas, 13
Macaulay’s essay on revolution, 251
Maclean, Fitzroy, Eastern Approaches, 147
Mafia and City College basketball team, 9–10, 16–17, 22
Maged, Mark, 13, 30–31
Malamud, Bernard, 29
Malenkov, Georgy, 63, 64, 65, 69, 211
Mao Zedong, 105
Marco Polo, 132
Marshall Plan, 12
Marx, Karl, 178, 190
Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute (Moscow), 197–98
Marxism, 178, 260
Marxism-Leninism, 62, 75, 178, 265, 271
Maurras, Charles, 13
McCarthyism, 21
Meir, Golda, x
Meyer, Alfred G., 36–37
Mickelson, Sig, 276
Middle East and Suez Canal crisis, 212–13, 242
Mikoyan, Anastas, 63, 64–65, 69, 207
Military Messenger (journal), 89
Military service of Kalb, 37–41
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 85
Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), 83–85, 126, 138, 163, 169, 214
Moiseyev Ballet, 92
Mollet, Guy, 212
Molotov, Vyacheslav: challenging Khrushchev’s leadership, xiii, 189, 207; downfall of, 93–95; Dudintsev’s Not by Bread Alone and, 233; Hungarian uprising and, 211; reassignment to state commission, 188; retreat from thaw of 1956 and, 171, 229, 241; Stalin and, 69
Mongolia, 277
Montand, Yves, 248
Montesquieu, 140
Moscow: Bolshevik Revolution thirty-ninth anniversary celebration, 214–15; British embassy, 90–91; Central State Archives, 82–83, 85; Central Telegraph Office, 221; demonstrations in, against West and Israel over Suez Canal crisis, 213–14; Gorky Park, 229; Historical Library, 79–81, 82, 88; History Institute, 226; Institute of Art, 196; Komsomol ball, 192–93; Lenin Museum, 76; State Museum, 81–82; U.S. embassy, xi, 87–88; weather in, 50–51, 123, 184–85, 238; World Youth Festival (1957), 192. See also Joint Press Reading Service (JPRS); Lenin Library
Moscow Art Theater, 193
Moscow University, 59–60
Mosely, Philip, 246
Murrow, Edward R., 24–25, 218, 273–76
Museum of Art (Tashkent), 130
Nabokov, Vladimir, 35
Nagy, Imre, 205–08, 210, 222
Napoleonic wars, 255
Narva Triumphal Arch (Leningrad), 255
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 212
National communism of Tito, 204, 205, 206
Nationalism: communism vs., 207; in Poland, 199; religion vs., 190
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), x, 12, 76, 206, 211
Netzloff, Ernest, 40–41
New York Herald Tribune, 4–5
New York Times: Kalb’s article in Magazine, 273–74; Kalb’s brother Bernard as reporter for, 14, 44, 274; Khrushchev’s anti-Stalin speech leaked to, 88
Nicholas II (Tsar), 129, 248
Nixon, Richard, x
Nonresistance doctrine, 114
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), x, 12, 76, 206, 211
Novy Mir (literary journal), 231, 233
Oil industry of Baku, 158–59
Operation Whirlwind (Soviet invasion of Hungary), 211
O’Regan, Patrick, 116
Pankratova, Anna, 83
Pares, Bernard, 115; A History of Russia, 34
Party Life (journal), 83
Pasternak, Boris, 277
Peaceful coexistence doctrine, 63, 78, 145, 228, 241, 242
Peerce, Jan, 72, 252
Personality cult: criticism of, 98; Khrushchev and, 65–66, 87; Rakois and, 205; Stalin and, 75, 87, 112, 127, 140, 178–79, 187, 232
Peter the Great: Khrushchev’s nickname for Kalb, x, 101, 104, 275; military drive to Caspian Sea, 158; Murrow interviewing Kalb about, 276; Shevchenko and, 117; statue in Leningrad, 238; statue in Tashkent, 130; St. Petersburg named for, 237
Pipes, Richard, 36–37, 185
Pogodin, Nikolai, Kremlyovskiye Kuranty, 193
Poland, uprisings in, xii, 104, 105–07, 199, 201, 203, 206
Portnoy, Volf (grandfather), 121
Poverty, 118–19
Pravda: Kalb as translator for CBS and NBC, 217–18; on Khrushchev’s attack on Stalin, 75; on Moscow demonstrations against West and Israel over Suez Canal crisis, 213; policy clues from, 58; on Poznan, Poland, unrest, 105–06; Stalin’s birthday, treatment of, 57–58; truthfulness of reporting in, 141, 199; on 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 65
Prisoners of war, Korean treatment of, 38–39
Puerto Ricans at George Washington High School, 4, 6
Pushkin, Alexander, 35, 163, 244; “Queen of Spades,” 240
Pushkin Drama Theater (Leningrad), 239