Czech Legion, 576–8, 580, 581, 584, 639, 642n
Czechoslovakia, Czechs, 566, 576, 584, 586, 590, 594, 626, 659, 702, 817
Dan, Fedor, 211n, 323, 431, 457, 478, 482, 510, 645, 667, 759
Dan, Lydia, 125 and n, 140, 149, 151, 153, 161–2
Dashnaktsutiun, 712, 713
Deaths: in revolution and civil war, xi, 605, 649, 679, 773–4
Decembrists, 119, 122, 123, 126, 149
Declaration of the Rights of the Working People, 513, 516, 517, 529
Decree on Land, 685
Decree on Nationalization, 626
Decree on Peace, 536–7, 538
Decree on the Separation of Church and State (1918), 528, 745
Decree on the Socialist Fatherland in Danger!, 547
Decree on Workers’ Control, 611, 623
Democratic Centralists, 731–2, 764, 799
Democratic Conference (1917), 455, 466–7, 469, 470, 477
Denike, George, 190, 392
Denikin, General Anton, 81, 266, 444, 453, 520–1, 558, 564, 565, 566–8, 569, 571, 572, 573, 575, 586, 587, 588, 598, 619, 639, 652, 654, 656, 657, 660–70, 674, 675, 676, 677, 679–80, 681, 697, 707, 716, 717, 718, 719, 721, 812; Moscow Directive issued by, 662–3, 679, 680
Deurbanization, 609–10
Dmitry Pavlovich, Grand Duke, 289–91
Dogger Bank Inquiry, 170
Don region, 556, 557, 558, 559, 561–3, 565–7, 596, 660, 662, 666, 719, 753, 769, 776. See also Cossacks
Donbass region, 660, 661, 665, 757
Dostoevsky, Fedor, 7n, 66, 87, 449; The Brothers Karamazov, 28; Diary of a Writer, 87; The Little Hero, 123; Poor Folk, 130; The Possessed, 133 and n, 390
Dragomirov, General Mikhail, 170, 568, 664, 678
Dukhonin, General Nikolai, 541, 558
Duma, 9–10, 12–13, 61, 153, 187, 191, 202, 203, 210, 212, 215–21, 224–6, 228–9, 230, 231, 235, 242, 244, 245, 246, 247, 269, 270, 272, 273, 274–5, 285–7, 288, 289, 297, 302, 308, 317, 322, 332, 339, 340, 345, 347, 389, 412, 438, 448, 457, 487, 488, 579, 811; Committee of Imperial Defence, 226; dissolution of (1914), 252, 272; dissolution of (1915), 275, 276; Electoral Law, 215; and February Revolution, 326–7, 329, 330–1, 332, 333, 334–8, 341; First (1906), 202, 213–14, 220; Fourth (1912), 210, 244, 336, 449; Petrograd Soviet negotiations with, 334–8; Progressive Bloc, 274–5, 286, 326, 341; recalled (July 1915), 274–5; Second (1907), 224–5; Temporary Committee of (1917), 327–9, 330, 333, 334–8, 341; Third (1907), 225
Durnovo, P. N., 41, 158, 195 and n, 197, 201, 229, 249, 397, 811
Dutov, General A. I., 653
Dvinsk, 415, 545
Dybenko, P. E., 455, 480, 516, 662, 741
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 81, 124, 296, 510–11, 535, 631, 633–4, 644–5, 647, 648, 667, 696n, 701, 799, 820
Economism, 148–9, 150, 152
Egorov, General Alexander, 669, 818
Eisenstein, Sergei, 184, 484, 736, 738, 806; The Battleship Potemkin (film), 184, 737; October (film), 484, 737, 739; Strike (film), 737
Ekaterinburg, 495, 584, 632, 637, 639, 650–1, 654, 753; murder of imperial family at (1918), 638–41
Ekaterinodar, 564, 565, 567, 568
Ekaterinoslav, 106, 233, 520, 661
Elizarov, Mark, 693
Elkina, Dora, 601
Engelhardt, Colonel B. A., 302
Engels, Friedrich, 130, 292, 388, 740, 747
Erickson plant, 610
Estonia, 71, 72, 73, 75, 373, 503n, 544, 548, 671, 672, 674, 701
Evert, General Alexei, 279, 281
Evpatoria, 526–7
Extraordinary Assemblies of Factory and Plant Representatives, 624, 625, 626
Factory committees, 369, 457, 579, 611, 623
Famine: of 1891, xi, 52, 129n, 157–62; of 1921, 748, 752, 769, 775–80
Fastov, 678
February Revolution (1917), 202–3, 271, 285, 288, 289, 291, 300, 302, 307–53 passim, 359, 370, 372, 376, 385, 387, 422, 514, 568
Ferghana Valley, 710
Festivals of Freedom, 348
Figner, Vera, 126, 779
Filipovsky, V. N., 324
Filosov, Dmitrii, 437 and n
Finland, Finns, 71, 72, 82, 185, 193, 202, 220, 246, 373, 374–6, 423, 425, 426, 434, 441, 469, 503n, 548, 671–2, 767, 816
First Machine-Gun Regiment, 396, 397, 421–4, 425
First World War, 249, 253–303 passim, 370, 372, 378–81, 387, 388, 402, 406–20, 438–55, 506, 534, 589, 610, 669, 696, 810; German invasion of Russia (1915), 268–9, 278, 280, 284, 285; German invasion of Russia (1918), 534, 545–6, 565–6, 573; peace talks and Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918), 468, 506, 536–48, 549–50, 573; Russian offensive (1914), 254–7; Russian offensive (1916), 279–82; Russian offensive (1917), 410–20, 422
Fofanova, Margarita, 472, 483
Food Army, 618–20
Food supply and requisitioning, 298–300, 307, 605, 607–8, 609, 611–12, 615–23, 729, 752–3,
Forced labour, 529, 723, 724, 725. See also Labour armies
Fotieva, Lydia, 693, 797
France, Anatole, 181, 243
France, French, 27, 254–5, 256, 257, 281, 293 and n, 357–8, 407, 410, 412, 418, 546n, 574–5, 576, 578
Frank, S. L., 208, 209
Fredericks, Count Vladimir, 230, 284
Free Economic Society, 159, 162, 178, 412
Freemasons, 336 and n, 384
French Revolutions, 125, 331, 333, 357–8, 410, 470, 502, 513, 615, 639, 640, 809, 811
Frunze, Mikhail, 653–4, 655
Fundamental Laws (April 1906), 215, 219, 225; Article 87, 215, 229
Gajda, General Rudolf, 653, 655
Galicia, 74, 77, 255, 259, 281, 417, 702
Gapon, G. A., 65, 173, 174–7, 178 and n
Gastev, Alexei, 722n, 744–5
Gatchina (renamed Trotsk), 672, 675; battle of (1917), 411
Gavril Konstantinovich, Grand Duke, 316, 607
Geneva, 150, 153, 178n, 180, 199
George V, King of England, 19, 345, 636
George of Greece, Prince, 16
Georgia, Georgians, 3, 71, 74–5, 76, 80, 83, 185–6, 372, 373, 374, 711, 713, 714–16, 798–9; Soviet invasion of (1921), 715
Germany, Germans, 247, 248, 250–1, 253–8, 266–70, 280, 281, 284, 285, 289, 292–3, 294, 370, 372, 374, 385–6, 408, 409, 417, 433, 440, 441, 538, 581–2, 632–3, 671, 697, 701, 714, 715, 819; anti-German basis of February Revolution, 248, 268, 284, 285, 307, 352, 414n; fraternization with Russian troops, 417–18; invasion of Russia by (February 1918), 534, 545–6, 565–6, 573, 590; occupation of the Ukraine by, 548, 555, 594; peace talks and Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 468, 540–8, 549–50, 573, 576, 616, 625, 626n, 632, 637n
Gilliard, Pierre, 28
Gippius, Tatyana, 352
Gippius, Zinaida, 25, 251–2, 338, 437n, 448, 479, 642
Glazunov, Alexander, 606
Glinka, Mikhail, 740; A Life for the Tsar (renamed The Hammer and Sickle), 4–5, 10–11, 738
Gogol, Nikolai, 36, 37, 47, 66, 129, 222, 449; Dead Souls, 48, 278; The Government Inspector, 694
Golder, Frank, 347, 350–1
Goldman, Emma, 603, 605, 771
Goloshchekin, Fillip, 636, 638–9, 650
Gomel, 750
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 39, 222, 372, 613, 799
Goremykin, Ivan, 22, 217, 220, 275, 278
Gorki: Lenin’s country home, 627, 683, 749, 793–801, 805
Gorky, Maxim (Alexei Peshkov), xiii, 45, 66, 84, 86–7 and n, 88, 97, 101, 111, 118–19, 123, 144, 167, 172, 175, 177, 178, 181–2, 187–8, 200, 203, 208–9, 210, 243, 245, 283, 293, 300, 301, 307, 316, 317, 321–2, 324, 354, 376, 381, 386, 392, 393, 398, 412, 477, 501, 502, 505, 509, 512, 555, 606–7, 624, 694, 704, 723, 750, 774, 782–3, 801, 806, 812, 819–23; appeals for famine relief, 778–9, 789; champions struggle against juvenile delinquency, 781–2; on the collective spirit, 734–5; death of (1936), 822–3; deaths of Blok and Gumilev, 784–5; despair and disillusion of, 398–405; 773, 782–5; exile of, 773, 782, 783, 785, 819–20; July Days, 428–9, 434, 435; Kronstadt rebellion supported by, 767; and Lenin, 144, 179, 403, 783–4, 819; in New York, 202; Novaia zhizn closed down, 626–7; on October Revolution and Bolshevik régime, 495–6, 511–12, 514–15, 518, 526, 533, 535–6, 606, 808; patriotism of, 700; as patron and leader of artists, 606, 736–7; on the peasantry, 86–7, 118, 788–9; on post-revolution Petrograd, 603, 605; protests against Red Terror, 648–9; relations with Zinoviev, 783; returns to Russia (1928), 820–2; speech commemorating February Revolution, 401–2; takes up cause of starving intelligentsia, 606–7; and workers’ schools, 735–6; World Literature publishing house of, 606, 737; WORKS: The Artamonov Business, 820; The Children of the Sun, 123; Confession, 735; The Life of Klim Samgin, 820, 822; Memories of Lenin, 819–20; Mother, 130; My Childhood, 84, 118; ‘The Stormy Petrel’, 119; ‘Untimely Thoughts’ (column in Novaia zhizn), 399, 502