A people's tragedy

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

Gorlice, 266, 280

Gots, A. R., 323, 482, 498, 501, 510, 629n

Graves, Major-General W. S., 657

Greens: see Peasantry, revolts

Grigoriev, Nikifor, 662, 677

Gringmut, V. A., 196

Grodek, 255

Grodno, 267

Groman, V. G., 371

Guchkov, Alexander, 61, 170, 194, 225–6, 229, 247, 278, 283, 288, 336 and n, 341, 343, 344, 356, 359, 380, 408, 443

Gul’, Roman, 390, 556, 558, 561, 564

Gulag system, 723, 819

Gumilev, Nikolai, 606, 736, 784, 785

Gusev, S. I., 660n

Haldane, John Burdon, 315, 327

Hašek, Jaroslav, The Red Commissar, 558

Helsingfors (Helsinki), 72n, 321, 346, 352, 375, 376, 475, 671, 767

Hermogen of Saratov, Bishop, 29, 33, 196

Herzen, Alexander, 54, 87, 98, 129, 134–5, 352, 808; The Bell, 129; My Past and Thoughts, 143

Hindenburg, General Paul von, 256, 267, 281

Hoare, Sir Samuel, 283, 354

Hoffman, General Max von, 545

Hoover, President Herbert, 779, 780 and n

Hungary, 701, 702, 703

Iliodor, monk, 32, 33, 34, 196

Imperial Geographical Society, 39, 74

Imperial Yacht Club, 35, 37

India, 703

Industry, industrialization, 110–11, 112–14, 262–3, 273–4, 611, 623–4, 625–6, 665, 724–5, 815

Intelligentsia, 43–4, 85–8, 125–9 passim, 129–31, 163, 170, 181, 208–9, 356, 360, 606

Inter-Allied Conference, Chantilly (1915), 407

Inter-District Group (Mezhraionka), 325 and n, 334, 460

Irina Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess, 289, 290

Irkutsk, 659

Iskra (The Spark), newspaper, 149–50, 151, 152

Iuzovka (Donetsk), 65

Ivan the Terrible, Tsar, 20, 26, 343, 536, 619, 649

Ivangorod, 267

Ivanov, General N. I., 340, 341

Ivanovo-Voznesentsk, 459

Izgoev, A. S., 209

Izhevsk rebellion, 580, 653

Japan, Japanese, 18, 574, 594, 651; Russian war with (1904–5), 18, 56, 60, 168–70, 184, 185, 225, 253, 281, 670

Jews: anti-Semitism, 13, 52, 77, 80, 81–2 and n, 141 and n, 142–3, 147, 188, 196, 197, 224, 227, 277, 372, 419, 433, 441, 478–9, 524n, 599, 640, 646, 676–9, 680, 697, 749–50, 804; Beiliss Affair (1911–13), 13, 81, 241–4, 245, 272; in Bolshevik Party, 82n, 296, 433, 676–7; Bolsheviks close down synagogues, 749–50; Pale of Settlement, 80, 676; pogroms, 81, 82, 197–8, 202, 205, 215, 244, 245, 433, 462, 599, 666, 676, 677–9, 706, 749

John of Kronstadt, Father, 29, 196

July Days (July uprising, 1917), 409, 421–33, 435, 436, 441, 455, 460, 475, 483, 632, 636

Kadet Party, Kadets (Constitutional Democratic Party), 192–3, 194, 195, 204, 207–8, 215, 216, 218, 219, 220–1, 224, 225, 244n, 247, 273, 274, 275, 276–7, 285, 286, 287, 288, 336, 361, 372, 377–8, 384, 412, 420, 435, 437, 438, 442, 445, 447, 454, 457, 464, 466, 467, 498, 502, 508–9, 510, 513, 517, 536n, 561, 568, 571, 572, 578, 584, 700

Kaganovich, L. M., 297, 707

Kaledin, General Alexei, 557, 562, 565, 662

Kalegaev, Andrei, 512

Kalinin, Mikhail, 297, 426, 475, 762, 805, 806

Kalmykov, I. M., 651

Kaluga, 596, 600, 612, 643, 644, 685

Kamenev, Lev Borisovich, 141n, 388, 391–2, 393, 396, 397, 425, 430, 434, 484, 492, 498, 507, 540, 551, 593, 630, 649, 660n, 669n, 674, 686, 691, 715, 751, 779, 787, 794, 801, 806, 812; favours socialist coalition, 465, 466, 469, 471–2, 482; insurrection opposed by, 471, 472 and n, 476, 477, 800; opposition to Stalin (1926), 818; resignation from Central Committee, 499, 511; resigns as Chairman of Soviet Executive, 506; show trial (1936), 822; sides with Stalin against Trotsky, 795, 800, 804

Kamkov, Boris, 512, 633