A people's tragedy

Kanatchikov, Semen, 53–4, 108–21, 124–5, 147, 154, 233, 301, 368, 388, 596, 614, 692, 791, 810, 813, 818–19; career after civil war, 818–19; death of (1940), 819; imprisonment and hard labour, 125, 201, 819; joins Bolshevik Party, 121; memoirs of, 65, 108–9, 119, 121; as roving commissar, 595, 687

Kannegiser, Leonid, 410, 627

Kansk, 657, 658

Kaplan, Fanny, 629–30 and n, 642, 647, 793

Karakhan, Lev, 540

Karelin, V. A., 512

Kars, 713

Kautsky, Karl, 149, 292, 715

Kazakhstan, 711, 776

Kazan, 77, 84, 85, 142, 145, 346, 366, 386, 463, 580, 584, 585, 592, 611, 643, 644, 659, 762

Kerenskaya, Olga, 270–1

Kerensky, Alexander, 59, 180, 186, 205n, 243, 273, 274, 286, 287, 288, 323, 324, 325, 326, 329–30, 334, 344, 345, 354, 356, 357, 377, 384, 409, 413, 424, 429, 430, 444, 452, 455, 463, 464, 477, 497, 582, 635, 636, 739, 793, 808, 812; and Bolshevik October insurrection, 456, 457, 481, 482, 484, 486, 491, 497, 498; as C-in-C of army, 451; cult of, 350, 352, 410–11, 414, 437–8, 448; early years, 165–7; escapes from Petrograd (October 1917), 479, 480n, 486, 496–7; in exile in Paris, 578; and June offensive, 410, 411, 414–15, 418, 422; Kornilov Affair, 444–55; Minister of Justice, 336–8, 395; Minister of War, 375, 383, 406, 410, 411; Moscow State Conference, 447–9; Prime Minister, 409, 436–8, 441, 442–55, 456, 464, 467, 470, 471, 478–80, 484; replaces Brusilov with Kornilov as C-in-C, 442–4; rhetorical qualities, 288, 337–8, 414; rumours of his moral corruption, 478–9

Kerensky, Fedor, 142, 165–6

KGB, 124, 510, 646n

Khabalov, Major-General Sergei, 302, 312, 313, 327, 339, 340

Kharkov, 106, 183, 543, 574, 646, 661, 662, 665, 675, 750

Kherson, 106, 520, 679

Khlysty, religious sect, 29

Khodasevich, V. F., 606, 736, 782

Khodynka Field disaster (1896), 18–19, 634

Kholm, 246

Khrustalev-Nosar, G. S., 190, 324

Khvalynsk, 758

Khvostov, A. A., 45, 277, 289

Kiev, 73, 74, 81, 106, 192, 230, 346, 376, 377, 420, 441, 543, 555, 575, 645, 663, 677, 700, 705, 706, 708, 750; Beiliss Affair, 13, 81, 241–4, 245, 750; changes of regime in, 698n; pogrom in, 678; Polish capture of, 698; refugees from Bolshevik north in, 555–6

Kirghizia, 710–11

Kirov, S. M., 297, 712, 715, 806, 822; murder of (1934), 595n, 822

Kirpichnikov, Sergei, 313–14, 318

Kishinev, 42-5; pogrom (1903), 81, 82

Kishkin, Nikolai, 486, 779

Kistiakovsky, B. A., 209

Klembovsky, General V. N., 279, 699n

Klimushkin, P. D., 576, 582

Knox, Colonel A. (later Major-General), 259, 260, 266, 278, 279, 282, 417, 587 and n, 651, 655, 657

Kokoshkin, F. F., 361, 509, 536 and n

Kokovtsov, Count Vladimir, 6, 10, 244, 339

Kolchak, Admiral Alexander, 293n, 574, 586–8 and n, 594, 596, 597, 598, 639, 651, 652–60 and n, 665, 671, 672, 675, 681, 700, 708, 709, 710, 721

Kollontai, Alexandra, 293, 294, 386, 388, 472, 480, 528, 537, 731, 740, 741–2; ambassador in Stockholm, 765; conversion to Bolsheviks, 292–5; free love philosophy of, 741–2; head of Zhenotdel (1920), 741; imprisoned after July Days, 434; and Lenin, 295, 764; People’s Commissar of Social Welfare, 296, 500, 528, 741; Shliapnikov’s love affair with, 295, 764; in USA, 291, 292, 296; and Workers’ Opposition, 731, 764–5

Komsomol (Communist Youth League), 653, 743, 748, 767, 768, 790, 791, 814

Komuch (Samara Government), 566, 578–83, 584, 585, 592, 644, 653, 757; People’s Army, 580, 581–3, 584, 586, 644, 653

Koni, A. F., 194

Konovalov, Alexander, 247, 336 and n, 370–1, 384, 510, 652n

Kornilov, General Lavr Georgyevich, 293n, 350, 382, 442–55, 457, 459, 461, 464, 465, 477, 479, 480, 541, 557, 696, 757; C-in-C of Russian Army, 442–4; commander of Petrograd Military District, 443; commander of South-Western Front, 444; cult of, 350, 443, 445–6, 448; death of, 564–5, 567; dismissed as C-in-C by Kerensky, 451; imprisoned in Bykhov Monastery, 453; Kerensky’s relations with, 444–7, 448–51; at Moscow State Conference, 448; released from Bykhov Monastery, 541, 556, 558; revolt of, 451–3; split between Alexeev and, 561; Volunteer Army led by, 556, 558, 560, 561, 563, 564

Korolenko, V. G., 118, 779, 782

Kostroma, 5, 10, 49; Romanov Monument, 11

Kovel, 281

Kovno, 222–3, 228; fortress, 267

Kozlov, 592, 648

Krasin, Leonid, 179, 607

Krasnov, General P. N., 439, 440, 497, 498, 566, 567, 575, 670

Kremer, Arkadii, 147

Krestinky, Nikolai, 686

Kritsman, L. N., 595

Krivoshein, A.V., 250, 268, 270, 275, 277, 717

Kronstadt Naval Base/sailors, 397, 452, 455, 459, 485, 514, 516, 671, 793; and July Days, 423, 425, 427–8, 429–30, 432, 452; mutiny (1917), 321, 333, 394–6, 758; Petropavlovsk, 761, 762; rebellion (1921), 760–4, 766, 767–8, 783; Sevastopol, 762; Soviet, 395 and n, 396, 761, 762

Kropotkin, Prince Peter, 122, 130, 647–8

Krupskaya, Nadezhda (Lenin’s wife), 142, 147, 148, 149, 385, 389, 390, 391, 428, 627, 629, 693, 793, 797, 800–1

Krylenko, N. V., 476, 541

Krymov, General Alexander, 446, 447, 451, 452, 453, 498

Kshesinskaya, Mathilde, 5, 17, 284, 387

Kuban region, 103, 530, 562, 563, 564, 566, 567, 570–1, 664, 675, 719, 753, 769. See also Cossacks

Kühlmann, Baron, 542, 544, 545

Kuibyshev, V. V., 292