A people's tragedy

Kuropatkin, General A. N., 168, 279, 281, 420

Kursk, 106, 520, 611, 662, 663

Kuskova, Ekaterina, 50, 148, 149, 779, 782

Labour armies, 721, 725. See also Forced labour

Lamanov, Anatolii, 762

Land captains, 53–4

Latsis, M. Ia., 397, 475, 534–5, 634

Latvia, Latvians, 7, 72, 73, 142, 185, 372, 475, 489, 503n, 543, 578, 646

Latvian Rifle Brigade, 509, 514, 590, 634, 667, 668

Lavrov, Peter, 136

Lazimir, P. E., 480

League for the Rescue of Children, 782

League of Russian Culture, 412

League of Time, 745

Lebedev, General D. A., 654

Lena massacre (1912), 245

Lenin Institute, 806

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, xi, 8, ll, 15n, 71, 103, 126, 127, 128, 129n, 130–1, 132, 136, 137, 141–54, 162, 165, 166, 179, 180, 190, 198, 199, 249, 291–2, 294–6, 297, 323, 335, 369, 370, 384–94, 395, 396, 397, 418, 421, 432–5, 445, 455, 456, 459 and n, 461, 468, 511, 591, 594, 620, 623, 633, 659n, 682, 683, 686, 688, 689, 693, 695, 706, 723, 734, 739, 741, 742, 754, 755, 756, 813, 815, 821; attempted assassination of (1918), 627–30, 793; attitude to the Soviets, 465–6, 503–4, 517, 618; ban on factions proposed by, 765; belief in European revolution, 701–2, 703; Brest-Litovsk peace talks and Treaty, 536–7, 538, 541, 542, 544, 545–6, 547–50; and the Caucasus, 713, 715–16; and the Cheka, 645, 647, 648, 649; Civil War, 562, 583, 584, 615–16, 659n, 663, 667, 673, 674; his concept of cultural revolution, 742–3, 815; and Constituent Assembly, 507, 513, 515, 516, 550; character, 143, 144, 147, 385–6, 389–91; on corruption, 684; cult of, 350, 434, 627–9, 747, 804–5, 806; death and funeral (1924), 805–6, 819; defence of Petrograd, 673, 674; and electrification, 789; exile in Finland, 434, 469–70, 471; exile in Siberia, 148, 149; family background and early years, 141–5; and Gorky, 606, 648–9, 723, 737, 767, 779, 781, 783–4, 785, 819; illness (1921–4), 793–5, 797–8, 800–1, 804–5; intellectual influences on, 130–1, 132, 136, 137, 145–7; invasion of Poland, 701, 702–3; and July Days, 423, 425, 426–8, 433, 435; and the kombedy, 620, 621; and Left SRs, 512; mass terror advocated by, 524–5, 534, 536, 630–1, 748–9; and murder of Nicholas II, 638, 639, 641; and NEP, 766, 769–70; and October insurrection, 456, 469–73, 475–7, 483–4, 485–551 passim; opposed to Vikzhel talks, 498, 499; and origins of War Communism, 613, 614, 615; and peasant revolts, 758, 766; Pomgol closed down by, 779; purges of party ordered by, 694; reign of terror against Church instigated by, 748–9; return to Russia in 1917, 384–7; revolutionary ideology of, 210–11, 386–8, 503–4, 507, 510, 524–6, 529, 613, 704–5; rhetorical qualities, 150, 392; and ‘Socialism in One Country’, 539, 550; his successor, 793–4, 800, 802; suspicions and condemnation of Stalin, 794, 795–7, 798–801; Taylorism encouraged by, 744; Testament of, 796, 797–800, 801, 802 and n; and trade union relations, 732; treason charges, 433–4; and the Ukraine, 707; visit to Pavlov, 732–3; Vperedists in conflict with, 735; Workers’ Opposition condemned by, 764–5; works: April Theses, 295, 387, 388, 391, 392, 393, 397, 403, 435, 538; The Development of Capitalism in Russia, 146; ‘How to Organize Competition’, 524; ‘Letters from Afar’, 386; ‘On Compromises’, 466; One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, 153; The State and Revolution, 434, 465, 503; ‘To All Workers, Soldiers and Peasants’, 492; ‘To the Citizens of Russia’, 485; What Is to Be Done?, 150–1, 152

Lermontov, Mikhail, 222

Liberation Movement, 167, 175, 191, 193

Liberman, Simon, 505

Liberty Loan, 412

Liebknecht, Wilhelm: Spiders and Flies, 523–4 and n

Linde, Sergeant Fedor, 314–15, 316, 318, 327, 381–2, 413, 439, 582; murder of, 438–41

Lissitzky, El, 736

Literacy, 93, 94, 600, 790

Lithuania, Lithuanians, 72, 73, 75, 80, 372, 503n, 542, 543, 697

Liundkvist, Colonel V. A., 673

Lloyd George, David, 574 and n, 675, 691, 704, 816

Lobanov-Rostovsky, Prince Alexei, 37

Lockhart, Bruce, 32, 629, 641, 645

Lodz, 185

Loris-Melikov, Count Mikhail, 40–1

Louis XVI, King of France, 18, 639

Lozovsky, A., 511n

Ludendorff, General Erich von, 256, 267, 281, 541, 542, 545

Lukomsky, General A. S., 446, 450, 558, 563, 568, 664

Lunacharsky, Anatoli, 296, 325n, 391, 423, 424, 426, 429, 430, 434, 460, 489, 492, 499, 501, 511–12, 607, 693, 735, 736, 737, 743, 744, 784, 785; Don Quixote, 784

Lutsk, 438, 439, 545

Luxemburg, Rosa, 747