A people's tragedy

Pushkin, Alexander, 117, 123, 276, 321, 390, 522, 812

Putiatina, Princess O. P., 345

Putilov factory, 273, 394, 428, 431–2, 673, 688, 759

Rabkrin (Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate), 684, 694, 794, 797, 799

Rada, 376–7, 420, 543, 545, 548, 549, 662, 705, 706

Radek, K. B., 386, 699

Radishchev, Alexander, 122

Railways, 261, 608, 611, 721–2,

Rakhia, Eino, 483

Ransome, Arthur, 309

Raskolnikov, Fedor, 395, 427, 430, 516, 761

Rasputin, Grigorii, 9, 10, 13, 20, 21, 24, 27, 28–34, 227, 245, 270, 276, 277, 278, 281, 284, 285, 286, 302, 343, 349, 369, 540, 607; murder of (1916), 289–91, 339

Rationing, 726–7

Rattel, Major-General N. I., 698

Razin, Stenka, 101, 628, 662

Red Army, 59, 264, 279, 460, 475, 529, 538, 539, 562, 563, 564, 565–7, 569, 571, 573, 575, 577, 580, 583–4, 589–603, 620, 621, 635, 641, 644, 652–82 passim, 698, 700–1, 702, 703, 704, 708, 710, 712, 715, 719, 722, 725, 727, 754, 774, 782, 791, 817–18; desertion from, 599–600, 661, 668; education in, 600–2; ex-tsarist officers, 590–4; illness, disease and the wounded, 598–9; mass conscription, 594–7; Military Opposition, 592–4, 660n, 662n, 750, 794; peasant deserters return to, 668–9, 699; problems of supply, 597–8, 661; MILITARY UNITS: Eastern Army Group, 583–4; First Red Army, 584; Second Red Army, 637n, 721; Third Red Army, 652, 721; Fourth Red Army, 583; Seventh Red Army, 673; Eleventh Red Army, 712, 714; Taman Army, 563n; Third Division, 662; 219th Domashki Rifle Division, 583; First Red Cavalry Corps, 670; Krasnokutsk Regiment, 583; Kurilovo Regiment, 583; Novouzensk Regiment, 583; Pugachev Regiment, 583; Latvian Rifle Brigade, 509, 514, 590, 634, 667, 669. See also Russian Imperial Army

Red Guards, 370, 399, 411, 424, 452, 455, 462, 464, 482, 483, 485, 493 and n, 494, 514, 516, 526, 532, 536n, 539, 557, 565, 577, 578, 589–90, 594, 639, 784

Red Terror, xi, 400, 525, 527, 531, 534, 535–6, 547, 563, 564, 591, 630–2, 641–9, 653, 660, 677, 678, 696, 707; social origins, 520–36, 630–1, 812

Red weddings and funerals, 747–8, 751

Reed, John, 369, 474, 486–7, 492, 493, 497, 537

Reissner, Larissa, 761

Rennenkampf, General von, 255, 256

Repin, Ilya 179, 348

Republican Centre, 443

Revolution of 1905, 173–203, 207, 208, 209–10, 314, 699; ‘Bloody Sunday’ (St Petersburg), 173–80, 185, 186, 192; Moscow uprising, 200–1, 202

Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (RVSR), 592, 594, 696, 794

Revolutionary names, 747–8

Revolutionary Tribunals, 534, 563

Riabushinsky family, 163, 247, 273, 369, 820

Riazan’, 463, 596, 600, 621

Riga, 185, 441, 459, 475; Treaty of (1921), 703

Rodchenko, Alexander, 736, 738, 739

Rodichev, Fedor, 338, 448, 509, 681

Rodzianko, Mikhail, 9–10, 34, 248, 252, 263, 326, 334, 341, 342, 345, 443, 446, 480, 559

Rokossovsky, Marshal Konstantin, 264

Rolland, Romain, 402, 773, 808, 819

Romania, 281, 573, 769

Romanov Tercentenary (1913), 3–6, 9–12, 13, 24, 245, 314

Romanovsky, General I. P., 558, 568

Romas, Mikhail, 84, 85, 86

Rostov, 557, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 660; Battle for (1917), 557

Rublev, 609

Rudnev family, 532

Russian Imperial Army, 55–61, 253–70; calls for modernization, 58–9, 59–61; mutinies, 57, 58, 184, 265–6, 312–16, 418; officers and command structure, 57–8, 258–60, 263–4; place in the ruling system, 55–6; revolution in, 263, 264, 265, 378–80, 407, 414–18; MILITARY UNITS: First Army, 255; Second Army, 255, 261; Third Army, 266; Fifth Army, 418; Seventh Army, 418; Eighth Army, 254, 255, 443; Eleventh Army, 419; Fourteenth Army, 60; Third Cavalry Corps, 446; Thirty-Third Army Corps, 418; lst Don Cossack Division, 453; 3rd Infantry Division, 439; Savage Division, 446, 452–3; 4th Rifle Brigade, 253; First Machine-Gun Regiment, 396, 397, 421–4, 425; 176th Regiment, 426, 430–1; 181st Infantry Regiment, 302; 443rd Infantry Regiment, 439–40; 444th Infantry Regiment, 439–40; Finland (Reserve) Regiment, 311, 314, 315, 327, 381, 413, 759–60; Imperial Dragoons, 670; Imperial Guards, 3–4, 55–6, 59, 282, 341, 716; Lithuanian Regiment, 314, 315; Moscow Regiment, 314, 382; Pavlovsky Regiment, 312, 313, 317, 382, 429; Preobrazhensky Guards Regiment, 17, 37, 55, 177, 314, 315, 324; Semenovsky Regiment, 200, 312; Tekinsky Regiment, 558; Tver Regiment, 59; Volynsky Regiment, 312, 313, 314, 324; Cyclist Battalion, 492; 6th Engineer Battalion, 314; Women’s Battalion of Death, 413, 419. See also Red Army, Soldiers

Russian Monarchist Party, 196

Russian Political Conference, Paris, 562 and n, 672

Russian Renault factory, 302, 396

Russification campaigns, 64, 80–1, 810

Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), 18, 56, 168–70, 184, 185, 253, 281

Ruszky, General N. V., 340, 342

Ryazanov, David, 460

Rykov, Alexei, 499, 511, 660n, 799, 821, 822

Ryzhkov, S. M., 184

Sabler, Vladimir, 33, 273

Saburov, Prince V. V., 365