The Thinking Reed

Bulgakov, S., Vekhi 26

Bulgarin, poet 205-7

Buravsky, A., Speak… 318

bureaucracy, literature of 158-9

bureaucracy 81, 87, 112, 360-1

nomenklatura rule 80, 83-4

post-revolutionary strengthening 64–71,76

sabotages Gorbachev 323

technocracy and 265-71

Burg, David, on youth movement 144-6

Burlatsky, F. 266-9, 302-3

Riddle and Lesson of N. Machiavelli 268-9

Two Views From One Office 327-8

Burzhuademov, K. (Sokiro) 244, 245, 310-11

Byzantium, Soviet parallels 298

Cadets (Constitutional Democratic Party) 25-6, 31-2, 33

Capital (Marx) 280

capitalism 63, 275-6

Russian 1 1, 294, 356

step to socialism 40, 78-9

Capon,G. 29

Carmichael, Joel 58, 66

de Castris, A.L. 86

censorship ix, 119, 157, 204

Bolshevik policy 43-6, 48, 53

difficulties in abstract arts 116

glasnost' 319, 341

inconsistent character 108-9

influence on culture 103–110

philosophy 286

self-censorship 104, 326-7

social sciences 105-7

Cerroni, Umberto 96

Chaadaev, P. Ya. 17, 224

Chalidze, V., legal Marxism 284

Chalmaev, V., ‘Inevitability’ 229-30

Chavance, Bernard 84

Chekhov, Anton 20, 116

Chernenko, Konstantin 317

Chernyshevsky, N.G. 20

Cheshkov, M.A. 106

history of Vietnam 300-2

state-class 82-3, 85

Chevènement, Jean-Pierre 99

Children of the Arbat (Rybakov) 321, 325,343

China 302-3

class intelligentsia and 6–7, 110-12

state as class 80-4, 85

see also workers and peasants

Claudin, Fernando 95

Club for Social Initiatives xi, 334, 353, 361

Cockburn, Patrick xi

Cohen, Stephen 45, 67

collectivism 91, 208, 287, 290-1, 357

Communism 63, 264, 284

barracks 96, 120, 178, 275-6, 286

crisis of reform ideology 200-11

not necessarily socialist 292

supernatural role of Party 84

‘True’ 242-5

see also Eurocommunism; socialism Concerning Marxism in Linguistics (Stalin) 130

cosmopolitanism see Jews and anti-Semitism counter-revolution 52

brings censorship 44

difficult for intelligentsia 48-51

Red and White terrors 46-7, 52, 63, 12n54, 239, 256n175

critical realism 115

cult of personality 142, 156, 172-3, 300

culture 84, 109

Bakhtin’s philosophy of 278-82

Bolsheviks’ attitude 56–60, 69–71

corruption of submission 120

creativity 94-7, 141, 309-10

cultural-political process 3–7, 16, 68, 250-1

materialism 261, 271

NEP period fruitful 51-5

political pressure on artists 84-5, 85-8, 92-3, 171

revolution causes emigration 50-1

social criticism 9-11, 13

struggle between talent and mediocrity 205-7

tradition 167-8

see also art; films; history; literature; music; science; theatre cybernetics 130, 197

Czechoslovakia economic reforms 194, 200

Prague Spring 198-9, 241, 312

Dali, Salvador x

Daniel, Yuly, triall of 188-90

Danilov, V.P. 289-90

Dawn over Moscow (Surov) 114

Deborin 190

Debray, Régis 309

Decembrists 14, 20

see also Revolution Dement'ev, A. 230

democracy 240, 348-9, 356

failure in revolution 43-6, 55, 64

indivisibility 65, 322

lack of creates alienation 85

necessary for socialism 77-8

New Left and 349-52, 359-60

one-party system 248, 361

opponents 19, 223, 335

socialism and 5, 77-8, 310-11

Soviet situation 16, 62, 67–70, 247

utopian ideals 285-7

Deutscher, Isaac 238

Dialectical Logic (Il'enkov) 273

Dialectics of Abstract and Concrete (Il'enkov) 273

Dialectics of Hope (Kagarlitsky) 313

Diamonds to Sit On (Ilf and Petrov) 242

‘Diary of Nina Kosterina’ 164

The Dictatorship of Conscience (Shatrov) 318

Diligensky, G.G. 295-6

dissidents 14, 325, 335, 339

inverted Stalinism 356-7

publishing 346-7 rise of 211-51

development in 1970s 232-7

Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) 159, 344

dogmatism 78, 160, 178-9

inverted Stalinism 234-51

Marxism degraded by 95-6, 180-1

The Doleful Detective (Astaf'ev) 328-9

Doroshevich, V.M. 46

Dostoevsky, Fyodor 20, 227, 233-4

Drabkin, Ya. S. 180, 295

Dubček, Alexander 199

Dudintsev, Not By Bread Alone 157, 158-9

Dunaevsky, V.A. 289

ecology 219, 334

Greens 363-4

political groups 345, 348-9

Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (Marx) 30

Economic Problems of Socialism (Stalin) 122

economy and economists 217, 323

Stalin and 122, 134

theories for reform 191–201

‘Educated Philistinism’ (Lobanov) 229

education xi, 18, 60, 94

Efros, Anatoly 262, 322

attack on 229, 233

Egides, P. 272, 274

Ehrenburg, Ilya

People, Years, Life 164-5, 167, 168

Eidelman, quarrel with Astaf'ev 329, 337

Einstein, Albert 130

Elleinstein, Jean 214

Engels, Friedrich 10, 285

dialect of nature 276-7

fears about non-industrial socialism 76-7

Eurocommunism x, 79, 194, 241, 291

Evreinov, N, supports Bolsheviks 49

The Executioner’s Block (Aitmatov) 328-9

Fadeyev, A., ‘Humanism of Stalin’ 136

Fascism 230-1, 256n185

Fedukhin, Dr S. 90

Fidousi 131-2

Filimonov, E. 220

film and television 105, 138

under Gorbachev 319-21, 323-4. 330

Hollywoodization 260-2

France 47

Frankfurt School 95, 198, 207, 273