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which

conversations

happened.

Days, weeks or months after an

interview, other conversations often

provoked

new

questions. That

means that many of the interviews

presented as single events are

actually

composites

of

several

different encounters.

Naturally, journeys of discovery

do not proceed in a simple linear

fashion (or they don’t for me

anyway), so some conversations

have been moved backwards or

forwards to suit the narrative. The

content of all conversations is of

course presented faithfully. These

are the interviewees whose insights

were most important to me. I am

grateful to all of them.

Max Adler, Solikamsk; Vasily

Afonchenko,

Bryansk;

Ludmilla

Alexeyeva,

Moscow;

Nikolai

Andreyevich, Inta; David Badaryan,

Inta; Yulia Boretskaya, Inta; Semyon

Boretsky, Inta; Alexander Daniel,

Moscow; Mikhail Dudko, London

and Moscow; Vladimir Dudko,

Berezina;

Irina

Flige,

London;

Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Moscow;

Maria Gureva, Bryansk; Alexander

Kalikh, Perm; Lidiya Khodunova,

Berezina;

Alexei

Kolegov,

Syktyvkar;

Alexei

Kovalyov,

Unecha; Sergei Kovalyov, Perm;

Yevgeniya Kulygina, Inta; Zhores

Medvedev,

London;

Alexander

Merzlikin,

Abez;

Natasha

Merzlikina, Abez; Michael Meylec,

Perm;

Father

Mikhail,

Inta;

Alexander

Ogaryshev,

Perm;

Alexander Ogorodnikov, Moscow;

Dmitry Oreshkin, Perm; Vladimir

Petrovsky,

Moscow;

Alexander

Podrabinek,

Moscow;

Kirill

Podrabinek,

Moscow;

Tanya

Podrabinek, Abez and Moscow;

Elmira

Polubesova,

Perm;

Lev

Regelson, Moscow; Vladimir Sedov,

Moscow; Alexander

Semyonov,

Moscow; Zoya Semyonova Sr,

Moscow; Zoya Semyonova Jr,

Moscow; Viktor Shmurov, Perm;

Vasily

Shpinkov,

Kazashchina;

Alexander Skaliukh, Perm; Yuri

Solovyov, Bryansk; Sergei Spodin,

Perm; Oleg Sukhanov, Sergiev

Posad; Alexander Tefft, London;

Father Vadim, Staraya Guta; Anna

Vasilyevna,

Berezino;

Nina

Vasilyevna,

Berezino;

Marina

Voikhanskaya, Cambridge; Maria

Volkova, Berezina; Gleb Yakunin,

Moscow; Olga Zagorskaya, Inta.

Index

Abez gulag camp/town
58–61
,
66
,

67
,
68–71
,
155
,
156
,
157,
159–

66, 168

abortion
85,
95,
99

Achkasova, Olga
66

Afghanistan, Soviet invasion (1980)

131
,
135
,
177

agriculture
19
,
20,
21
,
22,
28
,
29
,

34
,
48
,
191

collectivization
11
,
18
,
23
,
24
,

25–6
,
29
,
34–5
,
37
,
69
,
145

home grown food
31,
37

see also
famine

Akhmatova, Anna
60,
70

alcoholism
see
drinking

Alexeyeva, Ludmilla
8
,
9

Alexy I, Patriarch
44–5

Alexy II, Patriarch (K G B

codename D R O Z D O V)
45
,

222–3

Amalrik, Andrei
113

Andreyevich, Nikolai
61,
62,
63,
64
,

66
,
67–8
,
70,
71
,
147,
148
,

151
,
154

Andropov, Yuri, as head of K G B

7
,
112
,
138–9
,
140
,
177

Arguments and Facts
247–8

Armenia
62
,
63

Arsenevo (village)
182,
187,
191

Arteyev family (of Abez)
165–6

atheism
88
,
90
,
96–7

Marxism as
82
,
85
,
86

see also
religion

Austria
7

Badaryan, David
62–4

bankers/businessmen
210

St Basil
234

Baydino (village)
182
,
187
,
188–91

F
ather Dmitry in
182
,
188
, 189–

90, 192–6

B B C
82
,
88
,
102
,
110
,
114

Berezina (village)
20,
21
,
24,
28–9
,

31
,
32
,
33
,
110
,
211
,
213–16

Berezino (village)
14–18
,
20

Berezovsky, Boris
210

birth control
99

abortion
85
,
95
,
99

birth rates
see
population crisis

Boretsky, Semyon
151–3
,
159

Boretsky, Yulia (wife of Semyon

Boretsky)
151
,
153

Brezhnev, Leonid
7
,
75
,
86
,
95
,
99
,

100
,
112
,
177
,
206

his ‘developed socialism’ concept

75

Helsinki Agreement (1975) and

112–13

brick making
152,
153

Britain
82

see also
B B C

bureaucracy
79–80,
149–51,
160

see also
state control

Burgess,

Anthony:
A Clockwork

Orange
169

cars
106–7
,
153
,
187
,
203

see also
transport

Carter, Jimmy
129,
130

Catholicism
210

see also
religion

Chechnya/Chechens
1
,
3,
144–5
,

231

Cherkizovo (village) church, Father

Dmitry at (post-recantation)
206

children
26,
28–9,
85,
168,
191–2

christening
104–5,
126

death of
16–17,
95
,
99–100;
from starvation
22

state removal from parents
245

se
e also
education
; population

crisis; young people

China
11
,
28
,
237

Christian Committee for the Defence

of Believers’ Rights
125–6
,
218

see also
Yakunin, Gleb

Chronicle

of

Current

Events

(dissident newspaper)
113,
139
,

242

the
church
see
Russian Orthodox

Church

C I A
79

cigarettes
see
smoking

cinema/film
80–81

class struggle
26
,
27

see also
peasant class

coal mining
49,
51
,
53,
56
,
57,
58
,

63–4
,
154
,
191

collectivization
11,
18,
23
,
24,
25–6
,

29
,
34–5
,
37
,
69
,
145

see also
agriculture

communism
9
,
24
,
41–2
,
75

post-communist Russia
10,
11

under Khrushchev
74–5

Young Communist League
32
,

67
,
74–5
,
77–8
,
79
,
80

consumerism
76,
106–7,
207

corruption
see
state corruption

Cossacks
25

crime, organized
79–80

criminals, in gulag camps
54,
65

Czechoslovakia,

Soviet

invasion

(1 9 6 8 )
73
,
138–9
,
171,
172
,

177

dachas (country houses)
37

Daniel, Yuli
8,
170,
233–4

Darwin, Charles
60,
118

Day
(newspaper) (continued as

Tomorrow)
208,
209

death rates
see
population crisis

depopulation
5,
18,
24
,
48–9,
58
,

64
,
156
,
189
,
203
,
216
,
241

dissi
dents/dissent
7–8
,
51
,
72–3
, 77–

8, 90, 99, 113–14, 134, 170–

72, 238, 246–9

aims/objectives
78–9

Chronicle

of

Current

Events

(newspaper)
13
,
139
,
242

el
ection protests (2011–12) 229–

31

Helsinki Groups
112–13,
125–6
,

130
,
131
,
135
,
139

Jewish
89,
129,
130,
139

K G B action against
100
,
104
,

113
,
116,
126
,
127–8,
129
,

130–33
,
139–40
,
172,
207
,

217–25
;

interrogation
139
;

psychiatric assessment/treatment

of
116–19
,
127

Moscow,

Bolotnaya

Square

protests (2011)
230
,
238

official criticism of
114,
129,
232

papers/writings by
7–8
,
33
,
79
,

80
,
197
;
see also
samizdat

Pussy Riot
232–3
,
234

samizdat

(underground

publications)
see
samizdat

Western media reports on
129
,

130
,
171
,
172
; on prisoners

242
,
243

see also
human rights
; individual

names

Divnich, Yevgeny
181

Dmi
try, Father (Dmitry Dudko) 9–

10, 141, 252–3

birth/childhood
9
,
14–15
,
21–4
,

33

arrest (I)/imprisonment in Inta
43
,

44
,
45–7
,
48
,
53–8
,
62
,
64–6
,

141
; release
72,
83

arrest (II) by K G B/interrogation

at Lubyanka
133–4
,
136,
140–

41,

219;

imprisonment

in

Lefortovo
134
,
136
,
141
,
172
,

181
; appeals for his release

134–5
,
180;
his recantation

173–8
,
179–80,
202,
219;
his
Izvestia
article on
174–6
; letter

of apology to Patriarch Pimen

177
; as propaganda
176
,
177
; r e l e a s e
177
,
182;
move to Baydino
see
in
Baydino
below;

see also
K G B
and
below

in Baydino
182,
188,
189–90
,

192–6

character
9
,
23
,
40
,
42
,
53
,
55
,
87
,

108
,
120
,
122,
178
,
180,
182–

4, 198, 252

at

Cherkizovo

church

(post-