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Hels
inki Groups (of dissidents) 112–

13, 125–6, 130, 131, 135, 139

Hitler, Adolf
59,
208

Holy Fools
(Yurodivie)
, in Russian

history
234

human rights
112
,
129
,
130,
171
,

174
,
217–18
,
219

see also
dissidents

Hungary
6
,
138
,
139

illegal immigrants
203

incomes
see
wages

informers
42–3
,
45–6
,
100
,
126
,

139
,
181

in gulag camps
54,
65,
242

priests as
222–4

Inta gulag camp/town
48,
50
,
51
,

53–8
,
62
,
64–6
,
147
,
151–4
,

155
,
156
,
168
,
169

Father Dmitry as prisoner in
43
,

44
,
45–7
,
48
,
53–8
,
62
,
64–6
,

141
; release
72,
83

Inta Museum
56–7
,
61–2

internet/electronic media
229
,
230
,

232

Ioann, Metropolitan of St Petersburg

224

Islam
see
Muslims

Israel, Jewish emigration to
89
,
130
,

131
,
220

Italy
5

Ivanovna, Yevgeniya
149–50
,
151

Izvestia
101,
103,
104

Father Dmitry’s article on his

recantation
174–6

J e w s
30–31,
87
,
88–9
,
113
,
130
,

139
,
168
,
193

anti-Semitism: Father Dmitry’s
see

Father Dmitry’s attitude to

below;

in Russian Orthodox

Church 221, 224

as dissidents
89
,
129
,
130
,
139

Father Dmitry’s attitude to
88–9
,

91
,
96–7
,
129
,
132
,
133
,
135
; as

anti-Semitic

(post-

recantation)
194
,
195–7
, 200–

201, 207, 208, 210–11, 219

during German occupation of

Russia
30–31
; execution of 29–

30

Israel, emigration to
89
,
130,
131
,

220

The Protocols of the Elders of

Zion
208,
224

under Stalin
30,
60

in U S
129

young people as
89,
130

Juodiš, General Jonas (Lithuanian)

69

Kabanovo (village), Father Dmitry

in exile in
92
,
96–8
,
109–10

di
smissal from his church 100–

102

Kadiyev, Rolian
135

Kadyrov, Ramzan
230

Kalikh, Alex
and
er
239–40

Karsavin, Lev
59,
60,
67,
70

Kazashchina (village)
24

Kerouac, Jack
77

Keston College (U K)
174

K G B (security service)
7,
30
,
42
,

51
,
80
,
86
,
112
,
137–41
,
152
,

223

A
ndropov as head of
7
,
112
, 138–

9, 140, 177

dissidents:

action

against
100
,

104
,
113,
116
,
126,
127–8
,

129
,
130–33
,
139–40,
172
,

207
,
217–25
; interrogation of

139
;

psychiatric

assessment/treatment

of 116–

19, 127

Father Dmitry and
108
,
109
,
111
,

130–34
,

217–25
;

arrest/interrogation at Lubyanka

133–4
,

136
,

140–41
;

imprisonment in Lefortovo
134
,

141
,
172,
181
; post-recantation

185
,
196–7
,
208–9
,
217–25

drugs, use of
119
,
127

Fifth Directorate
100
,
126

Lefortovo K G B prison and

Lubyanka K G B headquarters

see
Father Dmitry
above

priests as informers for
222–4

Russian Orthodox Church and
42
,

222–5

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail
210

Khrushchev, Nikita
6
,
45
,
75
,
117

churches, closure of
82
,
84

gulag camps, closure of
74

opposition to
75

his Secret Speech (1956)
74–5

Stalin, criticism of
74–5
,
82
,
86

Kirill, Patriarch
232,
234,
235

Kissinger, Henry
112

Komi Republic
47,
56
,
150
,
151
,

154
,
203

see also
Inta gulag camp

Ko
msomol
see
Young Communist

League

Komsomolskaya

Pravda

(youth

newspaper)
78

Kovalyov, Sergei
247,
248

Krasin, Viktor
139–40

kulaks (middle-class peasants)
27

Kul
ygina, Yevgeniya Ivanovna 61–

2

Kurguzov, Vladimir
247–8

Kuroyedev, Vladimir
101

labour camps
see
gulag

labour market
6,
33,
93,
203,
209
,

238–9

women workers
33

Lakota, Bishop Hryhorii (Ukrainian

Uniate Church)
70

Landa, Malva
135

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
26
,
27
,
92

on religion
44

Lenin Library, Moscow
30,
122–3
,

124–5

Lepeshinskaya, Marina
179

Levada, Centre, Russia
10–11

Levitin-Krasnov, Anatoly
85

libel
232

Liberal Democratic Party (Russia)

107

life expectancy
5
,
6–7
,
93–4
,
99
,

165
,
206
,
246

of women
5

see also
population crisis

literacy levels
77

see also
education

Literary Gazette
114–15
,
122–6
,

219

Lithuania
58,
59,
65,
69

living conditions/standards
6
,
14
,
16
,

21–4
,
25–8,
33
,
34,
72
,
85
,
93
,

145–6
,
148
,
205
,
230

in gulag camps
49
,
50
,
54
,
55,
58
,

59–61
,
62–3
,
152–3
,
154,
159–

62, 241–2, 247–8

see also
famine
;
starvation

Lysenko, Trofim
60
,
118

Marchenko, Anatoly
104

death
241

Marxism
26
,
76
,
85–6
,
118

atheism as
82
,
85
,
86

Maximov, Vladimir
197

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, statue of

(Moscow)
170

Medvedev, Dmitry
229

Medvedev, Roy (twin brother of

Zhores Medvedev)
118,
119

Medvedev, Zhores
118
,
119
,
171

Memorial (Russian charity)
240

Men, Father Alexander
85,
220–21

murder of
221,
234

Merzlikin, Alexander
68–9
,
70,
141
,

157–9
,
161–4
,
165–8

Merzlikin, Natasha (Auntie) (wife of

Alexander Merzlikin)
158
,
163
,

166–7

Mikhail, Father (of Inta)
155–6

Mitrokhin, Vasili
45

Mochulsky, Fyodor
159–60,
162–3

Morozov, Pavlik
40

Moscow
36,
43,
47,
170,
203

in
2011–12 elections
229,
230–

32, 238, 246–7

Bolotnaya Square protests (2011)

230
,
238

Botanic Gardens
205

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

232–3

Father

Dmitry

in
72;
at St

Nicholas

Church
83,
84–91
,

101

Friday Cemetery
251
,
252

Olympic Games (1980)
125–6

population levels
203

Sretenka monastery
204–5

Transfiguration Square church
83
,

84

mosquitoes
58,
59,
60,
61,
68,
69
,

70–71
,
97
,
141
,
167

music
81

Muslims
92,
93,
135,
210,
211

see also
religion

Navalny, Alexei
232

New

Way

(Nazi-sponsored

newspapers)
122,
123

New York Times
115
,
135
,
175

N K
V D (security service)
see
K G

B

nuclear technology
76,
240

Ogorodnikov, Alexander
72,
75–84
,

131

character
77
,
80

as a dissident
72,
76
,
79
,
82–3
,

91
,
140
,
219

Father Dmitry and
83–4
,
85
,
91
,

105
,
128
,
133–5
,
225

conversion to Christianity
81–2
,

83
,
87

official criticism of
114

trial/imprisonment
128
,
140,
200
,

220
; hunger strikes
128;
release (1987)
207

at university
79,
80,
82–3

as a young communist
77–9
,
80
,

81

O G
P U (security service)
see
K G

B

oil drilling
167

Oleynikov, Anatoly
45

Olympic Games, Moscow (1980)

135–6

Oreshkin, Dmitry
231–2

Orlov, Yuri
112,
130,
131

K G B interrogation of
139

Orwell,

George:
Nineteen

Eighty-Four
196,
198–9

Ostrovsky, Nikolai:
How the Steel

was Forged
77

Ottawa Citizen
135

Pasolini, Pierre Paolo:
The Gospel

According to St Matthew
(film)

81

Pasternak, Boris:
Dr Zhivago
7
,
170

peasant class/serfdom
16–17,
24,
25
,

26

in German occupation
28–31

kulaks (middle-class)
27

under Stalin
25–8

pensions
see
state pensions

Perm triangle (of gulag camps)
237
,

238–49

detention centre/museum
239–40
,

245–6

Perm-35,
36
and
37
political

prisoner camps
240–44

Pilorama (annual festival)
241
,

246–9

prison guards
244
,
245–6

Special regime camp
244–5

Petrovsky,

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