Robert Service - Lenin - A Biography

Adamyuk, Professor Yemelyan V., 1

Adler, Viktor, 1

agrarian socialism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; see also narodniki

Akimov, Vladimir, 1

Alakaevka, Samara province, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Alarm (journal), 1

Alexander II, Tsar: reforms, 1, 2, 3; assassination, 4, 5

Alexander III, Tsar, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Alexandra, Empress of Nicholas II: assassinated, 1

Alexandrovich, V.A., 1, 2

Alexeev, General Mikhail, 1, 2

Alexeev, Nikolai, 1

Alexeev, Pëtr A., 1

Alexei Nicolaevich, Tsarevich: Nicholas attempts to abdicate in favour of, 1; killed, 2

Alexei Romanov, Tsar, 1

All-Russia Central Council of the Trade Unions, 1

All-Russia Congress of Soviets: Central Executive Committee, 1; and closure of Constituent Assembly, 2

Congresses: First (June 1917), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Second (October 1917), 7, 8; Third (January 1918), 9; Fourth (March 1918), 10; Fifth (July 1918), 11; Eighth (1920), 12; Tenth (1922), 13, 14, 15

All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, 1

All-Russia Executive of the Railwaymen’s Union (Vikzhel), 1

All-Union Leninist Communist Union of Youth, 1

Allilueva, Nadezhda (Stalin’s second wife), 1, 2, 3

Allilueva, Olga, 1

Alliluev, Sergei, 1

Andreyushkin, Pakhomi I., 1

Andrikanis, A.M., 1, 2

Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement (1921), 1, 2

Antonov, A.S., 1

Antonov-Ovseenko, Vladimir, 1, 2

Arcachon (France), 1

Archangel, 1

Ardashev, Alexander (L’s cousin), 1, 2, 3

Ardashev, Dmitri (L’s cousin), 1

Ardasheva, Lyubov ( née Blank; L’s aunt), 1, 2

Ardashev, Vladimir (L’s cousin), 1, 2, 3; shot by Bolsheviks, 4

Arefev (Syzran merchant), 1, 2

Aristotle, 1, 2, 3

Armand, Alexander (Inessa’s son), 1, 2

Armand, Andrei (Inessa’s son), 1

Armand, Inessa: L’s affection for, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; appearance, 6; Krupskaya and, 7, 8, 9; as secretary of Committee of the Foreign Organisation, 10, 11; writes to L in Kraków, 12; L ends relationship with, 13, 14, 15, 16; in Arcachon, 17; arrested by Okhrana, 18; represents Bolsheviks in Shmidt legacy dispute, 19; holidays and leisure activities with L and Krupskaya, 20, 21; discusses matters of love with L, 22; settles in Switzerland in war, 23; L confides in about factional politics, 24; leaves Switzerland for Russia after revolution, 25; visits L after assassination attempt, 26; works in Moscow, 27; illness, death and funeral, 28, 29, 30; confesses devotion to L, 31; L’s relationship with suppressed, 32

Armand, Inna (Inessa’s daughter), 1, 2

Armand, Vladimir, 1

Armenia, 1, 2, 3

Astrakhan: L writes to communists in, 1

Aunovskaya, Natalya, 1

Aurora (battleship), 1

Austria–Hungary: and outbreak of war (1914), 1; negotiates separate peace with Russia, 2

Averbakh, Mikhail, 1

Axelrod, Pavel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Axënov (Razliv gamekeeper), 1

Azerbaijan, 1, 2, 3, 4

Bagotski, Sergei, 1, 2

Baku, 1

Bakunin, Mikhail, 1, 2

Balabanova, Angelica, 1

Baltic provinces, 1

Baranov, Dmitri, 1

Baratynski, Archpriest A.I., 1

Basic Law (Russia), 1

Basic Law on the Socialisation of Land, 1

Baugy-sur-Clarens, Montreux (Switzerland), 1, 2

Bedny, Demyan, 1

Belokrysenko, Arseni, 1, 1

Belorussia, 1, 2, 3

Bentham, Jeremy, 1

Berdyaev, Nikolai, 1

Berlin: L visits, 1; March 1921 Action in, 2; see also Germany

Bern (Switzerland), 1

Bernstein, Eduard, 1

Berzins, Jan, 1

Biały Dunajek (Poland), 1, 2

Black Hundreds (groups), 1

Black Redistribution (organisation), 1

Blank family: Jewishness, 1, 2, 3

Blank, Alexander (Srul; L’s maternal grandfather), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Blank, Anna ( née Grosschopf; L’s maternal grandmother), 1

Blank, Dmitri (Abel; L’s great-uncle), 1, 2

Blank, Moshko (L’s maternal great-grandfather), 1, 2

Blanqui, Louise-Auguste, 1, 2

‘Bloody Sunday’ (St Petersburg, 9 January 1905), 1, 2

Blyumkin, Yakov, 1

Bogaevski, Afrikan, 1

Bogdanov, Alexander: L abuses, 1; helps L with financing, 2; as expositor and thinker, 3, 4; requests L to return to Russia, 5; in Finland as Bolshevik leader, 6, 7; resents participation in Duma, 8, 9; in Switzerland, 10; disputes and breach with L, 11, 12, 13, 14; reading, 15; plans socialist government, 16; Engineer Menni, 17

Bogdanova, Natalya, 1, 2

Bogoraz, Lazar, 1, 2

Bolshevik Central Committee: L attacks, 1; L attends, 2; on land socialisation, 3; organisation, 4, 5; supports transfer of power to soviets, 6; authority, 7; and Petrograd armed political demonstration, 8, 9, 10; rejects L’s revised policies, 11, 12, 13, 14; caution over L’s October revolution plan, 15, 16; assumes power after revolution, 17, 18; L prepares decrees for, 19; resists demand for socialist coalition, 20; Kamenev resigns from, 21; at Smolny Institute, 22; role and functions, 23; resists separate peace in World War I, 24; administration, 25, 26; factionalism in, 27; L chairs, 28, 29, 30; and war with Poland, 31; dispute over ‘trade union discussion’, 32; and introduction of NEP, 33; L proposes reducing to three members, 34; orders sick L to withdraw from public life, 35; L proposes expanding membership, 36, 37; minutes kept secret, 38; see also Politburo