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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

Jews 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 US 129

young people as 89, 130

Juodiš, General Jonas (Lithuanian) 69

Kabanovo (village), Father Dmitry in exile in 92, 96–8, 109–10

dismissal 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

KGB (security service) 7, 30, 42, 51, 80, 86, 112, 137–41, 152, 223

Andropov 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 KGB prison and Lubyanka KGB 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

Komsomol see Young Communist League

Komsomolskaya Pravda (youth newspaper) 78

Kovalyov, Sergei 247, 248

Krasin, Viktor 139–40

kulaks (middle-class peasants) 27

Kulygina, 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

NKVD (security service) see KGB

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

OGPU (security service) see KGB

oil drilling 167

Oleynikov, Anatoly 45

Olympic Games, Moscow (1980) 135–6

Oreshkin, Dmitry 231–2

Orlov, Yuri 112, 130, 131

KGB 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, Vladimir 205–6, 207, 208–9, 211

Petrovykh, Vasily 46

Pimen, Patriarch 45

Father Dmitry’s letter of apology to 177

Pitirim, Metropolitan (KGB codename A B B A T) 222

the Pioneers (youth group) 77, 78

Plyushch, Leonid 74–5, 118–19

Podrabinek, Alexander (brother of Kirill Podrabinek) 61, 176

Podrabinek, Kirill (husband of Tanya Podrabinek) 176–7

on Father Dmitry 177–8

Podrabinek, Tanya 61, 62, 66, 67, 70, 141, 176

Poland 28, 45, 59, 151, 152, 208

police 241

corruption in 75, 237–8

OMON riot police 245

political issues 67, 73, 75, 93–4, 206–7, 209, 210, 211, 216

election fraud (2011–12) 229–30, 246–7

see also Brezhnev, Leonid; dissidents; Khrushchev, Nikita; Putin, Vladimir; state control