Vadim Birstein: The Perversion of Knowledge

Avakian, Artavazad (Lysenkois)

Avdulov, Nikolai (biologist)

Bach, Aleksei (Academician)

Bach Institute of Biochemistry (Moscow, Academy of Sciences),

Bacillus anthracis (microbe)

Baev, Aleksandr (Academician)

Bakatin, Vadim (MVD Minister)

Bakeev (General)

Balashova, Ariadna (MGB victim)

Balishansky, I. N. (NKVD/MGB)

Bandera, Stepan (Ukrainian emigrant)

Barannikov, Viktor (MBVD Minister)

Baranov, Pavel (botanist)

Baransky (geographer)

Baroyan, Oganes (KGB doctor)

Barratt, Reginald (MGB victim)

Barsukov, Mikhail (FSK Head)

Barvikha Governmental Sanatorium

Bashtakov, Leonid (NKVD/MGB)

Batitsky, Pavel (General)

Bauman Higher Technical School (Moscow)

Bazenko (prosecutor)

Bazilevskaya, Nina (biologist)

Beletskaya, Irina (Academician)

Bellona Foundation (environmental group)

Belorussian Academy of Sciences

Belozersky, Andrei (Academician)

Belozersky Laboratory of Bioorganic

Chemistry

Benediktov, I. A. (Commissar of Agriculture)

Beneshevich, Vladimir (historian)

Berg, Axel (physicist)

Berg, Leo (biologist)

Berg, Raissa (geneticist)

Bergman, Yakov (see Serebryansky) Beria, Lavrenty (NKVD/MVD

Commissar/Minister)

Bersol (Soviet factory for chemical weapons)

binary nerve agent

bioethics

biological community

biological warfare/weapons

Biological Faculty (Moscow University)

Biophysics Department

Department of Invertebrate Zoology

Histology Department

Scientific Council

Biopreparat (institute, Moscow)

Biopreparat program

Biopreparat-Tsentr (company, Moscow)

“birdies” (humans used for experiments)

Birstein, Avadii (author’s grandfather)

Birstein, Jacob (author’s father)

Bizet, Charles (composer),

Blokhin, Nikolai (Academician)

Blokhin, Vasilii (Lubyanka Prison Commandant)

Blome, Kurt (Nazi doctor)

Bobryonev, Vladimir (prosecutor and a writer)

Bohr, Niels (physicist)

Boldyrev, Anatolii (geologist)

Boldyrev, Vladimir (prosecutor)

Bolshevik(s)

Central Committee

coup

doctrine

ideology

Party

regime

Revolution

takeover

Bolshevization

Bondarenko, Aleksandr (Party functionary)

Bonner, Yelena (Sakharov’s wife)

Boriskin, Pavel (Soviet Chief Military Prosecutor)

Borodin, Ivan (Academician)

Borodin, Pavel (Russian official)

Borodin, Vladimir (scientist)

Boronin, Aleksandr (biologist)

Botanical Institute (see Institute of Botany) Botanical Journal,

Botkin Central Clinical Hospital (Moscow)62 Boyarsky, Vladimir (NKVD/MGB)

Braunstein, Aleksandr (Academician)

Brezhnev, Leonid (Soviet leader)

Brigadefuhrer SA

Broverman, Yakov (NKVD/MGB)

Bruck, Grigorii or Girsh (author’s great uncle)

Bruck, Pavel (author’s great uncle)

Bruch, Sophie (author’s grandmother)

Brunovsky, Bruno (chemist)

Bryden, John (writer)

Buckner, Robert (producer)

Bukharin, Nikolai (Bolshevik/Soviet leader)

trail

Bukharin, Yurii (Bukharin’s son)

Bukharina-Larina, Anna (Bukharin’s wife)

Bulanov, Pavel (NKVD)

Bulganin, Nikolai (Soviet Minister of Defense)

Bulgarian Communist Party

Bulgarian Secret Service

Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists (a journal)

Bunin, Ivan (writer)

Burdenko, Nikolai (Academician),

Bureau of Experimental Studies

Bureau of Herbs

Burmin, D. (doctor)

Burnazyan, A. (Deputy Minister of Health)

Butov, P. (geologist)

Butova, Yelena (a doctor in Vladimir Prison)

Butovo (village)

Butuzov, Valerii (KGB/SVR)

Butyrkskaya or Butyrka Prison (Moscow)

Bykov, Konstantin (Academician)

Bykov, Valerii

Byzov, Boris (chemist)

Candidate of Science

carbylomine cholinchloride or C-2 (toxin)

cardiac glycosides

Casablanca (movie)

Case of Academicians

castor-oil seeds/plants

Catherine II the Great (Russian Empress)

Center of Toxicology and Hygienic Regulation of Biopreparations (within Ministry of Health)

Central Executive Scientific Committee

Central Committee of the Bolshevik/Communist Party

Central Commission

Plenum

Politburo

Presidium

Science Department

Secretariat

Central Forest Reserve

Central Institute of Epidemiology and

Microbiology

Central Institute of Final Medical Education (within Medical Academy)

Central Institue of Physics and Technology

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Central Scientific Investigation Institute for Special Technology (KGB) (Moscow)

Central Scientific Research and Testing Institute of Chemical Troops (a secret Russian installation; see Volsk-17 and Shikhany-1)

Chayanov, Aleksandr (economist)

Chebrikov, Viktor (KGB Head)

Chechens (rebels, war)

Chekhov, Vladimir (biologist)

Chelyabinsk Metallurgic Construction Labor Camp

Chemical and Biological Defense

Establishment (England)

Chemical Institute (Rostock University Germany)

chemical mutagenesis

chemical weapon(s)/warfare

Chemical and Biological Weapons Convention

Cheptsov, V. (military judge)

Cherkesov, Viktor (KGB/FSB)

Chernenko, Konstantin (Soviet leader)

Chernov, Ivan (MGB)

Chernov, Mikhail (Commissar of Agriculture)

Chernyaev, I. (geologist)

Chernykh (VASKhNIL)

Chervakov, V F. (doctor)

Chetverikov, Sergei (geneticist)

Chistopol Prison

Chondodendron tomentosum

chromosome(s)

Chronicle of Current Events (underground magazine)

Chugaev, L. (geologist)

Churchill, Winston (British Prime Minister)

Chuenkov, V (Deputy Commissar of Agriculture)

Civil War (Russia)

Clauberg, Carl (Nazi doctor)

Clinic of Remedial Nutrition (Moscow)

Clinic of Urology (Moscow)

Clostridium botulinum (microbe)

Colby, William (CIA Head)

Comintern (Communist International; Moscow)

Commissar for Chemical Industry

Commissar for Foreign Affairs

Commissar for Foreign Trade

Commissar for Internal Affairs (NKVD)

Commissar for Supply

Commissar of Agriculture

Commissar of Armament

Commissar of Communicaions

Commissar of Defense

Commissar of Defense Industry

Commissar of Education

Commissar of Electric Power Industry

Commissar of Finance (Georgia)

Commissar of Fisheries

Commissar of Food Industry

Commissar of Health

Commissar of Heavy Industry

Commissar of Justice

Commissar of Marine Transport

Commissar of State Security (NKGB)

Commissar of Transportation

Commissar of War

Commission for the Study of the

Natural-Productive Forces (KEPS)

Commission on the History of Science

Committee of Information (KI; Moscow)

Committee on the Improvement of the Life of Scientists (KUBU)

Communist Academy (Moscow)

Communist Party Congress

Constitutional Democrats (political party)

cosmopolitan(s)

couchgrass (plant)

Council of Men in Public Life (SOD)

Council of Ministers

Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom)

Court of Honor

cruzin (anti-cancer drug)

cuckoo (bird)

curare (poison)

curator (KGB)

Curtiz, Michael (movie director)

cyanide (poison)

cybernetics

Dachau (Nazi concentration camp)

Dalstroi (NKVD/MGB)

dandelion (plant)

Darwinism

creative

Department of

Davies, Joseph E. (American Ambassador to Moscow)

Deborin, Abram (philosopher)