Marvin Kalb: The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 - Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia

Islam, 129, 148, 159–60, 180, 190

Israel, in Suez Canal crisis, 212

Izvestia on Dudintsev, 232–33

Jaeger, George, 22

Jews: in Bukhara, 148–50; on City College basketball team, 17–18, 19–20; in Kiev, 119–22; in Klin, 115; in Tashkent, 154. See also Anti-Semitism

Joint Press Reading Service (JPRS), 45–47, 52–53, 58–59, 65, 73, 89, 98, 106

Journalism as Kalb’s career choice, 7, 14, 27, 32, 33, 36–37, 218–21, 276

Joyce, James: Dubliners , 28, 30; “A Little Cloud,” 29–30, 31

Kadar, Janos, 205

Kaganovich ball bearing plant workers, sit-in by, 224–25

Kalb, Bernard (brother), 7, 14, 21–22, 28–29, 44, 93–95, 274, 276

Kalb, Marvin: CBS News career, 276–77; childhood years of, 1–3; college experiences of, 9–32; diary kept during 1956 Moscow assignment, xiii–xiv; Dragon in the Kremlin , 277; Eastern Exposure , 277; Harvard graduate school experiences of, 33–37; high school experiences of, 3–7; journalism as career choice, 7, 14, 27, 32, 33, 36–37, 218–21, 276; Khrushchev nicknaming “Peter the Great,” x, 101, 104, 275; military service experiences of, 37–41; mistaken for Yves Montand, 248; New York accent of, 24–25; New York Herald Tribune letter (1946), 5; parents of, 1–3, 121–22, 144–45; The Red Sell (documentary), 277; State Department preparing for Moscow assignment, 44–50; teaching and writing career, 277; writing memoir, motivation for, ix–x, xiv. See also City College of New York; State Department assignment; specific locations in Soviet Union

Kalischer, Peter, 24

Karamzin, Nikolai, 259

Karpovich, Michael, 34–35, 246

Kazin, Alfred, 29

Kennan, George, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” 12–13

Kessler, Alex, 3

KGB, 46, 52, 113, 258

Khanate of Bukhara, 147

Khrushchev, Nikita: attending British embassy party celebrating Queen’s birthday, 91; attending U.S. embassy party celebrating July 4, 98–104; at Bolshevik Revolution thirty-ninth anniversary celebration, 214–15; countering antiparty propaganda, 98; crushing opposition, 107; distribution of attack on Stalin, 72–73, 127; Dudintsev’s Not by Bread Alone and, 236; Gorbachev on, 86; Hungarian uprising and, 204, 209–11, 268–69; Kalb’s encounters with, 92–93, 101–04; Molotov vs., 94, 189; Murrow interviewing Kalb about, 275; on peaceful coexistence, 228; personality characteristics of, 103; personality cult of, 65–66, 87; Peter the Great as nickname for Kalb, x, 101, 104, 275; public view of, 78; reversion to hard line from thaw, xii–xiii, 187–89, 204, 229–30, 270–71; Russian opinion of leadership of, 198–99; on socialism’s coming triumph over capitalism, 226–27; Stalin denunciation by, xi–xii, 66–70, 97, 265; Suez Canal crisis and, 212–13; Tito and, 206; at 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 61, 62–70; warning opportunists against defiance, 98. See also De-Stalinization’s effects; Thaw of 1956

Khrushchev, Sergei, 70, 72, 171

Khrushcheva, Rada, 204

Kiev, 115–22; division into parts, 118; Khreshchatyk (main street), 116–17; Nizhny Val of the Podol, 119; Podol marketplace, 118; at synagogue, 119–22

Kiev Pechersk Cathedral and Monastery, 117–18

Kissinger, Henry, x

Klin, 114–15

Knickerbocker, William E., 15, 17

Kohn, Hans, 13–14, 246

Komsomol ball (Moscow), 192–93

Korean War, xi, 9, 10, 13, 21, 37, 38–39

Kremlinologist, xi, 218

Kristol, Irving, 10–11

Kropotkin, Peter, Memoirs of a Revolutionary , 53–54

Kropotkin home as location of JPRS, 53, 65

Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 90

Lamb, Harold, Tamerlane, the Earth Shaker , 124

Lavra cathedral (Kiev), 117–18

Layne, Floyd, 19, 20

Leichter, Norma, 3

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich: exile of Kropotkin by, 54; images of, with Stalin, 76; Lenin Testament, 89–90, 104; newspaper publishing and, 163, 164; play based on ( Kremlyovskiye Kuranty ), 193–94; recommending Stalin’s removal from official post, 90; Russian reverence for, 193–94, 196, 198

Leningrad, 50, 81, 111, 116, 237–63; Central Lecture Hall, 240; design of, 237–38; history of, 237; Institute for Russian Literature, 244–46, 253; “The International Position of the USSR” lecture by Voshchenkov, 240–43; Narva Triumphal Arch, 255; Nevsky Prospekt area and shops, 238, 254; Prospekt Gaza area, 254–55; “real” city with true proletariat, experience at bar in, 255–57; Russian Museum, 262; Saltykov-Shchedrin Library, xii, 237–38, 243–48, 253, 262–63; “Sasha” conversations in, 249–53, 254–58, 259–61; siege during World War II, 238, 255; St. Nicholas Cathedral, 238

Leningrad Division of the All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge, 240

Leningrad University, 258–59

Leninism, 140, 178, 266. See also Marxism-Leninism

Lenin Library (Moscow), xii, 86–88, 105, 137, 192, 196, 200, 220, 222–24; “Latest Tasks of Modern Soviet Literature” and Dudintsev’s Not By Bread Alone , 233–34; “The Vigilance of the Soviet Man” speaker announcement, 223–24. See also Students

Lenin Museum (Moscow), 76

Lenin Testament, 89–90, 104

Lesueur, Larry, 277

Levine, Irving R., 217–18, 221

Lippmann, Walter, Cold War , 12

Lively, Colonel, 39–41

Locke, John, 140

Long Island University, 23

MacArthur, Douglas, 13

Macaulay’s essay on revolution, 251

Maclean, Fitzroy, Eastern Approaches , 147

Mafia and City College basketball team, 9–10, 16–17, 22

Maged, Mark, 13, 30–31

Malamud, Bernard, 29

Malenkov, Georgy, 63, 64, 65, 69, 211

Mao Zedong, 105

Marco Polo, 132

Marshall Plan, 12

Marx, Karl, 178, 190

Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute (Moscow), 197–98

Marxism, 178, 260

Marxism-Leninism, 62, 75, 178, 265, 271

Maurras, Charles, 13

McCarthyism, 21

Meir, Golda, x

Meyer, Alfred G., 36–37

Mickelson, Sig, 276

Middle East and Suez Canal crisis, 212–13, 242

Mikoyan, Anastas, 63, 64–65, 69, 207

Military Messenger (journal), 89

Military service of Kalb, 37–41

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 85

Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), 83–85, 126, 138, 163, 169, 214

Moiseyev Ballet, 92

Mollet, Guy, 212

Molotov, Vyacheslav: challenging Khrushchev’s leadership, xiii, 189, 207; downfall of, 93–95; Dudintsev’s Not by Bread Alone and, 233; Hungarian uprising and, 211; reassignment to state commission, 188; retreat from thaw of 1956 and, 171, 229, 241; Stalin and, 69

Mongolia, 277

Montand, Yves, 248

Montesquieu, 140

Moscow: Bolshevik Revolution thirty-ninth anniversary celebration, 214–15; British embassy, 90–91; Central State Archives, 82–83, 85; Central Telegraph Office, 221; demonstrations in, against West and Israel over Suez Canal crisis, 213–14; Gorky Park, 229; Historical Library, 79–81, 82, 88; History Institute, 226; Institute of Art, 196; Komsomol ball, 192–93; Lenin Museum, 76; State Museum, 81–82; U.S. embassy, xi, 87–88; weather in, 50–51, 123, 184–85, 238; World Youth Festival (1957), 192. See also Joint Press Reading Service (JPRS); Lenin Library

Moscow Art Theater, 193

Moscow University, 59–60

Mosely, Philip, 246

Murrow, Edward R., 24–25, 218, 273–76

Museum of Art (Tashkent), 130

Nabokov, Vladimir, 35

Nagy, Imre, 205–08, 210, 222

Napoleonic wars, 255

Narva Triumphal Arch (Leningrad), 255

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 212

National communism of Tito, 204, 205, 206