INDEX
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Agents-provocateurs, 72, 217
Agitator, professional, 245 f.
Alexandrinsky Theatre, 258
Allies:
economic intervention, 299;
military intervention, 46, 65, 81 f., 92, 226;
political control by, 225 f.
Anglo-Russian Commission, 3
Apfelbaum. See Zinoviev.
Archangel, 4, 11, 83
Arms, right to carry, 268, 277
Army, Red, 34, 42, 69, 116, 207, 210, 215 ff.;
classification of regiments, 234;
Communist “Cells,” 234;
discipline, 237;
essential features, 248;
mobilisation, 231;
mutiny, 229;
oath, 232;
political organisation, 234;
promotion, 227;
revolutionary tribunals, 230, 233;
terror in, 229;
uniform, 215.
See also Desertion, officers.
Arrest, avoidance of, 199, 209, 286;
in Finland, 167;
of workers, 257
Badaev, 281
Balahovitch, 249
Ballot, secret, 236, 274
Baluev, 248
Bielo’ostrof, 22, 98, 118
Bielorusia, 249
Bolshevik, demonstrations, 136 f., 142;
employment of bourgeois, 97, 115, 229, 269;
government, 251 ff.;
and the people, 43, 251 ff., 263;
and Third International, 254;
leaders helped by war, 225, 298;
love of theory, 264, 304;
negotiations with non-Bolsheviks, 64;
party, 34, 251, 271;
purge, 265 f.;
power, basis of, 303;
saints, 131
Bolshevism, and Soviet, 273 f., 296;
despotism, 201;
international aspect of, 252;
a social experiment, 251
Bourgeois, employed by Bolsheviks, 97, 115, 229, 269;
enterprise, need of, 294;
Lenin’s attitude to, 260
Boy scouts, 3
Bribery, of commissars, 98;
investigators, 126;
prison warders, 59, 96
Bronstein. See Trotzky.
Brusilov’s son shot, 224, 248
Cadet schools, 226
Certificates, of identification, 21 ff.;
exemption from military service, 122 ff.
Chaliapin, 158, 258
Children, league for protection of, 297
Clubs, Communist, 268
Commerce. See Trading.
Commissars, bribery of, 98;
Communist, 222;
regimental, 210, 230, 235;
Soviet of, 213, 271 f.
Committee of the poor, 43, 46, 242;
of village poor, 185, 260
Communal booths, 43;
eating-houses, 44, 62
Commune, village, 185
Communist, a typical, 243;
women, 267;
Youth, Union of, 268, 271
Communist “cells,” 234, 275;
clubs, 268; franchise, 273
Communist Party, 68, 71, 79, 114, 131, 211, 248, 251 ff.;
apart from people, 251, 264;
in army, 218, 227 ff.;
change of name, 34;
discipline, 270;
Jews in, 271;
membership, 266 f., 270;
meeting, 79;
and Soviet Government, 254;
and Third International, 254, 271;
training school, 267
Contre-espionnage, 64 f.
Co-operative Societies, 115, 255, 271, 305 f.
Counter-revolution, 66, 193, 204.
See also Extraordinary Commission.
Couriers, service of, 169, 171, 209
Crombie, Captain, 12, 65 f.
Cronstadt, 92, 121, 163, 285
Cross-examination, 58, 73 f.
Cultural-Enlightenment Committees, 240 f., 248
Denikin, 215, 224 f., 249
Denunciations, 238
Deriabinskya Prison, 91
Desertion from Red army, 116, 225 f., 229 f.
—— Commission for Combating, 231, 288
Disenfranchising peasants, 273
Disguise, change of, 150, 197 f., 285 f.
Disturbances, suppression of, 212
“Doctor,” the, 131 ff., 169, 194, 207
Dostoievsky, 304
Duma, 2, 257, 277
Dvinsk, 287
Eating-houses, Communal, 44, 283;
private, 44, 81, 120
Ekaterina Canal, 155
Elections, 186, 265 ff.
Electric light scarcity, 53
Engels, 131
Evdokimov, 280
Extraordinary Commission for the suppression of the counter-revolution, 19 f., 23, 50, 67, 70 ff., 91, 99, 101, 119, 125, 152, 193, 200, 205, 209, 230, 249, 276, 296
Finland, 12, 34, 92, 98, 110, 113 f., 117, 164 ff., 284
—— Railway station, 28
First International, 252
Fleet, British, 285 f.
Food, cards, 43;
rations, 41, 46, 56, 64, 114, 212, 261, 282;
sale of, 34, 40, 43 f., 100, 154, 235, 255 f., 262 f.;
smuggling, 188 f., 261
Formulas, Bolshevik love of, 264, 304
Franchise, 273
Freedom of speech, 79, 133, 141, 255, 277
—— of trade, 154, 255, 263 f.
—— suppression of, 303
“Freight weeks,” 261
Friedmann, 23
Frontier, Finnish, 13, 20, 98, 108 ff., 114, 166 f., 171 f., 285
—— Latvian, 292
—— Patrols, 18, 20, 114, 165, 167, 178
Fuel, 56, 69, 80, 114
Furniture confiscated, 149, 157
German Soviet of Petrograd, 139
Germans understand Russians, 92
Glinka, 304
Goróhovaya Street, No. 2. See Extraordinary Commission.
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch, 111
Green Guards, 291 f.
Grodno, 229
Grusino station, 77, 106
Gutov, 248
Helsingfors, 11 f., 113, 168 f.
Hiding documents, 75 f., 95, 209, 289
Hold-ups in street, 79
Home, molestation in, 149, 157, 224
Hostages, 58, 93, 94, 216, 223 f., 231, 257 f., 289
House committee. See Committee of the poor.
Ice-route to Finland, 163 ff.
Instructions, 6 f.
Intervention. See Allies.
Intrigues in Finland, 171
Investigators of the Extraordinary Commission, 70, 95, 126
Ivan Sergeievitch, 16 f., 38 f., 118, 159, 169, 202 ff.
Jews, in army, 218;
Communist Party, 271
“Journalist,” the, 55, 80, 123, 148, 153, 194
Kamenostrovsky Prospect, 32, 44, 131
Kazan Cathedral, 38, 51, 160, 162
Kazanskaya Street, 38, 160
Klembovsky, 249
Kolchak, 210, 225 f., 249
Kresty Prison, 2
Kuznetchny Pereulok, 100
Labour Party, British, 257
Ladoga, Lake, 108, 172, 178
Latvia, 287 ff.
Lawyers, Tsarist, employed, 233
Legislation, Soviet, 279
Lenin, 3, 34, 218, 241, 254, 257 ff.;
bodyguard, 259;
and bourgeoisie, 260, 294;
and peasants, 260;
and Trotzky, 272
Licences to trade, 33
Lida, 229
Liebknecht, Karl, 131 f., 258
Lissy Nos, 164
Liteiny Bridge, 30
—— Prospect, 62
Lithuania, 303
Luban, Lake, 292
Lunacharsky, 79, 260
Luxembourg, Rosa, 131 f., 258
Makhno, 249
Maria, 52, 73, 94, 99 ff., 113, 153, 195
Marinsky Opera, 159, 258, 275
Market of speculators, 100;
raid on, 154
Marsh, Mr., 31 f., 48 ff., 66, 73, 199;
escape of, 77 ff.
Marsh, Mrs., arrest of, 50, 73, 74;
danger of, 94;
escape of, 97 ff.
Marx, Karl, 131, 242, 252, 260
Matches, smuggling, 188
Melnikoff, 12 ff., 18 f., 48 f., 67, 89 f., 117 f., 125, 131 ff., 205
Menshevist Party, 65, 237, 243, 261, 266, 281
Mihailovsky Square, 77
Military service. See Army.
Exemption from, 117, 122
Miliukoff, 257
Mines in Gulf of Finland, 121
Mirbach, Count, 4
Mobilisation. See Army.
Moscow, 4, 97, 263
Music, love of, 183 f., 244, 258
Mutiny in Red army, 229 f.
Names used by author, 21, 40, 53, 55, 57, 63, 105, 117, 144, 196
Narodny Dom, 159, 217, 258, 262
National Centre, Moscow, 213
Nevsky Prospect, 34, 62, 79, 190, 207
Nicholas station, 190, 232, 253, 255
Obuhov works, 276
Odessa, 220
Officers, Tsarist, in Red army, 91, 211, 216 ff., 220, 223 f., 226
Okhta Bridge, 190
—— station, 77, 105, 189
Opera, 158, 258, 275
Parliament, British, 257
Parsky, 249
Passports, 16, 21, 76, 116, 135, 144
Peasant “capitalist,” 181 f.
Peasantry, against both “Red” and “White,” 225, 227 f., 250;
feud with Bolsheviks, 263, 301 f.;
Finnish, 174;
leaders of, 249;
Lenin understands, 260 f.;
power of, 193;
propaganda among, 47, 228;
treatment of, 68, 185 ff.
Pertz, Otto, 139
Petrograd, return to, 30, 111, 113, 194 f.
—— Soviet, 236, 265 ff.
Petropavlovka, 31
Pilsudski, 249
Poland, 228, 249
Police, Tsarist, re-engaged, 50, 71, 117, 191
“Policeman,” the, 54, 57 f., 73, 85 f., 99, 105, 119, 123, 151, 169
Political guides, 238
Political organisation in army, 232 f.
Press, monopoly of, 34, 277
Professional classes. See Bourgeoisie.
Propaganda, in army, 143, 239 f.;
author to undertake, 285;
Communist, 271, 276;
by gramophone, 241;
among peasants, 47
Protopopoff, 190
Provisional Government, 242
Provocation by police, 72
Public Works, Department of, 54
Punctuality, lack of, 278
Putilov works, 255 f., 276
“Radishes,” 265
Raid, on eating-house, 62;
on market, 154;
on train, 188, 288 f.
Railway travelling, 77 f., 106, 187 f., 261 f., 288 f.
Rajajoki, 17
Rasputin, 257
Rations. See Food.
Rattel, 248
Rautta, 172
Red army. See Army.
Regiments, classification of, 234
Relatives as hostages, 216, 223 f.
Religion, failure to suppress, 305 ff.
Revolt against Bolsheviks, 71, 248, 257
Revolution of March, 1917, 1, 132, 190, 255, 275, 277
Revolutionary Tribunals, 230, 233
Rezhitsa, 289
“Sackmen,” 188 ff., 261
Sadovaya Street, 45
St. Izaac’s Cathedral, 103
St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress, 31, 111
Samara, 3, 278
Scheidemann, 140 ff.
Schools, Communist training, 267
Scriabine, 304
Seals, importance of, 22
Ship committee, 222
Shpalernaya Prison, 91
Siennaya market, 52, 154
Smuggling, 162, 187, 188, 200
Socialist-Revolutionary Party, 65 f., 237, 243, 261, 266, 281
Soldiers’ committees, 221
Soviet, connection with Bolshevism, 273, 296;
election, 186, 265, 272 ff;
Executive Committee, 279;
legislation, 279;
meeting of a, 278 ff.;
of people’s commissars, 213, 271;
Republic’s president, 262;
what is a, 272 ff.
Speculation, 70, 106, 154 f., 201, 235
Speech, freedom of, 79, 133, 141, 255, 277
Speeches, Communist, 133
Spies in Red army, 217
Stage, privileges of the, 64
Stáraya Derévnya, 162
Stepanovna, 39 f., 137 ff., 146, 152 f.
Stravinsky, 304
Street-sweepers, ladies as, 30, 33
Strikes, 84, 193, 256, 259, 274, 276
Suvorov Prospect, 190
Tauride Palace, 2, 277
Tchaikovsky, 83
Tche-Ka. Tchrezvitchaika. See Extraordinary Commission.
Telephone, 90, 206
Terijoki, 168, 171
Theatre, Alexandrinsky, 258.
See also Opera stage.
Third International Workers’ Association, 138, 252 ff., 262, 295 ff.;
headquarters, 253;
relation to Soviet Government, 254, 271
Thought, freedom of, 133
Tihon, the patriarch, 307
Tihonov, 23
Tiutchev, 308
Tolstoy, 304
Trade unions, 115
Trading, private, 70;
licences, 33
Travelling. See Railway.
Troitzkaya Street, 63
Trotzky, 44, 69, 79, 90 f., 211, 219 ff., 227, 229, 241, 248, 259 ff., 272
Tsarskoeselsky station, 208
Turgeniev, 304
“Two-pooding,” 262
Ukraine, 228, 231, 249
Uniform of Red army, 215;
use of British, 215
Uritzky, 20, 266
—— Palace, 277
Vasili Island, 66
Viborg, 12, 134, 174, 202
Vladimirovsky Prospect, 100
Volodarsky, 266
White army, 211, 223, 225, 227, 303
Winter Palace, 137, 202
Women Communists, 267;
electors, 277
Workers invited to join Communists, 266 f.
Wrangel, 225, 228, 249
Yaroslavl, 13, 205
Y.M.C.A., 3, 243
Yudenitch, 211
Zabalkansky Prospect, 156
Zagorodny Prospect, 208
Zinoviev, 20, 34, 79, 137 ff., 216 f., 241, 253, 257 ff., 278 ff.
Ziv, Dr., 219
Znamenskaya Square, 190
Zorinsky, 37, 62, 117 ff., 135 ff., 168 f., 202 f.
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