Kuropatkin, General A. N., 168, 279, 281, 420
Kursk, 106, 520, 611, 662, 663
Kuskova, Ekaterina, 50, 148, 149, 779, 782
Labour armies, 721, 725. See also Forced labour
Lamanov, Anatolii, 762
Land captains, 53–4
Latsis, M. Ia., 397, 475, 534–5, 634
Latvia, Latvians, 7, 72, 73, 142, 185, 372, 475, 489, 503n, 543, 578, 646
Latvian Rifle Brigade, 509, 514, 590, 634, 667, 668
Lavrov, Peter, 136
Lazimir, P. E., 480
League for the Rescue of Children, 782
League of Russian Culture, 412
League of Time, 745
Lebedev, General D. A., 654
Lena massacre (1912), 245
Lenin Institute, 806
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, xi, 8, ll, 15n, 71, 103, 126, 127, 128, 129n, 130–1, 132, 136, 137, 141–54, 162, 165, 166, 179, 180, 190, 198, 199, 249, 291–2, 294–6, 297, 323, 335, 369, 370, 384–94, 395, 396, 397, 418, 421, 432–5, 445, 455, 456, 459 and n, 461, 468, 511, 591, 594, 620, 623, 633, 659n, 682, 683, 686, 688, 689, 693, 695, 706, 723, 734, 739, 741, 742, 754, 755, 756, 813, 815, 821; attempted assassination of (1918), 627–30, 793; attitude to the Soviets, 465–6, 503–4, 517, 618; ban on factions proposed by, 765; belief in European revolution, 701–2, 703; Brest-Litovsk peace talks and Treaty, 536–7, 538, 541, 542, 544, 545–6, 547–50; and the Caucasus, 713, 715–16; and the Cheka, 645, 647, 648, 649; Civil War, 562, 583, 584, 615–16, 659n, 663, 667, 673, 674; his concept of cultural revolution, 742–3, 815; and Constituent Assembly, 507, 513, 515, 516, 550; character, 143, 144, 147, 385–6, 389–91; on corruption, 684; cult of, 350, 434, 627–9, 747, 804–5, 806; death and funeral (1924), 805–6, 819; defence of Petrograd, 673, 674; and electrification, 789; exile in Finland, 434, 469–70, 471; exile in Siberia, 148, 149; family background and early years, 141–5; and Gorky, 606, 648–9, 723, 737, 767, 779, 781, 783–4, 785, 819; illness (1921–4), 793–5, 797–8, 800–1, 804–5; intellectual influences on, 130–1, 132, 136, 137, 145–7; invasion of Poland, 701, 702–3; and July Days, 423, 425, 426–8, 433, 435; and the kombedy, 620, 621; and Left SRs, 512; mass terror advocated by, 524–5, 534, 536, 630–1, 748–9; and murder of Nicholas II, 638, 639, 641; and NEP, 766, 769–70; and October insurrection, 456, 469–73, 475–7, 483–4, 485–551 passim; opposed to Vikzhel talks, 498, 499; and origins of War Communism, 613, 614, 615; and peasant revolts, 758, 766; Pomgol closed down by, 779; purges of party ordered by, 694; reign of terror against Church instigated by, 748–9; return to Russia in 1917, 384–7; revolutionary ideology of, 210–11, 386–8, 503–4, 507, 510, 524–6, 529, 613, 704–5; rhetorical qualities, 150, 392; and ‘Socialism in One Country’, 539, 550; his successor, 793–4, 800, 802; suspicions and condemnation of Stalin, 794, 795–7, 798–801; Taylorism encouraged by, 744; Testament of, 796, 797–800, 801, 802 and n; and trade union relations, 732; treason charges, 433–4; and the Ukraine, 707; visit to Pavlov, 732–3; Vperedists in conflict with, 735; Workers’ Opposition condemned by, 764–5; works: April Theses, 295, 387, 388, 391, 392, 393, 397, 403, 435, 538; The Development of Capitalism in Russia, 146; ‘How to Organize Competition’, 524; ‘Letters from Afar’, 386; ‘On Compromises’, 466; One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, 153; The State and Revolution, 434, 465, 503; ‘To All Workers, Soldiers and Peasants’, 492; ‘To the Citizens of Russia’, 485; What Is to Be Done?, 150–1, 152
Lermontov, Mikhail, 222
Liberation Movement, 167, 175, 191, 193
Liberman, Simon, 505
Liberty Loan, 412
Liebknecht, Wilhelm: Spiders and Flies, 523–4 and n
Linde, Sergeant Fedor, 314–15, 316, 318, 327, 381–2, 413, 439, 582; murder of, 438–41
Lissitzky, El, 736
Literacy, 93, 94, 600, 790
Lithuania, Lithuanians, 72, 73, 75, 80, 372, 503n, 542, 543, 697
Liundkvist, Colonel V. A., 673
Lloyd George, David, 574 and n, 675, 691, 704, 816
Lobanov-Rostovsky, Prince Alexei, 37
Lockhart, Bruce, 32, 629, 641, 645
Lodz, 185
Loris-Melikov, Count Mikhail, 40–1
Louis XVI, King of France, 18, 639
Lozovsky, A., 511n
Ludendorff, General Erich von, 256, 267, 281, 541, 542, 545
Lukomsky, General A. S., 446, 450, 558, 563, 568, 664
Lunacharsky, Anatoli, 296, 325n, 391, 423, 424, 426, 429, 430, 434, 460, 489, 492, 499, 501, 511–12, 607, 693, 735, 736, 737, 743, 744, 784, 785; Don Quixote, 784
Lutsk, 438, 439, 545
Luxemburg, Rosa, 747
