Nabokov, Vladimir, 172, 328, 345, 355, 479, 480, 501, 652n
Nagorno-Karabakh, 713 and n
Nakhichevan, 713
Napoleon: Bonapartism, 357, 410, 411, 439, 443, 455, 589, 675
Nashe slovo (Our Word), 294, 296
National Bolshevism, 699–700
National Centre, 568, 642n
Nationalism, 69–83, 372–5, 702–3; cultural, 71–5, 708, 710, 711, 716; Russian, 70, 80, 169, 246, 247, 248, 249, 412; and socialist parties, 70–1, 82–3. See also Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Tatar region, Ukraine
Nationalist Party, 228, 229–30, 244 and n, 246
Naval General Staff Bill, 226, 227
Navy: see Black Sea Fleet, Kronstadt Naval Base
Nechaev, Sergei, 122, 132–4 and n, 137, 146; Revolutionary Catechism, 133
Neigardt, O. B., 222
Nekrasov, Nikolai, 117, 336 and n, 344, 354, 356, 384, 390, 446, 450–1
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir, 437 and n
New Economic Policy, 613, 705, 711, 715, 742, 758, 765, 766, 769–72, 778, 789, 791–2, 806, 807, 814, 815, 816, 819; ‘Nepmen’, 771–2
New Lessner factory, 301, 302, 396, 610
Nicholas I, Tsar, 9, 56, 123
Nicholas II, Tsar, 7, 8–9, 11, 12–13, 15–24, 25, 35, 45, 54, 55, 61, 81–2, 124, 164, 165, 168, 169, 171, 172–3, 175, 176, 177, 178, 184, 185, 195, 196, 201, 203, 219, 220, 221–2, 226, 229, 231, 232, 243, 271, 273, 274, 283, 287–8, 293, 326, 360, 438, 478; abdication of (1917), 192, 221, 285, 338, 339–53, 379, 635; Alexandra’s relations with and influence on, 26–7, 229, 275, 276, 277, 278–9, 281, 284, 286, 289; assumes supreme command of army (1915), 269–70, 275, 277; autocratic rule and ideology of, 6–12, 14–15, 19–24, 165, 191–2, 226, 245–6, 259, 275–9; coronation (1896), 18; and Duma, 213–17, 275–6; early years, 16–18; February Revolution, 312, 327, 332; First World War, 249, 250–1, 252, 259–60, 275–9, 281, 284; and Jewish pogroms, 197–8; last days and murder of (1918), 242, 635–41, 642; and murder of Stolypin, 230; in 1905 Revolution, 176, 178, 186–7; October Manifesto, 191–2; and Rasputin, 28, 30, 33–4, 245, 289, 290; Repin’s portrait of, 217, 348; tercentenary celebrations (1913), 3–6, 9–12, 13
Nihilists, nihilism, 131–4
Nikitin, Alexei, 455n, 492
Nikolaev, 604–5
Nikolaevsky, Boris, 801
Nikolai Mikhailovich, Grand Duke, 289–90
Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke, 191, 249, 256, 259, 267, 269, 285, 287, 288–9, 342, 657
Nizhnyi Novgorod, 5, 84, 110, 367, 527, 600, 662, 693, 762, 818; renamed Gorkii, 821; Sormovo plant strike in, 371
Nobility, 35–6, 44, 47–50, 365–6; ‘gentry reaction’, 206–7, 227–8, 229; in rural administration, 47, 53–4; in Soviet Russia, 529–30, 605–6, 609
Nogin, V. P., 396, 397, 499, 511
Nolde, Emil, 345
North Caucasian Soviet Republic, 564
Noulens, Joseph, 421
Novaia zhizn’, Gorky’s newspaper, 393, 399, 402, 435, 436, 477, 502, 505, 511, 514–15, 518, 535–6, 606, 821; closed down, 626–7
Novgorod, 520, 596
Novo-Nikolaesvk, 577
Novocherkassk, 556, 557, 558–9, 561, 562, 565, 566
Novoe vremia, newspaper, 11, 248
Novorossiisk, 574, 679
Novouzensk, 757, 778
Obolensky, Vladimir (V. A.), 51, 193, 213, 214, 216, 218
Obukhovsky factory, 496, 514, 759
October insurrection (1917), 189, 321, 386, 409, 428, 456–7, 460–1, 462, 470–3, 474–551, 763, 815, 819
October Manifesto (1905), 191, 192, 193–4, 195, 197, 203, 209, 214, 215
Octobrist Party, 170, 193–4, 224–5, 228, 229, 244 and n, 246, 247, 273, 278, 285, 286, 302, 336, 449, 571
Odessa, 174, 184, 185, 520, 575, 646, 647, 663, 722, 750; pogrom in (1905), 197, 198
Officers’ Union, 443, 445
Okhrana, 124, 174, 210, 350, 645n, 811
Old Believers, 64 and n, 69, 227, 233, 786
Olminsky, M. S., 143, 649
Omsk, Omsk Government, 535, 577, 584, 585–8, 651, 652, 653, 654, 655, 657, 658–9, 675, 753
Order Number One, Soviet, 330–1, 378, 411, 414, 440, 591
Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, 297, 707, 712, 713, 715, 716, 798, 799
Orekhovo-Zuevo, 65
Orel, 463, 520, 600, 611, 662, 666, 668, 669–70, 697; prison, 124, 648
Orenburg, 157, 653, 654, 710, 755
Orphans, 780–2
Os’kin, Dmitry, xiii, 413, 601, 669, 687, 690, 725, 813, 818; command of Second Labour Army (1920), 721, 818; command of Soviet Republic’s Reserve Army, 818; death of (1934), 818; and defence of Tula in civil war, 666–8, 674; in First World War, 264–5, 268, 269, 818; joins the Red Army, 582; joins SR Party underground in Siberia, 269; leg amputated, 269; military memoirs of, 818; peasant revolt against conscription put down by, 596, 600; returns as military commissar to Tula, 589, 590, 591, 592, 595, 596, 599
Osowiec, 267
Ossetians, 714
OSVAG, 569, 696
Palchinsky, P. I., 486, 779
Paléologue, Maurice, 267, 339
Panina, Sofia, 509
Panteleev, Commissar, 592
Pares, Bernard, 22, 203, 222, 224, 246, 413, 427
Paris, 294, 323, 578, 615, 616, 652 and n, 653, 672, 765, 816
Parvus, Alexander, 211
Pasternak, Alexander, 180–1
Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago, 659; ‘1905’ (poem), 203
Paustovsky, Konstantin, 346, 369, 412
Pavel Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 343, 344
Pavlov, I. P., 606, 732–4
Peasant congresses, 366–7
Peasant Land Bank, 235, 238
Peasant Unions, 183, 184, 362, 373, 662, 786; in Antonov revolt (STKs), 754
