
See also Bolshevik Revolution;
Civil War of 1917-1922; Men-
sheviks; October Revolution of
1917; Russian Revolution; War
communism; Specific leaders
Bolshoi Ballet, 119
Bolshoi Theater, 118, 161, 161–162
Boltin, Ivan, 637
Bombings, People’s Will, 38, 39
Bonner, Yelena Georgievna,
162–163, 399, 1345
Book of Degrees of the Royal Geneal-
ogy, 163–164, 256, 887–888
The Book of Denunciation, or the Eter-
nal Gospels (Avvakum), 105
“The Books of Genesis of the
Ukrainian People” (Kostom-
arov), 353–354
Boretskaya, Marfa Ivanovna, 164
Boris Godunov (Pushkin), 1537
Borisov-Musatov, Viktor,
1395–1396
Borodin, Alexander, 920, 1109,
1290
Borodin, Ivan, 461
Borodino, Battle of, 33, 164–165,
524, 993
Borotbisty, 165
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 144
Bosoi, Kassian, 707
Bourgeois
disenfranchisement, 397–398
engineers, 350–352
Shakhty trial, 1377–1378
Boyar duma, 166–167, 414, 421
Boyars, 166
Golitsyn, Vasily Vasilievich, 575
Novgorod, 1073
Romanovs, 1295–1296,
1300–1301
Boycott, Olympic, 971, 1451–1452
Brain of the Army (Shaposhnikov),
1379
Brat’ia Karamazovy (Dostoyevsky),
411
Brazauskas, Algirdas, 167, 167–168
Bread, 1326
Breeder reactors, 94–95
Brenna, Vincenzo, 541
Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 168–169
Allied intervention, 52
British reaction, 599
Left Socialist Revolutionaries,
266–267
Spiridonova’s repudiation of,
1447
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilich, 170,
170–173
Andropov’s succession to, 62
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 66
Armenia, 81
Baikal-Amur Magistral Railway
(BAM), 111
Chernenko, advancement of, 238
Constitution of 1977, 323
cult of personality, 349
détente, 389
developed socialism, 391
dissidents, 400
Friendship of Nations, 1002
general secretary position, 542
government corruption, 172, 196
Helsinki Accords, 632
intelligentsia, 671
Kosygin, subordination of, 779
Kunayev, relationship with, 797
motion pictures, 977
nationalities policy, 1016
party congresses, 1141–1142
Podgorny, relationship with,
1188–1189
samizdat, 560
science and technology policy,
1353
service state, 1373
Solidarity Movement, 1422
Soviet narod, 1027
strategic arms limitation treaty
(SALT I), 86
succession of leadership, 1494
zero option, 1723
Brezhnev Doctrine, 169–170
Brezhnev generation, 352
The Brigadier (Fonvizin), 511
Briullov, Karl, 998
Broadsides, 876
Brodsky, Joseph Alexandrovich,
173–174
Bromlei, Yuly, 470, 1026–1027
The Brothers Karamazov (Dos-
toyevsky), 411
Brown, Walter Lyman, 56
Broys, Boris, 1417
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Bruce, James David, 174–175
Bruni, Fyodor, 1037
Brushvit, I. M., 765
Brusilov, Alexei Alexeyevich, 175,
932
Bryullov, Karl, 1037
Bryusov, Valery Yalovlevich,
175–176
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1561
Bubonic plague, 1117
Bucharest, Treaty of, 24, 176–177
Buddhism, 189
Budenny, Semeon Mikhailovich,
177
Budget system, 959
Bukei, 731
Bukhara, 177–178
Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich,
178–180, 179
agriculture and industrialization,
661
Brest-Litovsk Peace, 267
execution of, 694
internationalism, 1011
Kalinin’s support of, 719
party congresses, 1139–1140
Pravda, 1217, 1217–1218
Right Opposition, 1289
show trial, 1389
Bukovina, 180–181
Bulavin, Kondrat, 1155, 1156
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich,
181
Bulgakov, Sergei Nikolayevich,
181–182, 1635
Bulganin, Nikolai Alexandrovich,
182–183
Anti-Party Group, 67–68
prime minister position, 1227
Bulgaria, 115–116, 183–185, 1364
Bulgarian Communist Party, 184
Bulgarians, 183
Bulgars, 751
Bulla family, 1179
Bund, Jewish, 185–186, 705, 1009
Bunin, Ivan Alexeyevich, 186
Burbulis, Gennady, 1362
Bureaucracy, economic, 186–188
Bureaucracy, government. See Gov-
ernment administration
Burial mounds, 565
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