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Bogdanov, Aleksandr
and ‘God-Building’ 82
and Proletkul’t 585
Bohlen, Charles ‘Chip’, American diplomat 13
Bolshevik government (dictatorship)
(1917–22) 135–9, 166–7
alienation of peasants 159–60
attempts to establish ‘peaceful
reconstruction’ 165
authoritarianism of 139
Central Control Commission 245, 248
collegial nature of 245
and corruption 154–5
Council of People’s Commissars (October
1917) (Sovnarkom) 137
cultural policies 155–7, 583–5
economic policy see War Communism
effect of power on concept of class 714–16
Land decree 136–7
and Orthodox Church 148
and Party-State 151–5, 166
peace decree 135–6
policies towards women 472–7
political control over Academy of Sciences
556–7
popular revolts against 147–8
relations with borderlands and
nationalities 148–51, 497–8
relations with workers 163–6
and scientific education 553–4
socialist opposition to 147
suppression of women’s movement 472
Zhenotdel (Women’s Bureau) 474–5
see also Communist party; War
Communism
Bolsheviks 68, 125
appeal of Stalin’s group to rank and file 247
attempts to inspire revolution among allies
636–43
and class narrative 713–18
concerns about NEP 180–1
economic ambitions 383
as embodiment of revolutionary Social
Democracy 707, 713, 714
and February Revolution 114, 123, 125
as heirs of intelligentsia tradition 579
Kerensky’s suppression of (July 1917) 126
and notion of ‘capitalist encirclement’ 113
opposition to war 104, 138
peasants’ support for 417
renamed Communists (1918) 143
seizure of power 133–5
support for self-determination 149
urban base of 497
use of terror in civil war 145–6
view of peasants 160–1, 417, 718, 719
war administration (1917–18) 110–11
workers’ support for 84, 121, 129
see also Bolshevik government
(dictatorship); Bolshevism
Bolshevisation 644
Bolshevism
aspirations and failures of 44–5
marginalisation of women 472
Western views of 8–9, 33–7
Bol’shoi theatre, Moscow 581, 603
Bondarchuk, Sergei, Fate of a Man 281,
614
Bondarev, Iurii 622
border guard forces 215
Bordiga, Amadeo, Italian communist 644
Bosyi, D. F., machine operator 455
Bourdieu, Pierre 57
‘bourgeois specialists’ 459
Stalin’s attack on 189, 451, 460
bourgeoisie
fear of 714
and Social Democracy 710
tolerated under NEP 719–20
see also middle classes
‘brain-washing’ 24
Brandt, Willy, West German chancellor 306
Brazauskas, Algirdas-Mikolas, Lithuania 346
Brest-Litovsk, fall of 97
Brest-Litovsk, Peace of 9, 110, 111, 636
as compromise of principles 640
Russian territorial losses 136, 144, 527
‘Brethren’ (brattsy) movement 81
‘Brezhnev Doctrine’ (orthodoxy) 300
Brezhnev, Galina (daughter), corruption
scandals 314
Brezhnev, Leonid 290, 305–6
control over Politburo 300–1
and cultural stagnation (zastoi) 298–9,
617–29
death 314, 316
decline of administration 308–15
economy 302–3, 310, 403–4
and family law reforms 488–90
foreign policy and d
´
etente 305–8
historiography 292–5
ill health 309, 312, 314
and invasion of Afghanistan 311–12
My Little Homeland memoir 619
and path to communism 729
Peace Programme (1969) 306
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