The Gulag Archipelago Vol. 2 An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Glossary I 683
m Red Army purge, 1936-1938; chairman, Supreme Court, 1938-
1949.
Gorbatov, Aleksanclr VasByevich (1891-1973). Soviet military leader;
sentenced to fifteen yea.rs in 1939, but freed two years later; commanded
Third Army in 1943-1945, Soviet airborne forces in
1950-1954 and Baltic Military District in 1954-1958.
Gorky, Maxim (1868-1936). Writer; opposed Bolsheviks at first and
lived abroad; returned to Russia in 1931; died under mysterious
circumstances.
GriD, Aleksanclr Stepanovich (1880-1932). Writer of romantic, fantastic
adventure stories.
Gumilyev, Lev Nikolayerich (1912- ). Soviet historian and ethnologist;
at Leningrad University since 1961.
Herzen, Aleksanclr Ivanovich (1812-1870). Liberal writer.
Inber, Vera Mikhailovna (1890- ). Soviet writer; author of lyrical
stories about Soviet themes and World War ll.
Ivanov, Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich (1895-1963). Soviet writer, author
of stories and plays about Civil War.
Ivanov-Razumnik (Ivanov, Razumnik VasByevich) (1876-1946). Left
Socialist Revolutionary; served in Tsarist and Soviet prisons; went
to Germany in 1941.
Ivanovsky (Ivanov), Nikolai Pavlovich (1893-1961); Soviet ballet
dancer; director of Leningrad Choreographic School, 1940-1952.
Jasienski, Bruno (1901-1941). Polish Communist writer; emigrated
to Paris in 1925 and deported by France in 1929; moved to Soviet
Union in 1931; arrested in purges of 1937.
Johnson, Hewlett (1874-1966). British churchman; was chairman of
a British-Soviet friendship society; backed Soviet causes.
Kabalevsky, Dmitri Borisovich (1904- ). Prominent Soviet composer.
Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseyevich (1893- ). Close associate of Stalin;
headed SQviet railroad system. Ousted from leadership in 1957.
KaktyD, Artur Martynovich (Kaktins, Arturs) (1893-1937). Latvian
revolutionary; held Soviet economic posts;- Deputy Premier of Tadzhik
Republic after 1934; purged.
Ka6nin, MikhaIl Ivanovich (1875-1946). Nominal President of the
Soviet- Union, 1919-1946.
Kalyanov, V. I. Soviet Sanskrit scholar and Buddhologist.
Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich (1894- ). Soviet physicist; emigrated to
Britain in 1921; returned to Soviet Union in 1935; became Director
of Institute of Physics; worked on atomic bomb.
Kaplan, Fanya (Dora) (1888-1918). Left Socialist Revolutionary;
executed after unsuccessful attempt on Lenin's life.
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Katayev, Valendn Petrovich (1897- ). Soviet novelist aud. playwright;
won prominence in Soviet literature .
. KIrov, Sergei MIronovieh (1886-1934). CloSe Stalin associate; his
. murder, reputedly inspired by Stalin, se~ off the purges.
KoIdIak; A1eksaDdr VuDyevleh (1873-1920). Tsarist admiral; led
anti-Bolshevik forces in Siberia, 191B-1920; executed.
Koblyshevsky, Pyotr (1690-1803). Last hetman. of Zaporozbye
Cossacks; exiled in 1775 to Solovetsky monastery f!)r twenty-five
years.
Kolyebev (FIJipp), Fyoclor Stepanovieb (1507-1569). Russian Orthodox'Metropolitan
of Moscow; a foe of Ivan the Terrible;. exiled
to Solovetsky monastery; executed by Malyuta Skuratov; canonized
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Kopelev, Lev Ziaovyevieb (1912- ). Soviet specialist in German
literature. - ,
. Kort, Avgust lvanovieh (1887-1937). Soviet military leader; commander
of Moscow Military District, 1929-1935, and Frunze
Academy, 1935-1937. .
Kornilov, Law