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Chapter 4
p. 66 ‘Letters and printed matter’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 125.
p. 66 ‘only two or three times a month’: Interview with Lev, 2008.
p. 66 Censorship by women: Details from interview with Lev, 2008.
p. 67 Sending and receiving parcels: SI48-102, SI52-22; APIKM, f. 31, op. 50 (Lileev).
p. 67 ‘So if you or Aunt Olya’: LM46-1.
p. 67 ‘My dear Lev’, SI46-2.
p. 67 ‘I too have become a fatalist’: SI 46-3.
p. 68 ‘It was a present for me’: LM46-6.
p. 68 ‘I got your letter of the 26th’: SI46-6.
p. 68 ‘Sveta, you know that I’m never lazy’: LM46-3.
p. 68 ‘carried unfinished letters’: LM50-30.
p. 69 ‘There’s no need for any kind of poste restante’: SI46-3.
p. 69 ‘so as not to attract attention’: SI47-42.
p. 69 ‘I need to be at home’: SI 47-22.
p. 70 ‘Sentimental words about love’: SI 47-37.
p. 70 ‘If the best decide to end their plight’: Translated by Nicky Brown.
p. 70 ‘Muscovites wear whatever they have left’: SI46-20.
p. 71 ‘It’s grey and overcast’: LM46-4.
p. 71 ‘No gold has been seen’: SI46-7.
p. 72 ‘The institute was a large complex’: Details from SI46-1, SI47-25, SI49-45a.
p. 72 ‘state secret’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 118.
p. 72 ‘on the grey side of 50’, ‘I can talk with him’: SI46-2.
p. 72 ‘I’ve learned that it’s very difficult’: SI47-20.
p. 73 ‘Sveta had a busy schedule’: Details from SI46-24.
p. 73 ‘On Sundays’: SI46-12, SI46-20.
p. 73 ‘I don’t often meet with our old friends’: SI46-1.
p. 73 ‘Today, after lectures’: SI47-21.
p. 74 ‘Dear Lev, hello!’: A. Zlenko to LM, 19 September 1946.
p. 74 ‘Naum Grigorov’: N. Grigorov to LM, 5 March 1947.
p. 74 ‘I was very surprised’: K. Andreeva to LM, 8 April 1947.
p. 74 ‘I’m afraid of being an unwanted guest’: LM46-11.
p. 75 ‘On to the matter of umbrellas’: SI46-15.
p. 75 ‘I read your dressing-down’: LM46-16.
p. 76 ‘It’s very good’: LM46-11.
p. 76 ‘Your two letters’: LM46-4.
p. 76 ‘When I see my name’: LM51-43.
p. 76 ‘covering my head’: LM47-4.
p. 76 ‘Listen, Lev, in order to decide’: SI46-3.
p. 77 ‘Lev replied by acknowledging’: LM46-7.
p. 77 ‘You’re right that I’m trying to breathe’: SI46-13.
p. 78 ‘Levi, I have always believed you’: SI46-18.
p. 79 ‘I finally need to start’: LM46-22.
p. 79 ‘As for the parcels’: SI46-15.
p. 80 ‘Sveta, it’s obvious that God’: LM47-22.
p. 80 ‘there were several random killings’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 356, l. 66.
p. 80 ‘The autumn here is beautiful’: LM46-7.
p. 81 ‘Sometimes when I write to you’: LM 46-8.
p. 81 ‘Time is moving on’: SI46-6.
p. 82 ‘I’ve finally managed to get moved’: LM46-5.
p. 82 ‘Nikolai Lileev’: Details from MSP, f. 3, op. 15, d. 3; APIKM, f. 31, op. 50 (Lileev).
p. 82 ‘Viktor Chikin’: Details from LM47-20, LM47-30, LM47-38.
p. 83 ‘more than half the responsible positions’: GU RK NARK, f. 173, op. 1, d. 2, ll. 49–50.
p. 83 ‘shortages of electricity’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 355, ll. 31, 73, 79.
p. 83 ‘train 212 more specialists’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 355, ll. 36–40.
p. 83 ‘Working in the power station’: Details from MSP, f. 3, op. 15, d. 3; APIKM, f. 31, op. 50 (Lileev); Mishchenko, ‘Poka ia pomniu’, pp. 36–7.
p. 84 ‘Going through the guard-house’: APIKM, f. 31, op. 50 (Lileev).
p. 84 ‘Lev was working the day shift’: Details of routine from LM46-6.
p. 84 ‘Lev could walk to work in eight minutes’: LM to N. Mel’nikov, 21 October 1946; LM to E. A. Poltoratskaia, 18 January 1947.
p. 84 ‘Right now in my den’: LM46-12.
p. 84 ‘It’s like a banya here’: LM46-26.
p. 85 ‘so dim and yellow’: LM 46-27.
p. 85 ‘At the moment work is done’: LM46-5.
p. 85 ‘The time we spent’: APIKM, f. 31, op. 50 (Lileev).
p. 86 ‘an excellent raconteur’: LM46-20.
p. 86 ‘Liubka is a wonderful, very special boy’: LM46-17.
p. 87 ‘Gleb is good at mathematics’: LM46-2.
p. 87 ‘I can’t share you’: LM46-11.
p. 87 ‘Oleg is wonderful’: LM47-7.
p. 87 ‘an original’: LM46-23.
p. 87 ‘the two Nikolais’, ‘He is more modest’, ‘simpler and more direct’: LM46-2.
p. 88 ‘tactlessness’: LM47-10.
p. 88 ‘It’s no longer such a boring world’: LM46-18.
p. 88 ‘Generally speaking’: LM46-14.
p. 89 ‘The wood-combine was not prepared’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 356, l. 130.
p. 89 ‘Sveta, I am drowning’: LM46-29.
p. 90 ‘What do I wish’: LM46-24.
p. 90 ‘He’s putting a brave face on it’: LM46-29.
p. 90 ‘I’m tired of spending holidays without you’: SI46-28.
Chapter 5
p. 92 ‘more than a quarter’: Gregory, ‘An Introduction’, p. 18.
p. 92 ‘445 free workers in 1946’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 356, l. 107.
p. 93 ‘just 1.8 square metres of living space’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 356, l. 132.
p. 93 ‘no running water or sanitary provision’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 360, l. 75.
p. 93 ‘We are surrounded by disaffected people’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 355, l. 89.
p. 94 ‘no real segregation’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 355, l. 72; d. 356, l. 107.
p. 95 ‘MVD was well aware of the smuggling’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 357, l. 21.
p. 95 ‘My darling Sveta’: LM47-16.
p. 95 ‘This is to tell you’: LM47-31.
p. 95 ‘My letters seem to be more punctual’: LM47-35.
p. 95 ‘I’ve become acquainted with an interesting gentleman’: LM47-32.
p. 96 ‘I saw Izrailevich again recently’: LM47-37.
p. 97 ‘L. Y. is really grateful for your efforts’: LM47-41.
p. 97 ‘Yesterday I[zrailevich] brought two letters’: LM47-48.
p. 97 ‘In future, as I have written’: LM47-49.
p. 97 ‘I learn from talking with him’: LM50-19.
p. 98 ‘The other day an opportunity’: LM47-21.
p. 98 ‘Aunt Katya came to see us today’: SI47-67.
p. 98 Aleksandrovsky: Details from interview with Igor Aleksandrovsky, 2010; GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 358, l. 51.
p. 99 Details of Aleksandrovsky house: GU RK NARK, f. 173, op. 1, d. 5, l. 4.
p. 100 ‘The first time Lev met him’: Interview with Lev, 2008.
p. 100 Yakhovich: Interview with Alla Yakhovich, 2010.
p. 101 ‘What, this? Just papers’: Interview with Lev 2008.
p. 102 ‘obstinate persistence’, ‘clashed with Anatoly Shekhter’, ‘known to everyone as a slanderer and racketeer’, ‘subversively delaying the release’: LM46-22.
p. 102 ‘I didn’t want to write about this’: LM47-5.
p. 103 ‘My darling Sveta, I need’: LM47-16.
p. 105 ‘nearly always look much worse’: LM47-39a.
p. 105 ‘I made your views known’: SI47-8.
p. 106 ‘The room is no longer mine’:
Poka ia pomniu
, pp. 125–6.
p. 107 ‘As for what is taking place’: SI47-30.
p. 107 ‘Both are completely possible’: SI46-4.
p. 107 ‘It was true that the MVD had a policy’: Ivanova,
Labour Camp Socialism
, p. 114.
p. 107 ‘I don’t want you to waste your energy’: LM46-7.
p. 107 ‘You don’t have faith’: SI46-22.
p. 107 ‘like student work’: LM47-11.
p. 108 ‘I won’t think about the Maximum’: LM47-16.
p. 109 ‘I just don’t know what to say’: SI47-30b/d.
p. 109 ‘I wrote to you in passing’: LM47-39.
Chapter 6
p. 111 ‘I know you will do all you can’: SI46-1.
p. 111 ‘You ask me about a meeting’: LM46-1.
p. 111 ‘good, conscientious, and high-tempo work’: Applebaum,
Gulag
, p. 237.
p. 111 ‘invariably silent and irritable’: Herling,
A World Apart
, p. 95.
p. 111 ‘possible in principle’: LM46-11.
p. 111 ‘to find out whether it is personally possible’: SI46-10.
p. 111 ‘Lev … even if it’s only a possibility’: SI46-10.
p. 112 ‘I didn’t expect a two-week journey’: SI46-13.
p. 113 ‘They say it’s possible’: LM47-11.
p. 113 ‘As for meetings, Sveta’: LM47-16.
p. 115 ‘When I leave the station’: LM47-20.
p. 116 ‘The meeting was not a cheerful one’: LM47-39.
p. 117 ‘experienced traveller’: SI47-30.
p. 117 ‘Levi, Gleb’s mother visited O. B.’: SI47-30.
p. 120 ‘for a few minutes’: LM47-8.
p. 120 ‘Natalia Arkadevna came to see me on Monday’: SI47-38.
p. 121 ‘Levenka, my darling’: SI47-43.
p. 121 ‘It’s 28 degrees here’: SI47-47.
p. 121 ‘I asked about the photographic equipment’: SI47-47.
p. 122 ‘Since there are local trains’: SI47-48.
p. 123 ‘All my plans remain in place’: SI47-49.
p. 123 ‘Autumn has drawn near’: LM47-50.
p. 124 ‘Svet, your letter, as you supposed’: LM47-51.
p. 124 ‘The salute has just taken place’: SI47-50.
p. 126 ‘Nothing ever turns out’: LM47-51.
p. 126 ‘At the institute they gave me’: SI47-51.
pp. 126–7 ‘I have the details of the work trip’, ‘another 300 or 400 roubles’, ‘I’m very nervous about the preparations’: SI47-51.
p. 127 ‘so I wasn’t able to let him know’: LM47-52.
p. 127 ‘All in all’: LM47-52.
p. 127 ‘The details of Sveta’s journey’:
Poka ia pomniu
, pp. 115–18.
p. 128 ‘prepared for an unsuccessful outcome’: SI48-31.
p. 128 ‘natural’, ‘How could I have gone there’: Interview with Svetlana, 2008.
p. 128 ‘The dress saved me’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 115.
p. 130 ‘about a hundred guards’: Details from GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 357, ll. 29–30, 68–72; d. 358, ll. 29–32; d. 363, ll. 78–81.
p. 130 Thieving by the guards: Details from GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 355, l. 37; d. 356, ll. 1–2, 9–11, 62–5, etc.
p. 130 Drunkenness and ‘reports of disciplinary hearings’: GU RKNARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 357, ll. 26–7, 41–2, 69, 71–2; d. 358, ll. 29–30, 32–3, etc.
p. 130 ‘Prisoners had walked out’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 355, ll. 36-40.
p. 131 ‘let outsiders into the prison zone’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 356, l. 42; d. 357, l. 21.
p. 131 ‘what little street lighting there was’: Details from GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 356. l. 42.
p. 131 ‘Lev Izrailevich and Sveta reached the main gate’:
Poka ia pomniu
,
p. 116. p. 132 ‘It was not jealousy’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 117.
p. 133 ‘We had to restrain our feelings’: Interview with Lev, 2008.
p. 133 ‘They brought two chairs for us’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 117.
p. 133 ‘fight with somebody’: Interview with Igor Aleksandrovsky, 2010.
p. 133 ‘Maria was due to work the night shift’: Details from
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 117.
p. 134 ‘It was only when we were left on our own’: Interview with Lev, 2008.
p. 134 ‘I asked him: “Do you want to?”’: Communication by Nikita Mishchenko.
p. 134 ‘Lev and Sveta spent two nights’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 117.
p. 134 ‘some sort of sanitary wagon’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 118.
p. 134 ‘My darling Lev’: S147-51a.
p. 135 ‘My own sweet Sveta’: L M 47-54.
p. 135 ‘My own sweet, glorious Sveta’: LM47-55.
p. 136 ‘My sweet, my lovely Sveta … finally!’: LM47-56.
p. 137 ‘For 250 roubles’: SI47-52.

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