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Chapter 7
p. 139 ‘The first snow fell tonight’: LM47-60.
p. 139 ‘Svetinka … the more I think about you’: LM47-58.
p. 139 ‘You once asked’: LN47-69.
p. 140 ‘It’s a truism’: LM47-71.
p. 140 ‘good-natured’, ‘cultured’: LM48-22a.
p. 140 ‘it is safer for me here’: LM48-10/2.
p. 141 ‘intelligent, nice, not over-educated’: LM47-44.
p. 141 ‘There have been some changes at the plant’: LM47-59.
p. 141 ‘disturbing impression’: LM47-60.
p. 141 ‘Many of the women who have arrived’: LM47-61.
p. 142 ‘When I think of you’: LM48-10.
p. 142 ‘Life without the rationing system’: SI48-6.
p. 143 ‘So, my darling, foolish Lev’: SI48-25.
p. 143 ‘The patient is 49 years old’: LM48-17.
p. 144 ‘Sveta wrote back’: SI48-17, SI48-29.
p. 144 ‘Liubka is gloomy and barely talks’: LM48-58.
p. 144 ‘My Liubka is very slowly returning’: LM48-61.
p. 145 ‘The endocrinologist’: SI49-29.
p. 146 ‘My darling Levi, I want to be with you so much’: SI48-9.
p. 146 ‘N. A. rang the other day’: SI48-19.
p. 147 ‘A depression has come over me’: SI49-2.
p. 147 ‘Having swallowed all kinds of pills’: SI49-45b.
p. 148 ‘At the moment … skiing is the one thing’: SI49-17.
p. 148 ‘Go somewhere’: LM48-22.
p. 148 ‘It is very hard for her’: LM to N. Mel’nikov, 8 April 1948.
p. 148 ‘So why have I turned to Lydia?’: SI48-18.
p. 149 ‘over-acquaintance with geography’: SI49-45a.
p. 149 ‘too superficial’, ‘nice-looking, almost bland’: LM48-64.
p. 149 ‘I can imagine that Tamara likes’: SI49-27.
p. 150 ‘It’s always difficult to bury someone’: SI47-28.
p. 150 ‘I didn’t want to compromise her future’: Interview with Lev, 2008.
p. 151 ‘Leva … Alik is turning seven, not eight’: SI48-25.
p. 152 ‘not know how children grow’: SI48-25.
p. 152 ‘Alik its capable’: SI48-104.
p. 152 ‘A young girl came to the power station’: LM47-57.
p. 153 ‘They were never stopped or searched’: Interview with Igor Aleksandrovsky, 2010.
p. 153 Toys and town children: Interviews with Igor Aleksandrovsky, Alla Yakhovich, Boris Ivanov, 2010.
p. 153 ‘I was enlisted as a father again today’: LM47-64.
p. 154 ‘She is older and … acts more grown-up’: LM47-66.
p. 154 ‘I have lost faith in myself’: LM47-69.
p. 154 ‘machines were idle for almost a quarter of the working time’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 357, l. 82.
p. 154 ‘There is no rhythym in our work’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 357, l. 44.
p. 154 ‘idiots’: LM48-31.
p. 154 ‘stupidities’: LM to N. Mel’nikov, 18 November 1947.
p. 155 ‘There’s such a dreadful shambles’: LM48-28.
p. 155 ‘I’m unable to sit calmly’: LM48-69.
p. 155 ‘Yesterday one of our operators remarked’: LM49-10a.
p. 156 ‘So … we maybe due a quarter of a day’: LM47-46.
p. 157 ‘escapes and even mass break-outs’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 359, l. 84.
p. 157 ‘large contingent of prisoners’: LM48-43.
p. 157 ‘Well, Svetishche, some instructions’: LM48-45.
p. 158 ‘Yesterday, M. A. asked’: SI48-31.
p. 159 ‘If the work trips fall through’: SI48-39.
p. 159 ‘might turn out to be difficult’: LM48-27.
p. 159 ‘The latest decision by those fickle’: LM48-46a.
p. 160 ‘Apparently, it’s not going to add any particular restrictions’: LM48-46b.
p. 160 ‘Party meeting on 12 May’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 357, l. 39ff.
p. 160 ‘The matter is resolved’: SI48-51.
p. 161 ‘the chief accountant of the institute informed her’: SI48-52.
p. 161 ‘until she had further news’: SI48-55.
p. 161 ‘Slowly they are introducing’: LM48-48.
p. 161 ‘Maybe 1949 will be a better year’: LM48-46c.
p. 162 ‘My darling Lev … week has already passed’: SI48-60.
p. 162 ‘I am interested, Levi’: SI48-63.
p. 163 ‘I haven’t written for a week’, ‘In my last letter’: SI48-64.
p. 163 ‘the right to give life’: SI48-64.
p. 164 ‘On the one hand, chances diminish’: SI48-64a.
p. 165 ‘Goodness knows when I’m going to depart’: SI48-65.
p. 166 ‘It’s a pity to stop’: SI48-65.
p. 166 ‘So, my darling Sveta’: LM48-61a.
p. 167 ‘On the stretch between Kirov and Kotlas’:
Poka ia pomniu
, pp. 118–19.
p. 167 ‘they were eagerly awaiting’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 119.
p. 168 ‘I waited the whole day’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 119.
p. 168 ‘I thanked him enthusiastically’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 119.
p. 168 ‘The meeting took place’: Interview with Lev, 2008,
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 119.
p. 169 ‘My darling Lev … a second day’: SI48-66.
p. 170 ‘My dear, dear Levi, I’m home at last’: SI48-68.
p. 171 ‘I looked at myself in the mirror today’: SI48-69.
p. 171 ‘blissfully happy and kind towards everyone’: SI48-71.
p. 171 ‘I am full of happiness’: SI48-75.
p. 171 ‘My darling, lovely Sveta’: LM48-62.
p. 171 ‘My darling Sveta, tomorrow is your birthday’: LM48-63a.
p. 172 ‘My darling Svetinka, no letter has come from you’: LM48-67.
p. 172 ‘I was imagining the wildest things’: LM48-68.
p. 172 ‘The days are passing by very quickly’: LM48-73.
p. 173 ‘This evening they sent Liubka away’: LM48-78.
p. 173 ‘Liubka had become quite ill’: LM48-79.
p. 173 ‘I was never able to cry’: LM48-83.
p. 174 ‘Well, my friend’: LM to Terletsky, 3 December 1948.
Chapter 8
p. 175 ‘My darling Sveta’: LM48-94.
p. 175 ‘Sveta had a great deal of work’: SI49-2, SI49-5.
p. 175 ‘There is no joy in it’: SI49-5.
p. 176 ‘allowing something to be done’: SI49-2.
p. 176 ‘to calm my nerves’: SI49-39.
p. 176 ‘These pills are helping me’: SI49-37.
p. 176 ‘Pavel, an acquaintance’: SI49-4.
p. 177 ‘was planning to get married’: SI48-42.
p. 178 ‘As for the “best” ’: LM48-40.
p. 179 ‘She loves me? She loves me not?’: Mayakovsky, ‘Unfinished Poems’, p. 273.
p. 179 ‘For some reason’: SI49-15.
p. 179 ‘but also in reality’: LM49-62a.
p. 179 ‘Nikolai has had to switch’: LM49-15.
p. 179 ‘There will be more free days’: LM49-6.
p. 180 ‘I like being on my own at work’: LM49-7.
p. 180 ‘Today was an idiotic day’: LM49-8.
p. 180 ‘
Anna Karenina
’: LM49-8.
p. 180 ‘The people in our barracks’: LM49-9.
p. 180 ‘It was a sad day’: LM49-13.
p. 181 ‘Nobody has done as much as him’: LM49-9.
p. 181 ‘Only 25!’: LM49-28.
p. 181 ‘There was snow in May’: LM49-39.
p. 181 ‘first warm days’: LM49-47.
p. 181 ‘frequent power cuts’, ‘shortages of warm clothes’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 359, ll. 61–4, 87–92.
p. 182 Rates of illness in the 2nd Colony:
Vygliadyvaias’
, pp. 119–20; GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 359, l. 34.
p. 182 ‘an educated man’: LM48-60.
p. 182 ‘I found him dressed’: LM49-18.
p. 182 ‘Two or three days ago’: LM49-35.
p. 183 ‘it seems, not a native’: LM49-18.
p. 183 ‘a woman in her forties’: LM49-29.
p. 183 Nina Grin: Details from
Vygliadyvaias’
, pp. 184–9.
p. 183 Svetlana Tukhachevskaya: Details from APIKM, f. 31, op. 50 (Lileev).
p. 184 ‘On 2 July 1949’: Record of meeting in GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 360, ll. 62ff.
p. 184 ‘government secrets’: Thefts discussed in GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 359, ll. 54–5.
p. 185 ‘How it’s going to work out this year’: LM49-30.
p. 185 ‘The decision made little sense’: SI49-31.
p. 185 Complications with work trips: SI49-40.
p. 185 ‘which up to now has been a lucky time’: SI49-40.
p. 185 ‘between 30 minutes and two hours’: LM49-13.
p. 186 ‘Wives are more interesting to me’: SI49-44.
p. 186 ‘You probably already received’: LM49-51.
p. 186 ‘It might be possible to think’: SI49-49.
p. 187 ‘It doesn’t matter how long’: LM49-56.
p. 187 ‘I asked Mikhail Aleksandrovich’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 120.
p. 187 ‘Sveta left by train for Ukhta on 30 August’: SI49-55.
p. 188 ‘They took me by car to the station’:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 120.
p. 188 ‘My darling Lev, the journey is fine’: SI49-56.
p. 189 ‘We made it to Kotlas’: SI49-57.
p. 189 ‘My darling Sveta … you are still everywhere with me’: LM49-66.
p. 189 ‘only now I see you without any features’: LM49-69.
p. 190 Dreams: LM49-71, 72, 74, 76.
p. 190 ‘I understood that the most terrible thing in life’: LM49-82.
Chapter 9
p. 191 ‘1950. Half a century’, ‘Biting frosts’: LM50-2.
p. 191 ‘2,561,351 prisoners’: Applebaum,
Gulag
, p. 416.
p. 192 ‘It’s like an entire town’: SI50-53.
p. 192 ‘Great Construction Projects’: SI51-27.
p. 192 ‘for the whole hour’: LM53-30.
p. 193 ‘Every year about half a million’: Gregory, ‘An Introduction’, p. 16.
p. 193 Pechorlag and building of the second track:
Pechorstroi
, p. 36.
p. 193 ‘At a series of meetings’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 361, ll. 1–10.
p. 194 ‘idea of paying prisoners’: Sokolov, ‘Forced Labour’, p. 40.
p. 194 ‘90 roubles … double that amount’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 361, l. 117.
p. 194 ‘billboards’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 361, l. 103.
p. 194 ‘In the 11th Colony’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 361, ll. 115–16.
p. 194 ‘kiosk in the remote colony’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 361, l. 117.
p. 195 ‘They are threatening’: LM50-46.
p. 195 200 roubles for Katya: LM50-81.
p. 195 ‘collective farm’: LM51-35.
p. 195 ‘fatherly pleasure’: LM52-39a.
p. 195 ‘1 per cent at best’: LM51-45b.
p. 195 ‘bred rabbits’: LM51-48, LM52-18.
p. 195 ‘We’ve belatedly’: LM51-55.
p. 196 ‘small improvements’: APIKM, f. 31, op. 15 (A. K. Nedel’ko).
p. 197 ‘600 metres of towelling’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 363, l. 131.
p. 197 ‘Why send me sugar’: LM50-9.
p. 197 Shops in the main town: Interview with Boris Ivanov, 2010.
p. 197 ‘Palace of Culture’: GU RK NARK, f. 1876, op. 7, d. 360, l. 37.
p. 198 football teams: Interview with Boris Ivanov, 2010.
p. 198 ‘training complex’: APIKM, f. 31, op. 15 (A. K. Nedel’ko).
p. 198 Lev teaching: LM50-47, LM50-49.
p. 200 ‘financial aid is not needed’, ‘So he’s undoubtedly’: LM51-35.
p. 200 ‘His hands are covered’, ‘After Oleg came to see me’: LM48-15.
p. 200 ‘Conditions in the camp’: SI49-48.
p. 200 ‘letters with requests’: SI49-65, SI50-20.
p. 201 Lev sending money: LM49-52, LM49-58.
p. 201 ‘spent on bread’, ‘he was allowed’: SI50-22.
p. 201 ‘I received three letters’: SI50-43.
p. 201 ‘It’s not good’: LM50-6.
p. 202 ‘I thought it was the end’: K. N. Rykalov to LM, 25 December 1960.
p. 202 ‘I’ve stubbornly been making him’: LM50-12.
p. 202 ‘Sharp pains in his bladder’: LM50-3.
p. 204 ‘[Valya’s mother] arrived’: SI50-53.
p. 204 ‘Minin reflector’: LM50-83.
p. 204 ‘I’m not crying any more’: SI50-18.
p. 204 ‘walking round her room’: SI50-62.
p. 205 ‘I expected to see 4 walls’: SI50-27.
p. 206 ‘Thanks to them’: LM51-38.
p. 206 ‘Yesterday I got a few letters’: LM51-35.
p. 207 ‘House of Meetings’: GU RK NARK, f. 173, op. 1, d. 3, l. 6.
p. 207 ‘My holiday leave finishes’: SI50-46.
p. 208 ‘warmer clothes, a woollen blanket and a bedsheet’: SI50-51c.
p. 208 Three days with Lev:
Poka ia pomniu
, p. 121.
p. 208 ‘met S.’: LM to N. Mel’nikov, 26 September 1950.
p. 208 ‘Farewell, Levi’: SI 50-51b.
p. 209 ‘My darling Sveta’: LM50-59.
p. 209 ‘I can’t decide’: SI50-54.
p. 210 ‘I agree with you’: LM50-67.
p. 211 ‘My darling Lev’: SI50-64.

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