Apricot Jam: And Other Stories (65 page)

Voroshilov, Kliment
(1881-1969): military commander and politician, close associate of Stalin. His leadership of Soviet troops during the Winter War with Finland (1939-1940) was disastrous, and his failure to prevent the Germans from surrounding Leningrad led to his replacement by Georgi Zhukov.

verst
:
from Russian
versta
, a pre-revolutionary unit of length, about 0.66 mile. Although abandoned when Russia adopted the metric system in 1917, it remained in popular usage long thereafter.

Vrangel
(Wrangel), Pyotr
(1878-1928): former officer in the tsarist army who commanded anti-Bolshevik (White) forces in southern Russia in the later stages of the Civil War.

Vuchetich
, Yevgeny
(1908-1974): Soviet sculptor, major representative of the socialist realist style, and specialist in military monuments.

A Week
(
Nedelya
): early proletarian novel (1925) by Yury
Libedinsky
(1898-1959).

Workers
’
Faculty
(
Rabfak
): post-revolutionary institutions that prepared workers for study in institutes of higher education.

Yakir
, Iona
(1896-1937): Red Army commander. In the 1930s he worked closely with
Mikhail Frunze
to modernize the army. He was arrested in 1937 and executed along with
Tukhachevsky.

Yeliseev
:
a luxurious food emporium, in operation in Moscow since 1898.

Yeryomenko
, Andrei
(1892-1970): general who held many important commands during World War II and who helped plan the defense of Stalingrad.

Young Pioneers:
an organization for children ages ten to fifteen, formed in part to replace the scouting movement and instill Soviet values in its members. Virtually all children joined the movement.

Zinoviev, Grigory
(1883-1936): Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician. He broke with Stalin in 1925, was arrested in 1934 and tried in 1935 and again in 1936.

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