S

Sabotage mentality, 232 , 246 ;

and Bolshevik food-supply policy, 136 , 197 , 203 , 204 , 207 , 252 -53;

and Bolshevik political formula, 97 -104, 149 -52, 268 -69;

and enlistment solution, 248 -49;

during 1917, 75 -76, 85 , 97 , 109 -10, 119 n39, 120 ;

and tsarism, 34 , 37 , 67 .

See also Speculation; Riabushinskii

Sackmanism (meshochnichestvo ):

during civil war, 169 , 171 , 178 , 193 -94, 220 -21;

and effect on procurement, 226 , 241 , 246 , 251 ;

and food-supply dictatorship, 127 , 129 , 131 , 164 ;

during 1917, 76 -81, 118 , 124

Samara, 115

Saratov, 3 , 270

Secretariat of Special Conference on Food Supply, 17 , 22 -23, 26 , 46 , 97 ;

and grain monopoly, 29 .

See also Special Conference on Food Supply

Separatism, in relation to breakdown of authority, 61 , 117 , 126 -28, 130 , 132 , 134 -35, 161 , 234 , 236 .

Shakhovskoi, V. N. (tsarist minister of trade and industry), 16 , 19

Shatrov, Mikhail, 266

Sheremetev, N. (Provisional Government food-supply official), 77 -78

Shingarev, A. I. (Provisional Government minister of agriculture), 54 , 82 , 89 , 94 , 105 ;

on grain monopoly, 29 , 84

Shliapnikov, Aleksandr, 190

Shlikhter, Aleksandr (Bolshevik

food-supply official), 130 , 135 , 162 , 181 ;

on administrative lawlessness, 201 , 212 ;

and razverstka, 168 -71

Sholokhov, M., 174

Shortage of personnel, 211 -12

Shul'gin, V. V., 2 -3

Shuvaev, D. S. (tsarist minister of war), 44

Siberia, 78 -79, 215 n58, 225 , 253 n49, 254 ;

and policy decisions, 134 -35, 228 .

See also Czech uprising

Sidorov, A. L., 56

Sigov, I., 27 , 52 -53, 64 -65, 87 , 106

Simbirsk, 180 , 182 -83, 190 -91, 210 , 240 ;

and kulaks, 202 ;

and unity of will, 211 , 221 -22

Single-owner farms, 172 , 183 , 240 .

See also Collective agriculture

Skobelev, Matvei, 109

Smith, Adam, 242

Smolensk, 78

Social democrats on peasants, 140 -41

Social protection, 243 .

See also Rations, armored

Socialism:

definitions of, 87 -88, 90 , 149 -52, 159 , 242 , 267 ;

and pre-Bolshevik food-supply policy, 36 , 66 , 86 -88, 115 ;

and razverstka system, 170 , 197 -98, 204 , 209 n33, 213 , 217 , 264

Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs), 93 , 116 , 139 -40, 206 n22, 207 , 236 n10,

See also Left SRs; Right SRs

Sorokin, Pitirim, 265 , 271

Soviet sovereignty (sovetskaia vlast '), 135 , 157 , 180 ;

attitudes toward, 118 -19, 136 -37, 143 , 161 -62, 165 ;

peasant view of, 200 , 205

Sown acreage, 94 , 96 , 259 -61

Special Conference on Defense, 18 , 50 , 54 , 106

Special Conference on Food Supply:

criticisms of, 37 , 44 -45;

and enlistment solution, 40 , 248 ;

institutional progeny of, 82 , 96 -97, 231 ;

origin and structure of, 16 -19;

policies of, 16 -31, 45 , 46 , 241 -42

Speculation:

and activist attitudes, 12 , 36 -38, 233 ;

and Bolshevik attitudes, 100 , 104 , 153 ;

definition, 240 -46;

and food-supply policy, 114 , 121 , 124 , 135 , 220 , 226 ;

and peasants, 142 , 147 , 176 ;

and popular attitudes, 111 , 221 , 222 ;

and sackmen, 77 .

See also Middlemen; Private grain-trade dealers; Sackmanism

Spiridonova, Maria, 146 -47, 161

Stalin, Iosif, 25 , 229 , 266 -69, 271 , 272

State Audit, 26

State capitalism, 26 , 148 -52, 159 , 264 , 268

State Senate, 17

Statistics:

during 1917, 62 , 77 , 181 ;

and razverstka system, 177 , 181 , 183 , 206 , 210 ;

under tsarism, 28 , 42 , 52 .

See also Registration; Uncertainty

Statization (ogosudarstvlenie ):

during 1917, 72 , 86 -87, 110 ;

thesis, 267 -69

Stavropol, 202

Stepanov, V. A. (Provisional Government minister of trade and industry), 88 , 94

Stikhiia (disorganizing spontaneity), xvi , 61 , 66 , 89 , 107 , 151 , 227 , 235 ;

Lenin's use of, xvi , 144 -45, 228 -29.

See also Petty bourgeois

Stolypin reform, 48 , 69 , 70 , 93 n30

Strizhkov, Iurii, 191

Struve, Peter, 17 , 22 -24, 29 , 45 , 267 ;

on sabotage mentality, 98

Sturmer, Boris, 30

Sugar, 23 , 72 , 241

Sukhanov, Nikolai, 84

Sukharevka, 219 , 222

Sukhikh, S. A., 170 -71

Supreme Economic Council (Bolshevik regulatory body), 127 -28, 149 n20

Surplus, grain, 61 , 145 -46, 152 , 197 , 259 ;

under peasant control, 185 , 224 , 238 -39;

and razverstka system, 183 , 259 -61.

See also Consumerproducer split

Suslov, Mikhail, 271 n83

Sverdlov, Iakov, 144 , 157 -58, 178

Sviderskii, Aleksei, 158 , 190 , 191 n57, 215 , 223 , 252