of Overseas Chinese, 25–26 stranger minorities outside, 6. See also family; tribe/tribalism Kirgiz people, 111, 154 Kirpotin, V., 279 Kirshon, V., 220 The Korenkov Affair , 219 Koestler, Arthur, 312 Kogan, L. I., 199 Kogan, Pavel, 280 “The Brigantine,” 234–35 “The Letter,” 235 Koltsov, Mikhail (Fridliand), 226 Komar, Vitaly, 343 Komsomol, 228, 229, 230, 295 Kopelev, Lev, 185–86, 229, 233, 241–42, 279–80, 285, 344–45 Kopeliansky, Lieutenant Colonel, 304 Korea/Koreans, 4–5, 34 Kosov, Semyon Andreevich, 281–82, 283 Kuban, 248 kulaks, purge of, 309 Kun, Béla, 85, 97, 98, 178 Kuniaev, Stanislav, 203 Kushnirov, Aron, 134 Kvitko, Leiba, 298, 299 labor, 11, 29, 212, 261. See also occupation(s); professions Lamarckianism, 59 Landau, G. A., 138–39, 183 Landau, Lev, 342 Landauer, Gustav, 85, 92 Landes, David, 47 Landsberg, Otto, 85 language: and assimilation, 60, 67–69