The most challenging task of all is to figure out what to say about my wife Christina, or Krysia as all of us call her. She’s always been my first editor and critic, who pulls no punches. Since she grew up in Poland when Soviet propaganda films were common fare and then lived in Moscow with me in both Soviet and post-Soviet times, she was quick to question anything that didn’t ring true. Often this meant I’d have to go back to my sources for what seemed like the umpteenth time, only to discover that, yes, there was something more that had to be nailed down or straightened out. But along with the tough questioning, she provides everything else that makes my life and work possible. Which says everything and not nearly enough.
Index
Agriculture National Commissariat, Soviet
Air Force, Soviet
Albania
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia
Alliluyeva, Nadezhda
Anders, General Wladyslaw
Aniks, Aleksandr
Anti-Semitism
Anufriyev, Yevgeny
Araki, General Sadao
Army Group Center, German
counteroffensive against
Fourth Army of
and Hitler’s delay of drive on Moscow
impact of weather on
Orders for the Autumn Offensive, 1941, issued to
Army Group North, German
Army Group South, German
Artemyev, General Pavel
Associated Press
Atlantic Charter
Auschwitz concentration camp
Austria, German annexation of
Babi Yar, massacre of Jews at
Bakunin, Mikhail
Baldwin, Hanson W.
Balkans
Baltic states
desertion of Soviet troops in
grievances against Stalin in
Stalin’s postwar territorial ambitions for
terror campaign in
Barbarossa, Operation, SEE Operation Barbarossa
Beaverbrook, Lord
Beck, General Ludwig
Beer Hall putsch
Belgium
Belorussia
invasion of
Military District of
occupation of
Belov, Ivan
Belov, General Pavel
Beneš, Edvard
Berezhkov, Valentin
Beria, Lavrenty
arrested by Khrushchev
and launching of German invasion
and military purges
and proposal for State Defense Committee
and Revolution Day celebration
undercover activities reported to
Vlasov and
and wartime terror campaign
Beria, Sergo
Bialystok
massacre of Jews in
Birkenau
BLIND SPOT—HITLER’S SECRETARY (documentary)
BLITZKRIEG strategy
Blocking units
Blumentritt, General Günther
Blyukher, General Vasily
Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von
Bogolyubskaya, Irina
Bohlen, Charles “Chip,”
Boldin, General Ivan
Bolshevik Revolution
celebration of anniversary of
civil war following, SEE Russian civil war
Bolsheviks
anger of peasants at
Goebbels on
Nazi extermination of
SEE ALSO Communist Party
Borneo
Braginskaya, Ella
Braun, Eva
Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von
Brest
Bridges, Edward
Britain
appeasement policy of
battle of
evacuation at Dunkirk of forces from
and German invasion of Russia
India governed by
Japan and
Lend-Lease program for
Soviet assessment of
Soviet Union as ally of
in World War I
British Broadcasting Company(BBC)
Brownshirts
Bryansk
fall of
Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchin, Aleksandr
Budenny, Marshal Semyon
Bukharin, Nikolai
Bullitt, William
Burckhardt, Carl
Burns, General James
Busanov (factory director)
Butyrka prison (Moscow)
Bylinina, Tamara
California State University at San Bernardino
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm
Cassidy, Henry
Censorship of foreign correspondents’ reports
of letters
Center for Military History(Moscow)
Chamberlain, Neville
Chegrinets, Yegor
Chernyavsky, Viktor
Chervyakov
CHICAGO DAILY NEWS,
China
People’s Republic of
Churchill, Clementine
Churchill, Winston
aid provided to Stalin by
and Polish government in exile
response to German invasion of Soviet Union of
and Soviet counteroffensive
and Stalin’s postwar territorial ambitions
Stalin warned of Hitler’s invasion plans by
summit at sea of Roosevelt and
Ciechanowski, Jan
Cold War
Collectivization, forced
COLLIER’S WEEKLY,
Columbia Broadcasting System(CBS)
Colville, John
Comintern
Commissar Decree
Communist Party
brigades of, SEE Home guard units
Central Committee of
purge of
Concentration camps
SEE ALSO Gulag; NAMES OF SPECIFIC CAMPS
Congress, U.S.
Conquest, Robert
Cossacks
Council of Evacuation, Soviet
Coy, Wayne
Cripps, Stafford
Curie, Eve
Curie, Marie
Curzon line
Custine, Marquis de
Czechoslovakia
dismemberment of
Daladier, Edouard
Danilov (road department employee)
Davies, Joseph
Davies, Norman
Dedovo
Dedovsk, report of fall of
Defectors, Soviet
de Gaulle, Charles
Dekanozov, Vladimir
Democratic Party
Denisova, Maria
Denmark
Dergachev, Colonel Ivan
De-Stalinization
Deutscher, Isaac
Dill, John
Dimitrov, Georgi
Dirdelsen, Lance Corporal van
Directive
Directive 34a
Dolgov, General Vyacheslav
Donskoi, Dmitri
Dronov (soldier)
Druzhnikov, Ilya
Druzhnikov, Yuri
Dudkina, Olga
Dunkirk
evacuation of French and British forces from
Duranty, Walter
Edelman, Vladimir
Eden, Anthony
Ehrenburg, Ilya
87th Infantry Division, German
EINSATZGRUPPEN (mobile SS units)
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.
Eitingon, Naum
El Alamein, battle of
Estonia
terror campaign in
Evacuations of equipment and supplies
of factories and workers
of foreign diplomats
of journalists
of Lenin’s body
of prisoners
of top officials and their families
Factories bombing of
evacuation and relocation of
during October panic
preparations to blow up
Famine
Faymonville, Colonel Philip
Fedoseyev, Sergei
Fedyuninsky, General Ivan
Finland
German alliance with
Soviet attack on
First Army Group, Soviet
First Cavalry Corps, Soviet
First Shock Army, Soviet
First Special Communist Battalion of Moscow
Folimonov, N. I.
Foreign Ministry, Soviet
Foreign Office, British
Forty-first Infantry Division, Soviet
Fourteenth Armored Division,
Soviet
France
evacuation of French and British forces from
German victory in
Indochinese bases of
Napoleonic
redeployment to Russia of
German troops from
Soviet assessment of
in World War I
Franco, Francisco
FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG,
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick II (the Great), King of
Prussia
Free France movement
Freisler, Ronald
FSB (Russian Federal Security Service), Central Archives of
Galeyev, Lieutenant Mirzakhan
Gallipoli, battle of
Gamarnik, Yan
General Foods
Georgians
German Army, SEE Wehrmacht; SPECIFIC UNITS
German-Soviet Agreement of Friendship and on the
Frontier between the U.S.S.R. and Germany
Gestapo
Geykhman, Lieutenant Mikhail
Glantz, David M.
Glasnost
Godov, Boris
Goebbels, Joseph
on Anglo-Soviet alliance
Beaverbrook-Harriman mission declared failure by
on German losses on Eastern front
Soviet collapse anticipated by
winter clothing donation appeal by
Goldensohn, Leon
Golikov, Filipp
Golovanov, Air Force Marshal
Gordon, Abram
Göring, Hermann
Gorky, orders to seize
Great Terror
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere
Greece
Grigorenko, General Petro
Gromyko, Andrei
Grossman, Vasily
GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate), the Soviet military intelligence service
Gruman, Lieutenant Kurt
Guderian, General Heinz
in advance on Tula
and Commissar Decree
in French campaign
losses inflicted on
at Orel
relieved of his duties
at Smolensk
and superiority of T-34 tanks
targeting of Kiev opposed by
Gulag (forced labor camps)
forced evacuations of
penal battalions filled with prisoners from
Poles and Ukrainians sent to
Günsche, Otto
Guzeviius, Aleksandras
Halder, General Franz
confrontation over strategy between Hitler and
during counteroffensive
and Hitler’s assumption of direct command of army
plot against Hitler contemplated by
targeting of Kiev opposed by
Halifax, Lord
Harriman, W. Averell
Haupt, Captain Karl
Havas news agency
Heineman, SS Senior Lieutenant
Henderson, Loy
Herwarth, Hans von
Heyden, Conrad
High Command of the Armed
Forces, German
Himmler, Heinrich
HISTORY OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST PARTY (Stalin)
HISTORY OF GERMAN FASCISM, THE (Heyden)
HISTORY OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF THE SOVIET UNION
Hitler, Adolf
attitude of Soviet citizens toward
benefit of Red Army purges for
birth of
British objective of
childhood of
communists arrested by
compared to Napoleon
cult of
Directive issued by
early victories of
elimination of rivals by
and Finnish campaign
focus on Moscow of
Franco supported by
generals and
hesitation to move on Moscow of
imprisonment of
inner circle of
invasion of Soviet Union launched by
planned by
Japanese alliance with
Mussolini and
NKVD targeting of cronies of
nonaggression pact of Stalin and, SEE Molotov-Ribbentrop pact nonaggression pact October 3 speech of
offensive operations suspended by
optimism of
plan to invade Britain abandoned by
plots against
redeployment of troops by
retreat of forces of
sexual abilities and proclivities of
similarities between Stalin and
soldiers sentenced to death by
during Soviet counteroffensive
Stalin’s plans for Europe after defeat of
strategic importance of Soviet resources to
terror policies in occupied territories of
transport priorities of
United States role in fight against
Vlasov and
Wolf’s Lair military headquarters of
HITLER’S PANZERS EAST (Stolfi)
Hiwis (HILFSWILLIGE)
Hoepner, General
Holland
Holocaust
Home guard units
Hoover, Herbert
Hopkins, Harry
House of Commons, British
Hull, Cordell
Human wave tactics
Hurricane fighter aircraft
Ignatova, Tasya
Imperial Chancellery, German
India, British in
Indochina
IN THE NAME OF CONSCIENCE
(Khokhlov)
Institute of Foreign Languages
Intourist
Isakov, Admiral Ivan
Ismay, General Hastings
Italy
Ivan IV (the Terrible), Tsar of Russia
IZVESTIA (newspaper)
Japan
and German invasion of Russia
invasion of Mongolia by
Ministry of the Navy
Pearl Harbor attacked by
Sorge’s mission to
Jews
American
attacks on, SEE Anti-Semitism cosmopolitan
German massacres of
Nazi denunciations of
as POWs
in Soviet military
Stalin’s purge targeting
Jodl, General Alfred
Joseph Stalin Institute of Physical Fitness (Moscow)
Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers
Junge, Traudl
Kagan, Boris
Kaganovich, Lazar
Kalinin front at
NKVD headquarters at
Katayeva, Vera
Katyn forest massacre
Katyushas (rocket-propelled artillery)
Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm
Kennan, George
Kerr, Walter
KGB (Committee for State Security)
Khalkin Gol, battle of
Kharkov University
Khokhlov, Nikolai
Khrushchev, Nikita
on invasion of Finland
military purges criticized by
Vlasov and
Zhukov dismissed from duties by
Kiev
battle for
f
all of
Kirov, Sergei
Klin, liberation of
Klubkov, Vasily
Kluge, General Güenther von
Kobulov, Bogdan
Koch, Erich
Komsomol
Konev, General Ivan
Königsberg
Kopets, General I. I.
Korean War
Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya
Krainov, Boris
Krasavchenko, N. P.
KRASNAYA ZVEZDA (newspaper)
Krasny Bor
Kravchenko, Natalya
Krebs, Colonel Hans
Krupskaya, Nadezhda
Kube, Wilhelm
Kuhn (ethnic German)
Kuibyshev
evacuation of foreign diplomats to
evacuation of top officials and their families to
journalists in
Kumanev, Georgy
Kurbanov (construction worker)
Kursk, battle of
Kutuzov, Field Marshal Mikhail
Labas, Yuliy
Lansen, Heinrich
Latvia, terror campaign in
League of Nations
Lend-Lease program
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
Bullitt and
death of
embalming of
evacuation to Tyumen of body of
pictures of
political testament of
Leningrad
civilians used as human shields at
counteroffensive at
defensibility of
food rationing in
German drive on
German plans for destruction of
Siberian divisions redeployed to
siege of
Leonov, S.
Leskov, Semyon
Lesueur, Larry
LIFE AND FATE (Grossman)
LIFE magazine
Liskov, Alfred
Lithuania, terror campaign in
Litvinov, Maxim
LIVING AND THE DEAD, THE (Simonov)
LIVING AND THE DEAD, THE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CULT OF WORLD WAR II IN RUSSIA (Tumarkin)
London blitz
London Stock Exchange
Lozovsky, Solomon
Lublin
Luftwaffe
Lvov, shelling of
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Maisky, Ivan
Maklyarsky, Boris
Maklyarsky, Mikhail
Malenkov, Georgy
Maloyaroslavets
Manchuria, Japanese troops in
Mannerheim Line
Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von
Mardashev, Sergei
Marines, U.S.
Mars, Operation
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Maslennikov, General Ivan
Matsuoka, Yosuke
MEIN KAMPF (Hitler)
Mekhlis, Lev
Memel
Meretskov, General Kirill
Mikoyan, Anastas
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