military purges criticized by
intervenes in Stalin Motor Vehicle Plant strike
at Revolution Day celebration
on Stalin’s response to German invasion
on war with Finland
Mikoyan, Stepan
Mikushev, General Georgy
Military History Institute (Moscow)
Military intelligence service, Soviet(GRU)
Minkovtsy, massacre of Jews in
Minsk
fall of
MISSION TO MOSCOW (Davies)
Moats, Alice-Leon
Moldavia
Molotov, Vyacheslav
evacuation to Kuibyshev of
lifelong loyalty to Stalin of
purges supported by
and response to German invasion
and Revolution Day celebration
U.S. diplomats and
SEE ALSO Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact
Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact
Baltic states and
fortifications and
Poland and
Stalin’s justification for
trade commitments of
Mongolia, Japanese invasion of
Monte Cassino, battle of
Mordovia prison camp
Moscow American diplomats in
battle monument in
Beaverbrook-Harriman mission to
British diplomats in
bombing raids on
camouflaging of buildings in
civilian discontent in
Eden’s mission to
evacuations from
food rationing in
fortification of
German diplomats in
German plans for destruction of
Hopkins’s visit to
journalists in
Lenin’s mausoleum in
looting in
martial law declared in
nineteenth-century
NKVD raids in
panic in
preparations to disrupt German occupation of
recruitment of troops in
Revolution Day celebration in
Stalin’s decision to remain in
Turkish ambassador in
Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI)
Moscow Defense Museum
Moscow State University
Mountain Engineering Institute (Leningrad)
Mozhaisk
counteroffensive at
defense line at
Munich pact
Mussolini, Benito
Muzichenko, General Ivan
Nahler, Lance Corporal Henry
Napoleon, Emperor of France
Alexander I and
capture of Moscow by
comparisons of Hitler and
Hitler’s visit to tomb of
Kutuzov’s victory over
Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California)
Nazi Party, Hitler’s elimination of rivals in
Nazi People’s Court
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact, SEE Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact
Nevsky, Alexander
Nevzorov, Boris
New York HERALD TRIBUNE,
NEW YORK TIMES,
Night of the Long Knives
NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs)
and air raids
burning of papers by
censorship of private correspondence by
civilians killed by
in counteroffensive
evacuation of families of officers of
and evacuation of Lenin’s body
interception of German correspondence by
interrogation records of
Japanese dispatches intercepted by
Lubyanka headquarters of
martial law enforced in Moscow by
Mikushev and
“party girls” provided by
preparations for German occupation of Moscow made by
purge of
in Revolution Day parade
special forces of, SEE OMSBON wartime terror campaign of
North African campaign
North Korea
Norway
Nuremberg war crimes tribunals
Odessa
Ohlendorf, Otto
OMSBON (NKVD special forces)
112th Infantry Division, German
167th Infantry Division, German
174th Rifle Division, Soviet
185th Infantry Regiment, German
Operation Barbarossa
early stages of
Hitler’s disagreements with generals about
launching of
map of
postponement of
secret order for
Operation Mars
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Typhoon
launching of
map of
Operation Uranus
OPOLCHENIE, SEE Home guard units Order
order 227(Not a Step Backward)
Order
Orel
fall of
Oreshkin, Boris
Ott, Eugen
Overy, Richard
Ozaki, Hotsumi
Palatov, Andrei
Panilov, Sergei
Panzer IV tanks
Panzer units
First Panzer Army
Second Panzer Division
Fifty-sixth Panzer Corps
Partisans
Pasternak, Boris
Pasternak, Leonid
Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich
Pavlov, General Dmitry
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on
Penal battalions
Peter I (the Great), Tsar of Russia
Petrishchevo, occupation of
Petrova, Tatyana
Pisarev, Nikolai
Podolsk military academies
Poland
EINSATZGRUPPEN in
German victory in
government in exile of
invasion of
POWs in
seventeenth-century
Soviet terror campaign in
Police battalions, German
Politburo
evacuation of Lenin’s body ordered by
intelligence reports provided to
purges approved by
and Stalin’s response to invasion
Post, Marjorie Merriweather
POWs
German
Soviet
PRAVDA (newspaper)
Prisoners of war, SEE POWs Prokhorova, Valeria
Proskurov, Ivan
Ptashnikov (soldier)
Purges
of Communist Party rivals
executions during
military
response of U.S. diplomats to
Pushkin, Alexander
Putin, Vladimir
Radek, Karl
Raeder, Admiral Erich
Raubal, Geli
Red Army
advance into Germany of
in Baltic states
civilians killed by
in Civil War
counteroffensive of
in Finnish campaign
German attempt to infiltrate
German execution of political officers of
Red Army (continued) human wave tactics used by
intelligence unit of
interrogation of POWs by
invasion of Poland by
Japan and
journalists and
at Kiev
Lend-Lease program and
losses of
in Minsk
morale of
newspaper of, SEE KRASNAYA ZVEZDA purges of officers of, SEE Purges, military refusal to surrender of
shortage of weapons and supplies for
Siberian divisions of
in Smolensk
prevention of desertion and surrender of, SEE Terror, Soviet, against Red Army
soldiers prisoners killed by
undercover work by ex-officers of
underrated by Germans
Vlasov captured by
volunteers for
at Vyazma
SEE ALSO SPECIFIC UNITS
Red Cross
Reichenau, Field Marshal Walther von
Reichstag fire
Republican Party
Reshetin, G. V.
Reynolds, Quentin
Rhineland, occupation of
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
SEE ALSO Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
Riga, departure of German ships from
RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH, THE (Shirer)
Rokossovsky, Marshal Konstantin
Romania
Romanichev, Nikolai
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
aid provided to Stalin by
diplomatic relations with Stalin established by
and Stalin’s postwar territorial ambitions
summit at sea of Churchill and
Rostovtsev, F.
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Rubinin, Yevgeny
Rugan (factory personnel director)
Russia, tsarist
Russian Civil War
Russian Liberation Movement
Russian Orthodox Church
Russo-Polish War
Rychagov, Pavel
Rzhev
aircraft facilities at
counteroffensive at
fall of
Rzhevskaya, Elena
Safonov, Dmitry
Samoilov (trade school director)
Sapozhnikova, Olga
Saprykin, Pavel
Sbytov, Nikolai
Schlabrendorff, Fabian von
Schmidt, Paul
Schmundt, Rudolf
Schulenburg, Count Friedrich
Werner von der
Schulze-Boysen, Harro
Scorched earth policy
Sea Lion, Operation
Second Shock Army, Soviet
Semyonova, Galina
Serov, I. M.
Service, Robert
Shaidayev, Magomed-Ganifa
Shaposhnikov, Marshal Boris
Shchegoleva, Maria
Shcherbakov, Aleksandr
Shchors, Igor
Shchors, Natalya
Shevelev, Leonid
Shirer, William
Show trials, SEE Purges
Siberia exile of Stalin to
troops redeployed from
Sikorski, General Wladyslaw
Simon, General Max
Simonov, Konstantin
Sixteenth Army, Soviet
Sixth Army, German
Skorzeny, Otto
Slavs, designation as UNTERMENSCHEN of
SMERSH
SMERTNY MEDALYON (death medallion),
Smirnov, Lieutenant Nikolai
Smolensk
battles around
fall of
NKVD undercover agents in
Smolensk Declaration
Smushkevich, Yakov
Soblevskaya, Faina
Solnechnogorsk, retaking of
Somme, battle of the
Sorge, Richard
Sorokin, V.
Spanish Civil War
SS
Stalin, Joseph
in aftermath of war
attitude of Muscovites toward
birth of
during bombing raids
childhood of
children of
counteroffensive of
dacha of
death of
decision to remain in Moscow of
directive to blow up factories issued by
elimination of rivals by
and evacuation of Lenin’s body
evacuations of officials ordered by
exile to Siberia of
Finnish campaign of
forced collectivization campaign of
and German preparations for invasion of Russia
inner circle of
Japan and
July 3 speech of
marriages of
military purges of
Molotov’s loyalty to
and NKVD undercover agents
nonaggression pact of Hitler and, SEE Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact
Order 0428 of
postwar speech of
Stalin, Joseph (continued) propaganda about
punishment of critics of
response to German invasion of
retouching of photographs of
Revolution Day celebration of
Siberian divisions redeployed by
similarities between Hitler and
Vavilov brothers and
victims of
Vlasov and
wartime terror policies of
Western allies and
Zhukov and
Stalin, Svetlana
Stalin, Vasily
Stalin, Yakov
Stalin, Yulia
Stalingrad, battle for
Stalin Motor Vehicle Plant, strike at
“Stalin’s organs,” SEE Katyushas State Defense Committee, Soviet
State Department, U.S.
State Pedagogical Institute
(Moscow)
STAVKA (Soviet Supreme High Command)
Steele, Arch
Steinhardt, Laurence
Stepanova, Vera
Stolfi, R. H. S.
Strasser, Gregor
Strasser, Otto
Studebaker trucks
Sudoplatov, Pavel
Sukhno, Andrei
Supreme Soviet
Suslin, E. S.
Suslov, Maxim
Suvorov, Aleksandr
Svanidze, Yekatarina
Sweden
Tartars
Tass news service
Tehran conference
Teleguyev, Yevgeny
Terror campaigns, Stalin’s
German targets of
in Poland and Baltic states
against Red Army soldiers
against Soviet civilians and prisoners
SEE ALSO Gulag; Purges
Terror policies, Hitler’s
against Jews
against POWs
against Red Army political officers
against Soviet civilians
Thailand
Thälmann, Ernst
Thayer, Charles
Thirty-seventh Army, Soviet
350th Infantry Regiment, German
375th Regiment, Soviet
Timokhin, General Semyon
Timokhin, Vladimir
Timoshenko, Marshal Semyon
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomahawk fighter aircraft
Treblinka concentration camp
Trekhgorka Cotton Mill
Tresckow, General Henning von
Trotsky, Leon
Truman, Harry
Tsessarsky, Albert
T-34 tanks
Tukhachevskaya, Nina
Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail
Tula
defense of
Tumarkin, Nina
Tupikov, General Vasily
Twentieth Army, Soviet
Thirty-third Army
Typhoon, Operation, SEE Operation Typhoon
Tyumen, evacuation of Lenin’s body to
Ugryumov, A. L.
Ukraine
buildup of German forces along border of
counteroffensive in
forced collectivization in
German offensive in
Germans greeted as liberators in
occupation of
Poland and
request for British troops in
Soviet soldiers captured in
terror campaigns in
Umansky, Konstantin
Union Pacific Railroad
United States
Britain and
in Cold War
diplomatic relations b
etween Soviet Union and
Federal Bureau of Investigation
and German invasion of Soviet Union
Japan and
Soviet Union as ally of
UNTERMENSCHEN (subhumans)
Untermeyer, Samuel
Vasilevsky, General Aleksandr
Vavilov, Nikolai
Vavilov, Sergei
Velikiye Luki
Versailles Treaty
Vidensky, Boris
Vienna Academy of Arts
Vinitsky, Ilya
Vitebsk
Vlasov, Andrei
Volkogonov, General Dmitri
Volokolamsk
liberation of
Vorobyov, Vladimir
Voroshilov, Marshal Kliment
Voznesensky, Nikolai
Vyazma
battle for
counteroffensive at
prison camp at
Vyshinsky, Andrei
Waffen SS
War Cabinet, British
War Department, U.S.
Division of Aid Reports
WAR AND PEACE (Tolstoy)
Wehrmacht
Weimar Republic
Weizsäcker, Ernst von
Welles, Sumner
Wenneker, Paul
Wernicke, Lieutenant Richard
Werth, Alexander
Whites
Winant, John
Winter War
Wolf’s Lair (Hitler’s military headquarters)
World War I
combined losses in major battles of
Hitler in
human wave tactics used in
Mikushev in
weapons left over from
Zhukov in
Yakir, General Jonah
Yakovlev, Nikolai
Yak-7 fighter plane
Yalta conference
Yamaguchi, Captain Takeda
Yamaoka, Colonel Michitake
Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy’s estate)
Yeaton, Major Ivan
Yefremov, General Mikhail
Yeltsin, Boris
Yeremko, Slava
Yugoslavia
Zakharova, Lidia
Zarubina, Zoya
Zbarsky, Boris
Zbarsky, Ilya
Zevelev, Aleksandr
Zhigarev, General Pavel
Zhou Enlai
Zhukov, Marshal Georgy
appeal to troops issued by
counteroffensive of
defense of Moscow entrusted to
drive on Moscow resisted by
family life of
on fortification of Moscow
Khrushchev and
Japanese invasion of Mongolia defeated by
Leningrad defended by
orders to resist invasion signed by
in postwar period
purges criticized by
in Russian Civil War
Siberian divisions and
Stalin informed of invasion by in World War I
Zhukova, Ella
Zhukova, Era
Zhukova, Margarita
Zhukova, Maria
ZHUKOV’S GREATEST DEFEAT (Glantz)
Zhuravlev, Mikhail
Zionism
Zuikova, Aleksandra
ZVEZDA (Star) group
About the Author
Andrew Nagorski is a senior editor at Newsweek International. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he has served two tours as Moscow bureau chief. He has also reported from Warsaw, Rome, Hong Kong, Washington, Bonn and Berlin. He is the author of Reluctant Farewell: An American Reporter’s Candid Look Inside the Soviet Union and The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe. His novel Last Stop Vienna was a Washington Post bestseller. He and his wife, Christina, who have four children, live in Pelham Manor, New York.
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