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INDEX
Abakumov, Viktor
Abashidze (Seminary Inspector)
Abkhazia
Academy of Sciences Affair
Achinsk
Adelkhanov, Emile
Adelkhanov Shoe Factory, Tbilisi
Agitprop Department (Secretariat)
agriculture: Lenin’s policy on; Stalin’s policy on; increased output under Second Five-Year Pan; in war; see also peasants
Akhkazia
Akhmatova, Anna
Albania,
Alexander I, Tsar
Alexandra, Empress of Nicholas II
Alexandrov, Alexander
Alexeev, General Mikhail
Alexei, Tsarevich
Alikhanov, General
All-People’s Union for the Struggle for Russia’s Regeneration
Alliluev family: Stalin and Sverdlov stay with after escape; and Stalin’s exile to Siberia; Lenin and Stalin move in with; and Stalin’s marriage to Nadya; on Stalin’s vindictiveness; relations with Stalin after Nadya’s death
Alliluev, Fëdor (Fedya; Nadya’s brother)
Alliluev, Pavel (Nadya’s brother); death
Alliluev, Sergei (Nadya’s father): Stalin meets in St Petersburg; arrested; and Stalin’s exile in Siberia; and Stalin’s return from exile; stays at Zubalovo; and arrest of Redens; death; memoir of Stalin
Alliluev, Vladimir (Stalin’s nephew)
Allilueva, Anna (Nadya’s sister): imprisoned in Lubyanka; attracted to Stalin; and Stalin’s readiness for revolution; marriage to Redens; and Nadya’s effects after suicide; tells Svetlana of mother’s suicide; husband arrested; memoir of Stalin; arrested and sentenced
Allilueva, Kira (Alexander/Yevgenia’s daughter)
Allilueva, Nadezhda (Stalin’s second wife; Nadya): mental problems; and Stalin’s exile in Siberia; Stalin meets on return from exile; attracted to Stalin; and Stalin’s stay in home of; works as Stalin’s secretary; accompanies Stalin on grain-procurement mission; marriage to Stalin; appearance and character; career ambitions; marriage relations; children and home life; excluded from Party membership; temperament; works for Lenin; and Stalin’s flirting and romances; studies at Industrial Academy; Bukharin visits; health difficulties; trip to Germany for treatment; suicide and funeral; letters from Stalin; housekeeping
Allilueva, Olga (Nadya’s mother): and Stalin’s exile in Siberia; Stalin visits on return from exile; looks after Stalin in hiding; and Nadya’s home life; depression and death
Allilueva, Svetlana (Stalin’s daughter): and father’s upbringing; birth; and mother’s suicide; takes ride on Metro; writes memoirs; relations with father; upbringing; romances; marriage to Morozov; congratulates Stalin on victory over Germany; dacha; marriage to Yuri Zhdanov; at Stalin’s 73rd birthday party; and Stalin’s stroke and death; changes surname after Stalin’s death
Allilueva, Yevgenia (Pavel’s wife)
Andreev, Andrei
Anglo-Soviet Treaty (March 1921)
Anti-Comintern Pact (1936)
anti-semitism; see also Jews
Anti-Soviet Trotskyist-Zinovievite Centre
Antonov, General Alexei
Arcos (trading company)
Arctic convoys
Armenia: subdued; as Soviet republic; borders disputed
atheism
atomic bomb: USA develops and uses; USSR plans to develop; USSR acquires
Attlee, Clement: replaces Churchill as Prime Minister; Stalin unimpressed by; policy of coexistence; noninterference in eastern Europe; denigrated in USSR; protests at potential US nuclear weapons in Korea
Auschwitz
Austria: Germany annexes; post-war occupation
autonomous republics: established
Axelrod, Pavel
Azerbaijan: subdued; as Soviet republic; borders disputed; Bolshevik appeasement of; leaders deported (1926)
Babel, Isaak
Bacon, Arthur
Badaev, Alexander
Bagashvili, Spartak
Bagration, Operation
Baibakov, Nikolai
Baikalov, Anatoli
Bakinski rabochi (newspaper)
Baku: Marxism in; ethnic hatreds in; Stalin in; Menshevik-Bolshevik rivalry in
Baltic states: resist Soviet expansionism; USSR occupies; and Soviet advance; armed resistance in; dissenters sent to Gulag; see also Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
Barbarossa, Operation: surprises Stalin; planned; successes
Barbusse, Henri
Barrio, Diego
Bashkirs
Basic Law (1905)
Batumi
Bauer, Otto
Bauman, Nikolai
Bazhanov, Boris
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron
Bedny, Demyan
Belorussia: and autonomisation; established as Soviet state; nationhood; Germans overrun; resistance to Soviet rule in
Beneš, Eduard
Berdzvenishvili, V.
Beria, Lavrenti: cruelty; visits Stalin on Black Sea; publishes article on Bolsheviks in Transcaucasus; career; heads NKVD; association with Stalin; reports on economic success of Gulag; and Nazi-Soviet pact (1939); actions in Poland; at German invasion of USSR; in conduct of war; repressive measures in war; and women; trouble-making in Stavka; heads Soviet atomic research programme; on counter-productive effect of repression; Stalin entertains; status and power; investigates Zhdan
ov’s death; favours post-war reforms; refuses to wear tie; Stalin turns against; Stalin suspects of conspiracy; at Nineteenth Party Congress; fears of denunciation by Stalin; executed; and Stalin’s stroke; at Stalin’s death; position after Stalin’s death; suspected of murdering Stalin; eulogy at Stalin’s funeral; reforms after Stalin’s death; collects tape recordings of Stalin’s instructions to police agencies; arrested (1953)
Beria, Nina
Beria, Sergo: on Stalin’s mother; relations with Svetlana; on Tehran conference; learns to fly
Berlin: Stalin visits; conquest of; occupation zones; blockade and airlift (1948–9)
Berman, Jakub
Berzins, R.
Bierut, Bolesław
Birobidzhan
‘Black Hundreds’
Blizhnyaya dacha
Blum, Léon
Bobrovski, Vladimir
Bogdanov, Alexander; Short Course in Economic Science
Bolsheviks: formed by Party split; in Georgia; Stalin’s commitment to; differences with Mensheviks; funding by criminal means; idealise revolution; win seats in Fourth Duma; as threat to Imperial rule; oppose participation in First World War; conflict with Provisional Government; and national question; discuss revolutionary seizure of power from April 1917; revolutionary doctrine; attempt to call off protest demonstration (July 1917); at Democratic State Conference (1917); control Petrograd and Moscow Soviets; policy unformulated; commitment to centralism; use of terror; attacked by Cossack armies; internal opposition; fear of counter-revolution; factionalism and inefficiency; unpopularity; membership numbers; and state-directed economy; and ‘cultural revolution’; and political repression; and crisis of capitalism;
Conferences: Seventh Party (1917); Ninth Party (1920); Thirteenth Party (1924)
Congresses: Sixth Party (1917); Eighth Party (1919); Tenth Party (1921); Eleventh Party (1922); Twelfth Party (1923); Thirteenth Party (1924); Fourteenth Party (1925); Fifteenth Party (1927); Sixteenth Party (1930); Seventeenth Party (1934); Eighteenth Party (1939); Nineteenth Party (1952); Twentieth Party (1956); Twenty-Second Party (1961)
Book of Delicious and Healthy Food, The
Borotbists
Brdzola (Marxist newspaper)
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918)
Brezhnev, Leonid
Britain: calls for negotiations in 1920 Soviet war with Poland; Politburo perceives as threat; severs relations with USSR (1927); neutrality in Spanish Civil War; pre-war coolness towards USSR; and German invasion threat (1940); withstands Germany; Stalin’s post-war view of; abandons treaty with Sovnarkom (1921); post-war decline; reluctance to fight war with USSR
Brooke, General Alan (later Viscount Alanbrooke)
Brusilov, General Alexei
Bryukhanov, N.P.
Bubnov, Andrei
Budënny, Semën
Bukharin, Nikolai: character; as thinker; status and fame; opposes gratuitous violence; in Civil War; and control of Cheka; considers forming government without Lenin; attempts conciliation in trade union crisis; health problems; and Lenin’s request for poison; and national question; in Lenin’s Testament; Zinoviev meets; appointed to Orgburo; at Lenin’s funeral; attacks Stalin; peasant policy; promoted to Politburo; supports Stalin against Zinoviev and Kamenev; supports NEP; writes on Leninism; hostility to Trotski; Stalin complains about; defeats United Opposition; economic reforms; relations with Stalin; and Stalin’s international policy; and elimination of market in economy; Stalin accuses of Right Deviation; ejected from Politburo; in opposition; Stalin sees as threat; ejected from Comintern Executive Committee; pleads for reconciliation with Stalin; and culture; hopes of return to power; contributes to new Constitution (1935–6); hopes for leadership changes; campaign against; tried and sentenced; and worldwide socialist revolution; on Hitler as threat; final pleas to Stalin; ‘Notes of an Economist’
Bulgakov, Mikhail: decline and death; The Days of the Turbins; The Master and Margarita
Bulganin, Marshal Nikolai: and women; membership of Politburo; beard; Stalin suspects of conspiracy; in Presidium; fears Stalin’s disfavour; Stalin entertains; and Stalin’s stroke
Bulgaria: Soviet demands on; in eastern bloc; monarchy removed; communist dominance in
Bulletin of the Opposition (Trotski’s)
Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia
Caucasian Bureau
Caucasus: ethnic and national problems in; grain shortages; famine
Central Committee: Stalin elected to; expanded; Zinoviev seeks to return to; and Lenin’s revolutionary demands; pre-October revolution meetings; reluctance to negotiate separate peace in First World War; Lenin seeks control of; disagreements in; reorganisation and composition; joint meetings with Central Control Commission; plenum sanctions attack on Bukharin; International Department; and succession to Stalin
Central Control Commission: organisation and composition; Stalin controls
Charkviani, Kote
Chavchavadze, Ilya
Chayanov, Alexander
Cheka (Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle with Counterrevolution and Sabotage): formed; control of
Chernov, Viktor
Chervenkov, Valko
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiaureli, Mikhail
Chicherin, Georgi
Chichinadze, Zakaria
Chikobava, Arnold
China: Soviet relations with; Japan invades; and Soviet entry into war against Japan; communists seize power in; treaty with USSR (1945); economic dependence on USSR; as rival to USSR; intervention in Korean War; potential war with USA; rift with Khrushchëv’s USSR; Stalin’s posthumous reputation in
Chinese Communist Party
Chkheidze, Nikolai
Chkhenkeli, Akaki
Chou En-lai
Chukovski, Kornei
Churchill, (Sir) Winston: warns Stalin of German invasion of USSR; condemns Nazi atrocities; Stalin entertains; meets Stalin at Tehran; broadcasts; view of Stalin; offers wartime assistance to USSR; wartime travels; relations with Stalin; ‘percentages agreement’ with Stalin in Moscow (1944); and post-war European settlement; at Yalta Conference; and Soviet inaction during Warsaw rising; and prospective capture of Berlin; at Potsdam Conference; loses 1945 election and premiership; Stalin’s regard for; Stalin accuses of resentfulness; Fulton ‘iron curtain’ speech; commitments to Stalin; speeches reproduced in Moscow; sends condolences on Stalin’s death
cinema: Stalin’s interest in
Circle, Operation
Civil War (1918–19)
Cold War: beginnings; intensifies; causes budgetary strains
collectivisation: peasant deaths under; Stalin introduces; and tractor supply; spread of; percentage of households in; of Cossacks; resistance to; of Kazakhs and Ukrainaians; post-war in eastern Europe
Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance): formed
Cominform (Informational Bureau): First Conference (1947); hostility to; Second Conference (1948)
Comintern (Communist International): formed; and proposed German rising; in Asia; expansion; and China; Sixth Congress (July 1928); and Stalin’s European policy; Stalin dominates1; Dimitrov appointed to head Executive Committee; campaign against ‘rightism’; and German threat; Stalin criticises for being over-centralised; and Spanish Civil War; purged; and Chinese Communist Party; weakness; dissolved
communism: weakness outside USSR; as worldwide movement; post-war spread; in east European countries
concentration camps; see also Gulag
Congress of Peoples of the Terek (1920)
Congress of Soviets: Second (1917); Third (1918)
Congress of Writers, First (1934)
Conquest, Robert
Constitutional-Democratic Party (Kadets): organisation and doctrines; in Provisional Government; leaves Provisional Government; Stalin attacks; ceases political activity
Cossacks: in Civil War; Stalin’s hostility to; in Caucasus; collectivisation
Council of Ministers (for
merly Sovnarkom),
Council of People’s Commissars see Sovnarkom
Crimea: in war with Germany
culture: Stalin’s attitude to and interest in
‘curators’
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess,
Curzon Line
Czechoslovakia: Stalin woos; Germany annexes; hostility to USSR; and Marshall Aid; communist weakness in; democratic tradition; communists achieve dominance in
Darien (Dalni)
Dashnaks
Davitashvili, M.
Davrishevi, Damian
Davrishevi, Joseph
Davydov (Georgian police agent)
Deborin, Abram
Democratic Centralists
Democratic State Conference (1917)
Denikin, General Anton
Department of Agitation and Propaganda (Central Committee)
Deutscher, Isaac
Dimitrov, Georgi: flatters Stalin; Stalin appoints to head Executive Committee of Comintern; and Nazi threat; and Stalin’s foreign policy; and treatment of foreign communist parties; and abolition of Comintern; as Prime Minister of Bulgaria; and Stalin’s underestimation of China
Diomidis, Alexandros
Djilas, Milovan
doctors (medical): purged
Doctors Plot
Dolgoruki, Prince Yuri
Don Basin: seized by Germans
Dostoevski, Fedor
Dubrovinski, Innokenti
Duclos, Jacques
Dukhobors (religious sect)
Duma (State): proposed; socialist contingent in; Mensheviks exploit; Fourth; dispersed (February 1917)
Dzeradze, Mikhail
Dzhibladze, Silva
Dzhughashvili family
Dzhughashvili, Besarion (Vissarion; Stalin’s father): and Stalin’s birth and childhood; violence; and Stalin’s schooling; death; Stalin’s attitude to
Dzhughashvili, Ketevan (née Geladze; Stalin’s mother; ‘Keke’): and Stalin’s birth; marriage; character and rumoured profligacy; and Stalin’s upbringing and education; works as seamstress; Stalin’s attachment to; Stalin’s separation from; refuses to move to Moscow; Stalin visits; mentioned in Pravda
Dzhughashvili, Ketevan (née Svanidze; Stalin’s first wife): Stalin courts and marries; birth of son; death
Dzhughashvili, Yakob (Stalin’s son by Ketevan): birth; fostered by inlaws at mother’s death; Stalin’s separation from; Stalin visits as youth; home life with Stalin and Nadya; attempted suicide; as prisoner-of-war; shot by Germans
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