The Penguin History of Modern Russia

Home > Other > The Penguin History of Modern Russia > Page 81
The Penguin History of Modern Russia Page 81

by Robert John Service


  Trubetskoi, Nikolai, 128

  Truman, Harry S., 272–3, 308, 312

  Tsaritsyn see Stalingrad

  Tsereteli, Irakli, 35–7, 49, 51

  Tsushima, Battle of (1905), 14

  Tsvetaeva, Marina, 248

  Tukhachevski, Marshal Mikhail, 125, 127, 220, 240

  Turgenev, Ivan, 11, 17

  Turkestani Region, 115

  Turkey: 1877–8 war with Russia, 1, 10; and Russian civil war, 102; wins provinces, 128; and Soviet Muslims, 133; in World War II, 258 ; US missile bases in, 374

  Turkmenistan (and Turkmenia), 228, 490, 503, 506

  Tuva, 521

  Tvardovski, Alexander, 366

  Tverdokhlebov, Andrei, 382

  Typhoon, Operation (1941), 261

  U-2 spy plane (US), 353

  Uglanov, Nikolai, 172, 176

  Ukraine: Russians in, 23, 520; Tsereteli proposed autonomy for, 37; Central Rada, 40–41, 49, 60, 75; Bolsheviks repress, 75; lost in 1918 peace agreement, 77–8, 84; 1917 grain production, 79; Lenin’s 1917 manifesto to, 83; land ownership in, 86; civil war in, 101; Soviet republic established, 107, 113, 114; collectivization, 109; Piłsudski invades, 120; status, 129; nationalism, 132, 367–8, 457–8; famine (1932–3), 184, 202, 207; education in, 190, 203; and collectivization, 202; repression in, 202–3; in World War II, 261, 264, 266–7, 269, 277, 283, 287, 339; post- World War II guerrillas in, 299; post-World War II deportations, 300; post-World War II famine, 304; post-World War II settlement, 306; Khrushchëv’s policy on, 367–8; dissenters tried (1965), 390; and Chernobyl disaster, 445; Gorbachëv visits, 456; independence movement, 481–2; non-cooperation with State Committee for the Emergency Situation, 503; referendum votes for independence (1991), 506–7; after communism, 535, 555, 570

  Ukrainian Autocephalous Church, 203, 369

  Ukrainian language, 316

  Ulyanov family, 71

  Ulyanov, Alexander (Lenin’s brother), 71

  Ulyanov, Vladimir see Lenin, Vladimir I.

  Ulyanova, Maria (Lenin’s sister), 153

  unemployment, 55, 170, 356

  ‘Union Bureau’, 185

  Union of Landowners, 39

  Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, 200

  Union of Right Forces (party), 561

  Union of the Russian People, 11, 53

  Union of Sovereign States: proposed, 505–7

  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR): formed, 132–3; Constitution, 133 , 152; Western dislike of, 170, 398; post-World War II status, 294–5; rivalry with USA, 294, 301–2, 310, 312–13, 330, 336, 400; World War II damage and casualties, 295; in Cold War with USA, 312–13; at Stalin’s death, 328; as super-power, 397, 551; and détente with West, 399; Yeltsin’s proposals for, 505–6; ends, 507, 509–10; achievements, 550–51; passing regretted, 529; see also Commonwealth of Independent States

  Union Treaty (Novo-Ogarëvo agreement, 1991), 494–9, 506

  Union of Writers: Congresses, (1934), 248; (1986), 448

  Union of Writers of the RSFSR, 480

  united front: Comintern disavows, 178

  United Nations: formed, 294; and Korean war, 312; Gorbachëv addresses Assembly (1988), 465, 468

  United Opposition, 160–62, 164

  United Russia (party), 552–3, 559

  United States of America: and World War I, 78; and Russian civil war, 102; diplomatic relations with USSR, 229; in World War II, 268, 277; sends wartime supplies to USSR, 269; and post-World War II European settlement, 271; in war against Japan, 272; Soviet wartime suspicion of, 280; post-war rivalry with USSR (‘Cold War’), 294, 301, 302, 310, 312–13, 330, 336, 400; foreign policy hardens, 308; and Korean war, 312, 330; Eastern Europe an policy, 330; Khrushchëv’s policy on, 352–4; Khrushchëv visits, 353; threatens nuclear retaliation, 353; Khrushchëv attacks, 362; and Cuba missile crisis, 374; and nuclear control, 388; and détente with USSR, 399; relations with China, 399–400; and Vietnam War, 399; and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 411; Andropov suggests mutual accords with, 432; and Gorbachëv, 444, 464–5, 496; Clinton–Yeltsin ‘partnership’, 536

  Unity (party), 552

  universities, 141, 321

  Urals Republic, 521

  Urals-Siberian method, 174

  urbanization, 245–6, 328, 421

  Usov, Vladimir, 501

  Ustinov, Dmitri, 236, 404, 426, 428, 431, 434

  Uzbekistan: nationalism, 131, 391, 474; education in, 190; scandals in, 456; ethnic violence, 481–2; declares sovereignty (1990), 489–90; joins Commonwealth of Independent States, 507; resistance to reform, 553

  Uzbeks: birth rate, 422; riots with Meshketian Turks, 481

  Valentinov, Nikolai, 71

  Vareikis, I.M., 213

  Varennikov, General Valentin, 497–8

  Varga, Jenö, 301

  Vasilevski, Alexander, 265

  Venezuela, 562

  Venzher, V.G., 322

  Vienna summit (1961), 354

  Vietnam, 389, 399

  villages see communes; peasants

  Vilnius, 296, 457, 494

  Vinogradov, V.N., 324

  Vistula, river, 121

  Vladivostok, 4, 399, 460, 465

  Vlasik, N.S., 324

  Vlasov, Aleksei, 421

  Vlasov, Lieut.-General A.N., 264, 277, 300

  Voice of America (radio), 415

  Volga Germans, 276–7, 367

  Volga region, 79, 102, 104, 106

  Volga, river: pollution, 468

  Volsky, Arkadi, 515

  Volunteer Army, 113

  Vorkuta, 335

  Voronov, G.I., 401–3

  Voroshilov, Kliment E., 155, 219–20, 241, 262, 265, 316, 333

  Voznesenski, Andrei, 365

  Voznesenski, Nikolai A., 302, 303

  Vrangel, General Pëtr N., 116, 136

  Vyazma, 264

  Vyborg (Finland), 15

  Vysotski, Vladimir, 415

  wages: level of, 143, 146, 178, 250, 304–5, 356–7, 416; differential, 192; increase under Gorbachëv, 468; arrears under Yeltsin, 516, 519, 541

  Wałesa, Lech, 409

  War Communism, 127, 170

  War-Industry Committees (World War I), 29–30

  Warsaw: and Russian advance in World War II, 267; Soviet building in, 323; 1956 strikes, 342

  Warsaw Pact: formed,

  337; and Polish unrest, 411; and Gorbachëv’s foreign policy, 442–3, 463–4, 484;

  see also Eastern Europe

  Webb, Sidney and Beatrice: Soviet Communism: A New Civilization?, 240

  Weinberger, Caspar, 444

  welfare see social welfare

  West Germany see German Federal Republic

  wheat see grain

  White armies, 102, 113, 116–17

  White House see Moscow

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 1, 102, 107

  Winter Palace (St Petersburg), 65, 89

  Witte, Sergei, 4, 14

  women: exercise power, 86; position of, 143, 417; and abortion, 422; and Andropov’s regime, 429–30

  Women of Russia (party), 527, 530

  workers: pre-World War I expansion, 8; aspire to control,

  56; win control, 68, 88; direct action by, 69; apathy about soviets, 83; post-revolutionary status, 87–8; behaviour, 89–90; education of, 96, 142; in state administration, 96; unrest, 122; Bolshevik advancement of, 142–4; acquiescence, 146; and conditions of employment, 146; conditions, 184; under First Five-Year Plan, 184; and Stakhanovism, 217, 244; wartime diet, 276; turnover, 359–60; conditions under Brezhnev, 409–10; promotion reduced, 422; after communism, 541; poverty level, 539; see also labour

  Workers’ Opposition, 117–18, 121, 125–6, 161

  Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate, 118–19, 148, 171

  World Trade Centre (New York), 554–5

  World War I: outbreak, 25–6; conduct of, 26–7, 30, 49, 52–3; 1917/18 peace agreement, 62, 68,

  75–8; unrest against, 81; and change in social behaviour, 14
3

  World War II: conduct and campaigns, 254–73; outbreak (1939), 256; early Soviet setbacks, 260–62; ends, 272; administration and organization in, 276–9; casualties and damage, 279, 286, 295–6; repression in, 280; living conditions, 285; German occupation regime and behaviour, 286–90; patriotism in, 288–90writers and artists

  see intelligentsia; literature

  Yabloko (‘Apple’; political grouping), 526, 557, 561

  Yagoda, G., 185, 218, 221

  Yakovlev, Alexander: opposes Russian nationalism, 423; radicalism, 449, 459; Gorbachëv promotes, 459, 462, 486; and Eastern Europe, 463; Gorbachëv’s view of, 487; voted off Central Committee, 490–91, 493; rift with Gorbachëv, 493; warns Gorbachëv of coup, 496; at siege of Moscow White House, 501

  Yakovlev, Yegor, 449

  Yakunin, Gleb, 382, 476

  Yalta conference (1945), 263, 269, 271–2, 305

  Yanaev, Gennadi, 494, 496, 498–501

  Yanson, N., 178–9

  Yaroshenko, L.D., 322

  Yaroslavski, Emelyan M., 198, 237

  Yashin, Lev, 357, 421

  Yavlinski, Grigori, 534, 557, 561

  Yazov, Marshal Dmitri T., 496, 499, 501–2

  Yefimov, Boris, 168

  Yegorychev, N.G., 384

  Yekaterinburg see Sverdlovsk

  Yeltsin, Boris: and Russian identity, 132; appointed to Central Committee Secretariat, 438; background and character, 439, 453, 503–5, 510, 532; Gorbachëv promotes, 442; and public opinion, 449; urges faster reforms, 452–3, 488; relations with Gorbachëv, 453, 503; resigns from Politburo, 453; endorses Gorbachëv at 19th Party Conference, 461–2; elected to Congress of People’s Deputies, 475; sets up formal opposition, 475; wins seat on Supreme Soviet, 475; popularity, 477, 496, 504, 513; and Gorbachëv’s remaining in party, 487, 491; elected Chairman of RSFSR Supreme Soviet, 488; dispute with Polozkov, 489, 494; drinking, 489, 513, 530; at 28th Party Congress, 491; supports commission on economic recovery, 492; works with Gorbachëv, 494; political reforms in RSFSR (‘de-partization’), 495; and attempted coup against Gorbachëv, 498, 500; and storming of Moscow White House (1991), 500–502; supports independence for Baltic states, 503; policies and political administration, 505–6, 513; and break-up of USSR, 507; economic reforms, 509–10, 512–17, 525–6, 532; leadership, 509–11, 513, 522–3, 529; opposition to, 512, 520–24, 531, 532, 538; political appointees, 512–13, 515–16, 522, 529–31; attitude to internal republics, 520–21; resists Russian Supreme Soviet impeachment call, 522–3; constitutional reforms, 523, 527; attacks White House (October 1993), 524–5; and 1993 election results, 528; and ‘the oligarchs’ 532, 538; constitutional powers, 528–9, 531; and international affairs, 535, 536–8; and Chechnya, 533–4, 545–6; health decline, 530, 532; stands and wins in 1996 Presidential election, 530; and the Army, 538; and the media, 538; fundamental reform, attitude to, 529; retires, 546

  Yemelyanov, P.M., 300

  Yenukidze, Avel S., 201

  Yesenin, Sergei, 94–5, 138–9, 366

  Yevtushenko, Yevgeni, 364–5

  Yezhov, Nikolai, 218, 220, 221, 224–5, 228–9, 231–2, 242, 340

  youth movement, 477

  Yudenich, General Nikolai, 102, 108, 113, 116–17

  Yugoslavia: right-wing dictatorship, 171; in World War II, 258; post- World War II settlement, 271, 307; and war’s end, 271; post-war revolutionary movement, 301–2; and formation of Cominform, 308; resists Soviet domination, 309–10; expelled from Cominform, 310; Khrushchëv visits, 337; Khrushchëv condemns revisionism in, 362; Shelepin advocates offensive against, 379; condemns Brezhnev Doctrine, 388; criticizes Soviet leadership, 409

  Yukos, 550

  Yushchenko, Viktor, 556

  Yusupov, Prince Felix, 27

  Zaikov, Lev, 438

  Zamyatin, Yevgeni: We, 139

  Zaslavskaya, Tatyana, 431, 440

  zemgor, 29–30, 33

  zemstva (local representative bodies), 6

  Zhdanov, Andrei: and grain procurement, 170; and Party reorganization, 215–16; proposes democratization of local party organizations, 220; supports Stalin, 241; disputes over post-World War II policies, 302, 303, 379; and Cominform, 308; views on sciences and arts, 318–19

  Zheleznyakov, Anatoli G., 75

  Zhemchuzhina, Polina (Molotov’s wife), 316, 325

  Zhirinovski, Vladimir, 520, 522, 527–8, 532, 533, 559

  Zhivkov, Todor, 464, 483

  Zhukov, Georgi: honourable behaviour in Great Terror, 223; uses tanks in Far East, 255; warns of German invasion, 260; in World War II, 265, 267; and taking of Berlin, 272; in plot against Beria, 333; heads Ministry of Defence, 337; appointed to Presidium, 344; supports Khrushchëv, 344; dismissed by Khrushchëv, 346, 372

  Zinoviev, Grigori: in hiding in Finland, 50; opposes Lenin’s plan to seize power, 60; relations with Lenin, 72; scepticism over Bolsheviks’ continuing support, 81; Jewishness, 85, 201; biography of Lenin, 93; administrative agreement with colleagues, 110; encourages German communism, 126; on writers, 138; power in Politburo, 151; Lenin criticizes, 152; disagreements with Lenin, 153; and succession to Lenin, 154–5, 157–8; attacks Trotski, 156; and NEP, 158, 160; and Western powers, 158; Trotski criticizes, 159; in United Opposition, 160–61, 164; suppressed, 161; expelled from Party and readmitted, 162, 188; tried and sentenced, 215–16; shot, 218

  Zionism, 317

  Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 248, 319

  Zubatov, Sergei, 13

  Zubkov, Viktor, 559

  Zyuganov, Gennadi: political discontent, 496–7; leads Communist Party of the Russian Federation, 520, 528; Duma elections (1995), 530–31 and (1999), 532; Presidential candidate (1996), 531; popularity over Yeltsin, 531; Presidential candidate (2000), 547, 553; Presidential candidate (2008), 559

  About the Author

  Robert Service is Professor of Russian History at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Antony’s College. His other books include Lenin: A Biography and a textbook on the Russian Revolution as well as Russia: Experiment with a People, From 1991 to the Present. He has also published Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A World History of Communism. He writes and broadcasts frequently on Russia and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

  Copyright

  PENGUIN BOOKS

  Published by the Penguin Group

  Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England

  Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA

  Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3

  (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.)

  Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd)

  Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road,

  Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd)

  Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre,

  Panchsheel Park, New Delhi — 110 017, India

  Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand

  (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd)

  Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue,

  Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa

  Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England

  www.penguin.com

  First published by Allen Lane 1997

  Published in Penguin Books as A History of Twentieth-Century Russia 1998

  Second edition published as A History of Modern Russia, with revisions 2003

  Third edition published under the current title with further revisions 2009

  Copyright © Robert Service, 1997, 2003, 2009

  All rights reserved

  Maps by Nigel Andrews

  Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior co
nsent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser

  ISBN: 978-0-14-193191-3

  FB2 document info

  Document ID: 5e1b13d3-0692-48d2-955f-189eea43bcac

  Document version: 1

  Document creation date: 24.2.2013

  Created using: calibre 0.9.20, FictionBook Editor Release 2.6.6 software

  Document authors :

  Namenlos

  About

  This file was generated by Lord KiRon's FB2EPUB converter version 1.1.5.0.

  (This book might contain copyrighted material, author of the converter bears no responsibility for it's usage)

  Этот файл создан при помощи конвертера FB2EPUB версии 1.1.5.0 написанного Lord KiRon.

  (Эта книга может содержать материал который защищен авторским правом, автор конвертера не несет ответственности за его использование)

  http://www.fb2epub.net

  https://code.google.com/p/fb2epub/

 

 

 


‹ Prev