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Stalin, Volume 1

Page 173

by Stephen Kotkin


  Alliluyeva, Olga, 193, 594

  Alliluyeva, Svetlana, 10, 595, 633, 719

  Alliluyev family, 155, 193, 466

  All-Russia Congress of Muslims, 183

  All-Russia Congress of Peasants’ Deputies, First, 187

  All-Russia Cooperative Society, 631–32

  Alma-Ata, 676–79, 719

  American Relief Administration (ARA), 448–49

  anarchism, anarchists, 39, 334

  “Anarchism or Socialism?” (Stalin), 107–8, 544

  Andreyev, Andrei, 457, 607, 666, 720

  Andreyev, Nikolai, 275

  Anglo-Russian Entente (1907), 109, 110, 135, 136, 140

  Anna, tsarina, 88

  anti-Semitism, 19, 99, 100, 326

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion and, 100, 129

  of Stalin, 112

  in White armies, 325–26

  Antonov, Alexander, 346, 381, 394

  Antonov-Ovseyenko, Vladimir, 346, 381, 394

  apparatchiks, 426, 430, 431–32

  “April Theses” (Lenin), 191

  Arkhangelsk, 269

  British landing at, 282, 283

  Armand, Inessa, 151, 188, 285, 413, 531

  Armenia, 238, 343, 365, 395, 397, 400, 475, 480

  Armenians, 115, 479

  in Georgia, 15, 496

  in Tiflis, 29, 49, 479

  Turkish genocide against, 150

  Armenian Soviet Republic, 395

  Article 107, 666, 669, 670, 681, 682, 700, 701, 705, 707, 713

  Artuzov, Artur, 461, 635, 657

  Asia:

  Japanese imperialism in, 111

  nationalist liberation movements in, 554

  Russian expansion in, 68, 111, 554

  Stalin’s views on revolution in, 625

  Austria, 316, 347–48

  Austria-Hungary, 2, 5, 6, 34–35, 109, 343

  Balkans and, 141

  Bosnia annexed by, 110, 142, 144

  Brest-Litovsk Treaty and, 258

  in Great War, 140, 162, 185, 197, 200, 248–249, 269; see also Central Powers

  in onset of Great War, 143–44, 148–49

  wartime food shortages in, 251–52

  autocratic system, Russian, 3, 10, 57–60, 88, 125

  agriculture in, 65

  bureaucracy of, 57–59, 69, 70–71, 83, 120

  chancellery of, 430

  constitutionalism and, 56, 60, 78, 79, 82, 84, 85, 90, 92, 93–94, 98, 99, 100, 103, 109, 122, 127, 128, 132, 137, 157, 171, 173, 223

  Council of Ministers in, 60, 86

  Duma in, see Duma

  Great War and collapse of, 173

  industrialization in, 65

  intransigence of, 54, 66–67, 74, 137, 157–58

  mass politics as distasteful to, 130

  modernity and, 62–63, 65–67

  Peter the Great and, 56–57

  political parties disdained by, 137, 157

  political terrorism and, 101, 102, 103–4

  prime ministership in, 83–85

  uprisings of 1905–6 and, 81

  automobiles, 612

  as special interest of Stalin, 540–41

  Avilov, Boris, 221, 258

  Axelrod, Pavel, 45, 135, 188

  Azerbaijan, 343, 365–66, 368, 395, 397, 400, 475, 480

  Babel, Isaac, 359

  Baku, 12, 50, 55, 266, 301

  Congress of the Peoples of the East in, 367

  oil industry in, 115, 283

  proletariat in, 366

  Red Army capture of, 366

  Stalin in, 112, 114–16, 117, 121, 123

  strikes in, 144

  Baku-Batum pipelines, 51

  Bakunin, Mikhail, 41–42, 191

  Baku Proletarian, 106, 112

  Balabanoff, Angelica, 531–32

  Balashov, Alexei, 429, 431, 456–57

  on Stalin, 468–69

  Baldwin, Stanley, 559

  Balk, Alexander, 167, 168, 169

  Balkans, 141, 143

  Balkan wars (1912–13), 142, 143

  Balkaro-Kabarda, 688

  Baltic fleet, as Bolshevik stronghold, 187

  Baltic littoral, German occupation of, 243, 283

  Balytsky, Vsevolod, 665, 688, 699

  Balzac, Honore de, 36

  banks, Bolshevik seizure of holdings of, 238–39

  Barabashev, Oleg, 685

  Baramyants, Iosif, 15–16

  Barbusse, Henri, 1

  Barmine, Alexander, on Stalin’s appearance, 427

  Barnaul, 661–62, 668, 679, 681, 682

  Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Bashkiria), 370–72, 447

  Bashkir First Cavalry, 370

  Bashkir Revolutionary Committee, 370

  Bashkirs, 368, 369, 479

  “Basmachi,” 371–72

  Batum, 77, 301

  massacre of workers in, 52, 53

  Stalin in, 51–52

  Bauer, Otto, 133, 347–48

  Baumanis, Karlis (Bauman, Karl), 673

  Bavarian Soviet Republic, 323–24

  Bazhanov, Boris, 454, 455, 456, 458, 463, 523, 666–67

  Beck, Józef, 562

  Bedny, Demyan (Pridvorov, Yefim), 260, 602, 604

  Belenky, Abram, 593–94

  Belenky, Grigory, 603

  Belgium:

  in Great War, 145–46, 147, 152

  in Locarno Pact, 561

  Beloborodov, Alexander, 676

  Belorussia, Belorussians, 98, 119, 125, 157, 353, 354, 388, 475, 546

  as independent republic, 343, 368

  Poland and, 352, 616–17

  Soviet Union plan and, 475

  Belorussian Soviet Republic, 406

  Belostotsky, Ivan “Vladimir,” 124

  Benes, Edvard, 316

  Beria, Lavrenti, 8, 395, 542

  Berlin, Treaty of (1926), 587, 588

  Bernstein, Eduard, 78–79

  Berzin, Jan (KUZIS, Peteris), 554, 618

  Besser, Lidiya, 154

  Bezobrazov, Alexander, 72

  Bismarck, Otto von, 4, 70, 72, 83, 94, 95, 109, 113, 119, 139, 140, 141

  on art of politics, 5–6

  Russia and, 5, 7

  unification of Germany by, 4, 5, 6–7, 18, 732

  Bjorko, Treaty of, 110, 139

  Black Hundreds (Holy Brigades), 77, 86, 99, 182

  Black Repartition, 189

  Black Sea, 12, 14

  Blackshirts (squadristi), 549

  Blacksmith Bridge, 15 (Kuznetskii most), 441

  Blanqui, Louis Auguste, 79

  Blanquism, 79, 80

  Blok, Alexander, 130

  Blok, Ivan, 74

  Bloody Sunday, 73–74, 126, 164

  Blyukher, Vasily, 629, 631, 644

  Blyumkin, Yakov, 274–75

  Bodoo, 402

  Bogrov, Mordekhai “Dmitry,” 122

  Boki, Gleb, 375, 433

  Bolshevik (publication), 545 Bolshevik regime (1918–22):

  armed insurrections against, 231

  Brest-Litovsk Treaty and, 257–58, 264–65, 269, 272–73, 283, 312, 315, 642

  chaotic nature of, 230–33

  civil war and, see civil war, Russian

  and collapse of financial system, 238–39, 242

  counterrevolution as obsession of, 233–34, 241, 244, 287–88, 290–91, 392–93

  Dadaism compared with, 230, 232

  decline of labor force under, 385

  as dictatorship, 231

  excluded from Versailles peace talks, 317

  federalism and, 343


  food shortages in, 290, 299–302, 307, 321–22

  fuel shortages in, 321

  grain monopoly of, 299

  grain seizures by, 380, 389, 447

  grassroots organizations targeted by, 336–37

  Great War and, 231, 247

  ideological zealotry of, 292–93, 597

  Jews in, 340–41

  Kamenev’s attempts to include other socialists in, 233–36

  Mirbach on likely collapse of, 271, 272

  national authority lacked by, 254–55

  as party-state, 339, 345, 469

  in peace talks with Central Powers, 249–50

  Petrograd evacuated by, 259–61

  police force lacked by, 240

  propaganda machine of, 289–90

  property seized by, 241–42

  Red Terror of 1918 in, 287–88

  Romanov property nationalized by, 281

  siege mentality in, 338

  Stalin as dominant force in, 295

  Stalinist faction in, 390

  state building by, see state building, Soviet

  territory ceded by, 258

  Trotskyist faction in, 390

  tsarist debt repudiated by, 239

  universal suffrage under, 243

  see also Communist Party; Council of People’s Commissars; Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic

  Bolshevik regime (1918–22), bureaucracy of, 289–90, 427

  corruption in, 292, 322, 337, 338, 527

  elite perquisites in, 338

  expansion of, 385, 578, 601

  financial burden of, 337–38

  hierarchical nature of, 337

  incompetence in, 292, 424

  internecine competition in, 420

  redundancy in, 428–29

  Bolshevik Revolution, 137, 233

  as bourgeois democratic revolution, 407

  Stalin in, 138, 177

  Stalin’s view on, 555–56

  see also February Revolution; October Revolution

  Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, 3, 79, 103, 106, 108, 114, 118, 124, 137, 176

  as alternative world order, 343

  bourgeois historical phase expected by, 190

  in Constituent Assembly election, 244–45

  as enemies of colonialism, 368–69

  excluded from Moscow State Conference, 206

  at First Congress of Soviets, 196

  given new life by Kornilov’s coup attempt, 212–13, 225

  Kerensky’s treason charges against, 202–3

  Lenin’s zealotry criticized by, 191–92

  loss of confidence of, 213

  Bolsheviks, Bolshevism (cont.)

  Menshevik split with, 78, 79–81, 103, 108, 114, 122–23, 124, 137

  October coup of, see October Revolution

  peasants ignored by, 237, 426

  Petrograd headquarters of, 186–87, 190, 191, 203, 215

  Petrograd Soviet controlled by, 212–13, 218–19

  political polarization welcomed by, 208

  Prague conference of, 122–23

  Provisional Government and, 177–78, 208

  Russia Bureau of, 190, 222

  Russian army agitation by, 198

  Russification of, 348

  7th (Extraordinary) Party Congress of, 259

  6th Party Congress of, 204–5, 212

  Stalin as, 112, 176–77

  Tiflis bank robbery of, 113–14

  Trotsky’s joining of, 200, 202

  Bonch-Bruevich, Mikhail, 250, 328

  Bonch-Bruevich, Vera, 285

  Bonch-Bruevich, Vladimir, 240, 250, 260, 275, 276, 285, 287

  Borisov, Sergei, 401–2

  Borman, Arkady, 341

  Borodin, Mikhail (Grusenberg), 628, 629, 631

  Bosnia-Herzegovina, 110, 142, 144

  bourgeoisie, 40

  Marxist view of, 190, 292, 293

  in Russia, 66

  serf owners replaced by, 42

  bourgeois revolution, 42, 78, 175, 195, 199, 407

  Boxer rebellion, 64

  Brandler, Heinrich, 509–10, 514–15, 525

  Brdzola (Struggle), 50, 55, 348

  Brest-Litovsk, 249, 354, 361

  Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of, 257–58, 264–65, 269, 272–73, 315, 389, 451, 459, 642

  addenda to, 283

  Left SR denunciation of, 273, 274

  Russia’s repudiation of, 312

  Briand, Aristide, 562

  British empire, 4, 141, 151, 316

  British intelligence, Russian codes cracked by, 391–92

  Brockdorff-Rantzau, Ulrich, Count von, 553, 559, 638, 691, 693, 704, 709

  Chicherin and, 559–60

  Broido, Gersh, 373

  Bronstein, Aneta, 200

  Bronstein, David, 200

  Brusilov, Alexei, 162, 163, 164, 166, 185, 196, 197, 199, 248

  Brutzkus, Boris, 239

  Bryant, Louise, 440

  Budyonny, Semyon, 345, 355–56, 357, 358, 359, 362, 363, 365, 456, 464

  Bug River, 358

  Bukhara, 90, 255, 342

  Red Army sack of, 373–75

  Bukharan People’s Soviet Republic, 375

  Bukharin, Nikolai, 133, 246, 250, 256, 257, 259, 262, 276, 314, 322, 331, 334, 351, 354, 385, 389, 392, 414, 464, 469, 493, 497, 512, 535, 596, 608, 613, 619, 631, 632, 640, 656, 676, 686, 695, 708, 739

  as alternative Soviet leader, 728–29

  in “cave meeting,” 505, 506, 658

  as Comintern head, 719

  on “extraordinary measures” policy, 711–12

  and German Communist coup attempt, 509–10

  and “Ilich’s letter about the secretary,” 504–9, 512

  on industrialization, 722

  Kamenev and, 727

  and Lenin’s death, 534

  as Lenin’s possible successor, 492

  Lenin’s Testament and, 499

  NEP and, 569–71, 727

  and plot to oust Stalin as general secretary, 713–17, 720

  in politburo, 596

  Stalin and, 615–16, 707–8, 714–15, 718–19, 723

  on Stalin’s dictatorship, 472, 474, 507–9, 513, 731

  and succession power struggle, 563, 564, 578, 580, 584, 641–42, 644

  Bulgakov, Mikhail, 620

  Bulgaria, 316

  failed Communist coup in, 514–15

  Burckhardt, Jacob, 144

  Campbell, Thomas, 700

  capitalism, 39, 190, 482, 733

  colonialism and, 625

  Lenin on, 151, 291, 403, 444, 446, 625

  Marxist view of, 39–40, 78–79, 151, 190, 288, 292, 347

  nationalism and, 347

  in Russia, 42, 195

  Sokolnikov on, 565–66

  Stalin on, 107, 444, 561, 562–63, 583, 653, 698–99

  Carr, E. H., 739

  Catherine I, tsarina, 88

  Catherine II, “the Great,” tsarina, 89, 90, 263

  Caucasus, 16, 43, 365, 439, 700

  Bolsheviks in, 108, 266

  British army in, 270, 397–98

  Mensheviks in, 112, 124

  political terrorism in, 115

  Russian conquest of, 3, 12–13

  Stalin’s 1926 trip through, 598, 600, 601

  Central Asia, 372–76

  Muslims in, 373–74

  Russian expansion into, 67–68, 111

  Central Committee, 123, 154, 191, 214, 233, 234, 235, 255, 271, 321, 322, 328, 329, 350, 385, 390, 426, 430, 434, 476, 488, 502, 577, 637, 730

  Bolshevik takeover of, 122–23, 124, 133

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sp; Bukharin’s triumvirate plan for, 512

  dictatorial powers given to Lenin’s inner circle by, 243

  economic naïvete of, 569

  elections for, 193, 322, 497, 547, 584

  and German peace talks, 250, 251, 256–57

  grain shortages and, 665–66, 669, 673, 684

  joint plenums of Central Control Commission and, 522–25, 608–9, 614, 640, 646–49, 651, 698–700, 709–10, 711

  Kamenev’s resignation from, 235–36

  Lenin’s criticisms of, 192

  Lenin’s proposed expansion of, 485

  October Revolution and, 214, 216

  plenums of, 123, 328, 362, 411, 430, 477, 484, 485, 515–16, 522, 533, 546, 557, 586, 604, 605, 614, 622, 630–31, 639

  as policy-making body, 428–29

  and Polish-Soviet War, 359, 362

  secretariat of, see secretariat

  secret departments of, 434–35

  Soviet Union plan approved by, 477, 484

  Stalin in, 123–24, 132–33, 193

  Stalin loyalists in, 454, 455

  Stalin’s expansion of, 497

  Stalin’s resignation offers to, 224, 508, 607, 614, 619, 648, 657–59, 660

  trade monopoly upheld by, 484

  Trotsky as chairman of, 214–15

  Trotskyites excluded from, 390, 411–12, 423, 584, 651

  Trotsky’s economic plan rejected by, 484

  Trotsky’s expulsion from, 648

  Zinoviev’s expulsion from, 648

  Central Committee apparatus, 428–29, 433, 438

  corruption and excess in, 518–19

  Council of People’s Commissars functions duplicated by, 428–29

  endless reports demanded by, 435

  leaks and security violations in, 434

  Molotov’s criticism of, 518–19

  mystique of, 435

  Old Square offices of, 429, 430–31

  Stalin loyalists in, 453–57, 469–70

  Stalin’s control of, 478, 486–87

  Stalin’s expansion of, 425–26

  Stalin’s obsession with fulfilling directives of, 433

  Trotsky’s denunciation of, 518–19, 522

  see also orgburo; politburo; secretariat

  Central Control Commission, 375, 430, 451, 454, 502–3, 522, 577, 583, 594, 607–8, 614, 636, 640

  circulation of Lenin’s Testament banned by, 540

  joint plenums of Central Committee and, 522–25, 608–9, 614, 640, 646–49, 651, 698–700, 709–10, 711

  Trotsky investigated by, 520

  Central Powers, 140, 157, 196, 197

  Lenin’s cease-fire offer to, 247–49

  in peace talks with Bolsheviks, 249–50

  Chagin, Pyotr (Boldovkin), 586

  Chamberlain, Austen, 559, 561, 562

  Charkviani, Kristopore, 16, 20, 21

  chauvinism, Great Russian, 348, 407, 487, 496, 497

 

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