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Stalin, Volume 1

Page 175

by Stephen Kotkin


  use of term, 345

  Europe:

  fear of Bolshevism in, 336

  Russian expatriates in, 104, 393, 489, 553, 555, 557, 575

  Exodus to the East, 345

  Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution, Sabotage, and Speculation, 293

  Extraordinary Commission for Food and Transport, 299

  Faberge, Peter Carl, 127

  famine, in nonindustrialized countries, 63–64

  famine of 1921–22, 447–49

  grain requisitioning and, 447–48

  Lenin and, 447–48

  U.S. relief for, 448–49

  Farinacci, Roberto, 552

  fascism, 123, 549–52, 725

  in Romania, 589–90

  Stalin’s misunderstanding of, 550–51

  February Revolution, 168–73, 174–75, 176, 182, 183, 188, 194, 290, 297, 453

  army and, 169, 172, 175

  as bourgeois revolution, 175, 195, 199

  as liberal coup, 180, 223

  navy and, 172, 175

  Federal Democratic Russian Republic, 254

  federalism, 343

  Stalin’s dedication to, 346, 349–51

  Federation of Anarchist-Communists, 187

  feudalism, 40, 190

  Figner, Nikolai, 127

  finance commissariat, 450–51, 452, 470, 730

  Sokolnikov as commissar of, 565

  Finance Ministry, tsarist:

  Internal Affairs Ministry’s rivalry with, 69

  Witte as head of, 69–70

  financial industries, 63

  Finland, 90, 478, 556–57, 604

  German occupation of, 243

  as independent nation, 238, 342–43

  Kronstadt rebels given asylum by, 391

  Lenin in, 114, 213, 222

  Soviet Union and, 590

  Finnish civil war, 256

  Finnish Socialist Workers Republic, 256

  First Cavalry Army (Red), 259, 355–56, 357, 359, 362, 456

  First International, 317, 347

  Fischer, Louis, 635

  Foch, Ferdinand, 311, 315, 317

  food supply commissariat, 449

  Ford, Henry, 612

  foreign affairs commissariat, 229, 441–42, 443, 622, 624

  foreign policy, Soviet, 558, 698–99

  class warfare and, 443–44

  as dictated by Lenin, 446–47

  Litvinov’s critique of, 622–23

  Stalin and, 553, 583, 623–24

  two-faced nature of, 443, 645, 667

  foreign trade commissariat, 451

  Forest, The (Ostrovsky), 620

  Forster, Otfried, 412

  Fotiyeva, Lidiya, 417, 467, 487, 489, 504, 527

  and Lenin’s alleged article on nationalities, 493–94

  Lenin’s Testament and, 473

  “Foundations of Leninism” (Stalin), 532, 544–45, 555

  Fourier, Charles, 39, 40

  France, 83

  anti-Bolshevik policy of, 247, 343

  colonial empire of, 4, 151, 316

  in defensive alliance with Russia, 109, 110

  and German war reparations, 509

  in Great War, 150, 152, 156, 197, 198, 199

  in Locarno Pact, 561–62

  in onset of Great War, 147

  Poland and, 558, 589, 623

  Soviet relations with, 560, 645, 693, 733

  in Triple Entente, 140, 147

  Versailles Treaty and, 315–16, 559

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, assassination of, 142–43, 149, 269

  Franz Josef, kaiser of Austria-Hungary, 142, 143, 144

  Frederick II, “the Great,” king of Prussia, 59

  free trade, NEP as concession to, 389, 406, 416

  Freikorps, 323–24

  French army, 1917 mutiny in, 197

  French Revolution, 95, 186, 196, 233, 349, 650

  Frunze, Mikhail, 326, 346, 505, 507, 738

  in Crimea, 374, 379

  illness and death of, 575–76

  in Turkestan, 373–75, 387

  as war commissar, 557

  as war commissariat deputy, 542, 574

  “Fundamental Law of Socialist Accumulation, The” (Preobrazhensky), 566

  Fundamental Laws, 85, 94, 97, 179

  Gai Dmitrievich Gai (Bzhishkyan, Haik), 345, 359, 360, 361, 365, 370

  Galicia, 353, 360

  Gasprinski, Ismail, 368

  Gegen, Bogd, 401–2, 404–5, 553–54

  Geladze, Gio, 28

  Geladze, Ketevan, see Jughashvili, Ketevan “Keke”

  Geladze, Sandala, 28

  General Staff Academy, 574

  Genoa, international conference on Russia and Germany in, 444–45, 599

  gentry, Russian, 57–58, 69, 84

  land holdings of, 188–89, 190

  geopolitics:

  history as driven by, 4–5

  modernity as consequence of, 4–5, 62–65

  George I, king of England, 83

  George V, king of England, 90, 147, 280

  Georgia, 86, 342, 366, 473, 475

  Armenians in, 496

  Bolsheviks in, 106, 267

  Bolshevik takeover of, 396, 397–400

  as independent republic, 238, 343, 395

  Marxism in, 30, 38, 43, 44

  Mensheviks in, 103, 106, 108, 123, 133, 244, 395–97, 399–400

  Muslims in, 13, 24

  nationalism in, 9–10, 30, 32, 400, 601

  peasant rebellion in, 67

  Red Army invasion of, 397, 398

  religious and ethnic makeup of, 13–14

  Russian language in, 14

  and Soviet Union plan, 475–76, 478, 479–80

  Turkey’s invasion of, 398

  Georgian language, Stalin’s abandonment of, 112–13

  Georgian Literacy Society, 32, 36, 38

  Georgian Republic, Soviet, 397

  Georgy, Grand Duke, 160

  Germany, Imperial:

  anti-Bolsheviks courted by, 272

  Austria-Hungarian POWs and, 269

  Balkans and, 141

  Baltic littoral occupied by, 243, 283

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

  Britain and, 139–40

  bureaucracy of, 58–59

  in Central Powers alliance, 140

  economic growth in, 7

  expansionism in, 145

  in Great War, 150, 152, 156–157, 197, 198, 206–207, 231, 247–253, 310, 312; see also Central Powers

  industrialization of, 18, 65, 70

  Lenin’s policies on, 272, 282, 283–84

  nationalism in, 34–35

  naval buildup of, 139–40, 150

  1918 western offensive of, 310–11

  Odessa captured by, 264

  in onset of Great War, 143–49

  Poland occupied by, 243, 283

  in “reinsurance treaty” with Russia, 6

  renewed Russian offensive of, 253, 255–56, 259, 271

  Schlieffen Plan of, 145, 147

  Sevastopol naval base captured by, 271

  steel production in, 63, 141

  in Triple Alliance, 6

  tsarist Russia and, 109, 139

  Ukraine occupied by, 253, 265, 266–67, 270, 272, 273, 283, 301, 303

  unification of, 4, 5, 6–7, 18, 732

  wartime shortages and strikes in, 165, 251

  Germany, Weimar, 293

  Britain and, 560, 561, 587, 621

  Communist coup attempt in, see Communist Party, German, c
oup attempt of

  general strike in, 323

  hyperinflation in, 450, 509

  in Locarno Pact, 561–62

  mass strikes in, 510

  in military cooperation agreement with Red Army, 446, 561, 587, 617–18, 621, 638, 704–5

  and Polish-Soviet War, 363

  in Rapallo Treaty with Soviet Russia, 445–46, 473, 509, 560, 561, 599

  rapprochement with West as goal of, 446

  Soviet nonaggression pact with, 587, 588

  Soviet relations with, 558, 559–61, 611, 623, 638–39, 692, 704

  Versailles Treaty and, 315

  war reparations owed by, 509

  Gil, Stepan, 228, 285, 314

  Gilliard, Pierre, 210

  Gladstone, William, 19

  Glasser, Maria, 488–89

  Glinka, Mikhail, 127

  Goglichidze, Simon, 21

  Gogol, Nikolai, 58

  Goldstein, Franz, 692–93

  Goloshchokin, Isai “Filipp,” 548, 653

  Gori, 2, 8, 9, 14–15, 20–21, 23–26, 28, 36, 53

  Goring, Hermann, 527

  Gorki estate:

  Lenin at, 413–14, 416–17, 428, 440, 476, 482

  Stalin’s visits to, 413–14, 416–17, 476

  Gorky, Maxim, 133, 183, 329, 448, 544

  gosudarstvennost, 343

  Gothier, Yuri, 322

  GPU (State Political Administration), 439, 448, 459–62

  corruption in, 461, 462

  deportation and internal exiles ordered by, 440

  extra-legal powers of, 440

  show trials and, 440

  see also OGPU

  Gramsci, Antonio, 123–24

  Granat Encyclopedia, Stalin biography published in, 660

  Great Britain:

  anti-Communist policy of, 247, 343, 344, 558–59, 624

  Arkhangelsk landing by, 282, 283

  Bismarck seen as threat by, 6

  Caucasus expedition of, 270, 397–98

  in Crimean War, 59, 67

  economy of, 7, 148, 587–88

  in entente with tsarist Russia, 109, 110, 135, 136, 140

  foreign trade of, 108–9, 139, 146

  general strike in, 588, 598–99, 613

  and German war reparations, 509

  Germany and, 139–40, 560, 561, 587, 621

  as global power, 108–9

  in Great War, 150, 152, 156, 197, 198, 199, 312, 316–17

  Industrial Revolution in, 40

  Japan and, 111

  liberalism in, 132

  in Locarno Pact, 561

  navy of, 111, 140

  in onset of Great War, 146–49

  Poland and, 616

  police raid on Soviet offices in, 631–32

  Polish-Soviet War and, 355, 358–59

  prime ministership in, 83–84

  Russian policy of, 265–66

  Secret Service Bureau of, 284

  Soviet codes broken by, 553

  Soviet relations with, 617–18, 622, 623, 624, 632, 638

  Soviet trade with, 391–92, 599, 632

  Soviet Union recognized by, 558

  Stalin’s view of, 558

  Stalin’s view of, as Soviet Union’s primary enemy, 623, 624, 631–33, 634–35

  steel production in, 63

  trade unions in, 599

  in Triple Entente, 140, 147

  tsarist Russia and, 108–9

  Versailles Treaty and, 315–16

  Great Depression, Soviet Union and, 733–34

  Great Reforms, 29, 59–60, 66, 85

  Great War, 2, 3, 129, 136–37, 185, 556, 562, 588

  aftermath of, 150–51, 312, 323–24, 343

  Allied strategy in, 197, 198, 199

  Anglo-German rivalry as root of, 141

  armistice in, 311–12

  Austria-Hungary in, 162, 185, 197, 200, 248–49, 269

  Bolshevik regime and, 247

  Britain in, 150, 152, 156, 197, 198, 199, 312, 316–17

  casualties in, 150, 152, 166, 312

  and collapse of Russian autocracy, 173

  colonialism and, 151–52

  conscription and, 156

  Dadaism and, 230

  February Revolution and, 175

  German-Russian peace talks in, 247–52

  German’s renewed Russian offensive in, 253, 259

  Germany in, 150, 152, 156–57, 197, 198, 206–7, 231, 247–53, 310, 312

  Germany’s renewed Russian offensive in, 253, 255–56

  nationalism and, 475

  1917 Russian offensive in, 196–200, 204, 212, 219, 224

  onset of, 141–49

  Poland in, 355

  Provisional Government and, 187, 194–95, 196–200

  Russia in, 150, 156–57, 162, 166, 206–7, 212, 219, 224, 231, 247–53, 296, 312, 316–17

  stalemate in, 149–50

  U.S. in, 248, 310–11

  Versailles Treaty in, see Versailles, Treaty of

  Grey, Edward, 146–47, 149

  Grodno, 91, 354, 360

  Guchkov, Alexander, 166, 173, 182, 588–89

  Guetier, Fyodor, 534

  Gunina, Zoya, 595

  Guomindang, 640, 651, 717

  in alliance with Communists, 626–27

  army of, 626–27

  Communists attacked by, 655

  Communists betrayed by, 637–38, 640

  left-wing (Wuhan) faction of, 629, 633, 637–38

  as nationalist movement, 626

  in Northern Expedition, 629, 631

  Soviet military aid to, 626–27, 628, 640

  Gurian Republic, 67, 86

  Gurko, Vladimir, 87

  Gurvich, Esfir, 719

  Gurvich, Fyodor, see Dan, Fyodor

  Gusev, Sergei (Drabkin, Yakov), 328, 583

  Haig, Douglas, 152

  Harriman, Averell, 611

  Haymarket riots, 49–50

  Hearst, William Randolph, 610

  Hegel, G.W.F., 40

  Heimo, Mauno, 442

  Helfferich, Karl, 283

  Henry, E. R., 61

  Herrero, 151–52

  Herzen, Alexander, 41–42

  Hess, Rudolf, 527

  Hilferding, Rudolf, 151, 378, 392

  Hindenburg, Paul von, 162, 253, 311

  history:

  as driven by geopolitics, 4–5

  Marxist view of, 40, 78

  Hitler, Adolf, 23

  in Beer Hall putsch, 527

  nationalism and, 34–35

  rise of, 2–3

  Hitler, Alois, 34–35

  Hitler, Klara, 23, 35

  Hobson, John, 151

  Ho Chi-Minh, 550

  Hoffmann, Max, 249, 252, 255, 256, 258, 259

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

  Holy Roman Empire, 18

  Hoover, Herbert, Russian famine relief organized by, 448

  Horthy, Miklós, 325

  Hotsendorf, Franz Conrad, Baron von, 148

  “How Social Democracy Understands the National Question” (Stalin), 77

  Hugo, Victor, 36

  Hungarian Soviet Socialist Republic, 324–25

  Hungary, 316, 324, 325, 336

  “Ilich’s letter about the secretary,” 504–9, 511–12, 513, 514, 546, 658

  Stalin and, 512, 514

  Trotsky and, 516

  see also Lenin’s Testament

  Ilin, Alexander (“The Genevan”), 431

  Ilinka, 9, 426, 450–52, 470

  Imenitov, Solomon, 703, 704

 
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Lenin), 151, 154

  Imperial Senate, 89, 263, 264, 278, 285, 317, 319, 334, 413, 428, 429, 521, 522, 540

  Independent Social Democrat Party, German, 378, 392

  India, 64

  indigenization, 496, 504

  industrialization, 725

  of Germany, 18, 65, 70

  global dichotomy in, 63–65

  of Japan, 65

  NEP and, 571, 672

  raw materials in, 63

  Sokolnikov on, 659–60

  in Soviet Union, 565–66, 571, 574, 582, 583, 587, 605, 625, 638, 659, 662, 663, 664, 686, 694, 695, 698, 710, 722, 725, 733

  in Tiflis, 30

  in tsarist Russia, 65, 67, 69–70, 91, 92, 141, 645

  in U.S., 19

  Industrial Revolution, 39–40

  industry, state-run, 433

  Inspector General (Gogol), 58

  Institute of Red Professors, 545–46, 705, 713

  intelligentsia, 37, 41

  Internal Affairs Ministry, Russian:

  Finance Ministry’s rivalry with, 69

  see also okhranka; police, tsarist

  “Internationale,” 41, 176, 220

  International Workingmen’s Association, 40–41

  Ipatyev, Nikolai, 280

  Iran (Persia), 12, 109, 145, 344

  British in, 366

  constitutional revolution in, 131–32

  Soviet invasion of, 366

  Soviet Russia in treaty with, 391

  Iranians, 29, 30, 344

  Iremashvili, Iosif (Ioseb) “Soso” 23, 31, 38, 399

  Iskra (Spark), 45, 50, 51, 78

  Italian Socialist Party Congress (1912), 123

  Italy, 110, 336

  aftermath of Great War in, 324

  anti-fascist demonstrations in, 551–52

  Communists in, 550, 551

  fascism in, 549–50, 551–52, 725

  Kamenev as ambassador to, 609–10

  in Locarno Pact, 561

  in Triple Alliance, 6

  Ivan IV “the Terrible,” tsar, 7, 11, 12, 27

  Ivanov, Nikolai, 170–71

  Iveria, 33, 38, 44

  Izvestiya, 206, 288, 293, 464, 540, 550, 704

  Japan:

  anti-Soviet policy of, 621–22

  Britain and, 111

  East Asian trade of, 71–72

  imperialism in, 71, 151

  industrialization in, 65

  Korea annexed by, 617

  Meiji restoration in, 4, 18, 732

  modernization of, 18

  navy of, 72, 111, 140

  Siberia invaded by, 343–44

  Soviet Union and, 590, 617, 621–22, 632

  tsarist Russia and, 72–75, 109, 111–12

  Vladivostok invaded by, 266

  Jewish Labor Bund, 37, 44, 80, 98, 103, 137, 351

  Jewish Social Democratic Workers’ Party (Poale-Zion), 137

  Jews, 12, 101, 112, 129, 182–83, 316

 

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