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Stalin, Volume 1

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by Stephen Kotkin


  in Bolshevik regime, 340–41

  Trotsky as, 340–41, 523

  Jibladze, Silibistro “Silva,” 33, 43, 44, 48, 114, 267

  Joffe, Adolf, 249, 322, 407, 640

  suicide of, 651–52

  Joffe, Maria, 651

  Jordania, Noe, 43, 44, 48, 50, 51, 54, 74, 80, 108, 113, 395

  Jughashvili, Besarion “Beso,” 107

  alcoholism of, 20, 24

  appearance of, 19–20

  back taxes owed by, 48–49

  death of, 116, 117

  fall of, 25, 28

  Keke’s marriage to, 16–17, 20

  as shoemaker, 15–16, 20

  Stalin’s relationship with, 22, 24

  Jughashvili, Giorgy, 738

  Jughashvili, Ioseb, see Stalin, Iosif

  Jughashvili, Ketevan “Keke,” 16, 19, 25, 48–49, 105, 594

  Beso’s marriage to, 16–17, 20

  menial jobs of, 21, 26

  rumored promiscuity of, 20

  Stalin’s devotion to, 23

  Stalin’s education pushed by, 21

  Stalin’s return to Gori demanded by, 22–23

  Jughashvili, Vano, 15

  Jughashvili, Yakov, 106, 114, 116, 466, 593, 595

  Jughashvili, Zaza, 15

  Jusis, Ivan, 602, 739

  Kabakhidze, Akaki, 481, 487, 489

  Kaganovich, Lazar, 321, 376, 422, 529, 613, 641, 647, 656, 661, 666, 697, 699

  background of, 455, 457

  as Central Committee secretary, 455

  as head of Organization and Instruction Department, 455

  as Stalin loyalist, 456, 731

  Trotsky and, 455, 591

  Kalinin, Mikhail, 50, 214, 322, 331, 383, 423, 455, 498, 513, 585, 668, 673, 700, 712

  Lenin’s death and, 535–36

  and plot to oust Stalin as general secretary, 713, 714, 715

  in politburo, 596

  as Stalin loyalist, 731

  Kalmyks, 174

  Kaluga, 238

  Kamenev, Lev (Rozenfeld), 53, 80, 121, 132, 133, 135, 153, 173, 190, 203, 221, 224, 226, 279, 322, 331, 341, 360, 365, 385, 416, 440, 471, 490, 491, 493, 497, 504, 531, 544, 557, 596, 599, 605, 615, 650, 712, 739

  as ambassador to Italy, 609–10

  in attempts to include other socialists in Bolshevik regime, 233–36

  Bukharin and, 727

  in Council of People’s Commissars, 416–17

  as editor of Pravda, 190–91, 193

  ejected from Central Committee, 651

  and failure to force Stalin’s removal at 13th Party Congress, 552

  and 15th Party Congress, 653–54

  at 14th Party Congress, 580–81, 586

  imprisonment of, 204, 212

  internal exile of, 713

  as intriguer, 512

  Lenin and, 476–77

  Lenin’s death and, 535

  as Lenin’s possible successor, 492

  Lenin’s Testament and, 499, 606–7, 648

  October Revolution and, 214, 224, 499, 563–64, 606, 641, 648

  and plot to oust Stalin as general secretary, 714–17, 720

  police reform sought by, 439

  in resignation from Central Committee, 235–36

  in resignation from Soviet central executive committee, 236, 423

  Sokolnikov and, 713–14

  on Stalin, 422

  Stalin and, 192, 512–14

  in succession power struggle, 563, 564, 577, 578, 580–81, 582, 584, 586, 605–6, 614–15, 636, 639, 641, 653–54, 655–56, 713, 729, 736

  as trade commissar, 585

  in triumvirate with Stalin and Zinoviev, 517, 563

  Trotsky and, 224–25, 474

  Kamenev, Sergei, 328, 329–30, 356, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 365, 371, 377, 381, 384, 394, 515

  Kanner, Grigory, 468

  Kapanadze, Peti “Pyotr,” 35, 38, 598

  Kapital, Das (Marx), 40, 88

  Russian translation of, 42–43, 65–66

  Kaplan, Fanya, 285–86

  Karakhan, Lev (Karakhanyan), 366, 458, 623, 628, 651

  Kautsky, Karl, 43, 79, 133, 151, 201, 347

  Kazakhstan, 677, 700–701

  Kazan, 74, 238, 282, 284, 306, 326, 331, 369, 371

  Kazan Soviet, 266

  Kedrov, Mikhail, 438–39

  Kemal, Mustafa, 398, 503

  Kennan, George, 443–44

  Kerensky, Alexander, 3, 126, 178, 180, 181, 184, 202, 213, 228, 233, 259, 278, 338–39

  as anathema to both left and right, 195, 211

  arrests of Bolshevik leaders ordered by, 216

  background of, 185–86

  Bolsheviks charged with treason by, 202–3

  Council of Five created by, 211–12

  feared return of, 234, 235

  Kornilov and, 204, 205, 208–9, 210, 212, 219

  Lenin and, 195–96, 200, 205

  1917 Russian offensive launched by, 196–200, 212, 219, 224, 269

  in Provisional Government, 185–86

  role of supreme commander assumed by, 211

  Romanovs and, 280

  State Conference convened by, 205–7

  Ketskhoveli, Vladimir “Lado,” 33, 50

  death of, 55

  as Stalin’s mentor, 30–31, 38, 44, 47, 48, 50, 55, 735

  Khabalov, Sergei, 167, 168, 169, 170, 203, 382

  Khan, Chinggis, 346, 374, 400

  Kharkov, 15, 79, 266, 326, 327, 355

  Khartishvili, David “Mokheve,” 52

  Khiva, 90, 342, 373

  Khorezm People’s Soviet Republic, 373

  Khoroshenina, Serafima, 121

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 732

  Khutsishvili, Vano, 19

  Kiev, 15, 252, 258, 330

  Polish capture of, 354, 355, 357, 377

  Red Army recapture of, 357

  Kireev, Alexander, 127

  Kirov, Sergei, 27–28, 117–18, 304, 390, 455, 467, 585, 586, 607, 731

  Kirshon, Vladimir, 699

  Kirtava-Sikharulidze, Natasha, 53

  Kitiashvili, Maria, 48

  Klyuchevsky, Vasili, 121

  Knox, Alfred, 223

  Kokovtsov, Vladimir, 281

  Kolchak, Alexander, 207, 210, 297, 300, 314, 328, 330, 355, 356–57, 358, 369, 559

  dictatorship of, 335

  execution of, 331

  as leader of Siberian Cossacks, 295–96

  1919 offensive of, 326, 335, 370–71

  in Siberia, 372

  tsarist gold seized by, 331–32

  Kollontai, Alexandra, 346, 385

  Koltsov, Mikhail, 566

  Komarov, Nikolai, 516

  Konopleva, Lidiya, 285

  Korea, Koreans, 111, 364, 590, 617

  Kornilov, Lavr, 174, 177, 184–86, 200, 228, 248, 320, 356

  coup attempt of, 207–11, 212, 219

  death of, 268, 295

  Kerensky and, 204, 205, 208–9, 210, 212, 219

  at Moscow State Conference, 206–7

  as Petrograd military commander, 203–4, 211

  as Volunteer Army commander, 268

  Korotkov, Ivan, 512

  Kosior, Stanisław, 457, 670, 677–78, 705, 712

  Kosior, Vladimir, 500

  Kosovo, Battle of (1389), 142

  Kotlarevsky, S. A., 183

  Koverda, Boris, 634

  Kozhenikov, A. M., 414

  Kozlovsky, Alexander, 346, 392–93

  Krakow, 133

  Kramer, V. V., 414, 489, 491, 535

  Krasin, Leonid, 50, 55, 113, 413, 441, 543

 
Krasnov, Pyotr, 305

  Krasnoyarsk, 173, 661, 684

  Kremlin, 262

  Lenin in October, 1923 visit to, 520–22

  as new Bolshevik headquarters, 263

  Stalin’s apartments in, 262, 593–94

  Krestinsky, Nikolai, 322, 390, 423, 425, 428, 441, 451, 453, 596, 621, 692

  Kronstadt naval base, 182, 187, 202, 218

  1921 sailors’ rebellion at, 383–84, 387, 390–91, 392–93, 457, 575

  Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 114, 188, 192, 228, 314, 413, 483, 489, 498, 504, 520, 534, 608, 615

  anti-Dzierzynski dossier and, 490

  Lenin memoir of, 544

  and Lenin’s alleged dictations, 484, 490–91, 494, 501, 512, 513, 514

  and Lenin’s death, 534

  and Lenin’s request for cyanide, 493

  Lenin’s Testament and, 473, 498, 500–501, 527, 528, 609

  Since Lenin Died repudiated by, 573–74

  Stalin and, 487–88, 490, 514, 527, 528, 544

  Krupskaya, Nadezhda (cont.)

  and succession power struggle, 564, 577, 580

  Trotsky and, 501, 525, 542, 547, 572, 573–74, 632

  Krushevan, Pavel (Cruseveanu, Pavalachii), 100

  Krylenko, Nikolai, 248, 690, 698, 702, 709

  Krylenko, Yelena, 572

  Krymov, Alexander, 166, 208–9, 233

  Kryukova, Sofia, 121

  Kryzanowski, Gleb, 220, 485

  Kryzhanovsky, Sergei, 83, 100

  Krzesinska, Matylda, 127, 186

  Ksenofontov, Filipp, 544–45

  Ksenofontov, Ivan, 433

  Kuban, 268, 270, 297

  Kuchek Khan, Mirza, 346, 366

  Kuhlmann, Richard, Baron von, 249

  Kuibyshev, Valerian, 375, 390, 493, 502–3, 511, 516, 563, 601, 663–64, 686, 694, 698, 720, 722

  as Central Control Commission head, 454

  as Stalin loyalist, 454–55, 456

  as Supreme Council of the Economy chairman, 607

  kulaks (rich peasants), 42, 300, 567, 570, 571, 579, 582, 616, 649, 669, 670–71, 676, 680, 684, 711, 712

  arrests and trials of, 669, 670, 671, 680, 681–82, 697, 705

  collectivization and, 421

  Communist tolerance of, 300, 389, 578, 582, 681, 683, 684–85, 689

  forced exile of, 712

  grain hoarding by, 568, 669, 670, 671, 680, 682, 695–96

  large-scale farms of, 671, 672

  NEP and, 727–28

  tax-in-kind policy and, 389

  Kun, Bela, 324–25, 367

  Kuprin, Alexander, 220

  Kureika, 154, 194

  Kuusinen, Aino, 526

  Kuusinen, Otto, 412, 442, 526, 609

  Kuzakova, Matryona, 121

  Kvali (The Furrow) (Giorgi), 34, 43, 44, 48, 50, 55

  Lacis, Martinš (Sudrabs, Janis), 276, 278, 439

  Lakoba, Nestor, 541, 542

  Larin, Yuri (Lurye, Mikhail), 452, 615

  Larina, Anna, 262

  Lashevich, Mikhail, 331, 505, 506, 536, 548, 576, 603–4, 652

  Latvia, 98, 249, 509, 556–57, 604

  and German Communist coup attempt, 522

  as independent nation, 238, 342–43

  Latvian brigades, 261, 276, 281–82

  in assault on Cheka, 277–78

  Latvian Riflemen, 260–61

  Lazard Brothers, 148

  League of Nations, 315, 562, 730

  Left Communists, 265, 314, 385, 578

  Left opposition, 518, 519, 524, 533, 541, 544, 546, 547, 603–4, 672, 678–79, 680, 737

  Left Socialist Revolutionaries, 234–35, 242, 244, 257, 265, 273, 649

  in Council of People’s Commissars, 237

  Dzierzynski captured by, 276

  mass executions of, 278

  in Mirbach assassination plot, 274–75

  Third Party Congress of, 273–74

  “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder (Lenin), 363–64

  Lena goldfields massacre, 125–26, 135

  Lenin, Vladimir, 9, 45, 73, 79, 81, 124, 135, 192, 226, 228, 231, 260, 266, 280, 322, 324, 334, 342, 350, 354, 365, 392, 407, 411, 424, 493, 544, 550

  alleged article on nationalities by, 493–94, 501

  “April Theses” of, 191

  arrest warrant for, 222

  assassination attempt against, 231, 285, 307, 413

  autopsy of, 535

  background of, 185

  Bolshevik criticism of, 191–92, 385

  and Bolshevik-Menshevik split, 79–80, 108, 124

  and Bolshevik takeover of Georgia, 396, 397

  Brest-Litovsk Treaty and, 257, 259, 265, 642

  capitalism as viewed by, 151, 291, 403, 444, 446, 625

  cease-fire offer of, 247–49

  charisma of, 221–22

  class warfare as central tenet of, 291, 443, 444, 737

  and Communist International Second Congress, 363–64

  convalescence of, 307

  as Council of People’s Commissars chairman, 229

  on counterrevolutionaries, 392, 550

  and creation of Soviet Union, 475, 480

  cyanide requested by, 414, 483, 493

  death of, 3, 534–37

  dictations by, 483, 484–85, 489–91, 501, 504, 505, 527, 528, 546–47

  as dictator, 238, 245, 419

  failing health of, 409, 410–18, 422, 489–94, 498, 501, 505, 535

  and famine of 1921–22, 447–48

  February Revolution and, 174

  foreign policy of, 443–45, 446–47

  funeral of, 537–38, 540

  Genoa conference sabotaged by, 444–45

  and Georgian insubordination, 480, 487, 489–91

  and German peace talks, 249–51, 255

  German policy of, 272, 282, 283–84

  at Gorki estate, 413–14, 416–17, 428, 440, 476, 482

  Great Russian chauvinism opposed by, 348, 407, 487

  Great War and, 151, 312–13

  as head of Bolshevik Party, 186

  on impact of civil war, 336

  insomnia and headaches of, 410

  intelligentsia-centric party advocated by, 51, 79, 107

  Iskra editorials written by, 50, 51

  isolation of, 487–88

  in journey from Zurich to Petrograd, 187–88

  Kamenev and, 234, 235, 236, 476–77

  Kerensky and, 195–96, 200, 205

  Kronstadt revolt and, 392

  land seizure decree of, 220–21

  Luxemburg’s attack on, 323

  Martov and, 78, 267, 393

  Marxism of, 151

  Mirbach assassination and, 275–76

  in move to Kremlin, 263

  mummification of, 542–43

  on nationalism and self-determination, 347–48, 351

  nationalization of land proposed by, 103

  on need to win over indigenous peoples, 407

  NEP and, 344, 388–89, 405–6, 408, 416, 447, 449, 457, 473–74, 481–82, 487, 527, 568, 571, 580

  in 1917 flight from Petrograd, 203, 260

  in October 1917 return to Petrograd, 214, 222

  in October 1923 visit to Kremlin, 520–22

  in October Revolution, 220–21, 222, 278

  in overhaul of Revolutionary Military Council, 328

  party unity and, 389–90

  peasants as poorly understood by, 299–300

  physical appearance of, 220

  police reform undermined by, 440

  Polish-Soviet War and, 353, 354, 359–60, 362–63, 376–78

  politburo’s relationship with
, 413, 415, 484, 489

  political violence as principle of, 409–10

  press censorship by, 237, 245

  on primacy of international relations, 343

  Provisional Government’s treason charges against, 203

  Red Army and, 297

  rule of law rejected by, 410

  rumored death of, 287

  at Second Congress of Soviets, 220

  self-exiles of, 104, 114, 135, 152–53, 164, 173, 187, 196, 204, 205, 212, 213, 222, 230

  in showdown over control of Council of People’s Commissars, 236

  show trials ordered by, 439–40

  Siberian exile of, 45

  Sovietization of Europe as goal of, 360–61, 364

  Soviet Union plan of, 476–77, 478, 484, 485–86, 496

  Stalin and, see Lenin-Stalin relationship

  Stalin seen as unlikely successor to, 422–23

  Stalin’s first exposure to ideas of, 50–51

  Stalin’s real name forgotten by, 152–53

  Stalin-Trotsky relationship and, 415

  strokes of, 3, 412, 440, 447, 474, 482–83, 484, 491, 494, 530

  support for Provisional Government opposed by, 190

  Sverdlov and, 193–94, 234, 318–19

  Testament of, see Lenin’s Testament

  at Third Comintern Congress, 403

  Tiflis bank robbery and, 113–14

  Trotsky and, 202, 214, 221, 222–23, 234, 256, 341, 357, 385–86, 390, 414–415, 472, 481–82, 523, 531, 647

  Trotsky as possible successor to, 416–17

  Workers’ opposition and, 385

  world revolution as goal of, 407

  zealotry of, 191–92, 194–95, 200, 213–14, 217, 232, 258, 278–79

  Lenin and the Imperialist War 1914–1918 (Ksenofontov), 545

  Leningrad, 540, 586

  food shortages in, 721

  strikes and job actions in, 570, 624

  Zinoviev machine in, 577, 578, 584, 585

  see also Petrograd

  Leningrad Pravda, 580

  Lenin Institute, 543–44, 580

  Leninism, 190–91, 533, 563, 627

  Stalin’s espousal of, 205, 419–20, 544–45, 591, 615, 699

  Trotsky’s conversion to, 202

  see also Marxism, Marxists

  Lenin’s Doctrine of Revolution (Ksenofontov), 544

  Lenin-Stalin relationship, 121, 133, 335

  and blame for Polish War defeat, 377

  correspondence of, 155, 301–2, 308–9, 362, 364, 483, 484–85

  federalism as common agenda of, 346

  and 5th RSDRP Congress, 108

  Lenin’s alleged nationalities article and, 494

  Lenin’s death and, 534–35, 536

  Lenin’s mentoring role in, 81, 419, 471, 531, 600

  Lenin’s perception of, 341, 412

 

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