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as unforeseen by party leadership, 422–23

  Zinoviev and, 472, 474, 506–9, 513

  Stalin, Vasily “Vasya,” 10, 466–67, 593, 595, 633

  Staniewski, Mieczysław, 286–87

  Stasova, Yelena, 423, 428, 596

  State and Revolution (Lenin), 135, 203

  state bank, Soviet, Sokolnikov’s restoration of, 452

  state building, Soviet, 289–92, 343

  State Council, 99, 129, 134, 136, 179

  state planning commission, 483, 501, 523

  Trotsky and, 485, 486

  statism, Stalin’s dedication to, 346

  steel production, 63, 76, 141

  Steinberg, Isaac, 292, 293, 294

  Sten, Jan, 708

  Stockholm, 102–3

  stock market crash of 1929, 733

  Stock Market Gazette, 176

  Stolypin, Pyotr, 100, 101, 118, 125, 134, 136, 167, 179, 239, 343, 726

  assassination attempt on, 102

  assassination of, 122, 674

  autocratic opposition to, 128–29

  Duma and, 94, 97, 101, 119

  elevated to prime ministership, 91, 92

  failed governmental reforms of, 92–93, 120, 129, 130

  foreign policy of, 108–9, 110, 111–12, 129

  as governor of Saratov, 91–92, 95

  mass arrests and executions by, 104, 106

  modernization as goal of, 92, 94, 97, 119, 129

  Nicholas II’s relationship with, 92, 119–20

  Orthodox Christianity and, 118, 119, 129

  social reforms of, 95, 96–97, 673–74

  Stravinsky, Igor, 620

  Stresemann, Gustav, 510, 561, 562

  Struve, Pyotr, 45, 289, 336

  Sukhanov, Nikolai, 176, 215

  Sukhbaataar, 346, 402, 403, 404–5

  Sukhomlinov, Vladimir, 159, 161, 163

  Sukhova, Tatyana, 116

  Sukhum, 534, 537, 541–42

  Sunday Worker, 573

  Sun Yat-sen, 626–27

  Supreme Council of the Economy, 242, 262, 264, 459, 485, 486, 578, 579, 601, 607, 663–64, 694

  Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal, 433

  Suvorin, Aleksei A., 210

  Svanidze, Alyosha, 105, 479

  Svanidze, Ketevan “Kato,” 114, 594

  death of, 115–16, 738

  Stalin’s marriage to, 105–6

  Svanidze, Maria, 594–95

  Svanidze-Monoselidze, Alexandra “Sashiko,” 105, 106

  Sverdlov, Yankel “Yakov,” 204, 212–13, 214, 226, 228, 235, 237, 251, 256, 260, 262, 263, 271–72, 275, 280, 285, 286, 307, 313, 398–99, 413, 738

  death of, 318–19, 423

  Lenin and, 193–94, 234, 318–19

  Martov case and, 267–68

  in October Revolution, 224

  organizational skills of, 194, 212, 236, 319, 423

  Siberian exile of, 154–55, 194

  as Soviet central executive committee chairman, 236, 274, 423

  Stalin’s relationship with, 154–55, 194

  and Stalin-Trotsky conflict, 308–10

  Trotsky and, 318–19

  Sverdlov Communist University, 544, 545, 555, 705–6

  Switzerland, Lenin in, 135, 173, 187

  Syrtsov, Sergei, 457, 668–70, 679, 680, 683, 705

  Sytin, Pavel, 308, 309, 310

  Tambov, peasant rebellion in, 380–82, 389, 393–94, 410, 575

  Tammerfors, Finland, 80–81

  Tashkent, 254, 372–73

  Tashkent Congress of Soviets, 253

  Tashkent Soviet, 218, 253, 254–55, 266, 373

  Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, 371

  Tataria, Tatar Republic, 371, 447, 502

  Tatars, 183, 368, 370, 371, 401, 479

  Teliya, Giorgi, 106–7, 544

  Terek, 118

  Ter-Petrosyan, Simon “Kamo,” 113–14

  Third Cavalry Corps (Red), 359

  Third Group (Mesame Dasi), 43, 44, 51

  Third (Communist) International (Comintern), 317–18

  Three Emperor’s League, 109

  Tiflis (Tblisi), 15, 20, 29–30, 49, 53, 105–6, 537

  Armenians in, 29, 49, 479

  Bolshevik bank robbery in, 8–9, 113–14, 267

  ethnic diversity of, 29–30

  government of, 29–30

  May Day marches in, 49–50

  Ottoman Bank branch in, 475

  Red Army capture of, 397

  Stalin in, 22, 47–50, 113–14, 121, 125, 267–68, 399, 600

  strikes in, 43–44, 48, 600

  Tiflis Theological Seminary, 43

  forbidden books at, 36–37, 45

  Stalin at, 2, 26–27, 30–38, 44–47

  Tikhomirov, Lev, 139

  Til, Karolina, 595

  Times (London), 340

  Timoshenko, Semyon, 356

  Tirpitz, Alfred von, 148

  Tkhinvaleli, Kita, 105

  Togliatti, Palmiro, 720

  Tolstoy, Lev, 67

  Tomsky, Mikhail (Yefremov), 416, 498, 513, 517, 563, 581, 596, 599, 613, 676, 694–95, 698, 712, 719, 739

  and plot to oust Stalin as general secretary, 714, 715, 716–17, 720

  and succession power struggle, 563, 564

  Tovstukha, Ivan, 456–57, 463, 544, 598, 604, 660

  trade unions, 518

  10th Party Congress debate on, 385, 390, 423, 455, 459

  Transcaucasus Railway, 14, 51

  Trans-Siberian Railway, 68, 71, 75, 173, 270

  Trepov, Dmitry, 82

  Trianon, Treaty of (1920), 316

  Triple Alliance, 6, 110

  Triple Entente, see Entente (Allies)

  triumvirate, 512, 517, 519–20, 546, 563

  Trotsky, Lev (Bronstein), 9, 62, 80, 81–82, 86, 108, 114, 115, 143, 158, 182, 193, 221, 226, 235, 245, 263, 274, 322, 354, 358, 420, 424, 454, 464, 467, 469, 510, 545, 596, 597, 598, 605, 615, 686, 715, 734, 737

  Alma-Ata exile of, 676–79

  antipathy toward, 322, 340, 341, 390, 500, 505, 512, 516–17, 520, 531, 532, 533

  armor-plated train of, 327–28, 331, 339

  attempted assassination of, 286

  background of, 200–201

  on Bolshevik bureaucrats, 314

  Bolsheviks joined by, 200, 202

  Bolshevik takeover of Georgia urged by, 396–97

  and Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 257

  British general strike and, 598–99

  Central Committee apparatus denounced by, 518–19, 522

  as Central Committee chairman, 214–15

  Central Committee’s expulsion of, 648

  Central Control Commission investigation of, 520

  chairmanship of state planning commission rejected by, 486

  chairmanship of Supreme Council rejected by, 486

  China and, 627, 628–29, 630, 631, 632

  on collectivization, 675

  Communist Party’s expulsion of, 651, 656

  in Constituent Assembly, 246

  Council of People’s Commissars membership rejected by, 416–17

  and creation of Soviet Union, 475

  on dangers of other socialist parties, 396

  and defense of Petrograd, 330–31

  deportation and internal exile justified by, 440–41

  deputy chairmanship of Soviet Union rejected by, 486

  on dictatorship of the proletariat, 337

  expulsion from Comintern of, 644

  Trotsky, Lev (Bronstein) (cont.)

  as Extraordinary Commission for Food and Transport chairman, 299

  flulike
fevers of, 520, 522, 533

  as foreign affairs commissar, 229

  and Georgian insubordination crisis, 489–90, 491, 493

  and German Communist coup attempt, 511

  and German peace talks, 249–51, 255–56, 258

  as head of Revolutionary Military Council, 286, 341, 516, 537

  “Ilich’s letter about the secretary” and, 516

  imperious manner of, 322, 328, 329

  imprisonment of, 204, 212

  on institution of commissars, 339

  internal exile of, 737

  as a Jew, 340–41, 523

  Joffe and, 651–52

  joint plenums on factionalism of, 522–25, 646–47

  Kaganovich and, 455

  Kamenev and, 224–25, 584

  Kronstadt rebellion and, 384, 387

  Krupskaya and, 501, 542, 547, 572, 573–74, 632

  Left opposition and, 518, 529

  Lenin and, 202, 214, 221, 222–23, 234, 238, 256, 341, 357, 385–86, 390, 414–15, 472, 481–82, 523, 531, 647

  and Lenin’s alleged article on nationalities, 494

  Lenin’s death and, 534, 537–39

  as Lenin’s possible successor, 416–17, 492, 494

  Lenin’s Testament and, 500, 546, 572–73, 605–7, 643, 646, 647–48

  NEP and, 481–82, 495, 497

  in October Revolution, 215, 219, 220, 221–22

  On Lenin published by, 545

  as orator, 215, 221, 250, 251

  as Petrograd Soviet chairman, 212–13

  physical appearance of, 340

  on Polish-Soviet War, 354

  politburo expulsion of, 615

  in quest for economic dictatorship, 481, 484, 485, 486–87, 488, 501, 518

  in secret negotiations with Entente, 265

  self-imposed exiles of, 152–53, 164, 201

  Since Lenin Died repudiated by, 573

  on Stalin, 8, 295, 422, 463

  Stalin biography by, 37

  Stalin’s antagonistic relationship with, 224, 306–10, 313–14, 329, 334, 339–40, 341, 357, 369, 377, 385, 390, 415, 416, 460, 470–71, 474, 505, 719

  Stalin’s dictatorship opposed by, 472, 486, 487, 613–14

  and Stalin’s role in Tsaritsyn, 302–3, 642

  in succession power struggle, 416–17, 519–20, 522–25, 532–34, 540, 555, 563–64, 572–73, 584, 586, 590–91, 605–6, 614–15, 636–37, 638, 639, 641–44, 646–48, 713, 735, 736

  Sukhum convalescence of, 534, 537, 541–42

  Sverdlov and, 318–19

  and Tsaritsyn defense, 307–10

  at 12th Party Congress, 495–96

  use of former tsarist officers defended by, 319–20, 329

  Voroshilov and, 309, 313–14

  as war and naval commissar, 258, 289, 297, 306–10, 313–14, 319–20, 326, 327–31, 339–40, 356, 359, 391, 436, 542

  war commissar post resigned by, 557

  Zinoviev and, 474, 525, 545

  Trotskyites, 341 390, 411–12, 423, 429, 540, 656

  Tsaritsa River, 300

  Tsaritsyn, 283, 300, 330, 357, 642

  Red Army in, 302, 305

  Revolutionary Military Council of, 303

  Stalingrad as new name of, 689

  Stalin in, 270, 276, 291, 300–310, 313–14, 320, 340

  Stalin’s recall from, 309–10, 314, 642

  White army siege and capture of, 305–6, 310, 326–27

  Tsaritsyn Cheka, 302, 304

  Makhrovsky food expedition subverted by, 304–5

  Tsarskoe Selo, 74, 86, 92, 167, 170, 171, 172

  White army capture of, 330

  Tsereteli, Akaki, 32, 34

  Tsereteli, Giorgi, 34, 43

  Tsereteli, Irakli, 192, 198–99

  Tskhakaya, Mikho, 81, 105

  Tsushima Strait, Battle of, 73

  Tsyurupa, Alexander, 299, 569

  Tuchapsky, Pavel, 44n

  Tukhachevsky, Mikhail, 345, 357, 360, 561, 576, 589, 619

  in capture of Baku, 366

  as chief of general staff, 576

  as Great War POW, 356

  Kronstadt rebellion and, 384, 391, 575

  OGPU surveillance of, 575

  in Polish-Soviet War, 361–62, 363–65, 377–78

  in Russian civil war, 356–60

  Tambov rebellion and, 394, 575

  Voroshilov’s rivalry with, 576–77

  Turcomans, 372

  Turkestan, 58, 145, 243, 253, 254, 266, 371, 372, 387, 407, 451–52

  Frunze in, 373–75, 387

  Muslims in, 253–54, 502–3

  Red Army in, 372–74

  Validi’s escape to, 371–72

  Turkestan Autonomous Socialist Republic, 375, 388

  Turkey, 391, 395, 398

  Turkic language, 12, 344

  Turkic peoples, 29, 183, 184, 344

  Turkish Straits, 136, 145

  Turukhansk, 454, 614, 621, 686

  Stalin’s exile in, 152–55, 173

  Tzara, Tristan, 227, 230

  U-boat warfare, 310

  Ufa, 238, 269, 326, 368, 371

  Ufa Soviet, 266

  Uglanov, Nikolai, 432, 548, 563, 596, 613, 723

  in succession power struggle, 563, 641, 715

  Ukraine, Ukrainians, 41, 98, 125, 200, 342, 475, 546, 666, 687, 700

  anti-Semitism in, 326

  food harvests in, 721–22

  German occupation of, 253, 265, 266–67, 270, 272, 273, 283, 301, 303

  as independent republic, 238, 343, 368

  nationalists in, 119, 351, 400

  1921–22 famine in, 447

  Poland and, 353–54, 616–17

  Polish invasion of, 352, 354

  Red Army’s reconquest of, 386

  in separate peace treaty with Germany, 252

  Soviet Russia’s relations with, 475–76

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

  White army’s capture of, 330

  Ukrainian Central Rada, 252, 258, 266–67

  Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 386, 406

  Ulrich, Vasily, 381–82

  Ulyanov, Alexander, 60, 185

  Ulyanov, Vladimir, see Lenin, Vladmir

  Ulyanova, Maria, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 488, 501, 520, 521, 527, 608

  Lenin’s death and, 534

  on Lenin-Stalin relationship, 608–9

  Ulyanov family, 185

  Ungern-Sternberg, Roman, Baron von, 346, 400–404, 549

  Unification, 101

  Union of Railroad Employees, 231, 234, 237

  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), see Soviet Union

  Union of the Russian People, 98–99, 100–101, 118, 137, 163, 182

  Union of the Toiling Peasantry, 381

  United opposition, 613, 614, 652, 655–56, 672, 686, 713, 729

  United States:

  economic growth in, 18, 19, 612

  financial panic of 1914 in, 148

  in Great War, 248, 310–11

  industrialization in, 19, 662

  liberalism in, 132

  mass production in, 612

  railroad bubble in, 64

  Seventeenth Amendment in, 83

  slavery in, 19

  Soviet relations with, 611–12

  steel production in, 63

  Versailles Treaty and, 315–16

  Unszlicht, Józef, 345, 358, 360, 461, 587, 621, 638

  Urals Bolsheviks, Romanov murders blamed on, 281

  Urals Soviet, 280

  Urga, 401–3

  Uritsky, Moisei, 284

  Urutadze, Grigol, 123


  Vacietis, Jukums, 261, 277, 282, 284, 310, 313, 314, 330

  arrest of, 329

  as Red Army commander in chief, 286, 306, 328

  Valedinsky, Ivan, 602–3, 633, 720

  Validi, Akhmetzaki, 346, 368

  Stalin’s patronage of, 369–71, 372

  Vareikis, Jonava “Iosif,” 356

  Vasilchikov, Boris A., 58

  Verdun, Battle of, 150, 162, 310

  Verkhovsky, Alexander, 293

  Vernadsky, Vladimir, 721

  Versailles, Peace of, 150

  Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 315–17, 445, 559, 560, 588

  German war guilt and, 315, 316, 559

  territorial revisionism in, 315–16

  Versailles Order, 352–53, 363, 380

  Vertov, Dziga, 440

  Verzilov, Vasily, 720

  Victoria, queen of England, 89, 128

  Vilna (Wilno), 354, 359, 378

  Vittorio Emanuele III, king of Italy, 549, 551

  Vladivostok, 269, 344, 590

  Japanese landing at, 266

  Vlasik, Nikolai, 739

  Voikov, Pyotr, 442, 634

  Voitinsky, Grigory, 628

  Volga valley, 270, 300, 326, 447, 566, 568

  Volhynian Guards, 169

  Volodicheva, Maria, 473, 487, 489, 490, 527

  Vologda, 260

  Stalin in, 121, 122, 124

  Volunteer Army (Armed Forces of South Russia), 268, 270, 295–96, 332

  1919 offensive of, 326–27, 328

  see also Whites

  Voroshilov, Klimenty “Klim,” 104, 308, 310, 320, 327, 328, 355, 357, 390, 391, 456, 495, 507, 582, 585, 596, 602, 619, 622, 656, 657, 694–95, 700, 704

  in “cave meeting,” 505, 506

  in defense of Tsaritsyn, 303–4

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

  as Stalin’s protégé, 303, 306, 313, 320–21, 387, 627, 731

  Trotsky and, 309, 313–14

  Tukhachevsky’s rivalry with, 576–77

  as war commissar, 576, 638, 639

  Vozdvizhenka, 4, 428

  Vozdvizhenka, 5, 426, 428

  Vujović, Voja, 644

  Vyshinsky, Andrei, 203, 702–3, 709

  War and Peace (Tolstoy), 575

  War and the Crisis in Socialism (Zinoviev), 407

  Warsaw, 15–16, 355

  Red Army advance on, 361–63, 364

  Warsaw, Treaty of (1920), 353

  Wealth of Nations (Smith), 39

  Weimar Republic, see Germany, Weimar

  What Ilich Wrote and Thought About Trotsky, 500

  What Is to Be Done? (Lenin), 51, 79, 287

  White armies, 300, 330, 350, 356, 369, 370

  anti-Semitism in, 325–26

  collapse of, 331–32

  in Crimea, 357, 379

  disorganization in, 335

 

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