Russia's War

by Richard Overy

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  Index

  Abakumov, Victor, 304, 305, 308, 319

  Aegean Sea, 71

  Air forces German, 89, 119, 177, 182, 207, 208, 246

  Soviet, 90, 119, 177, 191–2

  Aleksandr Nevsky Order, 162

  Alexander, Field Marshal Harold, 300

  All-Union Congress of Managers, 19

  Alter, Viktor, 137–8

  Amur River, 136

  Andropov, Yuri, 278

  anti-Semitism, 84–5, 135–42, 260–61, 309–11, 318–20

  Antonov, Marshal Alexei, 189–90, 237, 243, 264, 306

  Archangel, 62, 197

  armies, German 1st Panzer, 91, 158

  2nd Panzer, 91, 115

  3rd Panzer, 115

  4th Panzer, 115, 165, 179, 181, 206

  6th Panzer, 141, 165, 173, 175, 178, 179, 181, 250

  9th Panzer, 203

  Army Group Centre, 85–6, 120, 122, 236, 237, 238, 240, 241, 243, 244

  Army Group North, 85–6, 112

  Army Group South, 85, 250

  Don Army Group, 181

  Hermann Goering Division, 246

  SS Panzer ‘Death's Head’ Division, 206, 210

  armies, Soviet 1st Cavalry, 2, 29

  2nd Tank, 246

  3rd Guards Tank, 217, 219, 244, 271–2

  2nd Shock, 130

  3rd Shock, 272

  4th Guards Tank, 272

  5th Guards Tank, 206–7, 217, 235, 239

  6th Guards Tank Corps, 244

  13th Guards Division, 173

  62nd, 165, 169, 171, 172,174, 175, 178, 184

  64th, 165, 176

  Astakhov, Georgi, 47, 48, 50

  Astrakhan, 62, 157

  Athens, 252

  atomic bomb, 285, 313–16

  Aurora, 104

  Auschwitz, 229, 261

  Australia, 111

  Austria, 39, 300

  Axall, Albert, 325

  Babi-Yar, 140–42, 309

  Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem, 140, 145, 246

  Baku, 43, 220, 222

  Baltic Fleet, 104

  Baltic states, 5, 60, 62, 82, 96, 114, 126, 132, 136, 139, 152, 239, 287, 309, 311

  Bandera, Stepan, 150, 312

  Barbarossa, 64, 68, 70, 71, 85, 88, 89, 112, 136, 139, 157, 241, 242, 327

  Barricades Factory, 164, 175, 178, 184

  Battle of the Atlantic, 167

  Battle of the Bulge, 256

  Belash, Yuri, 213

  Belgium, 59

  Belgorod, 203, 211, 212

  Belorussia, 51, 83, 96, 114, 126, 132, 136, 139, 145, 146, 147, 151, 217, 236, 237, 249, 250, 260, 286, 296, 309

  ‘Belorussian Balcony’, 237

  Belov, General P. A., 118

  Belzec extermination camp, 260

  Beneš, Edvard, 26, 40, 41

  Berchtesgaden, 7, 34, 64

  Berggolts, Olga, 329

  Beria, Lavrenti, 34, 43, 69, 78, 82, 93, 96–7, 107, 233, 234, 282, 285, 300, 304, 305, 308, 313, 314, 315, 316, 319, 320, 321

  Berlin, 37, 74, 94, 95, 103, 158, 244, 255, 256, 257, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266–7, 269, 279, 282, 305, 307

  Berling, General Zygmunt, 249

  Bessarabia, 5, 60, 61

  Bielski Brigade, 146–7

  Bielski, Tuvya, 147

  Birobidzhan, 136, 310, 320

  Black Sea, 152, 156, 181, 217, 219, 233, 287

  Bletchley Park, 202

  Blobel, Paul, 141

  blocking units, 160

  Blomberg, Field Marshal Werner von, 34

  Blyukher, Marshal Vasili, 29

  Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von, 86

  Boldin, General I. V., 116

  Bolshoi Theatre, 114, 320

  Boris, Tsar of Bulgaria, 96

  Bor-Komorowski, General Tadeusz, 246, 247

  Bormann, Martin, 274

  Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von, 10, 117

  Braun, Eva, 274, 275, 277

  Breslau, 263, 264

  Brest-Litovsk, 85, 96, 244

  Briansk, 92, 93, 147, 200, 211

  Britain, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 61, 62, 94, 120, 131, 167, 194, 251–2, 285

  Brody, 244

  Brooke, Field Marshal Lord Alan, 291

  Budapest, 250, 284

  Budyenny, Marshal Semyon, 2, 28, 115

  Bukharin, Nikolai, 1, 23

  Bukovina, 61

  Bulganin, Marshal Nikolai, 320

  Bulgaria, 63, 64, 250, 251

  Buniachenko, General S. K., 129

  Busch, Field Marshal Ernst, 237
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  Cairncross, John, 202, 313

  camps – see prison camps

  cannibalism, 107, 183

  Catherine the Great, 122

  Caucasus, 23, 62, 66, 26, 127, 129, 157, 158, 164, 165, 169, 181, 233

  Central Committee (of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), 2, 3, 7, 28, 57, 306

  Central Staff for Partisan Warfare, 145

  Chamberlain, Neville, 39, 43, 54, 64, 252

  Chechens, 233

  Chechnya, 233

  Cheka, 21

  Chiang Kai-shek, 172

  China, 12, 100, 172, 285, 287

  Chir River, 165

  Chuikov, Marshal Vasily, 172, 173, 174, 175–7, 178, 179, 183–4, 244, 260, 263, 264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 271, 272, 273, 275–7

  Churchill, Winston, 70, 167–9, 194, 220–27, 247, 248, 249, 251–3, 254, 255, 267, 282, 283, 285, 286, 291, 293, 300

  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 318

  ‘Citadel’, 198, 201, 202, 203, 210

  City of Exeter, 45

  civil war, 1–3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 21, 127, 232, 299

  Clear out the Reds Campaign, 12

  Cold War, 195, 247, 284, 309

  collaborators, 126–8, 151–2, 298–9

  collectivization, 23

  Comintern, 6, 36, 54

  Commission on the Direction of the Nuremberg Trial, 295

  Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, 129

  Committee of Evacuation, 170

  Conference of the Enslaved Nations of Eastern Europe and Asia, 150

  Congress of Soviets, 35

  Cossacks, 127–8, 145, 150, 152, 235, 299–301

  Cracow, 68

  Crimea, 92, 129, 136, 142, 156, 217, 233, 236

  Czechoslovakia, 26, 39–41, 43, 47, 276, 312

  Dalton, Hugh, 76

  Davies, Joseph E., 36, 41

  Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 230deportations

  Balkars, 233

  Baltic peoples, 60

  Chechens, 233

  Ingushi, 233

  Jews, 137, 310, 319–20

  Kalmyks, 233

  Karachai, 233

  Meskhetians, 233

  Poles, 52–3

  Tatars, 233

  Dietrich, Otto, 95

  Djilas, Milovan, 250, 251, 261, 290, 292

  Dnepr Line, 234

  Dneprpetrovsk, 141

  Dnepr River, 81, 181, 217, 219

  Doctors' Plot, 319–20

  Donbas, 154, 181, 217

  Doenitz, Admiral Karl, 274, 278

  Don River, 157, 165, 179

  Donskoi, Dmitri, 115

  Doumenc, General Joseph, 45–6

  Dragomirov, General Mikhail, 215

  Dresden, 127, 265

  Dzhikiya, Aleksander, 216

  East Prussia, 68, 239, 253, 257–8, 260, 262

  Eden, Anthony, 120, 122

  Egypt, 167

  Ehrenburg, Ilya, 97, 123, 163, 164, 185, 210, 215, 216, 255, 260, 280

  Eichmann, Adolf, 139

  Eisenhower, General Dwight D., 240, 267, 278

  Eisenstein, Sergei, 162, 302

  Elbe River, 269, 276

  Erlich Genrikh, 137—8

  Estonia, 36, 60

  evacuation, 83, 170–71

  Fadeev, Aleksandr, 111

  Fall of Berlin (film), 306

  Federation of Tsarist Army Veterans, 38

  Finland, 5, 36, 55, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 65, 286

  First World War, 4, 11, 47, 135, 176, 215, 256

  Five-Year Plans, 13, 17, 18, 227

  Flensburg, 278

  Foch, Marshal Ferdinand, 5

  Four-Year Plan, 35, 37

  France, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 47

  Franco, General Francisco, 37

  Frankfurt an der Oder, 264, 303

  Free Germany Committee, 294

  Frinovsky, Mikhail, 26

  Fritzsche, Hans, 276

  Fruzne, Mikhail, 6, 7, 8, 12

  Fuchs, Klaus, 313, 314, 316

  Fulton (Missouri), 283

  Galicia, 127

  Geneva, 36

  Genghis Kahn, 1, 292

  George VI, 27, 46

  Georgia, 14, 15, 43, 315

  German-Soviet Pact, 42, 47–9, 53, 137, 247, 294

  Germany and Allied plans, 252–4, 255–6

  and Barbarossa, 61–2, 68, 70, 85, 88

  and Czech crisis, 39–42

  and fall of Berlin, 272–6

  in First World War, 4

  and Jewish policies, 135–42

  and military purges in Soviet Union, 25–8

  and surrender, 278–80

  Goebbels, Joseph, 64, 115, 274, 275, 276, 277, 295

  Goering, Reich Marshal Hermann, 34–5, 57, 133, 179, 184

  Golikov, General Filip, 70

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 289, 323

  Gordov, General V., 165

  Gorshenin, General Konstantin, 295

  Gorsky, Anatoly, 202

  Gottingen, 127

  Graz, 301

  Great War – see First World War

  Greece, 62, 63, 71, 251

  Grigorenko, Petr, 280

  Grossman, Vasily, 325

  Grozny, 157, 169

  Guderian, Field Marshal Heinz, 10, 93

  Gulag — see prison camps

  Gumrak, 184

  Halder, Franz, 94

  Hanko (Finland), 55

  Harriman, W. Averell, 291, 292

  Henrici, General Gotthard, 268

  Hermitage Museum, 108

  Hess, Rudolf, 70

  Heydrich, Reinhard, 139, 141

  Himmler, Heinrich, 73, 84, 125, 129, 133, 139

  Hiroshima, 286, 288, 314, 316

  Hiss, Alger, 253

  Hitler, Adolf and 1942 campaign, 156–8

  and annihilation of Jews, 135, 138–42

  announces victory over Russia, 94–5

  and Battle of the Bulge, 256

  and collaborators, 130–31

  and Czech crisis, 39–41

  and Four-Year-Plan, 35

  and German-Soviet Pact, 47–8

  and last days in Berlin, 266, 273–5

  and Molotov, 63

  and partisans, 144

  plans war on Soviet Union, 61–4

  and Polish war, 47–8

  and remains of, 276–7

  and Stalingrad, 166, 183, 184

  Hokkaido, 286

  Hollywood, 147

  Holocaust (Shoah), 139–42, 260–61, 310

  Hopkins, Harry, 253, 254

  Hoth, General Hermann, 206, 210

  Hungary, 62, 63, 65, 236, 251, 263

  Ice Road 109–11

  Inber, Vera, 99

  India, 62

  Indian Ocean, 63

  industrial evacuation – see evacuations

  International Military Tribunal – see Nuremberg trials

  ‘Internationale’, The, 162

  Iran, 63

  ‘iron curtain’, 283

  Italy, 62, 210

  Ivan the Terrible, 78, 292

  Ivan the Terrible (film), 302

  Japan attacks United States, 120

  and China war, 100

  and non-aggression pact, 69, 267

  and Khalkhin-Gol, 56, 100

  Pacific War, 253, 281, 283, 285–6

  and Soviet attack, 285–6

  Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, 138, 310, 318

  Jewish Anti-Hitler Committee, 138

  Jewish Autonomous Region, 136

  Jodl, General Alfred, 61, 278

  Kabona, 109

  Kaganovich, Lazar, 170

  Kalach, 179

  Kalinin, 114, 119, 211

  Kaluga, 114, 119

  Kama, 10

  Kaminsky Brigade, 128

  Kaminsky, Bronislaw, 128, 129

  Karelian Isthmus, 55

  katorga, 230, 231

  Katyn massacre, 53, 82–3, 295–6, 297

  Katyusha rockets, 176, 190

  Kazakhstan, 20, 137,
170, 228, 233, 311

  Kazakia, 127

  Keitel, Field Marshal, Wilhelm, 10, 84, 279

  Kennan, George, 284

  Kerch Peninsula, 156

  Khalkhin-Gol, 56, 100

  Kharhovsk, 141

  Kharkov, 134, 156, 187, 199, 203, 211–12

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 50, 55, 57, 59, 71, 77, 80, 135, 195, 210, 307, 313, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 323, 324, 326

  Kiev, 1, 5, 57, 65, 73, 81, 85, 87, 91, 92, 93, 117, 126, 130, 134, 140, 213, 217, 219, 234, 248

  Kirov, Sergei, 24, 307

  Kirov Works, 108

  Kirponos, General M., 92

  Kleist, Field Marshal Ewald von, 158

  Klimenko, Ivan, 277

  Klin, 115, 119, 122

  Koch, Erich, 133

  Kondratyev, Vyacheslav, 164, 329

  Konev, Marshal Ivan, 65, 97, 113, 201, 207, 234, 235, 236, 239, 263, 265, 266, 267, 269, 272, 276, 306

  Konigsberg, 48, 257, 263

  Korsun-Cherkassky Pocket, 235

  Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya, 123

  Kovno, 140

  Krasnow, hetman Peter, 300

  Krebs, General Hans, 275–6

  Krivitsky, Walter, 39

  Kruglov, Sergei, 308

  Kryukov, General Vladimir, 307

  Kube, Wilhelm, 151

  Kuibyshev, 95, 138, 227, 298

  Kulakov, hetman, 128

  Kuntsevo, 24, 73, 78, 211

  Kurchatov, Igor, 313, 314, 315, 316

  Kurile islands, 253, 286, 287

  Kursk, 128, 198, 199, 200, 203–10, 214, 216, 217, 219, 222, 239, 305

  Küstrin, 263, 264, 268

  Kutuzov, Mikhail, 115

  Kuznetsov, Alexander, 307–8

  Kuznetsov, Anatoli, 325

  Kuznetsov, Admiral Nikolai, 110

  Kuznetsov, General V. I., 272

  Lake Baikal, 298

  Lake Ladoga, 105, 109, 110, 111

  Landwehr Canal, 272

  Lattre de Tassigny, Gen. Jean de, 279

  Latvia, 36, 49, 60, 85

  League of Nations, 36, 37, 56

  Lefortovo Prison, 27, 319

  Le Havre, 38

  Leipzig, 265

  Lend-Lease, 167, 193, 195–7, 229

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 3, 4, 6, 13, 15, 16–17, 18, 21, 24, 36, 54, 78, 96, 143, 321

  Leningrad, 19, 28, 38, 45, 54, 55, 65, 80, 85, 90, 94, 101–12, 117, 154, 158, 177, 191, 213, 216, 236, 293, 305, 312, 313

  Leningrad Physicotechnical Institute, 313

  Leningrad purge, 307–8

  Leningrad siege, 102, 104–12, 239, 307

  Lifshits, Yevgania, 318

  Lipetsk, 10

  Lithuania, 36, 47, 51, 60, 85

  Litvinov, Maxim, 36, 37, 40, 42, 44, 136, 194

  Liutezh, 219

  Livadia Palace, 252

  Locarno, Treaty of, 5

  Lodz, 244, 256

  Lohse, Hinrich, 132