Russia's War

by Richard Overy

  Yezhov, Nikolai, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 39, 43

  Yugoslavia, 63, 71, 250, 251

  Yukhnov, 93

  Zabore, 109

  Zaporozhe, 217

  Zeitzler, General Kurt, 178

  Zhdanov, Andrei, 103, 110, 307, 318

  Zhukov, Marshal Georgi K., 60, 72, 129, 146, 187, 190, 210, 211, 222, 248, 255, 257, 263, 264, 280, 282, 285and 1941 war game, 66

  and Bagration, 236, 237, 241, 243

  and Berlin, 265–7, 268–9, 272, 275–7

  as Chief-of-Staff, 65, 67–9, 81–2, 93

  in Civil War, 2

  and early life, 99–100

  and German invasion, 73–4, 78, 86

  and Khalkhin-Gol, 57

  and kursk, 199–201, 203, 204, 208, 210, 211

  and Lend-Lease, 195

  and Leningrad, 102–5

  and Moscow, 112–19

  and post-war demotion, 304–6

  and ‘pre-emptive strike’ in 1941, 68–9, 72

  and Stalingrad, 166–7, 168–9, 171, 173, 177, 185

  and surrender, 279, 280

  Zinoviev, Grigory, 23, 25

  * figure for USSR includes self-propelled guns. German figure includes self-propelled guns for 1943 and 1944.

  ** artillery pieces of all calibres for USSR (separate figures for pieces over 76 mm). German figure for pieces over 37 mm.

  * synthetic oil production and natural crude oil production and imports.

  * all figures exclude the figure of 8.6 million military dead

  ** includes civilian deaths from all causes + loss of potential demographic growth due to casualty

  * In April 1943 the security service was separated from the Internal Affairs Commissariat (NKVD) and renamed NKGB. In March 1946 NKGB became MGB following the transformation of the commissariats into Ministries.