Stalin

Stalin’s correspondence with, 25, 26, 43, 45, 54–55, 82–83

Stalin’s fights with, 109, 110

suicide of, 110–11, 134, 228, 232, 250, 491

Alliluyeva, Svetlana, 3, 103, 108, 109, 111, 187, 209, 234, 263, 271, 281, 388, 464, 526

on mother’s suicide, 112

schooling of, 165

Stalin’s correspondence with, 135

on Stalin’s darkening mind-set, 492

Stalin’s doting on, 166, 600

on Stalin’s film watching, 192

in visit with grandmother, 270

Alliluyeva, Yevgeniya “Zhenya,” 191, 388

all-Union Congresses of Collective Farm Shock Workers, 120, 226–27

All-Union Congress of Shock Brigades (1929), 31–32

all-Union Creative Conference of Workers in Soviet Cinema, 217–18

Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, 12, 497

“Alta,” see Stöbe, Ilse

Amatouni, Amatouni, 504, 516

Amur River, 456–57, 536, 805

anarchists, in Spanish civil war, 316, 321, 334, 338, 339, 351, 364, 400–401, 406, 408, 718

Andreyev, Andrei, 57, 237, 295, 308

as Central Committee secretary, 225, 500, 606

Kirov murder and, 205

regional party arrests and, 444

Stalin’s mealtime meetings with, 225

Anti-Comintern Pact, 355–57, 539, 557, 581–82, 596, 655, 665, 667, 677, 687–88

anti-intellectualism, Stalin’s denunciation of, 571

anti-Semitism, 238, 266–67, 307, 430, 557, 559, 582, 589, 597–98

Antonescu, Ion, 788, 798, 853, 876, 889

Antonov-Ovseyenko, Vladimir, 334, 380, 467

“Appeal to All Members of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)” (Ryutin), 104

Aragon, Louis, 255

Aral Sea, 692

“Architect of Socialist Society, The” (Radek), 155

Arctic Sea, 711

Ardennes, 766, 767

Arkhangelsk, 739, 740

armaments commissariat, 727

Armenia, 138, 354, 502, 504, 516, 517, 542, 773

army, German, see Reichswehr; Wehrmacht

army, Soviet, see Red Army

Aron, Raymond, 760

artels, 35–36

Art of War, The (Sun Tzu), 262

Artuzov, Artur, 24, 91, 158, 222, 377, 378

appointed deputy chief of military intelligence, 172

arrest of, 413

Uritsky’s rivalry with, 252–53

“Aryan,” see Scheliha, Rudolf von

Association of Proletarian Writers, 152, 153

Astakhov, Georgy, 631–32, 646, 654, 655, 664

Austria:

German annexation of, 240–41, 292, 558–60, 598, 888

1937 putsch in, 556

Austria-Hungary, xv

aviation commissariat, 737–38

Axis pact, 809–10, 811

Bulgaria in, 847

Germany, Japan, and Italy in formation of, 792–93

Hungary in, 811–12, 829, 847

proposed Soviet inclusion in, 797, 799, 808–9, 813, 815–16, 817–19, 820, 831, 835

Romania in, 812, 829, 847

Slovakia in, 812, 829, 847

Stalin’s conditions for joining, 813, 818, 820, 831

Yugoslavia in, 847, 850

Azerbaijan, 138, 190, 354, 502, 518, 773

Babel, Isaac, 181, 255, 635, 740, 788

Bagirov, Mircafar, 139, 502, 503, 504, 520

Baikal, Lake, 644

Baku, 504, 739–40, 762

Baldwin, Stanley, 255, 317

Balkans, 796, 798, 799, 837, 840

Churchill’s concern about, 777

conflicting Soviet and German interests in, 814–15, 816, 831

German invasion of, 889

Baltic Fleet, Soviet, 703, 710, 711

Baltic Sea, 703, 707, 876

Baltic special military district, 779

Baltic states, 92, 614

anti-Soviet fifth column in, 774–75

British relations with, 655

denunciations encouraged in, 772

deportations in, 772

German-Soviet Pact and, 651, 652, 654, 659

pro-German sentiment in, 655

single-candidate elections in, 772

Soviet annexation of, 772, 776, 819, 829

Soviet demand for guarantees of territorial integrity of, 634, 647–48

Soviet demand for mutual assistance pact with, 693

in Soviet war planning, 290

Stalin’s fear of invasion from, 27, 50, 54, 84, 613, 647

Triple Alliance proposal and, 633, 634, 638, 639, 647–48

Balytsky, Vsevolod, 39, 77, 78, 79, 103, 162, 168, 344, 431–32, 449

Balzac, Honoré, 231

Bank of England, 616

banks, failures of, 85–86

Barbarossa, Operation, see Germany, Nazi, Soviet invasion preparations of

Barbusse, Henri, 1, 155, 263

Stalin as depicted by, 225–26

Barcelona, Spain, 408

Basques, 312, 407, 411

Bavarian Soviet Republic, xiii

Baidukov, Georgy, 425, 451

Beck, Józef, 568, 596–97, 615, 620, 634, 638

Beck, Ludwig, 168, 222, 257, 287, 291, 559, 567

Bedny, Demyan (Yefim Pridvoroy), 169, 332

Stalin’s relationship with, 150–51

survived the terror, 545–46

Belgium, 678, 766

German invasion of, 763

see also Low Countries

Belgrade, 847

Belorussia, 180, 772–73

anti-Soviet fifth column in, 774–75

ethnic Poles in, 211

famine in, 98

Polish territory annexed by, 689, 716

Belyakov, Alexander, 425, 451

Beneš, Edvard, 61–62, 252, 561, 562, 565, 567, 572

Berezhkov, Valentin, 799, 872

Berezina River, 340

Berghof, 585, 633, 642, 661, 664, 666

Beria, Lavrenti:

accusations against, 541, 589

arrests and executions ordered by, 502, 508–9, 513, 515

Blyukher’s death and, 549–50, 578

charisma of, 502

civil-war-era career of, 510–11

cruelty of, 549, 889

dachas of, 502, 605–6

elevated to Central Committee, 162

Georgian artists and writers controlled by, 511–12

and German invasion plans, 795, 876, 880, 894

Gulag labor as responsibility of, 692

industrial output and, 231

as inner circle member, 501, 526, 548

Khrushchev’s relationship with, 501, 520–21

Lakoba’s rivalry with, 139, 141, 142, 237, 504–6, 508

and Litvinov investigation, 626

lobbying for resources to Georgia by, 513–14

loyalty cultivated by, 549

Mekhlis’s criticisms of, 508, 509