Stalin

Molotov’s rivalry with, 550, 692

and murder of Radek, 637

as NKVD deputy head, 541–42, 543, 547–48

as NKVD head, 588–89, 595, 605

NKVD powerbase of, 550, 588–89

in NKVD arrests, 588

Polish POWs and, 744–45

and rebuilding of Soviet intelligence, 589

Red Army reports of, 731

rise of, 139–41

showcase trials staged by, 515–16

South Caucasus controlled by, 501–4, 505, 506, 507, 512

Stalin biography project of, 154, 214, 260, 301

Stalin’s correspondence with, 513–14, 515–16, 518

Stalin’s relationship with, 511, 512–13, 546, 548, 550, 605–6

Stalin’s similarities to, 501

Trotsky assassination and, 610–12, 617, 764, 787

Vlasik’s rivalry with, 526

Winter War and, 725, 735, 739

and Yezhov investigation, 618–20

Yezhov’s power struggle with, 509, 542

Berlin:

bombing of, 791, 808, 809, 811, 818

Chancellery complex in, 585

Molotov’s visit to, 805–9, 811, 815, 818

1936 Olympics in, 326

Stalin’s 1907 visit to, xv

Berling, Zygmunt, 795, 838

Berlings, Orests (“Lycée-ist”), 804, 807, 823, 852, 873, 876, 880

Berzin, Jan Pēter Ķuzis, 172, 338, 382, 405, 454

reappointed head of military intelligence, 423

Stalin’s correspondence with, 406

Bessarabia, 17, 563, 694, 773, 786, 853

Soviet nonaggression pact with, 93

Soviet occupation of, 773–74, 776, 777

Bessonov, Sergei, 246, 275, 291

Bismarck, Otto von, 61, 339, 558–59, 598, 643, 791–92, 814, 886, 906

Bismarck (battleship), 255, 598, 703, 764

Black Sea, 311, 702, 703, 794, 796, 813, 819, 831

Black Sea Fleet, Soviet, 702–3

blitzkrieg, 767, 894, 904

Blokhin, Vasily, 424, 742

Blomberg, Werner von, 49, 473, 474, 475

Blum, Léon, 317, 318, 320, 329, 357, 363, 458

Blunt, Anthony, 222, 656, 800, 836

Blyukher, Vasily, 30–31, 420, 424, 456, 531, 533

accusations against, 527, 529, 537, 547

arrest and fatal beating of, 549–50, 578, 893

drinking by, 529

as Red Army marshal, 272

relieved of Far Eastern command, 547

and Soviet incursion in Manchukuo, 535–36, 537–38, 540, 547

Voroshilov’s dislike of, 412–13

Bodenschatz, Karl, 631, 675

Bogdanov, L. T., 141–42

Bohlen, Charles, 480–81, 666

Bolshakov, Ivan, 789, 795

Bolshevik Revolution, xi, 174, 489, 522

twentieth anniversary of, 467–69, 470

Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, see Communism

bombers:

German, 351, 678, 755

Soviet, 99, 101, 265, 338, 346, 351, 567, 820, 856

Boris III, king of Bulgaria, 811, 812, 889

Borisov, Mikhail, 201, 205, 207, 220, 235

Bormann, Martin, 585, 867

Brauchitsch, Walther von, 567, 677

Braun, Eva, 584, 642

Brest-Litovsk, Poland, 469, 695, 704, 722

German withdrawal from, 686–87

Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of, xv, 4, 121, 363, 370, 685, 903

Brezhnev, Leonid, 603

Brik, Lily, 276–77

British empire, xv, 591, 783, 833

British intelligence, 222, 242, 614, 656, 675

Enigma intercepts of, 850, 857, 882, 884, 890, 891

German military capabilities overestimated by, 591

on German military capability, 652–53

and Germany’s planned Soviet invasion, 882–83

Red Army capability underestimated by, 591

Soviet agents in, 836

Yugoslav coup and, 847

Bucharest, 872

Budyonny, Semyon, 37, 44, 46, 213, 272, 421, 424, 545

Bug River, 695

Bukhara, 138

Bukharin, Nikolai:

arrest of, 443

Central Committee expulsion of, 387

conspiracy accusations against, 357–58, 379, 386, 397, 437, 476

in counterattack on collectivization, 15

eulogy for Nadya delivered by, 112

execution of, 479, 526, 560, 602

expelled from politburo, 29

at February 1937 Central Committee plenum, 386–87

imprisonment of, 477–78

interrogations of, 336, 387

as Izvestiya editor, 349, 359

Kamenev’s meeting with, 12

Kirov murder and, 205

press slander of, 359

at 17th Party Congress, 156

Stalin’s correspondence with, 64–65, 336, 387, 478

Stalin’s demonization of, 11–12, 14–15, 24, 26, 56, 57, 68

Stalin’s friendship with, 11, 526

Stalin’s psychological torture of, 349, 368

trial of, 478, 560

Bukovina, 786, 808, 819

northern, Soviet occupation of, 774, 776

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 151, 184, 186, 230, 635

death of, 746

Kerzhentsev’s criticism of, 284–85

Stalin’s relationship with, 148–50

Bulgaria, 274, 788, 811, 812, 889

in Axis pact, 847

failed Communist coup in, 17

fascist coup in, 171–72

Soviet relations with, 813–14

Soviet spies in, 794

Wehrmacht in, 831, 872

Bulletin of the Opposition (Leninist-Bolsheviks), 13–14, 24, 68, 91, 94, 105, 294, 323, 328

Bullitt, William, 144–45, 263, 292

as U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union, 145–46, 167

Bullock, Alan, xv

Burgess, Guy, 222, 656, 661, 836

Buryat-Mongol autonomous republic, 281, 803

Butovo killing field, 479, 619

Butyrka prison, 438, 649

Bychkova, Alexandra, 108, 166

Cadogan, Alexander, 622–23, 642, 868

cadres:

arrests of, 577

Stalin on education of, 571–72

Stalin on importance of, 250, 462–64, 468, 495, 576–77, 603, 604–5, 832, 902

Cairncross, John, 656, 836

Cajander, Aimo, 706, 718

Campbell, Joseph, 301

Campbell, Thomas, 114–15

Canaris, Wilhelm, 485, 647, 661, 798

capitalist encirclement, 5–6, 11, 44, 124, 303, 305, 428, 429, 553

Carol II, king of Romania, 563, 613, 788

Catalonia, in Spanish civil war, 312, 316, 321, 364, 380, 408

Catherine II, “ the Great,” empress of Russia, 888

censors, censorship, 282, 308, 422

ubiquity of, 422

“Center of Centers” conspiracy, 434, 437, 450