Stalin

ethnic minorities in, 558

French alliance with, 251–52, 299, 558, 559, 560, 561, 563, 565, 567, 568, 592, 612

German invasion of, 609, 612, 616, 617, 679, 747, 888

Hungarian seizure of territory in, 609

Munich Pact and, 565–66

in negotiations for Soviet alliance, 191

Polish seizure of territory in, 609

Silesian territory added to Poland by, 574

Soviet failure to support, 572, 574

Soviet mutual assistance pact with, 191, 251–52, 299, 341, 413, 560, 561, 563, 565, 567, 568

Stalin’s disgust with, 413–14

Sudetenland in, see Sudetenland

USSR recognized by, 173

d’Abernon, Lord, xiv

Dachau concentration camp, 560

Dagin, Israel, 415, 526, 541

Daladier, Édouard, 378, 565, 566, 592, 658, 673, 679, 762

Dalstroi (Far Northern Construction Trust), 133, 220, 598–99

Danton, Georges, 3

Danube, 794, 796

Danzig, 158, 596, 597, 613, 614, 615, 616, 652, 655, 658, 677, 895

Hitler’s trip to, 684–85

Darkness at Noon (Koestler), 435

Davies, Joseph, 480–81

Days of the Turbins, The (Bulgakov), 148–49, 230

defense commissariat:

arrests in, 405

Kremlin as responsibility of, 228, 229

see also Voroshilov, Klim E.

de Gaulle, Charles, 765

Deich, Yakov, 415, 499

Dekanozov, Vladimir, 541, 588, 610–11, 627, 772, 805, 807

as ambassador to Germany, 822, 823, 846, 855, 863–66, 872, 880, 890, 896, 899

dekulakization, 35–39, 53, 58, 70, 74, 84, 103, 127–28, 137, 227, 299, 439, 448, 450, 483, 606

human cost of, 131

internal deportations in, 36, 70, 74–75, 76, 117, 286

mass executions in, 75, 452

Demchenko, Maria, 226, 227

Demetradze, Davit, 512, 513

Demid, Gelegdorjiin, 197, 279, 287, 461

Denmark, 252, 774, 800

German occupation of, 762–63, 889

depression, global, 63, 79

see also Great Depression

Derevyansky, Vladimir, 707, 710

dialectical materialism, 570, 576

Dimitrov, Georgi:

appointed Comintern general secretary, 262–63

on Axis pact, 793

Bulgaria and, 813–14

on capture of Chiang, 361

Chinese Communists and, 330, 373, 744, 813

illnesses of, 176

Spanish civil war and, 347, 406

Stalin’s relationship with, 171, 189–90, 362, 446, 812–13

united front policy and, 175, 189, 259, 320, 362, 470–71

Diplomacy (Kissinger), 579

Dirksen, Herbert von, 144, 221, 609, 652, 676

Divine Comedy, The (Alighieri), vii

Dneprostroi, 41, 95

Dnieper River, 84

Doi, Akio, 650, 653, 713

Donbass, 161, 206, 253, 273, 550

decimation of party apparatus in, 445

Don River valley, 124

Donskoi Monastery, mass burials at, 479–80

Doumenc, Joseph, 657–58, 673

Draule, Milda, 199, 200

Kirov’s murder and, see Kirov, Sergei, murder of

marriage of Nikolayev and, 197–98

Drax, Reginald, 656–58, 659, 661, 664, 673

Dreitser, Yefim, 313, 320, 324

Drohobycz oilfields, 685, 686, 696

drought of 1931, 75–76, 87

Dubinsky, Ilya, 427–28

Dunayevsky, Isaac, 216, 293, 795, 853

Dunkirk, evacuation of, 765

Duranty, Walter, 63, 146

Dvinsky, Boris, 162, 499, 681, 682, 734

Dzierzyński, Felix, 229, 345, 419, 438, 471

Eastern Pact (proposed), 173, 183–84, 191, 222

collapsed negotiations for, 239

Hitler’s rejection of, 189

Eastern Siberia, 70, 75, 90, 97, 128, 198, 460, 779

East Prussia, 596, 613, 614, 679

economy, Soviet, 831

barter in, 39

black markets in, 781–82

and difficulty of obtaining foreign financing, 17–18

Five-Year Plans in, see Five-Year Plans

foreign debt in, 86–87

growth rate drop in, 821

Gulag labor and, 692

inflation in, 39–40, 46, 48

Marxist doctrine and, 691–92

per capita consumption in, 404–5

Eden, Anthony, 242, 280, 288, 292, 398, 648, 836, 868

on Hitler’s harping on Soviet threat, 242–43, 244

joint communiqué of Stalin and, 245

in meeting with Hitler, 240–41, 254

Stalin’s meetings with, 243–44, 251, 254, 255

on Stalin’s personality, 245–46

education, Stalin’s belief in power of, 464

Ehrenburg, Ilya, 170, 255, 256, 334, 339, 481, 497, 517, 545, 635, 670, 858

Eideman, Roberts (Eidemanis), 414, 422–23

Eihe, Roberts, 40, 48–49, 58, 190, 225, 453–54, 549

Eisenstein, Sergei, 215, 217, 218, 230, 284, 417, 635, 671, 770, 812, 853

Eismont, Nikolai, 113, 114

Eitingon, Naum “Leonid,” 610, 611–12

“Elder,” see Schulze-Boysen, Harro

elites, Soviet, 5, 76, 272, 304

access to consumer goods of, 208

terror campaign and, 308, 544

widespread resentment of, 308, 439, 544

Elser, Georg, 700–701, 720

émigré groups, anti-Soviet, 34, 48, 62, 65–66, 106, 349, 352–53, 378, 385, 437

Soviet penetration of, 12, 76, 322, 349, 437

Engels, Friedrich, 261, 573

Enigma machine, 850, 857, 882, 884, 890, 891

enlightenment commissariat, arrests in, 405

Erkko, Eljas, 704, 707, 710, 718–19

Ermler, Friedrich, 372–73

Espionage and Counter-Espionage, M.I.-4 (Russell), 423

Essays on the History of the Roman Empire (Vipper), 493

Estonia, 17, 50, 89, 485, 596, 634, 664, 703, 786

failed Communist coup in, 17

German nonaggression pact with, 647

Red Army troops in, 770–71

Soviet annexation of, 772

Soviet bases in, 714

Soviet pacts with, 93, 693, 694, 708, 715

standing army of, 112

Estonians, in USSR, 476

Ethiopia, see Abyssinia

Europe, failed Communist revolutions and coups in, 17