Stalin

in failed assault on Madrid, 350–52, 376, 398, 406–7

gradualist strategy favored by, 399

Hitler’s meeting with, 797–98, 815

in Morocco, 314-15

NKVD assassination attempts against, 409

post-civil-war massacres by, 797

right-based coalition built by, 400

rise of, 315-16

Stalin’s view of, 401

as war criminal, 615–16

Frank, Hans, 745, 867

French intelligence, 766

Frinovsky, Mikhail, 342, 391, 413, 415–16, 447, 448, 450, 453, 460, 472, 499, 523, 541

arrest and interrogation of, 617, 618, 620

execution of, 742

and Mongolia mass arrests, 461–62

as naval commissar, 543, 547

in Soviet Far East, 531–32, 534

and Soviet incursion in Manchukuo, 535–36, 537

as Yezhov’s deputy in terror campaign, 452, 497, 500, 528–29, 540

Fritsch, Werner von, 473, 474

“From Factionalism to Open Counterrevolution” (Yezhov), 433

“From the Odessa Jail” (song), 452

Furer, Veniamin, 161, 358

Gagra, 145, 311

shooting incident at, 142

Stalin’s holidays in, 136, 141, 142, 188

Gai, Mark (Stokland), 222, 393

Gaikis, Leonid, 334, 381, 405

Gamarnik, Jan, 58, 90, 350, 418, 423, 424, 443, 527

Gamelin, Maurice, 280, 767

Gamsakhurdia, Konstantin, 512, 513

Gavrilović, Milan, 779, 847–48

Geladze, Keke, 63–64, 109

death of, 421–22

grandchildren’s visit with, 270

Stalin’s correspondence with, 108, 270

Stalin’s visit with, 270–71

Gelovani, Mikhail, 548, 617–18, 745, 854

Genden, Peljidiin, 196, 277, 461

Stalin’s meetings with, 147–48, 195, 278–79

Stalin’s pipe smashed by, 279

George V, king of England, 280

George VI, king of England, 404, 566

Georgia, 138, 354, 547

Beria’s lobbying for aid to, 513–14

Beria’s supreme power in, 501, 506, 512–13

famine in, 81

mass terror in, 502, 508–9, 513, 515–16, 517

nationalism in, 138

1937 harvest in, 514

NKVD in, 508

10th Party Congress in, 509, 512, 517

Gerasimov, Alexander, 395, 436, 733, 854

German embassy, Moscow, evacuation of, 879, 887

German intelligence, 485

Anglo-Soviet trade talks and, 779

in USSR, 775

see also Abwehr; SD

Germans, in USSR, 476

mass arrests and executions of, 356, 453

German-Soviet nonaggression pact, see Hitler-Stalin Pact German Workers’ Party, xiii

Germany, Imperial, in World War I, xv

Germany, interwar, 17

Communists in, 19

depression in, 79–80, 86, 118

failed Communist coup in, 17

1930 elections in, 53

1932 elections in, 118, 119

Reichstag fire in, 120, 142

reparations owed by, 79

rise of Nazism in, 118–19, 129

in secret military cooperation with Soviets, 21

Soviet relations with, 86, 89, 93

unemployment in, 72

Germany, Nazi, 583

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

anti-Communism in, 593

anti-Semitism in, 266–67, 307, 430, 559, 589, 736–37

armaments and machinery supplied to USSR by, 769

Austria annexed by, 292, 558–60, 598

Britain’s naval limitation pact with, 288, 630

Britain’s need for accommodation with, 169, 591

British lack of knowledge about, 242

British relations with, 355, 357, 590, 609, 617, 652, 653, 904

as common enemy of Britain and USSR, 168

Czechoslovakia invaded by, 609, 612, 616, 617, 679, 747, 888

declining reliance on Soviet materials of, 774

Estonia’s nonaggression pact with, 647

in exit from League of Nations, 240

expansionism of, 556, 609, 675

in failure to ship contracted material to USSR, 753, 756

Finnish relations with, 703–4, 709, 713, 717, 748

Four-Year Plan of, 348, 366

France’s fear of, 298, 591–92

French relations with, 272, 357, 374

grain shortages in, 852–53

Italian “Pact of Steel” with, 632–34, 639

Italy’s relations with, 292

Japanese relations with, 650

Japan’s sharing of intelligence with, 485, 533

Kristallnacht in, 598

Latvia’s nonaggression pact with, 647

military buildup of, 143, 191, 592

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

national debt of, 598

Nuremberg laws passed by, 266

Nuremberg rallies in, 266, 342, 564

Poland invaded by, 678–79, 682, 684–85, 691, 826

Poland’s rejection of alliance with, 634, 638

Polish invasion plans of, 620–21, 636–37, 646, 651, 659–60, 661–62, 664, 675, 676–77

Polish nonaggression declaration with, 157–58, 159, 222, 630, 631, 861

Polish POWs slaughtered by, 745

Polish relations with, 291–92, 562, 596–97, 613–14

as possible Japanese ally in attack on USSR, 534

private companies in, 697–98

and proposed Japanese military pact, 539, 632, 633–34, 639–40, 646, 653

rearmament of, 240, 242–43, 342, 556, 598, 612, 821

Red Army arrests as viewed in, 431

Red Army underestimated by, 748–49

Reichstag fire trial in, 142–43

Rhineland remilitarized by, 288, 592

Romanian alliance with, 774

shortages of raw materials in, 329, 350, 474, 833, 838, 859, 890

Soviet accusations of espionage by, 487

Soviet armaments openly revealed to, 856–57

Soviet distrust of, 673

Soviet extradition of political refugees to, 695

Soviet grain exports to, 661, 743, 756–57, 769, 816

Soviet imports of material and technology from, 816–17

Soviet invasion of Poland sought by, 679, 680

Soviet loan from, 246, 259, 264, 291

Soviet planning for war with, 779, 843–44, 869–71

Soviet relations with, 121, 144, 211, 222, 275, 289, 298, 342, 356, 402–3, 609, 622, 623, 631–32, 633, 637

Soviet shipments of raw materials to, 769, 856, 869