Stalin

Soviet spies in, 252, 699, 722, 800, 803–4, 810, 822, 836

Soviet trade negotiations with, 246, 257, 271–72, 291, 347–48, 366, 598, 621–22, 643, 651, 654, 659, 660, 694

Soviet trade pacts with, 661, 696, 731, 743, 752, 756–57, 764, 769, 779, 786, 799, 817, 830–31, 856, 869

Spanish civil war intervention of, 317–18, 323, 328–29, 339, 350, 407, 431, 556, 582

Stalin dictatorship compared with, 696–97

Stalin on war plans of, 245

Stalin’s desire for rapprochement with, 169, 299, 579, 582–83, 601, 637, 643, 661, 675

Stalin’s fear of British alliance with, 590

Stalin’s growing concerns about, 167–68, 239–40, 242, 414, 533

in Tripartite Pact, see Axis pact

as USSR’s principal foe, 581

war plan of, 613, 620

Winter War and, 730

Germany, Nazi, Soviet invasion preparations of, 783–86, 815, 820, 822–23, 835

disinformation campaign in, 837–38, 840, 842, 860, 865–66, 869, 872–73, 874, 877, 878, 885, 890–91

eastern buildups of Wehrmacht in, 783–84, 785, 787, 790, 791, 794, 795, 818, 820, 825, 828, 838, 857, 858, 859, 864, 875, 877, 878, 881, 891, 894

fifth column recruiting in, 891

Hitler’s June 14 conference on, 881

Hitler’s justification of, 847

Luftwaffe redeployment in, 857

perceived as blackmail, 859, 882, 883–84, 886, 891

Romania in, 876, 877

Soviet airspace violations by, 846, 855–56, 857, 869, 878, 880, 898

Soviet intelligence and, 824, 828–29, 836–38, 840, 841–43, 845, 846, 858–59, 864, 865–66, 876, 880, 883, 890, 894–95

Stalin’s discounting of, 841–42, 856, 868, 875, 880–81, 883–84, 885, 890–91, 897

and Stalin’s fear of provoking attack, 841, 870, 871, 894, 895, 898

three-pronged attack in, 840, 845, 879

Tukhachevsky on, 245

U.S. warnings of, 854–55

widespread rumors of, 863–64

Germany, Nazi, in World War II:

in Battle of Britain, 780, 784, 785, 793, 794

British and French declaration of war on, 679

British bombing of, 791, 794, 808, 809, 811, 818

British invasion plans of, 782–83, 784, 794

France occupied by, 760–61, 765–66, 767, 769, 773, 826, 827, 861, 889

Greece invaded by, 849, 852, 859

Hess’s flight to Britain from, 866–68, 871

Japanese attack on British territory as goal of, 784

Low Countries invaded by, 760, 763, 766

Norway and Denmark occupied by, 762–63

“peripheral strategy” of, 784, 791, 798, 815, 835, 838, 849, 896, 905

Romania occupied by, 796, 797, 798, 808

USSR invaded by, 899–900

Yugoslavia invaded by, 848–49, 850, 852, 859

Gestapo, 174, 221, 331, 332, 336, 560

Gibraltar, 315, 784

Gide, André, 255, 256, 295, 326, 416

Gladun, Yevgeniya, 225, 635

Goebbels, Joseph, 118, 143, 173, 266, 318, 356, 432, 474, 585, 608–9, 630, 642, 677, 678, 762, 805, 808, 872, 877, 882, 891, 896, 900

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 231

Goglidze, Sergo, 142, 503, 588, 722, 876

Gogoberidze, Levan, 348, 508

Gogol, Nikolai, 2

gold:

international flow of, 79

mining of, 133, 497

Goldstab, Semyon, 467, 548

gold standard, Britain’s abandonment of, 85

Golikov, Filipp, 790, 828–29, 839, 847, 877, 894

German invasion plans and, 845–46, 858, 875, 876–77, 878, 882

Goloshchokin, Filipp, 113, 620

Gorev, Vladimir, 338, 346, 349, 350, 351, 382

Göring, Herbert, 291, 402

Göring, Hermann, 143, 175, 240, 244, 252, 287, 402, 473, 474, 574, 583, 642, 661, 662, 663, 677, 678, 700, 752–53, 785, 807, 815, 837, 842, 891

and German trade with USSR, 291–92, 365

as head of Four-Year Plan implementation, 348

Polish trip of, 222–23

Gorky, Maxim, 25, 60, 155, 230, 255–56, 261, 442, 478

death of, 295

honors heaped on, 151–52

Moscow mansion of, 152

in return to Russia, 151

rumored poisoning of, 296

and son’s death, 177, 296

Stalin’s relationship with, 9, 27, 34, 36, 64, 148, 153, 233

state seizure of archives of, 296

in writers’ union founding, 151–52, 153, 177–78, 181, 183, 185

Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), 32, 135, 151, 162

auto factory at, 94

Gorsky, Anatoly, 656, 661, 740, 741, 800, 836

government bonds, reduced interest rates on, 294–95

grain:

imports of, 97, 98, 128

reported theft of, 101–2

reserves of, 85, 263–64

grain exports, 43, 49–50, 68, 85, 87, 94, 99, 107, 129, 269

to Germany, 661, 743, 756–57, 769, 816

industrialization and, 131

reductions in, 126, 128

in tsarist Russia, 127

grain procurements, 10, 16–17, 27, 34–35, 68, 87–88, 102, 115, 123, 131

1934 lag in, 180

1935 harvest and, 263–64

quotas for, 106–7, 113, 128, 227

reductions in, 87, 93–94, 95–96, 100, 106–7, 113, 117, 128

Stalin’s renewed demands for, 112–13, 114

Grand Kremlin Palace, 1939 New Year’s banquet at, 593–94, 595

Great Britain:

accommodation with Nazis needed by, 169, 591

avoidance of new war as policy of, 240, 242, 556, 562, 563, 566, 568, 590–91, 616, 662, 674

Baltic states’ relations with, 655

in Battle of Britain, 780, 784, 785, 793, 794

Communism feared by, 590, 591

in declaration of war on Germany, 679

empire of, xv, 591, 783, 833

Finnish relations with, 708, 709

French navy scuttled by, 777–78

French relations with, 242, 251, 298, 592, 612

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

Germany and Japan as common enemies of USSR and, 168

Germany’s naval limitation pact with, 255, 288, 630

gold standard abandoned by, 85

Great Depression in, 591

Hitler as concern of, 238