Stalin

Hitler’s view of, as main enemy, 474

Italian relations with, 374

and Japanese invasion of China, 364

Japanese relations with, 653

in military talks with Soviets, 656–58, 661

in minimal response to German invasion of Poland, 679–80

Munich Pact and, 565–66

Polish independence guaranteed by, 614–15, 616, 617, 653, 654, 662, 674, 676

Polish mutual assistance treaty with, 677, 679–80

Polish relations with, 597

Soviet negotiations with, 775–76, 778–79, 796, 810–11, 818, 819–20

Soviet relations with, 24–25, 26, 28, 168, 188–89, 243–44, 276, 364, 582, 593, 616, 632, 637, 719, 903–4

Soviet spy network in, 221–22, 241, 656, 740, 741, 800, 836

Spanish civil war and, 317, 356–57, 374, 398, 582

Stalin’s antipathy and distrust toward, xv, 24–25, 142–43, 168, 255, 292, 298, 675, 699, 762, 764, 765, 777, 780, 786, 819–20, 850, 884, 890, 903

Stalin’s fear of German alliance with, 590

Triple Alliance proposal and, 621, 622–23, 625, 630, 632, 638, 639, 646, 647–49, 652, 653, 674, 777, 810

unemployment in, 72

U.S. aid to, 791, 793, 833–35, 843, 904

Winter War and, 739, 777

Great Citizen, A (film script; Ermler), 372–73, 476

Great Depression, 85–86, 118, 155, 176, 297, 305, 591

Great Dictator, The (film), 796

Great Fergana Canal, 692

great power, USSR as, 238, 298

industrialization and, 131

Stalin’s obsession with building, 5, 8, 240, 249–50

great powers:

Britain as, xv

democratic vs. authoritarian, 296, 298

mass-based modernity mastered by, 296–97

Russia’s sense of insecurity vis-à-vis, 297

Great Terror, The (Conquest), 306

Great Wall of China, 125, 366

Greece:

German invasion of, 849, 852, 859

Italian invasion of, 798, 812, 847, 849

Grigulevich, Josifas “Juzik” (Grigulevičios) 409–10

Gromyko, Andrei, 628

Gronsky, Ivan, 151, 152

Grzybowski, Wacłav, 634, 683

Gubin, Alexander, 199, 220

Guderian, Heinz, 686, 767, 768

Guernica, bombing of, 407

Guernica (Picasso), 411

Gulag (forced labor camps), 133, 220, 227, 319, 404, 413

death rate in, 599

escapees from, 497

Polish POWs in, 687

population of, 598–99, 692

reforms of, 286

release of Red Army officers from, 759

Guomindang, see Nationalists, Chinese

Habsburg empire, xv, 557, 558, 598

Haile Selassie, emperor of Abyssinia, 292

Halder, Franz, 567, 647, 676, 680, 687, 700, 704, 708, 779, 784, 814, 815–16, 841–42, 854, 864, 874, 881

Halha River, Japanese-Soviet clash at, 644–45, 650–51, 667, 668, 669, 716, 726, 882

Halifax, Edward Wood, earl of, 559, 621, 622, 633, 638, 648, 652, 653, 658, 675, 679, 763, 775, 784

Hamlet (Shostakovich film score), 283

Hanko Cape, 707, 710, 711, 714, 716, 719, 725

Harbin, China, 30, 92, 172, 597

Harnack, Arvid (“Corsican”), 221, 836, 837, 859, 860, 861, 878

heavy industry commissariat, 371, 514, 606

accusations of wrecking in, 384

arrests in, 348, 405

Hebei province, China, 233

Hegel, G.W.F., 302

Heiden, Konrad, 589–90, 682

Henderson, Nevile, 583, 654–55, 661, 662, 664, 676

Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell), 301

Herriot, Édouard, 146, 147

Herrnstadt, Rudolf (“Arbin”), 220, 659, 699–700

Hess, Rudolf, xiv, 318, 369, 807

in flight to Britain, 866–68, 871

Heydrich, Reinhard, 174, 175, 377, 474

“hidden enemies,” 336, 389, 429, 439

Malenkov’s inventories of, 383, 391

Stalin’s call for ramped-up hunt for, 389–90, 391

Hilger, Gustav, 633, 654, 663, 864, 865

Himmler, Heinrich, 174, 175, 688, 694, 713, 797, 805, 823

Hindenburg, Paul von, 118, 119, 120, 174, 175

Hirohito, emperor of Japan, 458, 536

Hirota, Kōki, 90, 93, 196

history:

ancient, Stalin’s study of, 493

Russian, Stalin’s view of, 465–66, 468

History of National Socialism, A (Heiden), 682

History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), The: Short Course, see Short Course

History of the Russian Revolution (Trotsky), 62

Hitler, Adolf, 158, 218, 237, 298, 329, 350, 473

annihilation of Jews as goal of, 835

anti-Communist hysteria promoted by, 120, 121, 248, 557, 582

anti-Semitism of, 238, 266, 307, 342, 430, 557, 582, 597–98

anti-Slav worldview of, 817

Antonescu’s meeting with, 798

appointed chancellor, 118, 120

assassination attempts against, 700–701, 720

Austrian annexation plan denied by, 240–41

in Beer Hall Putsch, xiv, 559, 867

Britain and France viewed as main enemies by, 474

British concerns about, 238

British empire envied by, 833

and British-German relations, 355, 904–5

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

Chamberlain manipulated by, 698–99

Chamberlain’s appeasement of, 565–66, 591, 652–53, 662, 674, 677

Chancellery offices of, 585

charisma of, 304, 557

coup plots against, 563–64, 567

Czechoslovak democracy undermined by, 558

daily routine of, 585–86

Danzig trip of, 684–85

dictatorial powers of, 120–21, 698

diplomatic maneuvering by, 286–87

Eastern Pact rejected by, 189

European conquest as goal of, 652, 814, 817, 888–89

fiftieth birthday celebration of, 629–30

Four-Year Plan of, 329

French-Soviet alliance denounced by, 252, 275–76, 288–89