Stalin

Ivanovo, 95, 444

Ivan the Terrible Killing His Son (Repin), 465

Ivan Vasilevich (Bulgakov), 284–85

Japan:

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

in border clashes with Soviets, 456–57, 535–40, 547, 557, 562, 597, 644, 650, 667–70, 677, 683, 726, 755, 902

British relations with, 653

China war of, 321, 330, 359, 364, 457–59, 460, 530, 533, 536, 539, 557, 597, 667, 677, 743–44, 793, 805

as common enemy of Britain and USSR, 168

expansionism of, 88, 129, 145, 168, 239, 277, 298–99, 581, 675

German relations with, 650

Germany’s sharing of intelligence with, 485

limited resources of, 833

Manchuria occupied by, 83–84, 88; see also Manchukuo

Poland’s offers of cooperation with, 93, 597

as possible German ally in attack on USSR, 534

proposed Chinese alliance with, 233

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

in search for allies, 196

Soviet accusations of espionage by, 487

Soviet Far East seizure as goal of, 90, 92, 501

in Soviet neutrality pact, 852

Soviet offers of nonaggression pact rebuffed by, 90, 114

Soviet relations with, 83, 239–40, 243, 650, 665, 793–94, 796–97, 811, 851–52

Soviet war seen as inevitable by, 89–90, 91, 92, 98, 125, 597

Stalin’s avoidance of provocations of, 530

Stalin’s expectation of war with, 125, 143, 287, 456, 536

Stalin’s military buildup provoked by, 91

in Tripartite Pact, see Axis pact

Japan, Sea of, 702

Japanese Army:

failed putsch in, 287

Munich Pact and, 574

troop strength of, 112

see also Kwantung Army, Japanese

Japanese intelligence, 597

anti-Soviet operations of, 526–27

German attack on USSR discounted by, 882

Germany’s sharing of intelligence with, 485, 533

Lyushkov defection and, 532, 533–34

Red Army underestimated by, 668

Stalin’s antispy campaign as windfall for, 527, 532–33

Japanese Korean Army, 531, 536

Javakhishvili, Mikheil, 512, 513, 517

Jelagin, Juri, 422, 472, 476, 593

Jews:

alleged international conspiracy of, 430, 589, 597

expelled from NKVD, 522

forced to wear Star of David, 736

Hitler’s desire for annihilation of, 835

Kristallnacht attacks on, 598

Polish, 687–88

Ukrainian pogroms against, 690

in Vienna, 560

see also anti-Semitism

Jodl, Alfred, 685, 784, 785, 791, 815, 824, 838, 900

Johnson Act (1934), 167

Jolly Fellows (film), 215–16, 217, 230, 273, 284, 293, 452

Jughashvili, Besarion “Beso,” 3, 154

Jughashvili, Galina, 523

Jughashvili, Yakov, 3, 108, 270, 272–73, 388, 523, 526, 860

attempted suicide of, 250

Jughashvili, Yevgeny, 523

July 11 (film), 690

justice system, Soviet, 176, 190

Kaganovich, Lazar:

appointed transport commissar, 225

as Central Committee secretary, 500

eulogy for Nadya delivered by, 112

famine and, 100, 122–23

at February 1937 plenum, 388, 394

grain procurements and, 180

“hidden enemies” campaign resisted by, 324, 325

as inner circle member, 180, 205, 215, 386, 393, 500, 526

as key to survival of Stalin dictatorship, 69

Kirov murder and, 205, 206

Molotov’s rivalry with, 66, 262

NKVD mass arrests sabotaged by, 500

Orjonikidze’s friendship with, 386, 500

party apparatus run by, 325, 518–19

and proposed replacement of Rykov, 55

regional party arrests and, 444

Stalin’s breaking of, 386, 709

Stalin’s correspondence with, 81, 82, 84, 98, 100, 102–3, 136, 140–41, 178, 180, 182, 184, 189, 263, 264, 266–67, 268–69, 313, 324, 332, 333, 338, 342

on Stalin’s darkening mind-set, 491

Stalin’s mealtime meetings with, 211, 225

Stalin’s relationship with, 237

Stalin’s toast to, 694

as Stalin’s top party deputy, 65–66, 82

Trotskyite-Zinovievite trial and, 331

Tukhachevsky trial and, 423

workers’ strikes and, 95

on Yezhov’s appointment as NKVD head, 345

Kalinin, Mikhail, 7, 49, 75, 145, 193, 205, 227, 269, 292, 308, 563, 801, 908

Kamenev, Lev, 22, 104, 105, 229, 253, 387, 437, 467

alleged involvement in Kirov murder of, 210–11, 212, 213, 232–33, 236–37

Bukharin’s meeting with, 12

as defendant in Trotskyite-Zinovievite trial, 331

execution of, 333, 376, 602

imprisonment of, 325

internal exile of, 107

interrogation of, 332

Kaganovich’s denunciation of, 324

in Kirov murder trial, 219, 532

Kremlin Affair sentence of, 260

at 17th Party Congress, 156

Stalin’s mercurial relationship with, 228, 236–37, 332–33

Trotskyite-Zinovievite Center testimony of, 319

Kamenev, Sergei, 420

Kaminsky, Grigory (Gofman), 510–11

Kandelaki, David, 246, 366, 414, 515

execution of, 700

German rapprochement sought by, 271–72

and German-Soviet political negotiations, 373, 402

in German trade negotiations, 208, 246, 257, 259, 264, 271–72, 279, 291

Stalin’s meetings with, 208–9, 257, 271, 414

Kangxi, emperor of China, 457

Kapitsa, Pyotr, 853

Karaganda camp complex, 497

Karakhan, Lev, 89, 93, 419, 447

Karelia, Soviet, 711, 712, 724, 725, 746, 772

Karelian Isthmus, 710–12, 714, 718, 725, 727, 746, 753

Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, 753

Kartvelishvili, Lavrenti (Lavrentyev), 81, 82

Kasahara, Yukio, 78, 89–90, 92

Katyn Forest, slaughter of Polish officers in, 745, 795

Kayurov, Vasily, 103–4

Kazakh autonomous republic, 117

death toll in, 127

deported kulaks in, 76