Stalin

famine in, 76, 106, 122, 127, 129

forced settlement of nomads in, 76, 128

grain procurement in, 113, 128, 180

livestock losses in, 127

starvation in, 41

Kazakhs, 106, 127

Kazakhstan, Republic of, 354, 449, 453

mass arrests of party machine in, 444

Kegel, Gerhard (“X”), 220, 699, 700, 775, 864, 895

Keitel, Wilhelm, 475, 633, 685, 785, 805, 824, 900

Kennan, George, 335, 481, 674

Kerensky, Alexander, xi, 336, 485

Kerzhentsev, Platon (Lebedev), 283, 284–85, 476

Khachaturyan, Aram, 853

Khanjyan, Aghasi, 502–4

Kharkov, 32, 122, 146–47, 370

Khasan, Lake, 535, 536, 539, 547, 557, 562, 644, 650, 726

Khatayevich, Mendel, 106–7

Khrushchev, Nikita, 109, 110, 162, 235, 358, 373, 426, 497, 510, 768

arrests and executions overseen by, 520

background of, 206

on Beria’s appointment as NKVD deputy head, 541–42

Beria’s relationship with, 501, 520–21

elevated to Central Committee, 162

on German invasion of Poland, 682–83

as inner circle member, 501

as Kaganovich protégé, 518–19

Kirov murder and, 206

on mass terror, 433

on Mein Kampf, 682

on Molotov, 625–26

as Moscow party boss, 225, 504, 519, 520

in politburo, 521

on Stalin’s fear of German attack, 893

Stalin’s relationship with, 519–20, 546, 550, 605, 662–63

Trotsky association of, 519–20

as Ukraine party boss, 504, 520, 522–23, 542

Khryunkin, Timofei, 826–27

Kiev, 41, 146, 370, 844

Kiev special military district, 779

German invasion of, 900

King Lear (Shakespeare), 231

Kirov, Sergei, 46, 109, 196, 197

as Central Committee secretary, 161–62

documentary film about, 209, 218, 219

extramarital affairs of, 194

funeral of, 209

as inner circle member, 107, 161–62, 526

Leningrad film industry and, 193

as Leningrad party boss, 46, 55, 107, 134, 161–62, 194

personality of, 134

at 17th Party Congress, 160

in Sochi, 179–80

Stalin’s friendship with, 111, 133–34, 191–92, 193, 210, 311

as unlikely possible replacement for Stalin, 160–61

Kirov, Sergei, assassination of, 201–13, 216, 372, 469, 476, 478, 485, 491–92, 526

Agranov and, 211

alleged Zinovievite conspiracy in, 210–12, 219, 232, 236

Borisov’s death and, 207, 220

conspiracy theories about, 235–36

Draule and, 202, 203, 206, 210, 218–19, 232

first trial and executions in, 213

Kamenev and, 232–33, 236–37, 532

mass arrests in, 305

Medved and, 235

Nikolayev as solely responsible for, 235

Nikolayev’s confession in, 202, 204, 210, 211

Nikolayev’s execution for, 213

Nikolayev’s stalking of Kirov in, 199, 200, 235

NKVD and, 202, 206, 228

NKVD investigation of, 208, 228, 232, 236, 369–70, 527, 532

NKVD negligence in, 201, 205, 219, 220, 235, 236

public viewing of body in, 208, 209

radio announcement of, 206

reopened investigation into, 313, 323

rumored liaison of Kirov and Draule as motive for, 203

second trial in, 218–19

Stalin and, 205, 206–7, 209, 235, 236–37

2004 forensic analysis of, 202–3

witness accounts of, 202, 203

Yagoda and, 235

Yezhov and, 224

Zinoviev and, 210–11, 212, 213, 229, 232–33, 236–37, 532

Kleist, Peter, 636, 646, 651–52

Knickerbocker, H. R., 63–64

Knight in the Panthers Skin, The (Rustaveli), 516–17

Knorin, Wilhelm, 171, 172, 189, 446

Kobulov, Amayak (“Zakhar”), 803–4, 809, 823, 836, 838, 840, 873, 880, 883

Kobulov, Bogdan “Bakhcho,” 501, 508, 588, 626, 804, 840, 878, 879

Koestler, Arthur, 435

Kola Peninsula, 133

Kollontai, Alexandra, 179, 301, 427, 627, 715, 741

Kolotilov, Nikolai, 57–58

Koltsov, Mikhail, 71, 154, 255, 376, 416, 545

accusations against, 409

death sentence of, 740

journalism career of, 334

1938 showcase trial reports of, 479

as Pravda correspondent in Spain, 334–35, 339, 351, 352, 364, 406, 408–9, 459–60

as Soviet agent, 364, 382

Stalin’s mocking of, 408–9

Kolyma River region, 133

labor camps in, 133, 286, 497, 598

Kommunarka killing field, 455, 479, 480

kommunas, 35

Komsomolsk shipyard, 703, 805

Konar, Fyodor (Polashchuk), 435–36

Konoe, Fumimaro, 457, 793, 851

Konovalets, Yevhen, 610, 611

Kopelev, Lev, 123–24

Korean Peninsula, Japanese annexation of, 92

Koreans, in USSR, deportations of, 453, 528

Kork, August, 411–12, 422–23

Korniychuk, Oleksandr, 274, 896

Korotkov, Alexander, 836, 837

Korzhenko, Vasily, 447, 626

Kosior, Stanisław, 29, 94, 100, 102, 103, 125, 129, 211, 308, 520

Köstring, Ernst, 414, 455, 633, 647, 663, 673, 684, 685–86, 784, 873, 884

Kosygin, Alexei, 603, 757

Kotolynov, Ivan, 210, 211, 212

Kozlovsky, Ivan, 594–95, 853–54

Krebs, Hans, 852, 856–57, 864

Krejčí, Ludvik, 558, 561, 562

Kremlin:

alleged conspiracy of cleaning personnel in, see Kremlin Affair

defense commissariat oversight of, 228, 229

as government headquarters, 66

as secret headquarters of Stalin dictatorship, 57, 66–67

Stalin’s apartment in, 108, 111, 163, 165, 191, 234, 388, 600

Kremlin Affair, 227–28, 253–54

NKVD investigation in, 228–29, 231–32

sentences in, 259–60

Yenukidze and, 231–32, 233

Krestinsky, Nikolai, 5, 144, 263, 327, 328–29, 333–34, 347, 447, 478

Kristallnacht, 598

Krivitsky, Walter, 583, 675, 696

Krivoshein, Semyon, 382, 405, 686

Kruglov, Sergei, 541, 589

Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 387, 425, 602

Kuibyshev, Nikolai, 473, 478

Kuibyshev, Valerian, 32, 55, 98, 101, 113, 190, 220