Stalin

Merkulov, Vsevolod, 260, 508, 542, 588, 606, 619, 717, 805, 807, 852, 874, 883

Meshcherino, 540, 542–43, 619

Messing, Stanisław, 23, 24, 35, 78

Metekhi fortress prison, 509

Mexico, Trotsky in, 368, 610, 787, 892

Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 284, 476, 649–50, 740, 770

Mężyński, Wiaczesław, 14, 22, 23, 50, 51, 52, 54, 56, 64, 77, 79, 103, 134, 345, 478

Mikhailov, Maxim, 594–95

Mikhoels, Solomon, 231, 635

Mikoyan, Anastas, 16, 41, 43, 55, 64, 96, 114, 176, 180, 209, 225, 262, 278, 308, 314, 385, 428–29, 471, 516, 843

on cult of Stalin, 7

and German trade negotiations, 598, 696, 756, 786

as inner circle member, 262, 386, 500, 526

Kirov murder and, 205

and proposed replacement of Rykov, 55

Stalin’s breaking of, 386

on Stalin’s darkening mind-set, 491

on Stalin’s eating habits, 165

Stalin’s mealtime meetings with, 225

Mikulina, Yelena, 18–19

military, Soviet:

budget of, 223, 278, 821

December 1940 conference of, 824–27

forward defense doctrine of, 824–25, 830, 844, 871, 881, 885

intelligence department of, see Soviet military intelligence

preemptive strike against Germany envisioned by, 869–71

Stalin’s refusal to order full war footing for, 869–70

Stalin’s rejection of preemptive strikes by, 870

war plans of, 779, 843–44, 869–71

see also navy, Soviet; Red Air Force; Red Army; Soviet Far Eastern Army

military academy graduations, Stalin’s speeches at, 249–50, 860–61

Miliukov, Paul, 746–47

Mironov, Sergei (Miron Korol), 415, 461, 471, 482

as NKVD head in Western Siberia, 449–50, 451

secret police career of, 448–49

Mironova, Agnessa, 449, 461

modernity, mass-based, 296–97

Mogilevsky, Solomon, 139–40

Moiseyev, Igor, 593, 648

Mola, Emilio, 315–16, 318, 351, 407, 428

Molchanov, Georgy, 228, 389

Moldavia, Moldavians, 138, 786

Molière, 231

Molière (Bulgakov), 284–85

Molotov, Vyacheslav:

on Anti-Comintern Pact, 357, 655

antipathy toward Litvinov of, 623, 624, 625

appointed head of government, 65

on arrests of staff, 581

on Axis pact, 793

background of, 65

Beria’s rivalry with, 550, 692

Berlin visit of, 794, 797, 798–99, 803, 805–9, 811, 815, 818

Bessarabia ultimatum of, 773

Britain viewed as main enemy by, 274

and British trade talks, 776, 777

on Bukharin’s relationship with Stalin, 433

as Central Committee member, 605

economic policy and, 257, 258

on famine of 1931–33, 127

at February 1937 Central Committee plenum, 386, 388, 389, 396–97

Finnish negotiations and, 708–9, 710, 711, 714, 715, 716, 717, 718–19, 720

as foreign affairs commissar, 625, 863

as Germanophile, 643, 780

and German violations of the Pact, 790–91, 799

on German-Soviet relations, 356

grain procurements and, 180

as head of government, 605, 843

Hitler’s meetings with, 806, 807–8, 823

Hitler-Stalin Pact and, 637, 650, 659, 660, 666, 672–73, 685, 695

industrial sabotage report of, 388

as inner circle member, 161–62, 205, 262, 393, 500, 526, 623

Kaganovich’s rivalry with, 66, 262

as key to survival of Stalin dictatorship, 69

Kirov murder and, 205, 209

letters to wife from, 786

mass executions authorized by, 542

Mongolian border clashes and, 644

on Nikolayev, 207

Orjonikidze’s eulogy delivered by, 385

as proposed replacement for Rykov, 53, 56, 64

and proposed Soviet inclusion in Axis powers, 813, 831

replaced as head of government, 863

Schulenburg’s meetings with, 898

self-assurance of, 625–26

and severing of Finnish relations, 722

and Soviet invasion of Poland, 681, 683–84

Spanish civil war and, 381

Stalin’s correspondence with, 24, 25–26, 31, 32, 47, 48–49, 50, 53, 58, 84, 100, 189, 262, 266–67, 268–69

Stalin’s criticisms of, 863, 865

on Stalin’s drive for self-improvement, 495

on Stalin’s friendship with Kirov, 134

Stalin’s mealtime meetings with, 211, 225

Stalin’s relationship with, 237, 624, 625–26

on Stalin’s view of Hitler, 822

on Stalin’s work ethic, 892

terror campaign and, 429, 624

on third Five-Year plan goals, 606–7

and Triple Alliance proposal, 633, 634, 639, 647–49, 653, 656

Winter War and, 746

Yezhov’s threatening of, 500

Yugoslavia and, 848

Molotov, Zhemchuzhina, 193, 274, 593, 692

Molotovsk shipyard, 703

Moltke, Count Helmuth von (the Elder), xiv

Moltke, Hans-Adolf von, 221, 596

Mongolia, Inner, 125, 233–34

Mongolia, Outer (Mongolia People’s Republic), 83, 88, 98, 125, 234, 287, 366, 456, 458–59, 485, 557, 737, 852

army of, 196

in border clashes with Manchukuo, 455–56, 535–40, 547, 557, 562, 597, 644–45, 650, 667–70, 677, 683, 726, 755, 902

Japanese attack on frontier post of, 277

lamas in, 147, 195, 277, 278, 309, 462

mass arrests and executions in, 482

military budget of, 277, 278, 280

NEPmen in, 147

Red Army troops in, 197, 280, 461, 644, 650–51, 653, 667–68

reversal of party policy in, 97

showcase trials in, 461, 462

Soviet nonaggression pact with, 196–97

as Soviet puppet state, 147–48, 195, 289

Stalin’s concerns about, 147–48, 195

Stalin’s forgiveness of debt of, 196

Stalin’s mass arrests in, 460–61

uprisings in, 97

Mongolian People’s Party, 147, 737

Moravia, 774

Morocco, Franco in, 314–15

Moscow:

antiaircraft defenses of, 889

famine in, 112

food rationing in, 16

mass terror in, 520

May 1 celebrations in, 246–48, 290

Napoleon’s occupation of, 888