Stalin

Moscow, 1937 (Feuchtwanger), 416–17

Moscow Artists’ Union, 284

Moscow Art Theater, 148, 150, 151, 284, 404, 552

Moscow International Film Festival (1975), 230

Moscow metro, Stalin’s ride on, 234–35, 250–51

Moscow-Volga Canal, Gulag labor force of, 404

Mosfilm, 422

Moskvin, Ivan, 224, 593

Motherland (Wasilewska), 789

Mukden, Manchuria, 30, 83, 457

Mukhina, Vera, 411, 853

Munich, 597

Munich Beer Hall:

attempted assassination of Hitler in, 700–701, 720

failed putsch in, xiv, 559, 867

Munich Pact, 565–66, 567, 572, 574–75, 592, 609, 674, 699, 763

Stalin and, 578, 579

Murmansk, 133, 739, 740, 748

Musavat counterintelligence, 510, 511, 589

music, 283

socialist realism and, 183–84

Stalin’s interest in, 594

Mussolini, Benito, 189, 210, 285, 292, 298, 317, 318, 329, 350, 525, 565, 767, 814, 816, 838, 849, 889

and German invasion of Poland, 676–77, 678

Hitler’s relationship with, 555–56, 559, 561, 798

and Spanish civil war, 398–99, 406

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography (Trotsky), 62, 540

Myussera, Abkhazia, Stalin’s dacha in, 505

Mzechabuki (ballet), 506

Nabokov, Vladimir, 550

Naggiar, Paul-Émile, 633, 649

Nakhichevan, 518

Nanking (Nanjing), 321, 359, 360, 367

Japanese capture and massacre of, 470

Napoleon I, emperor of France, 690, 888

Narew River, 684, 686

Nasedkin, Alexei, 453–54

Nationalists, Chinese, 17, 29, 83

in civil war with Communists, 262, 277, 321, 359–60, 367, 805

Mao’s offer of negotiations with, 330

massacre of Communists by, 30

northern China abandoned by, 743

proposed Japanese alliance with, 233

Soviet aid to, 459, 470, 471, 530, 535

Soviet relations with, 29–30, 114, 557

in united front with Communists, 277, 362, 364, 379, 458, 459, 470, 539

in war with Japan, see China, Japanese war with

nationalities:

mass terror campaign against, 453–54, 476

Stalin’s view of, 7

National People’s Party, German, 120

National Unity Camp, 688

navy, German, 473, 876

navy, Soviet, 702–3, 704

Nazis, Nazism, xiii

anti-Bolshevism of, 175, 473

Communist Party compared with, 287, 697

as dismayed by German-Soviet Pact, 673

in 1930 election, 53

rise of, 118–19, 129

Stalin’s misunderstanding of, 557

Near Dacha:

accommodations at, 165, 524–25

secrecy of, 164–65

Stalin’s fifty-sixth birthday celebration at, 277–78

as Stalin’s principal residence, 163

Near East, 752, 796, 800, 808

German “peripheral strategy” for, 784, 791, 798, 802, 815, 835, 837–38, 849, 872, 896, 905

Negrín, Juan, 347, 380

Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir, 148, 404

NEPmen (private traders), 12

in Mongolia, 147

Stalin’s suppression of, 72

Netherlands, 766

general mobilization of, 678

German invasion of, 763

see also Low Countries

Neurath, Konstantin von, 292, 402, 473, 628

Nevsky, Alexander, 751

New Economic Policy (NEP), 9–10, 14, 15, 17

New Forms of Combat (Isserson), 826

New Moscow (Pimenov), 607

New York Stock Exchange, 32

Nicholas I, tsar of Russia, 246

Nicholas II, tsar of Russia, 267, 436, 485

abdication of, xi, 301

Night of the Long Knives, 174–75, 221

Nikolayev, Leonid:

childhood of, 197

diary of, 199–200, 203

Draule’s marriage to, 197–98

Kirov murdered by, see Kirov, Sergei, murder of

party expulsion of, 198, 204, 206, 236

quarrelsome nature of, 198

Stalin’s interrogation of, 207–8

workplace problems of, 198, 204

Nikolayev shipyard, 702–3

Nikonov, Alexander, 413, 454–55

Nin, Andreu, 335, 364

assassination of, 410, 425, 534

Nizhny Novgorod, see Gorky

NKGB (state security commissariat), 840, 846, 850, 891, 908

analytical department lacked by, 841

counterintelligence of, 873–74

evacuation of German and Italian embassies reported by, 887

German disinformation campaign and, 878

NKVD (internal affairs commissariat):

arrests in, 376, 379, 393–94, 405, 415–16, 434, 450, 471, 522, 528, 588–89, 595, 603

awards and pay raises for, 451, 472

Beria as head of, 550, 588–89, 595, 605

decline in mass arrests by, 190, 286

at February 1937 Central Committee plenum, 386, 389

foreign intelligence operations of, see intelligence, Soviet

Franco assassination attempts by, 409

Georgians in, 588

German agents captured by, 857

given co-oversight of Kremlin investigation, 229

and hunt for “hidden enemies,” 325, 391

introduction of formal ranks in, 272

investigation of excessive arrests by, 578

Jews and minorities expelled from, 522, 588

Kirov murder and, see Kirov, Sergei, murder of

Kremlin personnel investigated by, see Kremlin Affair

Leningrad branch of, 202, 203–4, 207, 219, 220, 229, 236, 540

mass arrests and executions by, 294, 319, 452–53, 486, 487, 488

mass arrests of foreign agents of, 497, 498–500

Medved as head of Leningrad branch of, 193–94

NKGB separated from, 840

OGPU replaced by, 176–77

Operational Order No. 00447 of, 452

party terror and, 475

Red Army investigated by, 222, 357

in release of prisoners from Yezhov-era roundups, 618

and Sedov’s death, 476

Siberia branch of, 194

in Spanish civil war, 339, 408, 410, 425

spying charges against, 528

“spy mania” arrests by, 486, 487, 488

supposed coup plot in, 391

swollen ranks of, 497–98

torture employed by, 190, 595