Stalin

Prinkipo (Prince’s Isle), Trotsky’s exile to, 13, 28, 62, 130

prisons, population of, 598

Prokofyev, Sergei, 292–93, 671, 733, 770

Proletarian Revolution, 178

proletariat, “dictatorship” of, 14, 37, 51, 114, 320, 335, 353

propaganda, propagandists, Soviet:

anti-British, 780

1938 meeting of, 570–74

Proskurov, Ivan, 636, 651, 753

Provisional Government, Russian, 301, 467

Pushkin, Alexander, 379

Putna, Vitovt, 331, 423–24

Pu-Yi, Henry, 92

Pyatakov, Georgy “Yuri,” 33, 46, 50, 320, 330, 370, 371, 384, 437

arrest of, 443

execution of, 373, 376

party expulsion of, 337

Pyatnitsky, Osip, 171, 172, 189, 446, 447

Pyryev, Ivan, 293–94

Quiet Flows the Don (Dzerzhinsky), 283

Quiet Flows the Don (Sholokhov), 283

Quisling, Vidkun, 368, 762

Rachmaninov, Sergei, 292

Raczyński, Edward, 575, 622

Radek, Karl, 121, 155, 181, 326, 370, 373

on alleged Trotskyite-Zinovievite conspiracy, 331–32

murder of, 637

in secret negotiations with Poland, 158, 159

Radiant Path, The (film), 795

radio, Soviet:

cable (wired) as dominant technology of, 216–17

Stalin’s speeches broadcast on, 352

tight government control of, 217

Radio Comintern, 217

Radio Moscow, 217

Radó, Sándor (“Dora”), 858, 872

Raeder, Erich, 473, 783, 784, 791, 815, 838, 900

Raikin, Arkady, 732–33

railroads, Soviet:

accidents on, 325

as weak point in military capability, 260–61, 290

Ramzin, Leonid, 60–61, 62

Raskolnikov, Fyodor (Ilin), 274–75, 627

mass terror condemned by, 709

Red Air Force, 824, 839, 861, 893

arrests and executions in, 472

bombers of, 99, 101, 265, 338, 346, 351, 567, 820, 856

fighters of, 78, 346, 351, 567, 668, 756, 820, 839

Red Army:

alleged conspiracies in, 77–78, 331, 350, 378, 391, 411–12, 419, 428, 454

armament buildup of, 20–21, 84–85, 727, 760, 820

Baltic states occupied by, 770–71

dearth of well-trained officers in, 291, 340, 430

decimation of officer corps in, 376–77, 378, 379, 395, 397–98, 407, 414–15, 420–21, 426–27, 428, 430, 434, 473, 495, 521, 536, 537, 551, 562, 563, 578, 592, 603, 754, 757, 781, 893

dysfunctional command structure of, 749

expansion of, 781

in Finnish border mobilization, 721

food rationing in, 98

foreign underestimation of, 591, 592, 675, 748–49, 875, 892–93

former Gulag prisoners returned to duty in, 759

former tsarist officers in, 76–77

forward deployment of, 825

German-Poland, war plan of, 239, 244–45

increased tank production for, 91–92

introduction of formal ranks in, 272

low morale of, 84

in Lvov clash with Wehrmacht, 685–86

in Manchurian invasion, 30–31

maneuvers of, 188, 265–66, 340–41

mechanized units of, 727, 755, 758, 860–61

modernization of, 20–21, 95, 99, 100–101, 131, 188, 223, 265–66, 270, 290, 297, 299, 352, 860–61, 862–63, 892

in Mongolia, 197, 644, 650–51, 653, 667–68

1938 partial mobilization of, 567, 568–69, 578

1941 war games of, 829–30

NKVD investigation of, 222, 357

NKVD troops deployed to block retreat of, 731, 749

OGPU investigation of, 76–77, 84

outdated and inadequate equipment of, 21, 101

paratroopers in, 265–66

preemptive attack on Poland considered by, 245

promotions in, 759

purge of party members in, 411

scale of, 391, 437–38, 603

reinstatement of officers in, 781

reorganization of, 820

September 1939 mobilization of, 681

Stalin’s order for buildup of, 91–92, 98

supposed Trotskyite-Zinovievite conspiracy in, 396

supposed wreckers in, 21–22, 51, 64

tanks and armored vehicles of, 188, 265–66, 290, 755, 839, 857, 861, 893

Timoshenko’s reform of, 758–59

troop strength of, 188, 223, 251, 290, 820, 843–44, 892

Trotsky as head of, 397

Tukhachevsky’s plan and, 91

Tukhachevsky trial and, 422–24

weaknesses of, 534, 563, 871, 893

Western border buildup of, 842–43, 871, 881–82, 894

Winter War casualties of, 748–49

see also military, Soviet; Soviet Far Eastern Army

Red Army, Chinese, 458

Redens, Stanisław, 79, 102, 108, 140, 272–73, 742

Red Guards, 704

Red International of Labor Unions, 335

Reichstag fire, 120, 142–43

Reichswehr, 21, 93, 119, 174

see also Wehrmacht

Reizen, Mark, 595, 853

religion, Stalin’s loathing for, 3, 87

Repin, Ilya, 246–47, 465

Respondek, Erwin, 854–55

Return from the U.S.S.R. (Gide), 416

Revolution Betrayed, The (Trotsky), 328, 335, 787

Reznikov, Boris, 57–58

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 255, 355, 569, 584, 613, 628, 629, 632–33, 636, 639, 640, 650, 673, 676, 677, 731, 752, 805, 838, 842

as Anglophobe, 643

on Axis pact, 793

and evacuation of German embassy in Moscow, 879

and German invasion of USSR, 858, 859

German-Soviet Pact favored by, 642–43, 647, 651, 654

in German-Soviet Pact negotiations, 659, 660–61, 662–65

and Hitler-Stalin Pact, 678, 679, 680, 685–86

Molotov invited to Berlin by, 794, 797, 798–99, 803

and Molotov’s Berlin visit, 806, 808–9

and revision of German-Soviet Pact, 693–94, 695

Soviet inclusion in Axis pact proposed by, 797, 799, 808–9, 817–18, 820, 835

Stalin’s meeting with, 664

Riefenstahl, Leni, 266

Riga, Treaty of (1920), 689

rightists, right deviation, 22, 24, 39, 52, 57, 64, 79, 103, 156, 387, 389, 394, 413, 420, 429, 430, 478, 515