Stalin

promoted to marshal, 758

Winter War and, 726, 735, 750

Shatsky, Nikolai, 210, 211

Shcherbakov, Alexander, 282–83, 284, 893

appointed writers’ union secretary, 184–85

as Moscow party boss, 550

Shchukin, Boris, 467, 617

Sheboldayev, Boris, 103, 370

Shestakov, Andrei, 464–65

Shirer, William, 355, 676

Shkiryatov, Matvei, 444, 603

Shkvartsev, Alexei, 680, 731, 791

Shlyonsky, A. B., 571–72

Shneiderovich, Miron, 264–65

Sholokhov, Mikhail, 124–25, 283, 853

Short Course,The History of the all-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), 155, 569–74, 575, 576, 577–78, 579, 605, 902

Short Course on the History of the USSR, A (Shestakov), 465–66

Shostakovich, Dmitry, 283, 293, 732, 853

Fifth Symphony premiered by, 472

Kerzhentsev’s criticism of, 284

showcase trials, 51, 77, 311, 313, 417

in August 1936, see Trotskyite-Zinovievite conspiracy, showcase trial of

Beria’s staging of, 515–16

of engineers, 60–61

in January 1937, 371–72, 373, 376

in March 1938, 478–79, 480

Stalin’s urging of, 477

Shreider, Israel (Mikhail), 481–82

Shumyatsky, Boris, 192, 193, 197, 209, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219–20, 230, 284, 293, 372

Cinema City proposal of, 285–86

Shvernik, Nikolai, 373, 696

Siberia, 180

arrests and executions in, 190

collectivization in, 16, 39, 40, 41, 48, 70

famine in, 75, 76, 97

grain procurement in, 87, 128, 180, 198

Japanese plans for takeover of, 90, 92, 156, 460

labor camps in, 220

mass arrests and executions in, 450–51, 452, 517

Stalin’s exiles to, xi, 67, 90, 133

Zinovievites exiled to, 220

Siegfried Line, 567

Silesia, 774

Simon, John, 242, 665

in meeting with Hitler, 240–41, 254

Simonov, Konstantin, 303–4, 481

Singapore, 784, 811

Sinitsyn, Yelisei, 718–19, 721, 722

Sino-Japanese War (1894–95), 83

Sivkov, Arkady, 860, 862

Škoda Works, 609, 621–22, 631, 704

Skornyakov, Nikolai, 822, 828–29

Slovakia, 609, 612, 613, 687, 889

in Axis pact, 812, 829, 847

mobilization of, 894

Slutsky, Abram, 252, 339, 342, 413, 523–24, 528, 627

Smagin, Vasily, 172–73

Smirnov, Alexander, 113–14, 116, 372, 460

Smolny (Leningrad office complex), 199, 200

Kirov’s office at, 201, 207

Smorodin, Pyotr, 543–44

Smushkevich, Yakov, 472, 878

Snow, Edgar, 363

Sobolev, Arkady, 812, 813, 814

Sochi, 253

Stalin’s holidays in, 24, 25–26, 46–47, 54–55, 80–83, 98–99, 101–2, 135–36, 141, 145, 178, 179–80, 182, 184, 185, 188, 263–65, 267, 269, 308, 311, 313–14, 330, 344–45, 358, 505, 888

Voroshilov in, 187

Social Democrats, 19–20, 302

in antifascist front with Comintern, 262

Comintern and, 171, 173, 175, 189

German, xiii, 19, 53, 118, 119, 121, 179, 307

Stalin’s opposition to cooperation with, 121, 172, 175

socialism, building of, 7

idealistic appeal of, 11, 37, 38, 304–5

as justification for terror campaign, 308

as Stalin’s crusade, 6, 11, 88, 309, 439, 579

“Socialist Competition of the Masses” (Mikulina), 18–19

Socialist Party, German, 220

socialist realism, 151

evolving definition of, 183–84

public embrace of, 186

socialists, socialism:

non-Leninist, 302

Socialist Workers’ Party, Spanish, 338, 401, 405, 408, 460

society, Soviet, Stalin’s class-based analysis of, 353

Sofia, 872

Sokolnikov, Grigory, 147, 320, 637

interrogations of, 332, 336, 363

Solodovnikov, Alexander, 748, 803

“Song of the Motherland,” 293

Sorge, Richard (“Ramsay”), 221, 356, 533, 534, 539, 564, 597, 632, 646, 650, 653, 667, 670, 730, 791, 851, 857–58

and Soviet invasion of Manchukuo, 537, 538

Stalin’s distrust of, 875, 879

in warnings of German attack on USSR, 827–28, 874–76, 883, 890

South Caucasus Federation, 138, 154

Beria’s control of, 502–4

dissolution of, 354, 508, 516

political infighting in, 140–41

South Manchurian Railway, 83

Souvarine, Boris, 261–62

Soviet Far East, 501, 522, 562, 644, 650, 779, 804–5

terror campaign in, 517, 528, 534

Japanese espionage in, 527

Soviet Far Eastern Army, 30, 31, 84, 455, 527, 535, 547, 549

in border clash with Japanese, 537–40

decimation of officer corps in, 529, 531, 534, 540, 562

Stalin’s arrests of officer corps of, 432

troop buildup of, 530

troop strength of, 536

weakness of, 533

Soviet Far Eastern Fleet, 92

Soviet intelligence, 485, 523, 537, 657

arrests in, 496, 575, 589

Beria and, 589

in Britain, 836

British network of, 221–22, 241, 656, 740, 741, 800

counterintelligence operatives of, 222

in Finland, 705–6, 712–13

and German invasion plans, 883, 890, 895

German network of, 699–700, 722, 800, 803–4, 836

German plans for Polish invasion uncovered by, 636–37

on German troop movements, 794

and Hess’s flight to Britain, 868

lack of central clearinghouse in, 909

rebuilt networks of, 636, 835–37

and rumored French-German rapprochement, 239

in slanted report to Stalin on Hitler’s meeting with Britain, 241–42

in Tokyo, see Sorge, Richard

Warsaw networks of, 220–21

see also NKVD

Soviet military intelligence, 341, 659, 735, 775, 836, 841

Artuzov appointed deputy chief of, 172

European alliance negotiations monitored by, 640

German invasion plan reports of, 786, 790, 824, 828–29, 840, 841–42, 845, 846, 858–59, 864, 865–66, 876, 880, 894–95

German network of, 810, 822, 828