Stalin

“speaking Bolshevik” and, 124

Stalin’s pathology as nourished by, 5, 901

Trotsky’s attacks on, 13–14, 374, 434, 494

Stalin, Iosif, inner circle of:

in closing of ranks behind Stalin, 107, 114, 116–17, 129, 308

compromising files on, xvi

shrinking of, 500

Stalin’s psychological breaking of, 375, 386, 433, 526, 709

Yagoda’s antagonistic relationship with, 393

Stalin, Iosif, speeches of:

on class war (December 27, 1929), 35

to 18th Party Congress (March 10, 1939), 607–8, 609, 862

to 8th Congress of Soviets (November 25, 1936), 352–55, 372

at industrial managers conference (June 23, 1931), 76

to Main Military Council (June 2, 1937), 418–19

at military academies graduation (May 4, 1935), 249–50

at military academies graduation (May 5, 1941), 860–61, 870

to 17th Party Congress (January 26, 1934), 156–57, 210

at Social Industry conference (February 4, 1931), 73

Stalin, Iosif, writings of:

“Dizzy with Success,” 39, 40, 42

Foundations of Leninism, 13

On Lenin and Leninism, 134

Questions of Leninism, 154

“Year of the Great Break, The,” 28

Stalin, Vasily, 2, 3, 103, 108, 135, 165, 179, 187, 209, 230, 234, 263, 270, 281, 388, 466, 526

at military aviation school, 599–600, 720, 751

and mother’s death, 111, 112

rebellious behavior of, 166, 267, 599–600

Stalin (Bey), 154

Stalin: A Critical Study of Bolshevism (Souvarine), 261–62

Stalin: A New World Seen Through One Man (Barbusse), 1, 225–26, 263

Stalin: Czar of All the Russians (Lyons), 780–81

Stalin and Hashim, the Years 1901–1902: Episodes from the Batum Underground, 214

“Stalin and the Crisis of the Proletarian Dictatorship” (Ryutin), 104, 464

Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin (Gerasimov), 733, 854

Stalingrad, 32, 180

Stalingrad Tractor Factory, 44–45

Stalinist Thermidor, The (Trotsky), 787

Stalin School of Falsification (Trotsky), 540, 787

State, Bureaucracy, and Absolutism in the History of Russia, The (Olminsky), 493

State and Revolution (Lenin), 494

“State Capitalism or Totalitarian State Economy?” (Hilferding), 760

statecraft:

Stalin’s preoccupation with, 579

terror campaign as, 309, 494–95, 552

Stepanyan, Nerses (Nersik), 503, 504

Stern, Grigory, 382, 406, 538, 650, 667, 669–70, 726, 736, 755, 878

Stetsky, Alexei, 181, 205, 225–26

Stöbe, Ilse (“Alta”), 220, 699–700, 722, 735, 828, 840, 842, 848, 865–66, 877

stock markets:

1929 crash in, 27–28, 32

1931 crash in, 85

Stolypin, Pyotr, 297, 792

Strang, William, 168, 242, 648

Stravinsky, Igor, 292

Sudetenland, 555, 561–62, 563, 565–66, 598

Sudoplatov, Pavel, 610–11, 627, 764, 801, 894

Suicide, The (Erdman), 148

Sukhanovka prison, 438, 549, 618–19

Sukhum, 136, 137, 139, 311

Sumbatov-Topuridze, Yuvelyan, 518, 541

Sunday Express, 166

Supreme Council of the Economy, 32, 66, 82, 91

Supreme Soviet, 354, 383, 471, 475–76, 528, 541, 543, 908

presidium of, 475, 543, 908

Surits, Yakov, 275, 365–66, 402, 403, 623, 633

Suslov, Mikhail, 205, 603–4

Suursaari (Hogland) Island, 711, 714, 719

Svanidze, Alexander “Alyosha,” 108, 388

Svanidze, Ketevan “Kato,” 3, 33, 108, 388

Svanidze, Maria, 108, 191, 211, 212–13, 234–35, 251, 273, 277–78, 365, 388–89

Svechin, Alexander, 2, 168, 825

Sweden, 711, 717, 800, 889

Switzerland, neutrality of, 889

Syrtsov, Sergei, 29, 53, 57–58, 59, 64, 69, 303, 443

Taganka prison, 497

Tajiks, 138, 853

tanks, Soviet, 188, 265–66, 290, 668, 755, 839, 857, 861, 893

acquisition of British and U.S. designs for, 91–92

in Spanish civil war, 344, 346, 351

Stalin’s order for increased production of, 91–92

Tanner, Väinö, 712, 713, 714, 715, 717, 718–19, 746, 747

Tarasova, Alla, 404, 424, 593, 853

Tatekawa, Yoshitsugu, 811, 878–79

Tbilisi (Tiflis), 3, 33, 63, 81–82, 503, 504, 505–6, 514, 542

technology:

Soviet importation of, 71–72

Stalin’s interest in, 74, 188

terror campaign (1936–38), xii, 553, 902

arrests of managers and specialists in, 434, 444, 445, 599, 821

belief that Stalin was unaware of, 481–82

building socialism as justification for, 308

Central Committee decimation in, 443

Comintern arrests in, 446–47

Communists’ conspiratorial worldview as central to, 439–40, 490

death toll in, 305, 313

disorder and inefficiency resulting from, 497

as driven by Stalin’s dark personality and political skill, 490

ethnic groups as targets of, 453–54, 476

extrajudicial killings in, 448

fabrication of evidence in, 570

factors contributing to, 307–8, 438, 439

fatalism and willing complicity in, 450, 543–44, 551

“fifth column” rationale for, 428–29, 613

foreign affairs commissariat arrests in, 447–48

inexplicability of, 480–82, 492, 552

kernels of truth in justification of, 483–84

Lyushkov’s denunciation of, 532–33

mass arrests in, 403–4, 434, 438–39, 443–44, 551