Stalin

Twardowski, Fritz von, 269–70, 275

Twelve Chairs, The (Ilf and Petrov), 285

“25,000ers,” 36–38, 42, 43, 123

“Tyrants Destroyed” (Nabokov), 550

Uborevičius, Jeronimas, 21, 51, 78, 266, 341, 378, 395, 412, 414, 421, 422–23

Uglanov, Nikolai, 104, 107

Ukraine, 38, 77, 81, 125, 127, 138, 147, 180, 275, 773

annexation of Polish territory by, 716

anti-Soviet fifth column in, 774–75, 892

ethnic Poles in, 211

famine in, 98, 100, 102, 113, 122, 123, 129

German aerial reconnaissance of, 855

grain procurements in, 102, 106, 117, 128

mass arrests in, 520, 522

Poland’s destabilization efforts in, 89, 102

purges in, 124

terror campaign in, 517, 520, 522

Ulan Bator, 280, 289, 461, 462, 482

Ulrich, Vasily, 212, 331, 373, 423–24, 479

Ulyanova, Maria, 387, 425, 602

Umansky, Konstantin, 854–55

Under the Big Top (Ilf and Petrov), 293

Unforgettable Meeting, An (Yefanov), 733

Union of Soviet Writers, 151, 177–87

United States:

bank failures in, 85–86

British aid from, 833–35, 843, 904

Chinese aid from, 843

and Germany’s plans for Soviet invasion, 854–55

Hitler’s envy of, 833–34

industrial capacity of, 816, 834

Japanese codes broken by, 855

Nazi attacks on Jews criticized by, 598

1929 stock market crash in, 27–28, 32

1931 stock market crash in, 85

Soviet relations with, 63, 145, 263

support for Britain in, 791, 793

unemployment in, 72

in World War I, 833

Unpublished Shchedrin, 186

Urals, 122, 128

Uritsky, Semyon, 252–53, 341, 342, 378, 413, 423

Ürümqi, Xinjiang, 167, 459

Uspensky, Alexander, 449, 499, 521–23, 541, 578, 620

USSR and the Capitalist Encirclement, The, 598

Utyosov, Leonid, 215–16, 451–52, 888

Uzbekistan, 138, 354, 451, 453, 773

Valedinsky, Ivan, 47, 365

Vannikov, Boris, 738–39, 878

Varga, Jenő, 172, 401–2, 545, 791

Vasilevsky, Alexander, 739, 750–51, 806, 843, 869, 871

Vernadsky, Vladimir, 482, 618, 689–90

Versailles, Treaty of (1919), xv, 21, 63, 80, 143, 158, 168, 218, 243–44, 288, 557, 559, 566, 591

Hitler’s denunciation of, 240, 254, 612, 630, 675

Vishnevsky, Vsevolod, 417, 581, 672, 690, 719, 788, 849

Vistula River, 679, 684, 686, 695

Viva, Villa! (film), 230

Vladivostok, 133, 528, 535

Vlasik, Nikolai, 141–42, 166, 178, 267, 526, 618, 663

Volga military district, 77, 411, 530, 759, 811

Volga region, 27, 30, 39, 70, 75, 87, 98, 101, 122, 128, 180, 182

Volynskoe, Stalin’s dacha at, see Near Dacha

Voroshilov, Klim E.:

army buildup and, 99, 100–101

army loyalty defended by, 396–97

army maneuvers and, 265, 266, 341

and decimation of officer corps, 426–27, 754

as defense commissar, 20, 21, 30, 33, 51, 66, 77, 248–49, 251, 262, 290, 340, 395–96, 473, 529, 567, 605

at February 1937 plenum, 394, 396–97

as inner circle member, 393, 500, 526

as key to survival of Stalin dictatorship, 69

and Manchukuo border clashes, 539–40, 644–45, 650, 651

military intelligence and, 172, 252

in military talks with Britain and France, 656, 657–58, 661

military training lacked by, 395, 758

replaced by Timoshenko as defense commissar, 757

sixtieth birthday celebration of, 832

at Sochi, 135–36

Soviet Far East and, 536

and Soviet invasion of Poland, 681

Spanish civil war and, 381, 382, 405–6

Stalin’s correspondence with, 88, 100–101, 123, 265, 406

Stalin’s psychological breaking of, 500

Stalin’s relationship with, 110, 394–95

Tukhachevsky despised by, 51–52, 397–98, 412, 418

Tukhachevsky trial and, 423, 424

Winter War and, 724, 726, 735, 736, 740–41, 743, 751

Voznesensky, Nikolai, 840, 843, 863

Vrang, Birger, 711, 713

Vyborg (Viipuri), Finland, 712, 743, 746, 748

Vyshinsky, Andrei, 62, 212, 213, 232, 319, 328, 354, 405, 478, 772, 796, 802–3, 811, 851

Waffen-SS, 475

Walküre, Die (Wagner), 812

Wang Ming, 362, 469, 470–71

Warlimont, Walter, 685, 686, 824

water transport commissariat, 498, 499, 543, 587

Wehrmacht, 341, 420, 431, 566, 609, 654, 766

buildup of, 240, 246, 266, 269–70

in Bulgaria, 872

in Finland, 792, 808, 813, 829

Hitler’s military leadership criticized in, 473

in Lvov clash with Red Army, 685–86

mechanized units in, 767–68, 877

in Polish invasion, 620–21, 678–79, 682, 684, 687

Soviet invasion plans and, see Germany, Nazi, Soviet invasion preparations of

unpreparedness of, 559, 566–67

in Yugoslavia invasion, 848–49

Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 621–22, 623, 639, 640, 646, 650, 651, 657, 793, 806, 866, 896

Welkisch, Kurt (“ABC”), 221, 651, 699, 840–41

Welkisch, Margarita (“LCL”), 221, 699

Welles, Sumner, 854–55

Wells, H. G., 48, 178, 296

Western military district, 779, 838, 899

Western Siberia, 16, 40, 41, 48

mass arrests and executions in, 451, 452, 517, 549

White Sea–Baltic Canal, 133, 134, 153, 194

Wilson, Horace, 652, 656

Winter War, 735, 739, 751, 774, 776, 827, 828, 893

Finnish “People’s Government” and, 723–25, 729

Finnish surrender in, 746–47

Finnish tactical superiority in, 727–28

opening Red Army attacks in, 723

Soviet February offensive in, 742–43, 746

Soviet strategic and tactical mistakes in, 726–27, 731, 748, 820

Stalin’s assessment of, 753–54, 760

Stalin’s personal management of, 726, 730, 731–32