Stalin: A Biography

Gosplan (State Planning Committee): established,; controls economy, ref3, ref4; under pressure from Stalin, ref5; success, ref6

Gottwald, Klement,

GPU (formerly Cheka): on succession to Lenin, ref1; Bolsheviks’ dependence on, ref2; see also NKVD

grain: post-Revolution shortages, ref1; and procurement, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; and peasant hoarding, ref9, ref10, ref11; and Stalin’s economic policy, ref12; prices, ref13, ref14; exports, ref15, ref16; quotas, ref17

Great Terror: and Stalin’s despotism,; Stalin’s responsibility for questioned, ref11, ref12; and Stalin’s supposed work for Okhrana, ref13; foreshadowed in Civil War, ref14; Khrushchëv’s part in, ref15; effect on intellectuals, ref16; and Bolshevist values, ref17; sanctioned and practised, ref18; ends, ref19, ref20; Khrushchëv denounces, ref21; effects, ref22

Greece: post-war unrest in,; communism in, ref3

Grek, Mitka

Gromyko, Andrei

Groza, Petru

Guchkov, Alexander,

Gulag: expanded,; Trotskyists dispatched to, ref4; ethnic Russians avoid, ref5; conditions in, ref6; economic effects of, ref7, ref8; intransigence in, ref9; mineral production, ref10; prisoners-of-war in, ref11

Gumilëv, Lev

Gumilëv, Nikolai

Harbin: Great Terror in

Harriman, Averell,

Hervieu, Mme (Tbilisi dressmaker)

Herzen, Alexander: General Philosophy of the Soul

Hingley, Ronald

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan

Hiroshima

Hitler, Adolf: Jewish policy, ref1; becomes Chancellor, ref2; Stalin admires for brutality, ref3; repressions, ref4; cult of, ref5, ref6; rise to power, ref7; intervenes in Spanish Civil War, ref8; as threat, ref9; Communist opposition to, ref10; Stalin considers deal with, ref11; and non-aggression pact with USSR (1939), ref12; Stalin’s view of, ref13, ref14; concedes Baltic States to Stalin, ref15; Stalin appeases, ref16; aggressiveness, ref17; plans to attack USSR, ref18; invades USSR, ref19; and initial German successes in USSR, ref20, ref21; despises Slavs, ref22, ref23; occupation policy in USSR, ref24; and German isolation in USSR, ref25; orders offensive against Stalingrad, ref26; and Stalingrad defeat, ref27; and imprisonment of Stalin’s son Yakov, ref28; interferes in conduct of Russian campaign, ref29; Stalin’s rivalry with, ref30; and Soviet advance, ref31; retains army support, ref32; suicide, ref33, ref34; remains removed to Moscow, ref35; Stalin compared with, ref36; posthumous reputation, ref37; Mein Kampf, ref38; see also Germany

Hoxha, Enver

Hümmet organisation (Azerbaijan)

Hungary: and Panslavism, ref1; USSR demands reparations from, ref2, ref3; anti-communist majority in, ref4; Soviet interference in, ref5

Ibárruri, Dolores (‘La Pasionaria’),

Ignatev, Sergei

Ilichëv, Leonid

Ilovaiski, D.I.

Indian National Congress

Industrial Academy, Moscow,

Industrial Party (fictitious)

industrialisation: Stalin introduces forced-rate,; and labour force, ref9; advanced, ref10; and worker unrest, ref11, ref12; growth targets reduced, ref13; and increased output, ref14

Institute of Red Professors

International Brigades (Spain)

International, Fourth

Ioffe, Adolf

Irakli II, ruler of Georgia

Iran: wartime supplies to USSR through, ref1; Soviet forces in, ref2, ref3

Iremashvili, Joseph,

Iskra (journal),

Israel: Stalin quarrels with

Istomina, Valentina,

Italian Communist Party,

Italy: in Spanish Civil War, ref1; signs Anti-Comintern Pact, ref2; Stalin’s concern for, ref3; Eurocommunism in, ref4

Ivan IV (the Terrible), Tsar: Stalin’s view of,; and Russian nationhood, ref5

Ivan the Terrible (film)

Ivanovo

Iveria (newspaper)

Japan: war with Russia (1904–5),; as threat to USSR, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; US policy towards, ref7; occupies Manchuria, ref8, ref9; invades China, ref10, ref11; signs Anti-Comintern Pact, ref12; war with USSR (1939–40), ref13, ref14; in Second World War, ref15, ref16, ref17; Stalin promises to enter war against, ref18, ref19, ref20; Allied ultimatum to from Potsdam, ref21; surrender after atom-bomb attacks, ref22; US post-war hegemony in, ref23; and Korean War, ref24

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

Jewish Bund,

Jews: in Menshevik party, ref1; Stalin’s attitude to, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; and nationality question, ref8; repressed and persecuted, ref9, ref10; in foreign communist parties, ref11; post-war policy of hostility to, ref12; see also anti-semitism

Kadets see Constitutional-Democratic Party