Stalin: A Biography

Trotski, Lev: ridicules Stalin,; leads St Petersburg soviet (1905); as thinker; criticises Stalin; speechmaking; arrested; returns to Central Committee; revolutionary policy; hostility with Stalin; denigrates Stalin as marginal; omitted from Central Committee assignments; military role in October Revolution; forms Sovnarkom; opposes coalition with other socialist parties; as People’s Commissar for External Affairs; Lenin’s attitude to; controls funds, ref36; Lenin overshadows; and revolutionary war outside Russia, ref38; and separate peace in First World War; assassinated; as People’s Commissar for Military Affairs; advocates state terror; and Stalin’s activities in Tsaritsyn; believes in conspiracies; Lenin supports as Red Army head, ref51; indifference to Party; public appearances; and 1920 war with Poland; in Civil War; attacks trade unions; loses Lenin’s favour; suppresses Kronstadt mutiny; quarrel with Molotov, ref62; administrative duties; and Lenin’s health decline; renewed alliance with Lenin; and Stalin’s policy on national question, ref66; in Lenin’s Testament, ref67; outspokenness with Lenin; at Twelfth Party Congress; unpopularity in Party; appointed to Orgburo; opposes NEP; on ‘scissors crisis’; misses Lenin’s funeral; attacked at Thirteenth Party Conference; Jewishness; as rival leader to Stalin; demands industrial growth; defeated; writings; and socialism in other countries; Stalin and Bukharin act against; in United Opposition; excluded from Central Committee; and economic reform; mocks Stalin’s international policy; and Stalin’s 1922 dispute with Lenin; as continuing threat; Stalin vilifies; exile and deportation; and culture; reviled; supporters arrested; accused of anti-Soviet actions; writes recollections; promotes on basis of competence; Voroshilov disparages; and worldwide socialist revolution; accuses Stalin of betraying October Revolution; Stalin pursues; and Fourth International; Art and Revolution; The Lessons of October; ‘The New Course’

Truman, Harry S.: succeeds Roosevelt; at Potsdam Conference; and use of nuclear weapons; and defeat of Japan; Stalin unimpressed by; accepts coexistence; mistrusts Soviet intentions; policy on USSR; and Cold War; non-interference in eastern Europe; denigrated in USSR; and Korean War; sends Coca-Cola to Stalin; sends condolences on Stalin’s death

Tsaritsyn (later Stalingrad; then Volgograd): Stalin procures grain and wages war in,; renamed Volgograd; see also Stalingrad, battle of

Tsereteli, Giorgi

Tsereteli, Irakli

Tskhakaya, Mikha,

Tsushima, battle of (1905)

Tucker, Robert,

Tukhachevski, Mikhail: in war against Poland; Stalin suspects of conspiracy; arrest and execution,

Tupolev, Andrei

Turkey: as potential invader of USSR,; supports national liberation in colonies; Stalin makes territorial demands on

Turukhansk District, Siberia,

Uglanov, Nikolai

Ukraine: hostility to Russia, ref1; self-rule proposed for, ref2, ref3; regional authority (Rada), ref4; Germans occupy, ref5; Piłsudski invades, ref6; Wrangel threatens, ref7; and autonomisation, ref8; established as Soviet state, ref9; treaty with RSFSR, ref10; nationhood, ref11, ref12; grain shortages and quotas, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17; Poles deported from, ref18; famine, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22; supposed genocide in, ref23; frontiers closed, ref24; Stalin’s integration plans for, ref25; Germans overrun, ref26; plundered by Germans, ref27, ref28; Soviet failed offensive in (1942), ref29; resistance to Soviet rule in, ref30, ref31, ref32; post-war conditions, ref33; dissenters sent to Gulag, ref34

Ukrainian Autocephalous Church

Ulam, Adam

Ulrikh, Vasili

Ulyanova, Maria (Lenin’s sister),

Unforgettable 1919 (film)

Union of Writers

United Front

United Nations Organisation,

United Opposition,

United States of America: economic development, ref1; foreign policy, ref2; diplomatic recognition of USSR, ref3; Stalin encourages commercial relations with, ref4; wartime supplies to USSR, ref5, ref6, ref7; wartime relations with Allies, ref8; develops atomic bomb, ref9; post-war power and influence, ref10, ref11, ref12; Stalin suspects of post-war hostility, ref13; Stalin seeks state loan from, ref14; containment policy on USSR, ref15; and Cold War, ref16; Soviet hostility to, ref17; and Korean War, ref18; Stalin’s views on political economy in, ref19; Soviet post-Stalin relations with, ref20

Uranus, Operation

Uratadze, Grigol,

USSR see Soviet Union

Ustinov, Marshal D.F.

Valedinski, Dr Ivan

Varga, Jeno,

Vasilevski, General Alexander,

Vatutin, General Nikolai

Vavilov, Nikolai

Vereshchagin, I.

Vereshchak, Semën,

Versailles, Treaty of (1919),

Vienna: Stalin in

Vinogradov, Dr Vladimir,

Vipper, R.

Vladimir, Archbishop, Exarch of Georgia

Vlasik, Nikolai,

Vlasov, Lieut.-General Andrei

Volga region: collectivisation in

Volga! Volga! (film)

Volgokonov, Dmitri

Volodicheva, Maria,

Vologda

Volunteer Army (White Russian)

Vorontsov-Dashkov, I.I.