Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

Researching the book required a lot of trips to Moscow, which would not have been possible without generous financial support from the School of History and the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork.

The book was commissioned by Heather McCallum. Her dedication to publishing books that are both accessible and scholarly never ceases to amaze me. Many thanks to Heather and her colleagues at Yale London.

Like Heather, my agent Andrew Lownie displayed super-human patience during the years it took me to produce this book.

Finally, thank you Susan Certo for compiling such an excellent index, and Svetlana Frolova for double-checking my transliterations from Russian to English.

INDEX

Abakumov, Victor, (i)

Abyssinia, (i)

Adler, Mortimer J., (i)

Admiral Nakhimov (Pudovkin), (i)

‘Adventures of a Monkey’ (Zoshchenko), (i)

‘Against Federalism’ (Stalin), (i)

Agursky, M., (i)n74

Air War 1936 (Helders), (i)

Akhmatova, Anna, (i), (ii)

Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein), (i)

Alexandrov, Georgy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Alien Shadow (Simonov), (i)

Alliluyeva, Nadezhda ‘Nadya’, (i), (ii), (iii)n5

Alliluyeva, Svetlana see Stalina, Svetlana

All-Russian Communist Party, (i)

All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, (i), (ii)

‘American Billions’ (Stalin), (i)

Anarchism or Socialism? (Stalin), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Ancient Europe and the East (Vipper), (i)

Antaeus, (i)

anti-cosmopolitan campaign, (i), (ii)

anti-religious propaganda, (i)

anti-Semitism, question of Stalin and, (i)

Anti-Soviet Parallel Trotskyist Centre trial, (i)

anti-western cultural campaign, (i)

‘Armed Insurrection and Our Tactics’ (Stalin), (i)

Armenia, (i), (ii)

Arnould, Arthur, (i)

Around the Union of Soviets (Gorky), (i)

Art and Literature Committee, (i), (ii)

atheism, Soviet, (i)

atheist, Stalin as an, (i)

Avdeenko, Alexander, (i)

Azerbaijan, (i), (ii)

backwardness of Russia, (i)

Bakhrushin, S. V., (i), (ii)

Baku Commune, (i)

Balashov, A. P., (i)

Balfour, H. H., (i)

Barber, John, (i)

Barbusse, Henri, (i), (ii)n27

Battle for Our Soviet Ukraine (Dovzhenko), (i)

Batumi shootings, (i), (ii)n45

Bedny, Demyan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)n12

Before Sunrise (Zoshchenko), (i)

Beloff, Max, (i)

Benjamin, Walter, (i)

Berdzenishvili, Nikolai, (i), (ii)n126

Beria, Lavrenty, (i), (ii), (iii)

Beria, Sergo, (i)

Bernstein, Eduard, (i), (ii)

Bible, the, (i), (ii)

biographies on Stalin: background and overview of, (i), (ii)n1; absence of, (i); Barbusse and, (i); Beria and, (i); biographical questionnaire and, (i), (ii)n9; childhood and youth and, (i), (ii); by Medvedev, (i); in memoirs, (i), (ii); by Moskalev, (i); reimagining Stalin in, (i); Short Biography, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); Stalin and His Hangmen, (i); Stalin: A Political Biography, (i); Stalin’s Mind, (i); Tovstukha and, (i); Triumph and Tragedy, (i)

Birse, A. H., (i), (ii)n17

Bismarck, Otto von, (i), (ii), (iii)

Bismarck and the European Great Powers (Windelband), (i)

Black Sea straits, (i), (ii)

Bliokh, Yakov, (i)

Blizhnyaya, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

‘Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites’ trial, (i)

Bloody Sunday, (i)

Boer, Roland, (i)

Bogatyrs, The (Bedny), (i)

Bol’shevik, (i), (ii), (iii)

Bolsheviks: book culture and, (i); Brest-Litovsk peace treaty and, (i); Dickens and, (i); in the Duma, (i); gender and, (i); nationalism and, (i); national self-determination and, (i); Petrograd coup of, (i); Provisional Government and, (i); religion and, (i), (ii)n19; RSDLP split and, (i); self-effacement of, (i); socialism and, (i); Stalin and, (i), (ii)

bookmarks, Stalin’s, (i), (ii), (iii)n5

bookplate of Stalin, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

borderlands, (i)

bourgeois military specialists, (i)

Brackman, Roman, (i)

Bragin, Mikhail, (i)

Brandenberger, David, (i), (ii)

Brdzola, (i), (ii)

Brent, Jonathan, (i)

Brest-Litovsk peace treaty, (i), (ii)

Brik, Lilya, (i)

Brunstedt, Jonathan, (i)

Bryl, Yanka, (i)

Bubnov, Andrei, (i)

Bucar, Annabelle, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)n91

Budenny, Semen, (i), (ii)

Bukharin, Nikolai: All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers and, (i); opposition of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); in Stalin’s library, (i)

Bulgakov, Mikhail, (i), (ii)

Burdzhalov, E. N., (i)

Burlatsky, Fedor, (i)

Caesar, Julius, (i)

capitalism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

censorship, (i), (ii)

Chapaev, (i)

Charkviani, Kandid, (i), (ii)

Chavchavadze, Ilia, (i)

‘Cheap Library’, (i)

Cheka, the, (i), (ii)

Cherkasov, Nikolai, (i), (ii), (iii)n200

Chernenko, Konstantin, (i)n34

Chernyshevsky, Nikolai, (i)

Chikobava, Arnold, (i)

Chizhikov, Petr, (i)

Christianity, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); see also Russian Orthodox Church

Chuev, Felix, (i)