Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

Lenin, Vladimir, (i); Brest-Litovsk peace treaty and, (i); collected works of, (i), (ii); ex-libris stamp of, (i); First World War and, (i); ‘Lenin’s Testament’, (i), (ii); on Marxism and communism, (i), (ii); Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, (i), (ii), (iii); note taking by, (i); personal library of, (i), (ii), (iii)n5; Poland and, (i), (ii); Provisional Government and, (i); public libraries and, (i); religion and, (i); revolution and, (i), (ii); RSDLP and, (i); Stalin and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); Stalin differences with, (i), (ii), (iii); Stalin’s library books by, (i); trade unions and, (i)

Leningrad, (i)

Lenin Institute, (i), (ii)

Leninism, (i), (ii)

Lenin Library, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Lenin’s Doctrine of Revolution (Ksenofontov), (i)

‘Lenin’s Testament’, (i), (ii)

Lermontov, Mikhail, (i)

Lessing, Doris, (i)

Lessons of October, The (Trotsky), (i), (ii)

Let History Judge (Medvedev), (i)

Levitsky, Nikolai, (i)

libraries, private, (i)

libraries, public, (i)

library of Stalin, (i); background and overview of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); about the books of, (i); Alexandrov writings of, (i); at Blizhnyaya, (i); classification of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)n5; collecting and borrowing books for, (i); discovering, (i), (ii); female authors of, (i); foreign language books of, (i); foreign translations of, (i); language books of, (i); Lenin and, (i), (ii); letters and notes of, (i); librarians of, (i), (ii); maps of, (i), (ii)n43; marked books in (see marked books in Stalin’s library); memoirs and diaries of, (i), (ii); military writings of, (i), (ii); non-fiction book acquisition for, (i), (ii); pamphlets of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); philosophy books of, (i); poetry of, (i); record collection of, (i), (ii)n48; re-imaging Stalin and, (i); reports of congresses, conferences and organisations of, (i); science books in, (i); stamped books of, (i)

library purges, (i)

lichnyi fond of Stalin, (i), (ii), (iii)

Life magazine, (i)

Light beyond the Marshes (Bryl), (i)

Lissagaray, Olivier, (i)

literacy, (i)

literary journals, (i); see also specific journals

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

literature and Stalin, Soviet see Soviet literature and Stalin

Literaturnaya Gazeta, (i), (ii)

litsedei, Stalin as a, (i)

Litvinov, Maxim, (i)

Livonian War, (i)

Lockhart, R. H. Bruce, (i)

Lozovsky, Solomon, (i), (ii)

Ludendorff, Erich, (i), (ii)

Ludwig, Emil, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)n3

Lukin, Nikolai, (i)

Lukov, Leonid, (i)

Lunacharsky, Anatoly, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Luther, Martin, (i)

Luxemburg, Rosa, (i), (ii)

Lysenko, Trofim, (i), (ii)

Lysenko affair, (i)

Machiavelli, Niccolò, (i)

MacKinnon, Elaine, (i)

Malenkov, Georgy, (i), (ii), (iii)

Malinovsky, Roman, (i)

Malory, Thomas, (i)

Mandelstam, Osip, (i)n63

Manuchar’yants, Shushanika, (i)

Mao Tse Tung, (i)

maps, (i), (ii)n43

marginalia, (i)

marked books in Stalin’s library: background and overview of, (i), (ii); ancient history books and, (i); Bismarck writings and, (i); diplomacy writings and, (i); expressions used in, (i); Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, (i); historical works and, (i); Kautsky writings and, (i); Ksenofontov writings and, (i); Lenin writings and, (i), (ii)n16; Machiavelli writings and, (i); Marxism and, (i); military writings and, (i), (ii), (iii); pre-1917 writings and, (i); question of, (i), (ii)n20; reimagining Stalin and, (i); of Shtein intro to D’Abernon, (i); Trotsky writings and, (i)

Marr, Nikolai, (i), (ii)

Martov, Julius, (i)

Marx, Karl, (i), (ii)

Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin Institute, (i)

Marxism: individual and, (i); language and, (i), (ii), (iii); Lenin versus Trotsky and, (i); materialism and, (i); science and, (i); Stalin and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); working class and, (i)

Marxism and the National and Colonial Question (Stalin), (i)

Marxism and the National Question (Stalin), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

materialism, (i); dialectical, (i), (ii), (iii); historical, (i)

Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (Lenin), (i), (ii), (iii)

Maximenkov, Leonid, (i)

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, (i)

McNeal, Robert H., (i), (ii), (iii)

Medvedev, Roy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)n47

Medvedev, Zhores, (i), (ii), (iii)

Mein Kampf (Hitler), (i)

Memoirs of a British Agent (Lockhart), (i)

Menace of Japan (O’Conroy), (i)

Mensheviks, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Meshcheryakov, G., (i)

Meskovsky, A. A., (i)

Metro-Vickers, (i)

Mikoyan, Anastas, (i), (ii)

military knowledge of Stalin, (i)

military purge, (i)

Military-Revolutionary Committee, (i), (ii)

military science versus military art, (i)

Military Thought, (i)

Mints, I. I., (i), (ii)

Mishulin, A. V., (i)

Mitin, M. B., (i)

mobilisation, (i), (ii)