The Great Terror

Vyshinsky, Andrei, 34, 44, 74, 110, 136, 147–48, 151–61, 166, 199, 260, 280, 283–84, 286–87, 306, 431–32, 438, 477: character, 15; show trial role, 35; Yagoda cross-examination, 40; operative principle, 82; NKVD trial role, 90, 93–94, 98–103; confession method, 131; sabotage prosecution, 142; Pyatakov cross-examination, 151, 191; documentary proof remark, 163; purge of old Prosecutors, 180; Moscow purges, 235, 239; trial method, 287; Bukharin Trial, 343–89; Laski’s opinion of, 469–70; denunciation of, 477

Vyshnia, Ostap, 300–301

Vyshnevetsky, 325

Walecki, Henryk, 406

Wallace, Henry, 328–29

Wandurski, 406

Wang Ming, 403n

Warski, A. S., 405–6

Webb, Beatrice, 331–32, 467, 469

Webb, Sidney, 331–32, 467, 469

Weissberg, Alexander, 53, 124, 255, 267, 273–74, 278, 281, 293, 331, 433–34; 485; torture resistance, 128–29; labor camp testimony, 472–73

Wells, H. G., 59

Western opinion, 463–76, 486–87

Western Ukraine Communist Party, 400

“White Guards,” 437: execution of, 45–46; NKVD announcement, 47

White Sea Canal camps, 50

Wilson, Edmund, 466

“Wives of enemies of the people,” 273–74, 315–16

Wolf, Erwin, 415

Women: and Stalin, 68–69; in labor camps, 314–16, 327–28

Work rates, camps, 336

Workers Opposition, 5–6

“Workers’ Truth” group, 6

World War II, 450–57

Writers, 297–300

Writers, International Congress of, 464

Yagoda, Genrikh, 46, 50, 58, 81, 194, 237, 366–67: NKVD role, 34; Kirov murder, 38–44, 50; blackmail by Stalin, 39; court testimony, 40; Kuibyshev’s death, 72; NKVD trial role, 81–83, 89, 92; Gorky murder accusation, 86; Stalin’s attack on, 137–39, 176; resistance to Purge, 138; Yezhov’s attack on, 180; at Bukharin Trial, 341–43, 348, 354; and “medical murders,” 375–89; dramatic testimony at trial, 377–79, 381–83; attempt to kill Yezhov, 380; last plea, 393

Yakir, I. E. (Army Commander), 173, 183, 185, 187–88, 192, 193–94, 196, 199, 203, 205, 212, 230, 231, 232, 237, 347: military career, 183; meeting with Shmidt, 192; arrest of, 200–1; confession, 201; and Khrushchev, 203–4; fate of family, 204; letter to Voroshilov, 204

Yakir, Peter, 485

Yakovlev (professor), 96

Yakovlev, Ya. A., 223–24, 239–40, 347, 420–21

Yakovleva, Varvara, 372–74

Yanata, A., 296

Yanovsky, 231–32

Yanson, M. M., 240

Yaroslavl isolator, 267–68

Yashvili, Pavel D., 301

Yegorov (Marshal), 183n, 184–86, 193, 212, 435, 479

Yelin, 80

Yenukidze, Abel, 38, 77, 194, 200, 305, 368, 381, 397: Kirov murder role, 39, 71; self-denunciation, 71; “attempt” on Stalin’s life, 76; expulsion of, 77; execution, 245–46; rehabilitation, 479

Yepanechnikov, 219

Yertsevo camp, 320

Yesenin, Sergei A., 301

Yevlev, B. I., 343

Yezhov, Nikolai, 75–76, 78, 127, 144–46, 148, 165, 168, 170, 176, 177, 188, 194, 200, 202–4, 244–45, 287: ruthlessness, 14–15, Purge Commission role, 34; blame for Purge, 63; appointment of, 73–74; report on Yenukidze, 77; NKVD trial role, 81, 83, 87, 92; interrogation manual, 126; confrontation with Ordzhonikidze, 167; at Ordzhonikidze’s funeral, 172; and February-March plenum, 173–74; attack on Bukharin, 174; purge of NKVD, 179–80; Moscow purges, 234–36, 239, 248; election to Politburo, 243; hatred of, 256; on NKVD “Troikas,” 286; at Bukharin Trial, 343; attempt on life by Yagoda, 380; Stalin’s distrust of, 421–23; clash with Kaganovich, 422; accused of plotting with Kosarev, 427; fall of, 431–35

“Yezhov method,” 126, 278

“Yezhovschchina,” 63, 145, 248, 265, 441

Yiddish writers, 462

Yoganson, M. G., 303

Young Communist Central Committee, 427

Yugoslav Communist Party, 404

Yurenev, K., 360, 423

Yushkevich, A. K., 429

Zabolotsky, Nikolay, 267, 303–4, 305

Zakharchenko, 200

Zakovsky, L. M., 81, 215–18, 341, 435

Zaks-Gladnev, S. M., 76, 291

Zalpeter, A. K., 274

Zalutsky, P. A., 47, 49, 147

Zalynsky, 481n

Zamyatin, Y. I., 86, 300

Zaporozhets, Ivan, 38, 245: Kirov murder, 39–41; 44, 49–51; sentencing of, 49–50

Zatonsky, V. P., 231–33, 243, 348

Zborowski, Mark, 415

Zeidel, G. S., 101, 291

Zelenin, V., 384

Zelensky, Isaak, 256, 342, 347, 361–64, 390, 394–95, 464–65, 479

Zemlyachka, R. S., 69

Zerov, Mykola, 303

Zhdanov, Andrei, 33, 41, 73, 90, 222, 236, 244, 293, 387, 434, 439, 451: educational system role, 13–14; Kirov’s replacement on Leningrad Committee, 47; alleged assassination attempt on, 100; at February-March plenum, 173, 175; Leningrad Party purge, 214–18; and Lysenko, 297; Central Committee group, 438

Zhelayev, N. S., 306

Zhitomir prison, 264–65

Zhukov (General), 452–53

Zhukov, Evgeni, 461

Zhuravliev, V. R., 438

Zilliacus, Konni, 473

Zinoviev, Grigori E., 61, 76, 115, 117, 127, 129, 165–66, 480: political history, 9–10; and Ryutin, 26; expulsion from Party, 26; confession of, 30, 48–49, 95–96, 109, 115–16, 130–31; at XVIIth Party Congress, 31; Kirov murder, 38, 43–50; arrest of, 46–47; sentencing, 49; alleged plot of, 83–85; surrender of, 87–91; trial and testimony, 95–96; last plea, 103–4; execution, 104; fate of relatives, 105; credibility of evidence against, 105–8; repentance, 109; Party loyalty, 115–16

Zionists, 475

Zipalov, V D., 386

Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 305

Zubarev, P. T., 342,

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