German invasion of, 1
Katyn massacre, 1, 2, 3, 4
losses during the war, 1
and Nazi–Soviet pact, 1
prison camps, 1
Soviet troops enter, 1
trophies in, 1
Warsaw Uprising, 1
Poles, 1
police agents, 1
Polish army, 1
Polish campaign, 1
political officers (politruks), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
politzei, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pomerania, 1
Ponomarenko, 1
portyanki (footcloths), 1, 2, 3
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 1, 2, 3
post-war adjustment process, 1
Potsdam, 1, 2
Potsdam conference (July 1945), 1
Pozharsky, Dmitry, 1
PPZh (pokhodno-polevye zheny; ‘marching field wives’), 1
Prague, 1
Pravda, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Pripet marshes, 1, 2, 3
prisoners-of-war
change in type of, 1
German treatment of, 1, 2
and Nazi military observers, 1
problems of containing, 1
Russian treatment of, 1, 2
Prokhorovka, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Prokofiev, Sergei, 1
propaganda
aimed at the army, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
and the churches, 1
hate, 1, 2
and humour, 1
images of triumph, 1
Kopelev on, 1
state needs, 1
stereotypical images, 1
Prussia, 1, 2
looting, 1, 2
violent revenge by Red Army, 1
Pskov, 1, 2
Pukhovichi, 1
‘punished’ groups, 1
punishment units, 1, 2
Puppet Theatre, Moscow, 1
purges, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Pushkarev, Lev, 1, 2
Putin, Vladimir, 1
queues, 1
Rabichev, Leonid, 1, 2, 3
racism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
radio, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
rape, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Raskova, Marina, 1
Red Army
accommodation problems, 1
the army as another universe, 1
artillery, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
camps for disgraced men, 1
captured troops, 1
casualties, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
closing of gap between officer and men, 1
collapse of, 1
combat motivation discussed, 1, 2, 3, 4
Communist Party’s instrument of progress, 1
compared with German army, 1
demobilization, 1, 2, 3
desertion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
destroyed and renewed at least twice during the war, 1
disabled veterans, 1
equipment in short supply, 1, 2
ethnic groups in, 1, 2, 3
exchange of prisoners with German army, 1
expansion of, 1, 2
farm work, 1, 2, 3, 4
folklore and superstition, 1
food, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
friendly with American troops in
Germany, 1
friendships, 1
General Staff, 1, 2, 3, 4
growing professionalism, 1
‘Hoorah!’ slogan, 1, 2, 3
hospitals and medical supplies, 1, 2, 3, 4
humour, 1, 2
ideology in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
infantry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
language (mat), 1
last major force left fighting Hitler’s armies on the ground, 1
military decorations, 1
morale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
new pragmatism, 1
numbers in active service, 1, 2
as an occupation force, 1
officer élite, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
officers’ losses, 1
‘Panfilov men’, 1
primary groups (buddies), 1, 2, 3, 4
racial labelling, 1
radio communication, 1
reaction to Stalin’s speech of, 3 July, 1941, 1
recruitment, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
reform, 1, 2
religious belief, 1, 2, 3
reservists, 1, 2, 3, 4
riflemen, 1
self-esteem, 1
special military academies, 1
stalls the Nazi advance on Moscow, 1, 2
stress, 1, 2, 3, 4
takes revenge in Germany, 1
tank armies, 1, 2, 3
tanks, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
training programmes, 1, 2
transport problems, 1
uniforms, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
war crimes, 1
women recruited, 1
Red Army Day (23 February), 1, 2
Red Army newspaper, 1
Red Cavalry, 1
Red Cross, 1
Red Fleet, 1
‘red horde’, 1
Red Star newspaper, 1, 2, 3, 4
Reese, Roger, 1, 2
refugees, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Reichstag building, Berlin, 1
religion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Reuber, Kurt, 1, 2
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 1
rifles see under guns
Riga, 1
rocket launchers, 1
Rokossovsky, Konstantin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Romania, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Romanovs, 1
Rommel, Erwin, 1
Rossosh’, 1
Rostov-on-Don, 1
fall of, 1, 2
retaken by Soviets, 1
Rotmistrov, General Pavel, 1
Rovno, 1
Rudneva, Zhenya, 1
Rudnya, near Smolensk, 1
Russia
deaths under Nazi occupation, 1
see also Soviet Union
Russian civil war (1918–21), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
daily reports and public debates, 1
illegal arrests and mass executions, 1
and naming of Stalingrad, 1
sloganeering days of, 1
‘Russian committees’, 1
Russian Liberation Army (ROA), 1
Russian Revolution (1917), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Russian ‘soul’, 1
Rzhev, 1
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 1
Sakhalin, 1
samogon (home brew), 1, 2, 3
Samoilov, David, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
samostrel (self-inflicted wounds), 1
Sapun ridge, Crimea, 1
memorial, 1
schizophrenia, 1, 2
Schulenburg, Friedrich, Count von der, 1
scurvy, 1
secret police, 1, 2, 3
Seelow Heights, 1
Senyavskaya, Elena, 1
Serdyuk (at officer training camp), 1, 2
Sevastopol, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
sex
attitudes to, 1
lack of availability to Red Army, 1
rape, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Shchelyabug, 1
Shevelev, Anatoly, 1, 2, 3, 4
show trials, 1, 2, 3
shtrafniki (members of the punishment units), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Siberians, 1, 2
Simferopol, 1, 2
Simon, Max, SS general, 1
Simonov, Konstantin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘Kill Him!’, 1
The Living and the Dead, 1, 2
‘Wait for Me’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Singer Sewing Machine plant, Berlin, 1
Sivash marshes, 1
slave labour, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Slesarev, Aleksandr, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Slesareva, Mariya (Masha), 1, 2, 3, 4
Slutsky, Boris, 1
small-group loyalty, 1
SMERSh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Smolensk, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
battle of, 1
demobilization in, 1
evacuees from, 1
recaptured (September 1943), 1
Smolensk region, 1, 2, 3, 4
sniper training, 1, 2