Ustaša, 15.1, 15.2
Uzbekistan, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2
Vandenberg, Arthur, 17.1, 17.2
Vasilevsky, Aleksandr, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Vatutin, Nikolai, 3.1, 3.2
Venezia Giulia
Victory Day (V-E Day), 6.1, 7.1
Victory Program
Vienna, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 16.1
Vietnam, 9.1, 12.1, 19.1, 19.2, epl.1
Vinnytsia, 10.1, 11.1
Vinogradov, Vladimir
Virumaa County, Estonia
Vistula River, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Vitebsk
Vladivostok
Vlasik, Nikolai
Vlasov, Andrei A.
Voice of America (VOA)
Vojvodina
Volga River, 1.1, 1.2, 11.1, 11.2, epl.1
Volhynia
Volkogonov, Dmitri
Volksdeutsche (German people)
Voronezh
Voronov, N. N.
Voroshilov, Kliment, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 21.1
Voznesensky, Nikolai, 3.1, 7.1
Vyshinsky, Andrei, 2.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2
Waddams, Frank
Waffen-SS
War Cabinet, British, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1
war crimes, 3.1, 6.1, 10.1, 16.1, 16.2
War Economy of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War, The (Voznesensky)
Warsaw, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Warsaw Pact Treaty Organization
Warsaw Uprising (1944), 5.1, 8.1
Wehrmacht, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1
Welles, Sumner
“White Russians,” 10.1, 11.1
Willkie, Wendell
Winter War
Wolf, Mischa
Wolff, Karl
women, 6.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 15.1
in Soviet Union, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 11.1, 21.1, 21.2, epl.1
World Federative Republic of Soviets
World Jewish Congress
World Peace Conference (1949)
World War I, itr.1, itr.2, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 11.1, 15.1, 16.1, 21.1, epl.1
World War II, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, itr.5, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 11.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, epl.1, epl.2
Xinjiang
Xoxe, Koçi, 15.1, 20.1
Yagoda, Genrikh, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
Yakovlev, Alexander, 21.1, epl.1
Yalta Conference (1945), 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 18.1
Yaroslavl
“year of the great turn” (perelom)
Yeltsin, Boris
Yenukidze, Abel
Yevpatoria
Yezhov, Nikolai, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2
Yugoslav Communist Party, 15.1, 17.1, 18.1
Yugoslavia, itr.1, itr.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, epl.1
Zachariadis, Nikos, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Zagreb
Zerabulak
Zhdanov, Andrei, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 21.1, 21.2
Zhdanov, Yuri, 7.1, 7.2
Zhdanovchina (“Zhdanov era”)
Zheleznovodsk
Zhemchuzhina, Polina, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2
Zhivkov, Todor
Zhou Enlai, 19.1, 19.2
Zhukov, Georgi, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 9.1, 13.1
Zinoviev, Grigory, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Zionism, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 12.1, 12.2
Zossen, Germany
Zubok, Vladislav
A Note About the Author
Robert Gellately is the Earl Ray Beck Professor of History at The Florida State University and recently was the Bertelsmann Visiting Professor of Twentieth Century Jewish Politics and History at Oxford University. He is the author of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe; The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933–1945; and Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
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ALSO BY ROBERT GELLATELY
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany
The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist’s Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses at the Nuremberg Trials (edited by Robert Gellately)
The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder and Other Mass Crimes in Historical Perspective (edited with Ben Kiernan)
Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany (edited with Nathan Stoltzfus)
Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789–1989 (edited with Sheila Fitzpatrick)
The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy, 1933–1945
The Politics of Economic Despair: Shopkeepers and German Politics, 1890–1914
Large Map Images
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by Robert Gellately
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-96235-5
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-307-26915-7
Gellately, Robert.
Stalin’s curse : battling for communism in war and Cold War / by Robert Gellately.
pages : maps ; cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-307-26915-7
1. Stalin, Joseph, 1879–1953. 2. Soviet Union—Politics and government—1936–1953. 3. Communism—Europe—History—20th century. I. Title.
DK268.S8G44 2013
947.084′2092—dc23 2012028768
Front Cover photograph © ullstein bild/The Granger Collection, NYC
Cover design by Linda Huang
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