Eastman, Max
Eden, Anthony
Egnatashvili, Yakob
Ehrenburg, Ilya
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.
Eismont, Nikolai
Eizenshtein, Sergei
El-Registan, Garold
Emancipation Edict (1861)
Engels, Friedrich
Enukidze, Abel
Eristavi, Count Rapael
Eshba, Yefrem
Estonia: revolutionary unrest in; resists Soviet expansionism; as Soviet republic; reclaims independence; Stalin demands and occupies; Germans conquer; reannexed by USSR; Stalin’s post-war aims in; armed resistance in; deportations from; see also Baltic states
Ethiopia
Europe: post-war settlement negotiated; east under Soviet control; Marshall Aid for; economic policy in east; national independence in east; effect of Khrushchëv’s Stalin denunciation in east
Fadeev, Alexander; The Young Guard
famines,
Fascism
Finland: hostility to Russia; self-rule proposed for; secedes from Russia (1918); as potential invader of USSR; Soviet war with (1939–40)
Five-Year Plans: First; Second
forced labour; see also Gulag; labour camps
Fotieva, Lidia
France: Politburo perceives as threat; attitude to USSR; Stalin woos; neutrality in Spanish Civil War; pre-war relations with USSR; Germans defeat (1940); Stalin’s concern for
Franco, General Francisco,
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria
French Communist Party
Fried, Eugen
Galperin, Lev
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma)
Gegechkori, Yevgeni
Genghis Khan
Georgia: under Russian control; social life; traditions and culture; Marxism in; unrest in; peasants in; nationalism in; Bolshevik-Menshevik differences in; Stalin’s preoccupation with; in Stalin’s Marxism and the National Question; and federal union; as Soviet republic; borders disputed; conquered by Red Army (1921); ethnic problems in; and Abkhazia; Stalin revisits (1921); uprising (1924); and Stalin’s national feelings in the 1930s; repressions in; blood feuds and revenge in; wines; Stalin’s reputation in
Georgiu-Dej, Gheorghe
Germans (ethnic): killed in Great Terror
Germany: Soviet post-war policy in; in First World War; allows Lenin to return to Russia, ref; peace ultimatum to Russia; Lenin plans intervention in; Lenin favours understanding with; military cooperation with Soviet Union; Kautsky’s influence in; economic development; Communist Party in; prospective war with USSR; and Nazi repressions; finds Soviet collaborators after invasion; economic disruption in; Stalin’s pre-war policy on; as threat; intervenes in Spanish Civil War; annexes Austria and Czechoslovakia; signs Anti-Comintern Pact; expansionism; non-aggression pact with USSR (1939); invades and conquers Poland; advance in West (1940); invades USSR (Operation Barbarossa); conquests and advance in USSR; wartime atrocities; advance halted; successes in North Africa; casualties at Stalingrad; retreats before Red Army; antipathy to Panslavism; post-war treatment by Allies; USSR demands reparations from; Allied advances against; defeat and surrender (1945); postwar denazification policy on; occupation zones; Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed; Federal Republic (West Germany) formed; Stalin proposes united government in; see also Hitler, Adolf
Germogen (Rector of Tiflis Spiritual Seminary)
Getty, J. Arch
Gio, Artëm
Glavlit
Glurzhidze, Grigol
Goebbels, Josef
Gogebashvili, Yakob
Golovanov, General A.E.
Gomułka, Władysław
Gorbachëv, Mikhail
Gorbatov, Boris
Gori, Georgia
Gorki, Maxim
Gosplan (State Planning Committee): established; controls economy; under pressure from Stalin; success
Gottwald, Klement
GPU (formerly Cheka): on succession to Lenin; Bolsheviks’ dependence on; see also NKVD
grain: post-Revolution shortages; and procurement; and peasant hoarding; and Stalin’s economic policy; prices; exports; quotas
Great Terror: and Stalin’s despotism; Stalin’s responsibility for questioned; and Stalin’s supposed work for Okhrana; foreshadowed in Civil War; Khrushchëv’s part in; effect on intellectuals; and Bolshevist values; sanctioned and practised; ends; Khrushchëv denounces; effects
Greece: post-war unrest in; communism in
Grek, Mitka
Gromyko, Andrei
Groza, Petru
Guchkov, Alexander
Gulag: expanded; Trotskyists dispatched to; ethnic Russians avoid; conditions in; economic effects of; intransigence in; mineral production; prisoners-of-war in
Gumilëv, Lev
Gumilëv, Nikolai
Harbin: Great Terror in
Harriman, Averell,
Hervieu, Mme (Tbilisi dressmaker)
Herzen, Alexander: General Philosophy of the Soul
Hingley, Ronald
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
Hiroshima
Hitler, Adolf: Jewish policy; becomes Chancellor; Stalin admires for brutality; repressions; cult of; rise to power; intervenes in Spanish Civil War; as threat; Communist opposition to; Stalin considers deal with; and non-aggression pact with USSR (1939); Stalin’s view of; concedes Baltic States to Stalin; Stalin appeases; aggressiveness; plans to attack USSR; invades USSR; and initial German successes in USSR; despises Slavs; occupation policy in USSR; and German isolation in USSR; orders offensive against Stalingrad; and Stalingrad defeat; and imprisonment of Stalin’s son Yakov; interferes in conduct of Russian campaign; Stalin’s rivalry with; and Soviet advance; retains army support; suicide; remains removed to Moscow; Stalin compared with; posthumous reputation; Mein Kampf; see also Germany
Hoxha, Enver
Hümmet organisation (Azerbaijan)
Hungary: and Panslavism; USSR demands reparations from; anti-communist majority in; Soviet interference in
Ibárruri, Dolores (‘La Pasionaria’)
Ignatev, Sergei
Ilichëv, Leonid
Ilovaiski, D.I.
Indian National Congress
Industrial Academy, Moscow
Industrial Party (fictitious)
industrialisation: Stalin introduces forced-rate; and labour force; advanced; and worker unrest; growth targets reduced; and increased output
Institute of Red Professors
International Brigades (Spain)
International, Fourth
Ioffe, Adolf
Irakli II, ruler of Georgia
Iran: wartime supplies to USSR through; Soviet forces in
Iremashvili, Joseph
Iskra (journal)
Israeclass="underline" Stalin quarrels with
Istomina, Valentina,
Italian Communist Party
Italy: in Spanish Civil War; signs Anti-Comintern Pact; Stalin’s concern for; Eurocommunism in
Ivan IV (the Terrible), Tsar: Stalin’s view of; and Russian nationhood
Ivan the Terrible (film)
Ivanovo
Iveria (newspaper)
Japan: war with Russia (1904–5); as threat to USSR; US policy towards; occupies Manchuria; invades China; signs Anti-Comintern Pact; war with USSR (1939–40); in Second World War; Stalin promises to enter war against; Allied ultimatum to from Potsdam; surrender after atom-bomb attacks; US post-war hegemony in; and Korean War
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Jewish Bund,
Jews: in Menshevik party; Stalin’s attitude to; and nationality question; repressed and persecuted; in foreign communist parties; post-war policy of hostility to; see also anti-semitism