Kadets see Constitutional-Democratic Party
Kaganovich, Lazar: supports Stalin in Orgburo; as First Secretary of Communist Party of Ukraine; deports Poles; shares Stalin’s assumptions; in Politburo; Stalin orders to shave off beard; Stalin devolves power to; as Stalin’s confidant; and growth of state power; approves Nadya Allilueva’s travel abroad; speaks at Nadya’s funeral; on effect of Nadya’s suicide on Stalin; pleads for industrial slowdown; requests lowering of Ukraine grain quotas; engineers Stalin’s re-election at 17th Party Congress; orders demolition of Moscow cathedral; and Stalin’s family ride on Metro; and Stalin’s views on Nakhaev; writes memoirs; shares Stalin’s class attitudes; and Stalin’s belief in decisive action; on Stalin’s fear of ‘fifth column’; and Yezhov’s appointment to NKVD; Stalin accuses; participates in Great Terror; Stalin asks to prevent publication of articles; association with Stalin; and sister’s supposed relations with Stalin; reponsibilities for transport in war; imitates Stalin; Jewishness; and Stalin’s wish to retire; and succession to Stalin; and Stalin’s death; approves reforms after Stalin’s death
Kaganovich, Maya
Kaganovich, Moisei
Kaganovich, Rosa
Kalashnikov (of Industrial Academy)
Kaledin, General Alexei
Kalinin, Mikhaiclass="underline" and Stalin’s return to work after appendectomy; and agrarian policy; as head of state; and popular unrest; and Stalin’s rule; wife arrested and detained; fondness for ballerinas
Kalinina, Yelena
Kamenev, Lev: character; leads Marxist group in Tbilisi; internationalism; Stalin meets in Kraków; Lenin demands punishment of; in exile; tried (1915); and Grand Duke Mikhail’s refusal to take crown; supports Provisional Government0; rejected for membership of Russian Bureau; returns to Petrograd; appointed to editorial board of Pravda; combative programme; Lenin attacks; and First World War; follows Lenin’s strategy; Lenin supports for election to Central Committee; arrested by Provisional Government; in Central Committee; opposes Lenin’s revolutionary policy; status and fame; Jewishness; opposes gratuitous violence; supports separate peace in First World War; in Civil War; and control of Cheka; and revolutions abroad; heart problems; and Stalin’s appointment as General Secretary of Party; and dispute between Stalin and Lenin on autonomisation; opposes incorporation of Soviet republics; in Lenin’s Testament; Krupskaya writes to on Stalin’s abuse; protects and allies with Stalin; authority in Politburo; administrative duties; at Lenin’s funeral; fails to press Testament charges against Stalin; defeats Left Opposition; mistaken reference to nepman; Stalin turns against; economic policy; leadership ambitions; opposes Stalin and Bukharin; writes on Leninism; excluded from Central Committee; and Bukharin’s peasant policy; as continuing threat; evidence of disloyalty to Stalin; taken into NKVD custody and sentenced; confession and execution; Voroshilov disparages; and Svetlana’s love affairs
Kamenev, Sergei
Kameneva, Olga
Kaminski, G.M.
Kaminski, V.
‘Kamo’ see Ter-Petrosyan, Semën
Kanner, Grigori
Kapanadze, Peter
Kapler, Alexei
Karamzin, Nikolai
Karpov, B.
Karpov, G.
Katyn forest massacre (1940)
Kautsky, Karl; The Driving Forces and Prospects of the Russian Revolution
Kavtaradze, Sergei
Kazakhstan: famine in; supposed genocide in; agricultural reforms in
Kemal Pasha (Ataturk)
Kennan, George
Kerenski, Alexander: in Provisional Government; and conduct of First World War; premiership; calls Democratic Conference; Lenin demands overthrow of; and Bolshevik threat; defeated in move against Petrograd
Ketskhoveli, Lado
Ketskhoveli, Vano
Ketskhoveli, Vladimir
Kharkov
Khazan, Tamara (wife of Andrei Andreev)
Khazanova, Tamara
Khlevnyuk, Oleg
Kholodnaya Rechka
Khrennikov, Tikhon
Khrushchëv, Nikita: denounces Stalin; on Stalin’s early modesty; in Great Terror; Stalin accuses of being Pole; on ‘cult of personality’; association with Stalin; womanising and drinking; rebuked for congratulating Stalin on victory over Germany; on counter-productive effect of repression; desires agricultural reform; and famine in Ukraine (1947); Stalin teases for corpulence; at Nineteenth Party Congress; fears Stalin’s disfavour; at Stalin’s 73rd birthday party; watches film with Stalin; and succession to Stalin; reforms after Stalin’s death; rise to power; removed from power (1964); reputation
Khrustalëv, Ivan
Kiev: falls to Germans
Kim Il-Sung
Kirov, Sergei: supports Stalin on status of republics; in Caucasian Bureau; allies with Stalin; and grain procurement; friendship with Stalin; asked to take over from Stalin; assassinated; and national identity
Kishkin, Nikolai
Kislovodsk episode
Kleiner, I.N.
Klimov, M. (Svetlana’s bodyguard)
Knorin, V.G.
Knunyants, Bogdan
Kobulov, Bogdan
Kolchak, Admiral Alexander
Kolkhoz Model Statute (1935)
kolkhozes (collective farms); markets
Kollontai, Alexandra
Komsomoclass="underline" militancy; support for Stalin
Kondratev, Nikolai
Konev, General Ivan
Königsberg,
Konovalov, Alexander
Korchagina, Alexandra
Korean War (1950–53)
Kornev (acquaintance of Stalin)
Kornilov, General Lavr
Korshunova, Fekla
Kosior, Stanislav
Kovalëv, Ivan
Kraków
Krasin, Lev
Krasnov, General P.N.
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk Party Regional Committee
Kravchenko (prison guard)
Krestinski, Nikolai,
Kronstadt; naval mutiny (1921)
Kruglov, Sergei
Krupskaya, Nadezhda (Lenin’s wife): invites Stalin to dine; dispute with Stalin; and Lenin’s health decline; Stalin abuses; objects to embalming and display of Lenin; as Lenin’s biographer; and Lenin’s Testament; relations with Nadya Allilueva; asks Nadya Allilueva to intervene in Georgian affair; supports Zinoviev and Kamenev; and culture
Kseshinskaya, Matilda
Kuban area (north Caucasus)
Kuibyshev
Kuibyshev, Valeryan
kulaks: Stalin persecutes; Bukharin supports; wish for commercial opportunities; taxed; flourish; excluded from collective farms; repressed in Ukraine; see also peasants
Kulikov, Yevgeni
Kun, Miklós
Kuntsevo
Kuomintang,
Kurchatov, Igor
Kureika (hamlet), Turukhansk District
Kurile Islands
Kursk, battle of (1943)
Kushner, Professor
Kutaisi Prison
Kutuzov, Mikhail
Kuzakova, Maria
Kuznetsov, Alexei
Kuznetsov, Admiral N.G.
Kvali (Tbilisi newspaper)
labour camps; see also Gulag
Labouring Peasant Party (fictitious)
Lagidze, Mitrofan
Lakoba, Nestor
Landau, Lev
Largiashvili (seminarist)
Largo Caballero, Francisco
Lashevich, Mikhail,
Latvia: resists Soviet expansionism; as Soviet republic; nationhood in; reclaims independence; German-Soviet conflict over; Stalin demands and occupies; Germans conquer; reannexed by USSR; Stalin’s post-war aims in; armed resistance in; deportations from; see also Baltic states
Latvians: killed in Great Terror
Lazurkina, Dora
League of the Militant Godless,
League of Nations: excludes USSR; USSR applies for admission; ineffectiveness against Japan