Molotova, Polina (Zhemchuzhina)
Monastyrskoe, Turukhansk District
Montgomery, General Bernard Law (later 1st Viscount)
Morozov, Grigori: marriage to Svetlana
Morris, William
Moscow: Soviet government transfers to from Petrograd; wartime defence of; victory parade (1945)
Moscow Metro: Stalin rides on with family
Moscow Revolutionary Tribunal
Moshentseva, Dr P.
Mother Tongue (Georgian anthology)
Murakhovski, A.A.
Muranov, Matvei
Murmansk
Musavatists
Mussolini, Benito,
MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs)
Nagasaki
Nagy, Ferenc
Nakhaev, General A.S.
Nalchik
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French
Narym: Stalin exiled to
national question: Stalin on; and Stalin’s commissarship; Party policy on; and autonomous republics
Nazaretyan, Amakyan
Nazism: Stalin’s attitude to rise of; see also Germany; Hitler, Adolf
Nenni, Pietro
Neumann, Franz
New Economic Policy (NEP): introduced (1921); Trotski’s reservations on; and Stalin’s socialism; Bukharin supports; Stalin destroys; achievements
Nicholas II, Tsar: war with Japan; issues October Manifesto (1905); and composition of Duma; in First World War; disperses Duma (February 1917); abdicates; behaviour; coronation
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nikolaev, Leonid
NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs): expanded; OGPU incorporated in; arrests; purges Leningrad; and Constitution (1936); Yezhov heads0; and forced labour; in Great Terror; reports on public opinion; Beria replaces Yezhov as head; liquidates Spanish Trotskyists; purges Polish Communist Party exiles; and foreign communist activities; operations in Poland; in Baltic States; scorched-earth policy; in wartime Leningrad; repressions in wartime; post-war activities and records; see also GPU; MGB; OGPU
Nogin, Viktor
Nomonhan
Normandy invasion (1944)
North Africa: German successes in
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Novaya Uda, Irkutsk Province
Novaya zhizn (newspaper)
nuclear weapons see atomic bomb
Nutsubidze, Shalva,
October Manifesto (1905)
October Revolution (1917): and working class motivation; effect on world order
Ogarëv, Yakov
OGPU (earlier GPU): repressions; power; and Shakhty trial; and dekulakisation; interrogates army officers; and Nadya Allilueva’s funeral; incorporated in NKVD; see also NKVD
Okhrana: Stalin suspected of being agent for; investigates demonstrations in Batumi; ineffectiveness against political unrest; arrests Stalin; infiltrates revolutionary parties; informed of Bolshevist Central Committee; monitors Stalin; and Stalin’s exile in Turukhansk; acts against Bolsheviks
Okulov, Alexei
Onufrieva, Pelageya
Ordzhonikidze, Sergo: Lenin recruits to Central Committee; and Soviet expansionism; supports Stalin on status of republics; in Caucasian Bureau; in Stalin’s Testament; allies with Stalin; and Stalin’s deference to mother; takes charge of Central Control Commission; occasional disloyalty to Stalin; in Politburo; and Stalin’s fears of conspiracies; as Stalin’s confidant; letter from Nadya Allilueva; supports industrial expansion; Georgian origins; opposes Stalin’s strategic ideas; disbelieves campaign against Pyatakov; suicide; and popular adulation of Stalin
Orgburo: composition; changes postings; role
Orwell, George: Homage to Catalonia
Osinski, Nikolai
Overlord, Operation
Panslavism
Pasternak, Boris
Patolichev, Nikolai
Patolichev, N.S.
Pauker, Ana
Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich von
Pavlov, Dmitri,
Pavlov, Ivan
peasants: Lenin’s policy on; unrest in Imperial Russia; and Stolypin’s reforms; demands on Provisional Government; in Civil War; and forced grain procurement; grain hoarding; Bukharin’s conciliatory policy on; and NEP; Stalin’s policy on; incorporated in industrial labour force; in administrative posts; risings and resistance; hatred of Soviet agricultural system; trading; punished; starvation; hatred of Stalin; defect during war; wartime trading; see also collectivisation; kulaks
People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment
People’s Commissariat of External Affairs
People’s Commissariat of Nationalities’ Affairs: Stalin heads; offices and organisation; Jewish section; and structure of Soviet Union
people’s democracies: in eastern Europe
Pereprygin family
Perm: military disaster at
Pervukhin, Mikhail
Pestkowski, Stanislaw
Peter I (the Great), Tsar
Petkov, Nikola
Petrograd see St Petersburg
Petrov (photographer)
Petrovski, G.I.
Philby, Kim
Piłsudski, Josef
Piotrovski, V.V.: In the Steps of Ancient Cultures
Platform of the Forty-Six
Platonov, Andrei
Platonov, Sergei
Plekhanov, Georgi: influence; at Stockholm conference (1905); Stalin criticises; at London conference (1907); as thinker
Pokrovski, Mikhail
Poland: Stalin meets Lenin in; independence accepted; Soviet war with (1920); as potential invader; Stalin dominates; Stalin pressurises (1939); Hitler plans conquest of; defeated by Germany (1939); Soviet part-occupation and regime in; historic hostility to USSR; post-war settlement; Soviet advance in; Stalin’s post-war aims in; elections in; Provisional Government; refuses execution of Gomulka; anti-Soviet demonstrations in
Poles (ethnic): killed in Great Terror
Poletaev, Nikolai
Polish Communist Party: Stalin persecutes exiles
Politburo: and Civil War; and national question; composition and unity in; Kamenev chairs after Lenin’s death; internal factions and disputes; and Stalin’s aggressive agrarian policy; and grain shortage; approves elimination of kulaks; power and status; membership numbers; and Marxist idealism; and suppression of opponents; under 1936 Constitution; treatment of Kazakhs and Ukrainians; sanctions purge of anti-Soviet elements; Stalin purges; reforms; and Stalin’s foreign policy; on Hitler’s rise to power; and Nazi-Soviet pact (1939); Stalin manipulates members; and succession to Stalin
Popkov, Pëtr