Estonia’s nonaggression pact with, 647
in exit from League of Nations, 240
expansionism of, 556, 609, 675
in failure to ship contracted material to USSR, 753, 756
Finnish relations with, 703–4, 709, 713, 717, 748
Four-Year Plan of, 348, 366
France’s fear of, 298, 591–92
French relations with, 272, 357, 374
grain shortages in, 852–53
Italian “Pact of Steel” with, 632–34, 639
Italy’s relations with, 292
Japanese relations with, 650
Japan’s sharing of intelligence with, 485, 533
Kristallnacht in, 598
Latvia’s nonaggression pact with, 647
military buildup of, 143, 191, 592
Molotov’s visit to, 805–9, 811, 815, 818
national debt of, 598
Nuremberg laws passed by, 266
Nuremberg rallies in, 266, 342, 564
Poland invaded by, 678–79, 682, 684–85, 691, 826
Poland’s rejection of alliance with, 634, 638
Polish invasion plans of, 620–21, 636–37, 646, 651, 659–60, 661–62, 664, 675, 676–77
Polish nonaggression declaration with, 157–58, 159, 222, 630, 631, 861
Polish POWs slaughtered by, 745
Polish relations with, 291–92, 562, 596–97, 613–14
as possible Japanese ally in attack on USSR, 534
private companies in, 697–98
and proposed Japanese military pact, 539, 632, 633–34, 639–40, 646, 653
rearmament of, 240, 242–43, 342, 556, 598, 612, 821
Red Army arrests as viewed in, 431
Red Army underestimated by, 748–49
Reichstag fire trial in, 142–43
Rhineland remilitarized by, 288, 592
Romanian alliance with, 774
shortages of raw materials in, 329, 350, 474, 833, 838, 859, 890
Soviet accusations of espionage by, 487
Soviet armaments openly revealed to, 856–57
Soviet distrust of, 673
Soviet extradition of political refugees to, 695
Soviet grain exports to, 661, 743, 756–57, 769, 816
Soviet imports of material and technology from, 816–17
Soviet invasion of Poland sought by, 679, 680
Soviet loan from, 246, 259, 264, 291
Soviet planning for war with, 779, 843–44, 869–71
Soviet relations with, 121, 144, 211, 222, 275, 289, 298, 342, 356, 402–3, 609, 622, 623, 631–32, 633, 637
Soviet shipments of raw materials to, 769, 856, 869
Soviet spies in, 252, 699, 722, 800, 803–4, 810, 822, 836
Soviet trade negotiations with, 246, 257, 271–72, 291, 347–48, 366, 598, 621–22, 643, 651, 654, 659, 660, 694
Soviet trade pacts with, 661, 696, 731, 743, 752, 756–57, 764, 769, 779, 786, 799, 817, 830–31, 856, 869
Spanish civil war intervention of, 317–18, 323, 328–29, 339, 350, 407, 431, 556, 582
Stalin dictatorship compared with, 696–97
Stalin on war plans of, 245
Stalin’s desire for rapprochement with, 169, 299, 579, 582–83, 601, 637, 643, 661, 675
Stalin’s fear of British alliance with, 590
Stalin’s growing concerns about, 167–68, 239–40, 242, 414, 533
in Tripartite Pact, see Axis pact
as USSR’s principal foe, 581
war plan of, 613, 620
Winter War and, 730
Germany, Nazi, Soviet invasion preparations of, 783–86, 815, 820, 822–23, 835
disinformation campaign in, 837–38, 840, 842, 860, 865–66, 869, 872–73, 874, 877, 878, 885, 890–91
eastern buildups of Wehrmacht in, 783–84, 785, 787, 790, 791, 794, 795, 818, 820, 825, 828, 838, 857, 858, 859, 864, 875, 877, 878, 881, 891, 894
fifth column recruiting in, 891
Hitler’s June 14 conference on, 881
Hitler’s justification of, 847
Luftwaffe redeployment in, 857
perceived as blackmail, 859, 882, 883–84, 886, 891
Romania in, 876, 877
Soviet airspace violations by, 846, 855–56, 857, 869, 878, 880, 898
Soviet intelligence and, 824, 828–29, 836–38, 840, 841–43, 845, 846, 858–59, 864, 865–66, 876, 880, 883, 890, 894–95
Stalin’s discounting of, 841–42, 856, 868, 875, 880–81, 883–84, 885, 890–91, 897
and Stalin’s fear of provoking attack, 841, 870, 871, 894, 895, 898
three-pronged attack in, 840, 845, 879
Tukhachevsky on, 245
U.S. warnings of, 854–55
widespread rumors of, 863–64
Germany, Nazi, in World War II:
in Battle of Britain, 780, 784, 785, 793, 794
British and French declaration of war on, 679
British bombing of, 791, 794, 808, 809, 811, 818
British invasion plans of, 782–83, 784, 794
France occupied by, 760–61, 765–66, 767, 769, 773, 826, 827, 861, 889
Greece invaded by, 849, 852, 859
Hess’s flight to Britain from, 866–68, 871
Japanese attack on British territory as goal of, 784
Low Countries invaded by, 760, 763, 766
Norway and Denmark occupied by, 762–63
“peripheral strategy” of, 784, 791, 798, 815, 835, 838, 849, 896, 905
Romania occupied by, 796, 797, 798, 808
USSR invaded by, 899–900
Yugoslavia invaded by, 848–49, 850, 852, 859
Gestapo, 174, 221, 331, 332, 336, 560
Gibraltar, 315, 784
Gide, André, 255, 256, 295, 326, 416
Gladun, Yevgeniya, 225, 635
Goebbels, Joseph, 118, 143, 173, 266, 318, 356, 432, 474, 585, 608–9, 630, 642, 677, 678, 762, 805, 808, 872, 877, 882, 891, 896, 900
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 231
Goglidze, Sergo, 142, 503, 588, 722, 876
Gogoberidze, Levan, 348, 508
Gogol, Nikolai, 2
gold:
international flow of, 79
mining of, 133, 497
Goldstab, Semyon, 467, 548
gold standard, Britain’s abandonment of, 85
Golikov, Filipp, 790, 828–29, 839, 847, 877, 894
German invasion plans and, 845–46, 858, 875, 876–77, 878, 882
Goloshchokin, Filipp, 113, 620
Gorev, Vladimir, 338, 346, 349, 350, 351, 382
Göring, Herbert, 291, 402
Göring, Hermann, 143, 175, 240, 244, 252, 287, 402, 473, 474, 574, 583, 642, 661, 662, 663, 677, 678, 700, 752–53, 785, 807, 815, 837, 842, 891
and German trade with USSR, 291–92, 365
as head of Four-Year Plan implementation, 348
Polish trip of, 222–23
Gorky, Maxim, 25, 60, 155, 230, 255–56, 261, 442, 478
death of, 295
honors heaped on, 151–52
Moscow mansion of, 152
in return to Russia, 151
rumored poisoning of, 296
and son’s death, 177, 296
Stalin’s relationship with, 9, 27, 34, 36, 64, 148, 153, 233
state seizure of archives of, 296
in writers’ union founding, 151–52, 153, 177–78, 181, 183, 185
Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), 32, 135, 151, 162
auto factory at, 94
Gorsky, Anatoly, 656, 661, 740, 741, 800, 836
government bonds, reduced interest rates on, 294–95
grain:
imports of, 97, 98, 128
reported theft of, 101–2
reserves of, 85, 263–64
grain exports, 43, 49–50, 68, 85, 87, 94, 99, 107, 129, 269
to Germany, 661, 743, 756–57, 769, 816
industrialization and, 131
reductions in, 126, 128
in tsarist Russia, 127
grain procurements, 10, 16–17, 27, 34–35, 68, 87–88, 102, 115, 123, 131
1934 lag in, 180
1935 harvest and, 263–64
quotas for, 106–7, 113, 128, 227
reductions in, 87, 93–94, 95–96, 100, 106–7, 113, 117, 128
Stalin’s renewed demands for, 112–13, 114
Grand Kremlin Palace, 1939 New Year’s banquet at, 593–94, 595
Great Britain:
accommodation with Nazis needed by, 169, 591
avoidance of new war as policy of, 240, 242, 556, 562, 563, 566, 568, 590–91, 616, 662, 674
Baltic states’ relations with, 655
in Battle of Britain, 780, 784, 785, 793, 794
Communism feared by, 590, 591
in declaration of war on Germany, 679
empire of, xv, 591, 783, 833
Finnish relations with, 708, 709
French navy scuttled by, 777–78
French relations with, 242, 251, 298, 592, 612