Orjonikidze’s friendship with, 386, 500
party apparatus run by, 325, 518–19
and proposed replacement of Rykov, 55
regional party arrests and, 444
Stalin’s breaking of, 386, 709
Stalin’s correspondence with, 81, 82, 84, 98, 100, 102–3, 136, 140–41, 178, 180, 182, 184, 189, 263, 264, 266–67, 268–69, 313, 324, 332, 333, 338, 342
on Stalin’s darkening mind-set, 491
Stalin’s mealtime meetings with, 211, 225
Stalin’s relationship with, 237
Stalin’s toast to, 694
as Stalin’s top party deputy, 65–66, 82
Trotskyite-Zinovievite trial and, 331
Tukhachevsky trial and, 423
workers’ strikes and, 95
on Yezhov’s appointment as NKVD head, 345
Kalinin, Mikhail, 7, 49, 75, 145, 193, 205, 227, 269, 292, 308, 563, 801, 908
Kamenev, Lev, 22, 104, 105, 229, 253, 387, 437, 467
alleged involvement in Kirov murder of, 210–11, 212, 213, 232–33, 236–37
Bukharin’s meeting with, 12
as defendant in Trotskyite-Zinovievite trial, 331
execution of, 333, 376, 602
imprisonment of, 325
internal exile of, 107
interrogation of, 332
Kaganovich’s denunciation of, 324
in Kirov murder trial, 219, 532
Kremlin Affair sentence of, 260
at 17th Party Congress, 156
Stalin’s mercurial relationship with, 228, 236–37, 332–33
Trotskyite-Zinovievite Center testimony of, 319
Kamenev, Sergei, 420
Kaminsky, Grigory (Gofman), 510–11
Kandelaki, David, 246, 366, 414, 515
execution of, 700
German rapprochement sought by, 271–72
and German-Soviet political negotiations, 373, 402
in German trade negotiations, 208, 246, 257, 259, 264, 271–72, 279, 291
Stalin’s meetings with, 208–9, 257, 271, 414
Kangxi, emperor of China, 457
Kapitsa, Pyotr, 853
Karaganda camp complex, 497
Karakhan, Lev, 89, 93, 419, 447
Karelia, Soviet, 711, 712, 724, 725, 746, 772
Karelian Isthmus, 710–12, 714, 718, 725, 727, 746, 753
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, 753
Kartvelishvili, Lavrenti (Lavrentyev), 81, 82
Kasahara, Yukio, 78, 89–90, 92
Katyn Forest, slaughter of Polish officers in, 745, 795
Kayurov, Vasily, 103–4
Kazakh autonomous republic, 117
death toll in, 127
deported kulaks in, 76
famine in, 76, 106, 122, 127, 129
forced settlement of nomads in, 76, 128
grain procurement in, 113, 128, 180
livestock losses in, 127
starvation in, 41
Kazakhs, 106, 127
Kazakhstan, Republic of, 354, 449, 453
mass arrests of party machine in, 444
Kegel, Gerhard (“X”), 220, 699, 700, 775, 864, 895
Keitel, Wilhelm, 475, 633, 685, 785, 805, 824, 900
Kennan, George, 335, 481, 674
Kerensky, Alexander, xi, 336, 485
Kerzhentsev, Platon (Lebedev), 283, 284–85, 476
Khachaturyan, Aram, 853
Khanjyan, Aghasi, 502–4
Kharkov, 32, 122, 146–47, 370
Khasan, Lake, 535, 536, 539, 547, 557, 562, 644, 650, 726
Khatayevich, Mendel, 106–7
Khrushchev, Nikita, 109, 110, 162, 235, 358, 373, 426, 497, 510, 768
arrests and executions overseen by, 520
background of, 206
on Beria’s appointment as NKVD deputy head, 541–42
Beria’s relationship with, 501, 520–21
elevated to Central Committee, 162
on German invasion of Poland, 682–83
as inner circle member, 501
as Kaganovich protégé, 518–19
Kirov murder and, 206
on mass terror, 433
on Mein Kampf, 682
on Molotov, 625–26
as Moscow party boss, 225, 504, 519, 520
in politburo, 521
on Stalin’s fear of German attack, 893
Stalin’s relationship with, 519–20, 546, 550, 605, 662–63
Trotsky association of, 519–20
as Ukraine party boss, 504, 520, 522–23, 542
Khryunkin, Timofei, 826–27
Kiev, 41, 146, 370, 844
Kiev special military district, 779
German invasion of, 900
King Lear (Shakespeare), 231
Kirov, Sergei, 46, 109, 196, 197
as Central Committee secretary, 161–62
documentary film about, 209, 218, 219
extramarital affairs of, 194
funeral of, 209
as inner circle member, 107, 161–62, 526
Leningrad film industry and, 193
as Leningrad party boss, 46, 55, 107, 134, 161–62, 194
personality of, 134
at 17th Party Congress, 160
in Sochi, 179–80
Stalin’s friendship with, 111, 133–34, 191–92, 193, 210, 311
as unlikely possible replacement for Stalin, 160–61
Kirov, Sergei, assassination of, 201–13, 216, 372, 469, 476, 478, 485, 491–92, 526
Agranov and, 211
alleged Zinovievite conspiracy in, 210–12, 219, 232, 236
Borisov’s death and, 207, 220
conspiracy theories about, 235–36
Draule and, 202, 203, 206, 210, 218–19, 232
first trial and executions in, 213
Kamenev and, 232–33, 236–37, 532
mass arrests in, 305
Medved and, 235
Nikolayev as solely responsible for, 235
Nikolayev’s confession in, 202, 204, 210, 211
Nikolayev’s execution for, 213
Nikolayev’s stalking of Kirov in, 199, 200, 235
NKVD and, 202, 206, 228
NKVD investigation of, 208, 228, 232, 236, 369–70, 527, 532
NKVD negligence in, 201, 205, 219, 220, 235, 236
public viewing of body in, 208, 209
radio announcement of, 206
reopened investigation into, 313, 323
rumored liaison of Kirov and Draule as motive for, 203
second trial in, 218–19
Stalin and, 205, 206–7, 209, 235, 236–37
2004 forensic analysis of, 202–3
witness accounts of, 202, 203
Yagoda and, 235
Yezhov and, 224
Zinoviev and, 210–11, 212, 213, 229, 232–33, 236–37, 532
Kleist, Peter, 636, 646, 651–52
Knickerbocker, H. R., 63–64
Knight in the Panthers Skin, The (Rustaveli), 516–17
Knorin, Wilhelm, 171, 172, 189, 446
Kobulov, Amayak (“Zakhar”), 803–4, 809, 823, 836, 838, 840, 873, 880, 883
Kobulov, Bogdan “Bakhcho,” 501, 508, 588, 626, 804, 840, 878, 879
Koestler, Arthur, 435
Kola Peninsula, 133
Kollontai, Alexandra, 179, 301, 427, 627, 715, 741
Kolotilov, Nikolai, 57–58
Koltsov, Mikhail, 71, 154, 255, 376, 416, 545
accusations against, 409
death sentence of, 740
journalism career of, 334
1938 showcase trial reports of, 479
as Pravda correspondent in Spain, 334–35, 339, 351, 352, 364, 406, 408–9, 459–60
as Soviet agent, 364, 382
Stalin’s mocking of, 408–9
Kolyma River region, 133
labor camps in, 133, 286, 497, 598
Kommunarka killing field, 455, 479, 480
kommunas, 35
Komsomolsk shipyard, 703, 805
Konar, Fyodor (Polashchuk), 435–36
Konoe, Fumimaro, 457, 793, 851
Konovalets, Yevhen, 610, 611
Kopelev, Lev, 123–24
Korean Peninsula, Japanese annexation of, 92
Koreans, in USSR, deportations of, 453, 528
Kork, August, 411–12, 422–23
Korniychuk, Oleksandr, 274, 896
Korotkov, Alexander, 836, 837
Korzhenko, Vasily, 447, 626
Kosior, Stanisław, 29, 94, 100, 102, 103, 125, 129, 211, 308, 520
Köstring, Ernst, 414, 455, 633, 647, 663, 673, 684, 685–86, 784, 873, 884
Kosygin, Alexei, 603, 757
Kotolynov, Ivan, 210, 211, 212
Kozlovsky, Ivan, 594–95, 853–54
Krebs, Hans, 852, 856–57, 864
Krejčí, Ludvik, 558, 561, 562
Kremlin:
alleged conspiracy of cleaning personnel in, see Kremlin Affair
defense commissariat oversight of, 228, 229
as government headquarters, 66
as secret headquarters of Stalin dictatorship, 57, 66–67