Goebbels, Joseph, xiv
Golovanov, Aleksandr, 214, 230
Gomulka, Wladyslaw, 281
Gorbachev, M., 192
Gori, Stalin’s birth in, 11
Gori Theological School, 11, 14–15, Gallery 2
Gorky, Maxim, 95, 96
Gorlizki, Yoram, 1
Grain requisitions, forced, 101, 102–104, 105, 110, 119–120
Grain reserves, 349n35
Great Leap policy, 108–109, 117
Great Terror. See Terror
Gridneva, Ye. G., 319
Harriman, Averell, 8–9, 195, 212, 230
History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks): Short Course, 95
Hitler, Adolf, 149, 153
appeasement of, 163, 167, 168
-Molotov four-way alliance negotiations, 174–176
purges of, 165
-Stalin non-aggression pact, 165–169, 174
suicide of, 247. See also Nazi Germany
Hoarding, 276–277
Hopkins, Harry, 211
Hosking, Geoffrey, 325
Housing, 324, 376n23
Hungary, in Communist bloc, 281
Ignatiev, Semen Denisovich, 36, 41, 142, 144, 303, 304, 308, 318, 339n15
Industrialization: absenteeism and employee turnover, 185
consumer goods production, 276–278, 321–322, 324
First Five-Year Plan growth targets, 109, 116–117
Great Leap policy, 108–109
interregnum period reforms, 302, 315
and liberalization policy, 124–125
military production, 183–184, 297–298
New Economic Policy (NEP), 64, 101
postwar production, 267
and Stakhanovites, 320–321
Terror’s impact on, 161
wartime management of, 240
working conditions under, 324–325
Ingush, forced relocation of, 233
Inner circle, Gallery 14
composition of, 1, 332–334n1
dachas and apartments of, 35, 191
face-to-face communications with, 1–2
memoirs of, xiv
Molotov scandal, 269–272
movie screenings for, 2–3, 347n12
shifts in balance of power, 178–179, 272–274, 282, 303, 306–307
at Stalin’s deathbed, 142–144, 189
Stalin’s power over, 1, 144–147
at Stalin’s social gatherings, 5–7, 93
wartime domestic duties of, 240–241
Intelligentsia, attacks on, 265
Israel, 285–286
Italy: Allied victories in, 229
postwar settlement, 270
in Tripartite Pact, 174
Ivan the Terrible, Stalin’s view of, 94, 95
Japan: in Anti-Comintern Pact, 154
invasion of China, 156
military threat from, 123, 153, 156
in postwar settlement, 248–249, 270
-Soviet border clashes, 163, 168–169
in Tripartite Pact, 174
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, 284
Jews, Soviet: cosmopolitanism campaign against, 284, 286
discrimination against, 284, 304
in Doctors’ Plot, 307–309
and Israel, 285–286
purge of Molotov’s wife, 283–284
and Stalin’s anti-Semitism, 284–285, 286
Jolly Fellows (film), 96
Jughashvili, Besarionis (Stalin’s father), 11, 12, 14
Jughashvili (Geladze), Ekaterine (Stalin’s mother), 11, 12, 13–14, 15, 20, 23, 252, Gallery 1
Jughashvili, Iosif. See Stalin, Joseph
Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseevich, Gallery 7, 14
biography of, 352n5
in interregnum period, 312
purge of family member, 314
and Stalin’s daughter, 256–257
Stalin’s power over, 144, 146, 147
in wartime leadership, 207, 214
Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich: biography of, 345–346n102
compromising evidence against, 106
and expulsion of left opposition, 90
as oppositionist, 105
purge of wife, 144
Kamenev, Lev Borisovich, 69, 70, 191, 194
and abdication of tsar, 42
biography of, 340–341n1
Bukharin’s secret meeting with, 107
execution of, 139
Politburo expulsion of, 84–85
and Kirov’s murder charge, 131
and Kremlin Affair, 139
on Lenin-Stalin conflict, 73
in moderate (rightist) faction, 43–44, 46
opposition to Bolshevik seizure of power, 50, 51, 52
as oppositionist, 82–84, 87
in power struggle, 79, 80
Provisional Government crackdown on, 48
Kapler, Aleksei, 258
Karpets, P. K., 319
Katyn massacre, 170
Kautsky, Karl, 94
Kazbegi, Alexandre, 17
Kelbakiani, 19–20
Kerensky, Aleksandr, 49
Kerr, Archibald, 230
Ketskhoveli, Lado, 18, 21
Kharkov, Battle of, 221, 222
Khmelkov, N. M., 263
Kholodov, N. I., 300
Khoroshenina, Serafima, 251
Khrushchev, Nikita: on agricultural commission, 301–302
biography of, 333n1
on fall of France, 173
in interregnum period, 312, 314
in Kirov murder investigation, 128
memoirs of, xiv, 333n1
Politburo appointment of, 177
Stalin characterized by, 5
on Stalin’s ceremonial farewell, 317
at Stalin’s deathbed, 142, 143, 189, 312, 338n1
on Stalin’s exile, 30
Stalin’s promotion of, 303
at Stalin’s social gatherings, 2, 5, 6
in wartime leadership, 221
and Zhukov, 360n2
Kibirov, I. I., 31
Kiev: fall of, 212–213
liberation of, 228
Kiev Theological Seminary, 18
Kim Il Sung, 294, 295, 296
Kirov, Sergei Mironovich, Gallery 7
biography of, 339n7
bodyguards of, 133
and collective leadership, 83
motive for murder of, 130–131
murder of, 34, 127–129
and plot against Stalin, 127
Stalin’s involvement in murder of, 131–134
vacation with Stalin, 193, 194
Kirponos, Mikhail, 212, 213
Kliueva, Nina, 265
Kolkhozes (collective farms), 110–113, 299, 300
Korean War, 294–296, 298, 316
Kornilov, Lavr, 49
Kosarev, Aleksandr Vasilyevich, 131, 351n66
Kosior, Stanislav, 177
Kostov, Traicho, 281
Kosygin, Gallery 14
Kovalev, I. V., 361n27
“Kowtowing to the West” campaign, 265–266, 285, 286
Kremlin: German bombing of, 218
movie theater in, 2–3, 96–97
purge of staff, 139
Stalin’s office in, 2, 242, 311
Kremlin Affair, 139
Kronstadt rebellion, 64
Kruglov, Sergei, 276
Krupskaia, Nadezhda, 70, 72, 82
Kulaks: collectivization campaign against, 111–113
executions of, 116, 150
grain requisitions from, 101, 102–104, 105, 110
forced resettlement of, 38, 112, 116
Kulik, Grigory Ivanovich: biography of, 340n20
murder of wife, 40
as Stalin’s emissary to front, 201
Kulik-Simonich, Kira, 40
Kuomintang, 286, 288
Kuperin, I. I., 311
Kurile Islands, 248, 249, 290
Kuromiya, Hiroaki, 120
Kursk, Battle of, 226–227, 228
Kutuzov, Mikhail, 2, 242, 264
Kuzakova, M. P., 251
Kuznetsov, Aleksi Aleksandrovich, Gallery 14
biography of, 353n6
in leadership reorganization, 282
in Leningrad Affair, 144, 282–283
Kuznetsov, Nikolai Gerasimovich, 202, 213, 361n22
Labor camps, 38, 268, 325
Lake Khasan, Battle of, 163
Lakoba, Nestor, Gallery 10
Lashevich, Mikhail, 84
Latvia: and German-Soviet non-aggression pact, 166
postwar repression in, 268
forced resettlement campaign in, 174
sovietization of, 170–171, 173
League of Nations, 123, 173
Lend-Lease aid, 212
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich: assassination attempt on, 57, 128
death of, 79
death mask of, 2
evacuation of sarcophagus of, 203
federation proposal of, 68–69
health of, 65, 68, 70, 74
as military leader, 264
New Economic Policy (NEP) of, 7, 64–65
and invasion of Poland, 59–60
in Provisional Government crackdown, 48, 49
return from Switzerland, 45
revolutionary action plan of, 44–47
revolutionary teachings of, 24