German invasion of Poland, 169–170
German invasion of Soviet Union, 176, 187–188, 198–202
German occupation of Europe, 173, 174
postwar settlement, 269–270
second front plan, 223–224, 228, 229, 230
Tehran Conference, 229–230
Yalta Conference, 244–246, 290, Gallery 12. See also Soviet-German Front
Stalin, Joseph, wartime leadership of
Wrangel, Petr, 59, 60, 61
Yagoda, Genrikh Grigoryevich, 255
biography of, 351n69
and Kirov murder investigation, 131
purge of, 140, 160
Yakovlev, Aleksandr, 157
Yalta Conference, 244–246, 289, Gallery 12
Yegorov, Alexandr, Gallery 10
Yegorov, Petr, 307, 308Yemelianov, Nikolai, 49
Yenukidze, Avel Safronovich, 139, 193, 352n82
Yezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich, 154
biography of, 351n66
execution of, 160
on Kirov’s murder, 131
removal of, 157, 159–160
Terror directed by, 139, 140, 152, 157, 158–159
Yugoslavia, 235, 280–281
Zagumenny, Sergei, 102
Zaleski, Eugene, 267
Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich: Gallery 11
in anti-intelligentsia campaign, 265
biography of, 335n19
and breakdown in relations with West, 267
and Central Committee, 178
death of, 282
in leadership reorganizations, 180, 181, 272, 273
Politburo appointment of, 177
protégés of, 352–353n6
at Stalin’s social gatherings, 6
in wartime leadership, 207
Zhdanov, Yuri, 260
Zhemchuzhina, Polina (Molotov’s wife), 283–284, 314
Zhou Enlai, 298
Zhukov, Georgy Konstantinovich: biography of, 360n2
in Command Headquarters, 202, 204
on Crimean defeat, 221
on crimes against civilians, 236
and foreign press rumors, 269
on German intelligence, 209
and German invasion, 198, 199–200, 201, 202
marshal rank of, 226
Stalin’s criticism of, 241, 273–274
as Stalin’s emissary, 201
and Stalin’s strategic decisions, 213, 227
wartime commands of, 212, 213, 214, 360n2
Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseevich, 70, 98, 194, 282
and anti-Trotsky coalition, 81–82
biography of, 341n9
Bolshevik seizure of power opposed by, 50, 51, 52
execution of, 139
expulsion of, 84–85, 90
and Kirov’s murder charge, 131
as oppositionist, 82–84, 87
in power struggle, 75–76, 77, 78, 79, 80
in Provisional Government crackdown, 48, 49
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 265, 368n9
Zubkova, Elena, xiv–xv
Zverev, Arseny, 274, 275, 277
Zvezda (magazine), 265