Alexsandrovsk isolator, 268
Alikhanov, 408
Alksnis, Ya. I. (Army Commander), 185, 202, 208, 213, 420
Alliluyev, Paul, 58
Alliluyeva, Nadezhda (Stalin’s second wife), suicide of, 29, 58
Alliluyeva, Svetlana, 43n, 75n
Alter, Viktor, 449–50, 475
“ALZHIR,” 315
Amatouni, 226
Ambarchik, 326
American Federation of Labor, 449
Amirdzhanov, 170
Andreev, S., 426
Andreyev, A. A., 27, 136, 218
Andrianov, V. M., 328
Andronikova, Kira, 300 Anishev, 291
Annenkov, Yuri, 306
Antipov, N. K., 238, 240, 242, 347, 358–59, 361, 397, 420, 441, 456
Anti-Semitism, 65–66
Antonov-Ovseenko, V. A., 185, 209, 410, 423–25, 485
Apanesenko (Corps Commander), 202
Arctic expedition, 396
Arlen, Michael, 58
Armenian Communist Party, 226–27, 302
Armenians, arrest of, 272
Armored Forces, 208
Army: assault on, 182–213, 427–31, 450–53; purge of officers, 450–53; in World War II, 450–57
Arnold, Valentin, 158–59, 164, 165, 166
Arrests: method of, 261–64; estimated number of, 485
Artemenko, Ekaterina, 146, 354
Artuzov, A. Kh., 195
Arutinov, G. A., 438
Ashkhabad, 316
Ashurov, 357
Asian nationalists, 356–59
Astronomers, 295
Attlee, Clement, 449
Auden, W. H., 54
Avdoulov, N. P., 295
Averbakh, L. L., 298
Avvakum (archpriest), 128
Azerbaijanis: purge of, 222; Stalin’s claim about, 462
Azov-Black Sea province, 175
Babel, Isaak, 256, 298, 441
Bacteriological Institute, 222
Bagirov, M. A., 438
Baikal-Amur Railway (Bamlag) group of camps, 304, 316, 321–22
Bakayev, Ivan P., 46, 190: arrest of, 46–47; confession of, 48, 95; sentencing of, 49; alleged plot of, 85, 88; NKVD trial of, 95
Bakradze, V. M., 438
Balabanoff, Angelica, 115
Balitsky, V. A., 230–32
Baltic Fleet, 208, 212, 425
Baltic-White Sea Canal, 338, 484
Baltsevich, M. S., 49
Bamlag, 304, 316, 321–22
Baptists, 273, 317
Barbusse, Henri, 466
Barkov, V. N., 423–24
Bashkir, S., 222–23
Battle of Warsaw, 184
Bauman, K. Ya., 19, 67, 239
Bedny, Demyan, 98
Behrens, H., 198
Bekzadian, A. A., 423
Beloborodov, A. G., 122, 139
Belostotsky (doctor), 386–87
Belov, I. P. (Army Commander), 202, 206, 213
Bel’ski, L. N., 139, 421–22
Beltov, Eduard, 297
Belyakin, 238
Belyi purge, 221
Benek, 224
Benes, Edvard, 198–99
Berg, L. S., 294
Berger, Joseph, 488
Beria, Lavrenti, 74, 77, 214, 226, 280, 431, 458: ruthlessness, 14; interrogation manual approval, 126; Khrushchev’s remarks, 170–71; Georgia purge, 225–26; Vavilov’s arrest, 296; appointment to NKVD, 422; arrest of Kosarev, 427; examination of Blyukher, 430; replaces Yezhov, 432–35; consolidates power, 435–38; Central Committee group, 438; promotion to Politburo, 439; executes military officers, 455; fall of, 478
“Beria gang,” 432
Berlin Blockade, 414
Berman, Boris, 82, 90, 119, 175, 236, 245, 435
Berman, M. D., 81, 139
Berman-Yurin, K. B., 83, 88, 98: trial and testimony of, 98
Bernal, J. D., 60
Bernini, Camillo, 409
Berzin, E. P., 325
Berzin, J. K. [“Grishin”], 209, 213
Bessonov, Sergei, 342, 344–45, 347, 352, 364, 391, 392, 395, 456
Bezlov (pastor), 126
Bezprizorniye, 75, 313
Bierut, Boleslaw, 406
Biology, 295–97
Biriuzov (Marshal), 206
Bisseneks, 47
Black Marias, 311
“Black tornado,” 219
Blatniye, 314
Blit, Lucjan, 449
Blok, Alexander, 301
Blyukher (Marshal), 183n, 185–86, 200–202, 223, 428–31
Blyukher, Pavel, 430
Blyumkin, Jacob, 140
Bogarov, 330
Bogdan (Zinoviev’s secretary), 95, 172
Bogomolets (professor), 289
Bogomolov, 360, 423
Boguslavsky, M. S., 120, 135, 143, 148, 164
Bokanyi, Dezso, 403
Bolotin, 347
Bolsheviks, Lenin’s role, 4–5
Bolshevo model prison, 467
Bondarenko, M. I., 233, 422
Borisov, Yu., 37, 41–42
Borotbists, 228, 231
Bougetsky (General), 206
Boyarsky, V., 123
Braude, I. D., 164, 379, 383
Brecht, Bertolt, 465–66
Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 16, 372
Brezhnev, Leonid, 234, 480–83
Bronshtein, Matvei, 294
Brun, Stefanie, 421
Brunivoy, 456
Bubnov, Andrei, 240, 243, 424, 441
Buddhists, 273
Budenny (Marshal), 183n, 202–3, 298, 431, 455: head of Tsaritsyn group, 184; conduct at trial, 203
Budzynski, Stanislav, 406
Bukharin, Nikolai, 11, 59, 108, 110, 115–17, 127, 129, 135, 137–38, 144–47, 162, 168, 216, 236–37, 239, 242; Stalin’s defeat of, 16–22; politics of, 16–18; meeting with Kamenev, 17; opinion of Stalin, 21–22, 61–62, 64, 69; Ryutin’s document, 24; speech at XVIIth Party Congress, 31; New Constitution drafter, 79; NKVD trial testimony about, 95–96, 101–2; faith in Party, 112, 118–20; self-abasement denial, 127–28; confrontation with Sokolnikov, 136; exculpation, 136; Stalin’s retreat on, 136–37; hunger strike, 173; at February-March plenum, 173–80; attack on Stalin, 174; military conspiracy remark, 186; alleged assassination attempt on Lenin, 272–74; Vasiliev’s defense of, 301; trial of, 341–98; assurances about execution, 343; torture of, 364; testimony of, 364–74; guilty plea, 365; Kirov murder accusation, 391; last plea, 393–95; sentence, 395; “last letter,” 395; fate of family, 395–96; not rehabilitated, 479–80
Bulanov, P. P., 40, 42, 46, 50, 180, 343, 380–82, 393
Bulatov, P. A., 456
Bulganin, N. A., 239–40, 247
Bulgarian Communist Party, 106, 404–5, 458
Bulin, A. S., 183, 201, 207
Bund, 272–73, 449, 475
Burmin, D. A., 386
Burmistenko, M. O., 233
Butyrka prison, 237, 258, 264–66, 268–69, 279
Byelin (professor), 280
Byeloborodov, A. G., 114, 166
Byelorussia, 122, 275: purges, 223–24, 260–61; denunciations, 255; mass execution grave site, 288; writers’ executions, 303
Byelorussian Academy of Sciences, 293
Byelorussian Military District, 207
Bykin, Ya. B., 223
Bykov, Vasil, 297
Bykovnya, 288, 485
Bylinov, 481n
Byng (Admiral), 149
Byzantologists, 292–93
Canton Commune, 400
Cárdenás, Lazaro, 415
Casualty figures, 485–86
Catalonia, 409
Catholic priests, 273
Caucasus, Social Democrats in, 55
Census (1939), 487
Central Asia, 358–59
Central Committee, 137, 144; Lenin’s influence on, 4; complete collectivization decision, 18–19; expelling of Ryutin, 26; purge resolution, 26; Kirov’s role, 33; “Special Sector,” 34; reaction to Kirov murder, 45; western province resolution, 74; torture authorization, 122; resistance to purges, 137, 172; February-March plenum, 173–81; military members, 183; purges, 234–42, 438; purge objections, 248; survivors, 438
Central Control Commission, 26
Central Cooperative Union, 256
“Central Isolation Prisons,” 321
Chaikovsky, 295
Chaplin, N. P., 427
Charkviani, K. N., 438
Chechen-Ingush Republic, 261
Chelyabinsk, 279, 288
Cherepukhin, 159
Cherkasov, N. K., 65
Chernov, M. A., 240, 342, 348
Chernyak, R. I., 349
Chernyavsky, M. K., 78
Chernykh (General), 454
Chertok, L. I., 82, 85, 180
Chervenkov, V., 404
Chervyakov, A. G., 224
Chigurin, I. D., 437
Children: death penalty for, 75–76, 108; arrest of, 274–75; in labor camps, 316
Chinese Eastern Railway, 277
Chita prison, 206
Chkalov, V. P., 93, 231, 238
Chlenov, S., 423