Manayev, 426
Mandelshtam, Nadezhda, 291, 479
Mandelshtam, Osip, 304–5
Mantsev, V. N., 372–74
Manuilsky, D. Z., 403, 406–8
Marchak, N. M., 233
Marchlewski, Julian, 405
Margolin, Julius, 475
Mariupol, 272
Markizov, A., 249
Markov (doctor), 448n
Marrism, 297
Marx, Karl, 331
Maslennikov, I. I., 438
Mass arrests, 434
Mass executions, 287–88, 457
Matorin, 94
Matulevich, I. O., 44, 92, 147, 240, 343
Mauriac, François, 411
Maximov-Dikovsky, V. A., 72, 375, 386
Mayakovsky, Vladimir V, 299, 301
Maynard, Sir John, 470
Mayo, C., 126
Mdivani, Budu, 68, 101, 114, 162, 225
Medes, 462
“Medical murders,” 375
Medved, Philip, 39, 44, 49–50
Medvedev, M. E., 194, 205
Medvedev, Roy, 108, 127, 137, 215, 258, 495–88
Medvedev, S. P., 74
Meister, G. K., 296
Mekhlis, L. Z., 15, 63, 209, 296, 429, 431–32, 438, 451–53
Menzhevik Party, 5, 35, 65, 112, 225, 272–73, 382, 424–25
Menzhinsky, V. R., 82, 343, 373, 375–78, 382, 385–86, 388, 397, 405
Mercader, Caridad, 417–18
Mercader, Ramón, 417–18
Meretskov (General), 453
Merkulov, V. N., 438
“Metallic” Factory, 218
Meteorological Office, 295
Metro-Vic Trial, 35, 150
Mets, S., 169
Metzger, Hans, 352
Mexican Communist Party, 416–18
Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 63, 256, 298, 306–7, 441
Mezhlauk, V. I., 240, 420–21
Mgeladze, A. I., 462
Mikhailov, 219
Mikhailov, M. E., 421
Mikhailyuk, A. S., 303
Mikhoels, Solomon, 43n, 449
Mikoladze, E., 306
Mikoyan, Anastas, 115, 136, 144, 174, 186, 226, 364, 458: Stalin’s follower, 12; election to Politburo, 73; at Ordzhonikidze’s funeral, 172; speech at Bolshoi Theater, 246; Moscow purges, 247
Mikoyan, Sergo, 487
Milchakov, A. I., 427
Military Collegium of the Supreme Court, 282, 420
“Military-Fascist Center,” 435
Military Intelligence (“Fourth Bureau”), 209
Miliukov, 413
Miller (General), 198
Miller, R. T., 167
Milyutin, Vladimir, 223
Minc, Hilary, 406
Mindszenty, József (Cardinal), 458
Mining industry, 143, 460
Minsk, 288
Mironóv, L. G.: NKVD secret trial role, 82, 85, 89; denunciation of, 180
Mirov-Abramov, 408
Mirsky, Prince Dmitry, 298
Mirzoyan, L.I., 419, 435
Mishakova, 426–27
Mitin, M.B., 296
Mixed labor camps, 315
Molchanov, G. A., 46, 81, 83, 85, 99–100, 139, 180, 341
Moldavia, 258
Moldavian NKVD, 434
Molotov, V M., 41, 92, 136, 139, 176–77, 180, 192, 194, 197, 202, 230, 351, 431, 439, 479; loyalty to Stalin, 12; and A. P. Smirnov, 27; Stalin’s alleged discontent with, 90–91; “attempt” on life, 149, 156–59, 479; at February-March plenum, 173–74; attack on Bukharin, 174; Moscow purges, 234–36, 238, 247–48; attack on cultural figures, 291; and Vavilov, 296; Secret Speech opposition, 476
Monakhov (Colonel), 482
Morgan, Claude, 474
Moroz (Major), 330
Morozov, Pavlik, 465–66
Morrison, Herbert, 462
Mortality rates, 338–39, 485–86
“Moscow Center,” 48–49
Moscow Children’s Theater, 306
Moscow prisons, 268–69
Moskalev, K., 141
Motorin, 88
Mrachkovsky, Sergei V., 11, 26, 115, 188–89, 194: alleged plot of, 83–84, 88–89; trial and testimony, 94; last plea, 103; credibility of evidence against, 107; repentance, 109; Radek’s comments, 148
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 412
Mühsam, Erik, 402
Muklevich, R. A., 210, 249, 295, 403
Münzenberg, Willi, 402
Muralov, A. I., 296
Muralov, N. I., 84, 116, 119, 129, 135, 139, 142, 146, 148, 164, 351, 468: testimony at trial, 155–57; fate of relatives, 165; remark about Ordzhonikidze, 168
Muslim clergy, 273
Musulbas, 178
Myachin, I. Ya., 222
Mylga camp, 328
Nadaraya, S. N., 482
Nagayevo, 325–26
Nalchik, 457
Napoleon, 59, 413
Narodnaya Volya terrorism, 103
Naujocks (Colonel), 199
Naumov (pastor), 126
Naville (doctor), 448
Navy officers, 450
Navy purge, 210–11
Nazaretyan, A. M., 170, 237, 246
Nazism, 30, 38, 195–96, 456, 465
Nazi-Soviet Pact, 196, 402, 453
Nedachin (doctor), 349
“Negative selection” process, 488
Negrin, Juan, 410–11
Neher, Carola, 402, 466
Nelidov, 81
Nemtsov, M. M., 246
Neronov, 205
Neumann, Heinz, 400–401
Neumann, Margarete, 407
Nevsky, V. I., 145
New Constitution, 79, 145, 262
Nicolaevsky, Boris I., 112, 308–9, 402n, 472
Niebuhr, Reinholdt, 449
Nikishov, Ivan, 325, 328–29, 438
Nikitchenko, I. I., 92, 240
Nikitin (doctor), 384–85
Nikolayenko, 144–45, 147, 178, 222: Stalin’s comments about, 178; rehabilitation of, 179
Nikolayev, Leonid, 46, 106, 217, 256, 435: Kirov murder, 37, 40–41; selection of, 40; diary of, 47–48
Nikolayeva, K. I., 69
Nikolsky (doctor), 349
Nikopol, 258
Nin, Andrés, 410, 416
Nizhnegorodsky prison, 269
NKVD, 44: founding of, 34; Kirov murder version, 38; mass arrests, 44; accusation of “White Guards,” 47; in Leningrad, 49–50; purge in Kolyma, 51; prepares trial of oppositionists, 78–83; Stalin’s control of, 79; Secret Political Department, 81; Economic Department, 81–82; Operative Department, 82; Special Department, 82; Foreign Department, 82; Transport Department, 82; oppositionists trial, 91–108; torture use, 122, 126, 131; manual for interrogation, 126; rumors on Ordzhonikidze’s death, 170; Yezhov’s purge of, 179–80; and attack on Army, 188; armed forces purge, 192, 205, 208–9; contact with German SD, 197; Union of Tsarist Veterans infiltration, 198; deviousness of, 208; rivalry with Army, 209; provincial purge role, 222–23, 227; Ukraine purge, 232; arrest method, 261–64; purge of, 279; attitude toward prisoners, 281–82; penal empire, 324; rehabilitation, 481–82
Norilsk, 302, 330, 478
Norkin, B. O., 142, 146, 155
North Caucasus Territory, 261
North Donets railway, 277
North Pole expedition, 236
Norwegian Social Democrats, 152
Noskov, 142
Nosov, I. P., 219, 246
Novaya Zemlya, 337
Novosibirsk, 142, 223, 264
Numerov, B. V, 295
Nuremberg Tribunal (1946), 92, 449
Obremov (professor), 294, 331
Odessa, 253
OGPU, 375–76; Ryutin case, 24–25; founding of, 34. See also NKVD
Okhotsk Sea, 326
Okudzhava, M., 101, 225
Okulicki (General), 457–58
Okunev (Army Commissar), 213
Olberg, P., 80
Olberg, Valentin, 80, 107, 164: plot against Stalin, 80–81, 83; trial and testimony of, 98; fate of wife, 105
Old Bolsheviks, 12: confessions, 71–108; Stalin’s attitude to, 225
Old Bolsheviks, Society of, 76–77
Olesha, Yuri, 300
Olminsky, Mikhail S., 45
Orakhelashvili, M., 77, 245, 246
Order of the Red Banner, 59
Ordzhonikidze, “Sergo,” 90–91, 128–29, 139, 145–46, 156, 159, 176, 237, 420: Stalin’s follower, 12–13; and Ryutin, 24–25; alleged assassination attempt, 100; dependence on Pyatakov, 140; remarks on Yezhov, 145; “suicide,” 167–73; double-cross by Stalin on Pyatakov, 167–68; harassment of, 168–69; fate of relatives, 172–73
Orlov (Admiral), 50, 107, 127, 193, 210–11, 213
Orlov, A., 410
Orwell, George, 409
Osadchy (professor), 71
Osepyan, G. A., 207
Ossinsky, V. V., 372–74
Ostachkov camp, 447
Ostrovsky, M., 425
Ovakimian, Gaik, 417
Ozarovsky, 211
Ozeryansky, 188
Ozolin, K. A. (Corps Commissar), 213
Pacific Fleet, 211
Papanin, Ivan D., 396