Pares, Sir Bernard, 470
Parshin, P. I. 129
Partiinost, 481
Pashukanis, E., 180
Pasternak, Boris, 63, 67, 250–52, 256, 258, 301, 304–5, 315–16, 457, 464
Pauker, Anna, 404
Pauker, K. V, 46, 50, 58, 146, 179–80: character of, 82
Pauker, Marcel, 404
Pavlov, D. G. (General), 454
Pavlov, Ivan, 66, 79, 127
Pavlov, K. A., 325
Pax, Magdalene, 464
Peace of Brest-Litovsk, 16, 372
Pechora camps, 315, 323, 329–30
Pegov, N. M., 438
Peluso, Edmondo, 403
Penkovsky case, 478
Pepper, John, 403
“Pereval Case,” 303
Personality cult, 447, 460, 476–77, 482
Pervouralsk jail, 264
Pervukhin, M. G., 438
Peshkov, Maxim, 375–78, 381–83, 388–89
Peshkova, Ekaterina, 389
Peterson, A. A., 76, 368
Petkov, Nikola, 458
Petrovsky, A. N., 218
Petrovsky, Grigori, 69, 77, 111, 174, 227–30, 232, 244, 245, 247: Stalin’s follower, 12; purge of, 436–37
Petrovsky, L. G., 436–37, 439
Philatelists, 271
Piecework system, 21
Pieck, Wilhelm, 403n
Pikel, Richard, 84–85, 88, 95, 109, 190
Pilnyak, Boris, 86, 298–300, 305
“Pioneers,” 465
Piontkovsky, A. A., 291
Pletnev, D., 342, 375–76, 383–88, 393–95, 456
Pogány, Jozsef, 403
Pogodin, Nikolai F., 451
Polish Communists, 405–7
Polish intelligence services, 270
Polish population in Russia, 405–6
Polish prisoners of war, 447–50
Politburo, 46: Ryutin case, 24; and Stalin, 33, 35; Code of Terror approval, 41–42; moderates in, 71; opposition to Purge, 71, 135–36; and NKVD secret trial, 90; purge of, 236–38, 242–49, 438–39; trial of members of, 342; losses in, 438–39
Polivanov, E. D., 297
Poltava, 253
Ponomarenko, P., 438
Ponomarev, Boris, 214
Popkov, P. S., 218, 438
Poplawski, S. G., 259
Popov, M. M., 230–32, 404
Popular Front, 464
Porayko, V. I., 303, 347
Poskrebyshev, A. N., 64, 438: Stalin’s secretary, 15; “Special Sector” role, 34; Ordzhonikidze’s death, 170–71
Pospelov, Peter, 479–80
Postyshev, Pavel, 90, 135, 172, 174, 178–79, 219, 228, 230–31, 243–45, 248, 301, 426, 435: character of, 34; political history, 144; Stalin moves against, 144–45, 147; indirect attacks on, 175; objection to Purge, 176, 244; purge of, 246–47, 419; fate of family, 436; rehabilitation, 479
Potmalag complex, 205, 315
POUM, 409–11
Powers, Gary, 478
Pozern, Boris, 217–18, 435
Preobrazhensky, E., 11, 31, 166, 480: as Trotskyite, 8; resistance of, 120
Prezent, I. I., 297
Priests, 273, 317
Prigozhin, 291
Prikhodko, 426
Primakov (Corps Commander), 182, 190, 194: arrest, 190; confession, 194, 202
“Prison of Special Designation,” 311
Prisoners of war, 447–50
Prisons: conditions in, 264–70; inmate statistics, 485–86
Pritt, D. N., 107, 467
Prokofiev, G. E., 139, 180, 287
Prosecutor-Generalship of the USSR, 34
Prosecutors, Yezhov’s purge of, 180–81
Prosecutor’s Office, 82
Pryanishnikov, D. N., 296
Prygov, S. L., 446
Przhevalsky, I. M., 55
Ptukhin (General), 454
Pul’kovo Observatory, 295
Pumpur, P., 429
Punitive camps, 337
Purge Commission, 26
Pushin, G. E., 143
Putna, Vitovt (Corps Commander), 101, 153, 183–84, 190–91, 194, 202
Pyatakov, Yuri, 33, 98–99, 128–29, 137, 139, 142, 162, 202, 243, 425, 466, 468, 480–81: as Trotskyite, 8; capitulation to Party, 17; speech at XVIIth Party Congress, 31; show trial role, 34; NKVD trial role, 98–99, 101–2; Party loyalty, 112–14, 118–19; importance of, 140; Stalin’s attack on, 140–41; repentance, 141; confession, 141, 145–46, 150–52; trial of, 147–67; alleged meeting with Trotsky, 151–52; last plea, 164; Party’s attitude toward, 166; Ordzhonikidze’s loyalty toward, 167–68
Pyatnitsky, I. A., 237–38, 400, 407, 420–21
Radek, Karl, 6, 79, 96, 110, 128–29, 147, 149, 165–66, 405, 470: as Trotskyite, 8–9; capitulation to Party, 17; on Stalin, 30–31; reception at XVIIth Party Congress, 31; NKVD trial testimony about, 101–2; Stalin’s attack on, 137, 140; collaboration of, 145–46; at Pyatakov Trial, 148; last plea, 164–65; fate of daughter, 165; and Army officers, 191
Radomislskaya, F. A., 105
Radzivilovsky, A. P., 84, 194, 219
Raikh, Zinaida, 307
Railways, 276–77, 433
Rajk, Laszlo, 127, 458
Rajk Trial, 63
Rakhimbayev, A. R., 357
Rákosi, M., 63
Rakovsky, Christian, 98, 128, 162, 391, 396, 412: as Trotskyite, 8–9, 11, 360; return to Party, 30; trial, 342, 351–53; political record, 360; testimony, 360–61; last plea, 392–93; sentencing, 395; Romanian connection, 404; execution, 456
Ramzin (professor), 143
Rapava, A. N., 239
Rappaport, 50
Rataichak, S. A., 143, 151, 161
Razgon, Lev, 262
Razkolnikov, Mikhail, 117, 152, 425, 480–81
Red Army, 452
Red Army Chorus, 209
Refusal to work, 321
Rehabilitation, routine of, 339, 480
Reichstag Trial, 106n
Reingold, Isak, 83, 88, 188–90: confrontation with Kamenev, 85
Reiss, Ignace, 408, 415
Religion, 273, 317–18, 457
Remmele, Hermann, 400–401
Repnin, Prince Michael, 175–76
Republics, purges in, 223–27
Reykhman, L. I., 441
Right Socialist Revolutionaries, 374
Rightists: Stalin’s defeat of, 15–22; at XVIIth Party Congress, 32; NKVD trial testimony, 96; Yezhov’s view, 138; in military, 186; at Bukharin Trial, 342
Ring, Jerzy, 406
Rivera, Diego, 415
Robotti, Paoli, 403–4
Rodionov, M. I., 438
Rodos, B. V., 306–7
Rodriguez Sala, 410
Roginsky, G., 83, 240, 260
Rokossovsky, K. K. (Corps Commander), 429, 451
Rolland, Romain, 66, 297, 466
Romanian Communist Party, 404
Romanian Socialist Party, 360
Romanov, Pantaleimon, 300
Rosenberg, M., 209, 409
Rosenfeld, Nikolai, 76
Rosengolts, Arkady, 114, 127, 240–41, 342, 346, 350, 359, 389, 393–94, 480
Rossisky, D. M., 386
Rostov province, 175
Rousset, David, 472
Rozenblum, 216–17
Ruban, Nastya, 190
Rubashov, 118, 361
Rudzutak, Yan, 33, 128, 237–38, 242–43, 347, 359, 400, 405, 439: Stalin’s follower, 12–13; support of Ryutin, 25; arrest of, 236; execution, 420; retraction of confession, 421–22; rehabilitation, 479
Ruhemann (professor), 293
Rukhimovich, M., 159, 240, 420–21
Rumyantsev, I. P., 46, 221, 246
Russell, Bertrand, 309
Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP), 298–300, 305
Russian prisoners of war, 450
Ryazanov, D. B., 6, 61
Rychagov (General), 455
Rychkov, N. M., 147, 249
Rykov, Alexei, 24, 98, 108, 127, 136–38, 145–47, 162, 168, 237; Bukharin’s associate, 17; leadership failure, 19, 21; reception at VIIth Party Congress, 31: NKVD trial testimony about, 95–96, 101–2; and Party mind, 111; exculpation, 136; dismissal of, 139; February-March plenum, 173–74; trial of, 342–43, 348–49; 354–55, 359, 367–71, 381–83, 391, 394; assurances about execution, 343; confirmation of Krestinsky’s guilt, 347; Kirov assassination, 366; Kirov murder accusation, 391; last plea, 392; sentencing, 395; fate of family, 396
Ryutin, M. N., 129–30, 138–39, 147; attack on Stalin, 23–24, 117–18; arrest of, 24–25; expulsion from Party, 26; and Postyshev, 144
“Ryutin Platform,” 23–24, 162, 350, 354, 368
Ryvkin, 0. L., 427
Sabanin, A. V, 423
Sablin, Yu. V. (Divisional Commander), 190, 205
Sabotage, 141–47, 275–76, 283
Saburov, M. Z., 459 Safarov, G., 47–49
Safonova, Aleksandra, 89, 97, 119