Read Stalin Online

Authors: Oleg V. Khlevniuk

Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Presidents & Heads of State, #History, #Europe, #Russia & the Former Soviet Union, #Modern, #20th Century

Stalin (77 page)

–292
Chinese civil war,
286
,
288
Chizhikov, Petr,
251
Chochia, Grigory,
25
Chubar, Vlas,
177
Chuikov, Vasily,
171
–172
Churchill, Winston,
269
Iron Curtain speech of,
267
and second front plan,
223
–224,
228
,
229
-Stalin meetings,
224
,
230
,
244
, Gallery
12
Civil War: casualties of,
54
opponents of Bolsheviks in,
53
Polish front,
59
–61
Stalin’s missions during,
54
–56
Stalin-Trotsky conflict,
61
–63
Tsaritsyn terror campaign during,
56
–59
Clausewitz, Carl von,
95
Cold War, origins of,
266
–267
Collaborators with Nazi occupation, prosecution of,
232
Collective leadership, Gallery,
6
,
7
anti-Trotsky coalition in,
80
,
81
–82
division of functions,
80
–81
expulsion of leftist opposition,
83
–86,
90
,
100
and foreign threats campaign,
88
–89
and New Economic Policy (NEP),
81
,
82
,
87
,
88
,
110
opponents of Stalin’s rise to power,
82
–83,
104
–105,
106
,
108
policy debates within,
89
–91
purge of oppositionists,
137
–139
Stalin faction in,
105
,
106
after Stalin’s death,
310
–313
Stalin’s resignation offer,
79
–80,
91
Stalin’s restructuring of NEP,
100
–106
victory of Stalin faction,
106
–108
Collectivization, agricultural,
110
–113,
115
–116,
299
,
300
,
322
Cominform, creation of,
267
Conquest, Robert,
150
Constitution, liberalization of,
134
–135
Consumer goods: price of,
321
–322,
324
shortages of,
276
–278
Corruption, and currency reform,
278
–279
Cosmopolitanism campaign,
284
,
286
Crimea: ethnic deportations from,
232
,
233
Soviet-German Front in,
220
,
221
,
228
Yalta Conference,
244
–246,
289
, Gallery
12
Currency reform,
274
–280,
321
Czechoslovakia: in Communist bloc,
280
German invasion of,
164
Munich Agreement on,
163
–164
Slansky trial,
307
–Soviet mutual assistance treaty,
135
Dacha (“near dacha”): Gallery
10
landscaping of,
4
–5
library at,
93
–96,
346
n5
renovations of,
3
–4
security personnel at,
33
,
36
,
92
,
142
–143,
189
,
338
n2
social gatherings at,
5
–7,
93
,
196
Stalin’s death at,
33
,
92
,
142
–144,
338
n1
Dachas, southern,
191
,
193
,
359
n42
Daily Herald
,
270
–271
Daladier, Édouard,
163
Danilov, V. P.,
348
n19
Deikina, V. F.,
300
–301
Denunciations,
328
Dimitrov, Georgy,
171
Disease epidemics,
119
“Dizzy with Success” (Stalin),
114
Djilas, Milovan,
5
,
196
,
235
Doctors’ Plot,
196
,
307
–309,
314
Draule, Milda,
130
Dureiko, N. M.,
132
–133
Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich,
71
,
73
,
344
n66
Eastern Europe: Berlin blockade,
281
liberalization in interregnum period,
316
military buildup in,
297
sovietization of,
266
,
267
,
270
,
280
,
370
n62
Stalin’s enemies campaign in,
281
and Titoism,
280
–281
Eastern Front.
See
Soviet–German Front
Economy: and capital investment,
299
,
302
and currency reform,
274
–280,
321
interregnum period reforms,
302
,
315
postwar recovery,
279
–280
and price reduction,
321
–322
Sovnarkom Bureau oversight of,
178
–179
standard of living,
262
Terror’s impact on,
161
urbanite advantages in,
321
and war mobilization,
184
–185,
274
wartime leadership of,
240
–241.
See also
Agriculture
Famine
Industrialization
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Edinonachalie
, in Red Army,
238
Eikhe, Robert,
177
Ellman, Michael,
332
n10
Engels, Friedrich,
94
Erenburg, Ilya,
236
Erickson, John,
201
Espionage, Soviet,
357
–358n76
Estonia: and German-Soviet non-aggression pact,
166
postwar repression in,
268
forced resettlement campaign in,
174
sovietization of,
170
–171,
173
Ethnic groups: forced resettlement of,
232
–234
and russification policy,
325
.
See also
Jews, Soviet
Famine: of 1921–1922,
64
,
118
of 1931–1933,
3
,
7
,
38
,
116
,
117
–122
of 1936,
124
as political weapon,
38
postwar,
261
,
267
preferential treatment of urbanites,
321
Fedorenko, Nikolai,
292
Feuchtwanger, Lion,
162
Fifth column, Stalin’s suspicions of,
155
–157,
162
Film screenings,
2
–3,
93
,
96
–97,
347
n12
Filtzer, Donald,
280
Finland: and German-Soviet non-aggression pact,
166
Soviet invasion of (Winter War),
172
–173,
186
“Five” (ruling group),
1
Five-Year Plan: First,
109
,
116
,
117
,
123
Second,
124
Food shortages,
184
–185,
278
,
300
–301,
323
–324
Foreign intelligence, Stalin’s suspicions of,
155
–157,
162
Foreign policy: arms race,
297
–298
Baltic states occupation,
170
–171
breakdown in relations with West,
266
–267
China (
See
China-Soviet relations)
under collective leadership,
88
–89
Doctors’ Plot as tool of,
309
and European alliances,
123
,
135
,
163
Finland invasion (Winter War),
172
–173,
186
German-Soviet non-aggression pact,
164
–169,
170
,
174
Hitler-Molotov four-way alliance negotiations,
174
–176
in interregnum period,
315
–316
and Japanese border clashes,
163
,
168
–169
and Japanese postwar settlement,
248
–249,
270
and Japanese threat,
123
,
153
,
156
and Korean War,
294
–296,
298
,
316
“kowtowing to the West” campaign,
265
–266,
285
,
286
and Munich Agreement,
163
–164
and nuclear capability,
293
Polish occupation,
170
postwar challenges for,
261
–262
preemptive strike plan,
182
–183
sovietization of postwar Eastern Europe,
266
,
267
,
270
,
280
,
370
n62
sovietization under Molotov–Ribbentrop pact,
171
,
173
–174
and Spanish civil war,
153
–154
and spheres of influence,
171
,
244
Stalin’s caution and pragmatism in,
298
Terror’s consequences for,
162
and Titoism,
280
–281
United Nations boycott,
372
n95
war readiness in,
153
,
164
,
183
–188
Foreign press, rumors of power struggle in,
269
,
270
–271
France, Anatole,
95
France: appeasement of Hitler,
163
,
167
fall of,
173
and Polish invasion,
169
–170
-Soviet mutual assistance treaty,
135
Franco, Francisco,
153
Genghis Khan,
138
Georgia: ethnic deportations from,
233
Mingrelian Affair,
304
–305,
314
–315
in Transcaucasian Federation dispute,
71
–72,
73
,
74
,
75
Georgian language, Stalin’s use of,
97
German–Soviet Front.
See
Soviet-German Front Germany: Berlin blockade,
281
Politburo plan for revolution in,
77
–78

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