Stalin: A Biography

Churchill, (Sir) Winston: warns Stalin of German invasion of USSR, ref1; condemns Nazi atrocities, ref2; Stalin entertains, ref3; meets Stalin at Tehran, ref4; broadcasts, ref5; view of Stalin, ref6; offers wartime assistance to USSR, ref7; wartime travels, ref8; relations with Stalin, ref9, ref10; ‘percentages agreement’ with Stalin in Moscow (1944), ref11; and post-war European settlement, ref12; at Yalta Conference, ref13; and Soviet inaction during Warsaw rising, ref14; and prospective capture of Berlin, ref15; at Potsdam Conference, ref16; loses 1945 election and premiership, ref17; Stalin’s regard for, ref18, ref19; Stalin accuses of resentfulness, ref20; Fulton ‘iron curtain’ speech, ref21, ref22; commitments to Stalin, ref23; speeches reproduced in Moscow, ref24, ref25; sends condolences on Stalin’s death, ref26

cinema: Stalin’s interest in,

Circle, Operation

Civil War (1918–19),

Cold War: beginnings,; intensifies, ref3; causes budgetary strains, ref4

collectivisation: peasant deaths under,; Stalin introduces, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; and tractor supply, ref10; spread of, ref11; percentage of households in, ref12; of Cossacks, ref13; resistance to, ref14; of Kazakhs and Ukrainaians, ref15; post-war in eastern Europe, ref16

Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance): formed

Cominform (Informational Bureau): First Conference (1947),; hostility to, ref3; Second Conference (1948), ref4

Comintern (Communist International): formed, ref1; and proposed German rising, ref2, ref3; in Asia, ref4; expansion, ref5; and China, ref6; Sixth Congress (July 1928), ref7; and Stalin’s European policy; Stalin dominates, ref11; Dimitrov appointed to head Executive Committee, ref12, ref13; campaign against ‘rightism’, ref14; and German threat, ref15; Stalin criticises for being over-centralised, ref16; and Spanish Civil War, ref17; purged, ref18; and Chinese Communist Party, ref19; weakness, ref20, ref21; dissolved, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25

communism: weakness outside USSR, ref1; as worldwide movement, ref2, ref3; post-war spread, ref4; in east European countries, ref5

concentration camps, ref1; see also Gulag

Congress of Peoples of the Terek (1920)

Congress of Soviets: Second (1917),; Third (1918), ref4

Congress of Writers, First (1934)

Conquest, Robert

Constitutional-Democratic Party (Kadets): organisation and doctrines, ref1; in Provisional Government, ref2, ref3; leaves Provisional Government, ref4; Stalin attacks, ref5, ref6; ceases political activity, ref7

Cossacks: in Civil War,; Stalin’s hostility to, ref3; in Caucasus, ref4, ref5; collectivisation, ref6

Council of Ministers (formerly Sovnarkom),

Council of People’s Commissars see Sovnarkom

Crimea: in war with Germany

culture: Stalin’s attitude to and interest in

‘curators’

Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess,

Curzon Line,

Czechoslovakia: Stalin woos,; Germany annexes, ref3; hostility to USSR, ref4; and Marshall Aid, ref5; communist weakness in, ref6; democratic tradition, ref7; communists achieve dominance in

Darien (Dalni)

Dashnaks

Davitashvili, M.,

Davrishevi, Damian,

Davrishevi, Joseph,

Davydov (Georgian police agent)

Deborin, Abram

Democratic Centralists,

Democratic State Conference (1917)

Denikin, General Anton,

Department of Agitation and Propaganda (Central Committee)

Deutscher, Isaac

Dimitrov, Georgi: flatters Stalin, ref1; Stalin appoints to head Executive Committee of Comintern, ref2, ref3; and Nazi threat, ref4; and Stalin’s foreign policy, ref5, ref6; and treatment of foreign communist parties, ref7, ref8, ref9; and abolition of Comintern, ref10, ref11; as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, ref12; and Stalin’s underestimation of China, ref13

Diomidis, Alexandros

Djilas, Milovan

doctors (medical): purged

Doctors Plot,

Dolgoruki, Prince Yuri

Don Basin: seized by Germans

Dostoevski, Fedor

Dubrovinski, Innokenti

Duclos, Jacques

Dukhobors (religious sect)

Duma (State): proposed, ref1; socialist contingent in, ref2; Mensheviks exploit, ref3; Fourth, ref4, ref5; dispersed (February 1917), ref6

Dzeradze, Mikhail,

Dzhibladze, Silva,

Dzhughashvili family

Dzhughashvili, Besarion (Vissarion; Stalin’s father): and Stalin’s birth and childhood, ref1; violence, ref2; and Stalin’s schooling, ref3; death, ref4, ref5; Stalin’s attitude to, ref6, ref7

Dzhughashvili, Ketevan (née Geladze; Stalin’s mother; ‘Keke’): and Stalin’s birth, ref1; marriage, ref2, ref3,ref4; character and rumoured profligacy, ref5; and Stalin’s upbringing and education, ref6, ref7; works as seamstress, ref8; Stalin’s attachment to, ref9; Stalin’s separation from, ref10; refuses to move to Moscow, ref11; Stalin visits, ref12; mentioned in Pravda, ref13

Dzhughashvili, Ketevan (née Svanidze; Stalin’s first wife): Stalin courts and marries, ref1; birth of son, ref2; death, ref3, ref4