Stalin: A Biography

Kaganovich, Lazar: supports Stalin in Orgburo,; as First Secretary of Communist Party of Ukraine, ref3; deports Poles, ref4; shares Stalin’s assumptions, ref5; in Politburo, ref6; Stalin orders to shave off beard, ref7; Stalin devolves power to, ref8; as Stalin’s confidant, ref9, ref10; and growth of state power, ref11; approves Nadya Allilueva’s travel abroad, ref12; speaks at Nadya’s funeral, ref13; on effect of Nadya’s suicide on Stalin, ref14, ref15; pleads for industrial slowdown, ref16; requests lowering of Ukraine grain quotas, ref17; engineers Stalin’s re-election at 17th Party Congress, ref18; orders demolition of Moscow cathedral, ref19; and Stalin’s family ride on Metro, ref20; and Stalin’s views on Nakhaev, ref21; writes memoirs, ref22; shares Stalin’s class attitudes, ref23; and Stalin’s belief in decisive action, ref24; on Stalin’s fear of ‘fifth column’, ref25; and Yezhov’s appointment to NKVD, ref26; Stalin accuses, ref27; participates in Great Terror, ref28; Stalin asks to prevent publication of articles, ref29; association with Stalin, ref30; and sister’s supposed relations with Stalin, ref31; reponsibilities for transport in war, ref32; imitates Stalin, ref33; Jewishness, ref34, ref35; and Stalin’s wish to retire, ref36; and succession to Stalin, ref37; and Stalin’s death, ref38; approves reforms after Stalin’s death, ref39

Kaganovich, Maya

Kaganovich, Moisei

Kaganovich, Rosa

Kalashnikov (of Industrial Academy)

Kaledin, General Alexei

Kalinin, Mikhail: and Stalin’s return to work after appendectomy, ref1; and agrarian policy, ref2; as head of state, ref3; and popular unrest, ref4; and Stalin’s rule, ref5; wife arrested and detained, ref6, ref7; fondness for ballerinas, ref8

Kalinina, Yelena,

Kamenev, Lev: character, ref1; leads Marxist group in Tbilisi, ref2; internationalism, ref3; Stalin meets in Kraków, ref4; Lenin demands punishment of, ref5; in exile, ref6, ref7; tried (1915), ref8; and Grand Duke Mikhail’s refusal to take crown, ref9; supports Provisional Government, ref10; rejected for membership of Russian Bureau, ref11; returns to Petrograd, ref12; appointed to editorial board of Pravda, ref13; combative programme, ref14; Lenin attacks, ref15; and First World War, ref16; follows Lenin’s strategy, ref17; Lenin supports for election to Central Committee, ref18; arrested by Provisional Government, ref19, ref20; in Central Committee, ref21, ref22; opposes Lenin’s revolutionary policy, ref23, ref24; status and fame, ref25; Jewishness; opposes gratuitous violence, ref32; supports separate peace in First World War, ref33; in Civil War, ref34; and control of Cheka, ref35; and revolutions abroad, ref36; heart problems, ref37; and Stalin’s appointment as General Secretary of Party, ref38; and dispute between Stalin and Lenin on autonomisation, ref39; opposes incorporation of Soviet republics, ref40; in Lenin’s Testament, ref41; Krupskaya writes to on Stalin’s abuse, ref42; protects and allies with Stalin, ref43, ref44, ref45; authority in Politburo, ref46; administrative duties, ref47; at Lenin’s funeral, ref48; fails to press Testament charges against Stalin, ref49; defeats Left Opposition, ref50; mistaken reference to nepman, ref51; Stalin turns against, ref52; economic policy, ref53; leadership ambitions, ref54; opposes Stalin and Bukharin, ref55, ref56; writes on Leninism, ref57; excluded from Central Committee, ref58; and Bukharin’s peasant policy, ref59; as continuing threat, ref60; evidence of disloyalty to Stalin, ref61; taken into NKVD custody and sentenced, ref62; confession and execution, ref63, ref64, ref65; Voroshilov disparages, ref66; and Svetlana’s love affairs, ref67

Kamenev, Sergei,

Kameneva, Olga

Kaminski, G.M.

Kaminski, V.

‘Kamo’ see Ter-Petrosyan, Semën

Kanner, Grigori

Kapanadze, Peter,

Kapler, Alexei,

Karamzin, Nikolai

Karpov, B.

Karpov, G.

Katyn forest massacre (1940)

Kautsky, Karl,; The Driving Forces and Prospects of the Russian Revolution, ref3

Kavtaradze, Sergei,

Kazakhstan: famine in,; supposed genocide in, ref3; agricultural reforms in, ref4

Kemal Pasha (Ataturk)

Kennan, George,

Kerenski, Alexander: in Provisional Government, ref1; and conduct of First World War, ref2; premiership, ref3; calls Democratic Conference, ref4; Lenin demands overthrow of, ref5; and Bolshevik threat, ref6, ref7; defeated in move against Petrograd, ref8

Ketskhoveli, Lado,

Ketskhoveli, Vano,

Ketskhoveli, Vladimir

Kharkov

Khazan, Tamara (wife of Andrei Andreev)

Khazanova, Tamara,

Khlevnyuk, Oleg

Kholodnaya Rechka,

Khrennikov, Tikhon