Stalin: A Biography

Khrushchëv, Nikita: denounces Stalin,; on Stalin’s early modesty, ref5; in Great Terror, ref6; Stalin accuses of being Pole, ref7; on ‘cult of personality’, ref8; association with Stalin, ref9; womanising and drinking; rebuked for congratulating Stalin on victory over Germany; on counter-productive effect of repression; desires agricultural reform, ref14, ref15; and famine in Ukraine (1947); Stalin teases for corpulence, ref17; at Nineteenth Party Congress, ref18; fears Stalin’s disfavour; at Stalin’s 73rd birthday party, ref20; watches film with Stalin, ref21; and succession to Stalin; reforms after Stalin’s death; rise to power, ref26; removed from power (1964), ref27; reputation, ref28

Khrustalëv, Ivan,

Kiev: falls to Germans

Kim Il-Sung

Kirov, Sergei: supports Stalin on status of republics, ref1; in Caucasian Bureau, ref2; allies with Stalin, ref3; and grain procurement, ref4; friendship with Stalin, ref5, ref6; asked to take over from Stalin, ref7; assassinated; and national identity, ref11

Kishkin, Nikolai

Kislovodsk episode,

Kleiner, I.N.

Klimov, M. (Svetlana’s bodyguard)

Knorin, V.G.

Knunyants, Bogdan

Kobulov, Bogdan

Kolchak, Admiral Alexander,

Kolkhoz Model Statute (1935)

kolkhozes (collective farms),; markets, ref3

Kollontai, Alexandra,

Komsomol: militancy, ref1; support for Stalin, ref2

Kondratev, Nikolai,

Konev, General Ivan,

Königsberg,

Konovalov, Alexander

Korchagina, Alexandra,

Korean War (1950–53),

Kornev (acquaintance of Stalin)

Kornilov, General Lavr,

Korshunova, Fekla

Kosior, Stanislav

Kovalëv, Ivan,

Kraków

Krasin, Lev

Krasnov, General P.N.

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk Party Regional Committee

Kravchenko (prison guard)

Krestinski, Nikolai,

Kronstadt; naval mutiny (1921)

Kruglov, Sergei

Krupskaya, Nadezhda (Lenin’s wife): invites Stalin to dine, ref1; dispute with Stalin, ref2, ref3; and Lenin’s health decline, ref4, ref5; Stalin abuses, ref6, ref7; objects to embalming and display of Lenin, ref8; as Lenin’s biographer, ref9; and Lenin’s Testament, ref10; relations with Nadya Allilueva, ref11; asks Nadya Allilueva to intervene in Georgian affair, ref12; supports Zinoviev and Kamenev, ref13, ref14; and culture, ref15

Kseshinskaya, Matilda

Kuban area (north Caucasus)

Kuibyshev

Kuibyshev, Valeryan,

kulaks: Stalin persecutes,, ref11, ref12; Bukharin supports, ref13; wish for commercial opportunities, ref14; taxed, ref15; flourish, ref16; excluded from collective farms, ref17; repressed in Ukraine, ref18; see also peasants

Kulikov, Yevgeni,

Kun, Miklós

Kuntsevo

Kuomintang,

Kurchatov, Igor

Kureika (hamlet), Turukhansk District,

Kurile Islands,

Kursk, battle of (1943)

Kushner, Professor

Kutaisi Prison

Kutuzov, Mikhail

Kuzakova, Maria

Kuznetsov, Alexei,

Kuznetsov, Admiral N.G.

Kvali (Tbilisi newspaper),

labour camps,; see also Gulag

Labouring Peasant Party (fictitious)

Lagidze, Mitrofan

Lakoba, Nestor

Landau, Lev

Largiashvili (seminarist)

Largo Caballero, Francisco

Lashevich, Mikhail,

Latvia: resists Soviet expansionism; as Soviet republic; nationhood in; reclaims independence; German-Soviet conflict over; Stalin demands and occupies; Germans conquer; reannexed by USSR; Stalin’s post-war aims in; armed resistance in; deportations from; see also Baltic states

Latvians: killed in Great Terror

Lazurkina, Dora

League of the Militant Godless,

League of Nations: excludes USSR; USSR applies for admission; ineffectiveness against Japan

Left Opposition: supports Trotski; criticises economic policy; Stalin defeats

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries,

Lend-Lease,

Lenin in October (film)