Stalin: A Biography

Marxism-Leninism: Stalin’s commitment to,; in Georgia, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; appeal to intellectuals, ref10; predicts class war, ref11; and national question, ref12, ref13, ref14; in Finland, ref15; propagated, ref16; and foreign policy, ref17; reasserted in war, ref18; and dictatorship of proletariat, ref19; promoted, ref20, ref21

Masaryk, Jan

Maslov, Pëtr

Matsesta

Mayakovski, Vladimir

Mdivani, Budu,

Medvedev, Roy,

Meir, Golda,

Mekhlis, Lev,

Mendeleev, Dmitri

Mensheviks: ridicule Stalin,; formed by Party split, ref3; in Georgia, ref4, ref5, ref6; differences with Bolsheviks, ref7, ref11, ref12; Lenin breaks with, ref13; excluded from Central Committee, ref14; and national question, ref15; support Provisional Government, ref16, ref17; Kamenev and Stalin attack, ref18; members transfer to Bolsheviks, ref19; and Democratic State Conference, ref20; control soviets, ref21; walk out from Second Congress of Soviets, ref22; Bolsheviks’ fear of rivalry, ref23; as potential opposition to Stalin, ref24

Menzhinski, Vladimir,

Mercader, Ramón,

Merkulov, V.N.

Merzhanov, Miron,

Meyer, Ernst

Meyerkhold, Vsevolod

MGB (Ministry of State Security),; see also NKVD

Mgeladze, Akaki,

Michels, Roberto

Mikhail, Grand Duke

Mikhalkov, Sergei

Mikhoels, Solomon

Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw

Mikoyan, Anastas: dacha, ref1; Stalin’s assessment of, ref2; and grain procurement, ref3, ref4, ref5; in Politburo, ref6; relations with Stalin, ref7, ref8, ref9; Armenian origins, ref10, ref11; writes memoirs, ref12; and Stalin’s admiration for Hitler, ref13; and Nazi-Soviet pact (1939), ref14; in conduct of war, ref15; on Stalin’s treatment of Molotov, ref16; on Stalin’s timorousness in war, ref17; responsibilities for food in war, ref18; telephones bugged, ref19; status and power, ref20; Stalin’s hostility to, ref21; and Stalin’s hostility to Voznesenski, ref22; proposes list of successors to Stalin, ref23; demoted and out of favour, ref24, ref25

Mikoyan, Ashken (Anastas’s wife)

Milyukov, Pavel

Milyutin, Vladimir,

Mingrelians,

Minin, Sergei,

Mnatobi (newspaper)

Mogren (Swedish Police Commissioner)

Molochnikov, Nikolai

Molotov, Vyacheslav: snubs Stalin on return from exile, ref1; removed from Russian Bureau, ref2; Stalin moves in with, ref3; position in Party Secretariat, ref4; quarrel with Trotski, ref5; Lenin proposes promoting, ref6; omitted from Lenin’s Testament, ref7; at Lenin’s funeral, ref8; supports Stalin in Orgburo, ref9; and Stalin’s experience with beggar, ref10; recreations, ref11; and Stalin’s view of Krupskaya, ref12; Stalin complains of Bukharin to, ref13; and Stalin’s industrialisation policy, ref14; shares Stalin’s assumptions, ref15; and Stalin’s demand for export of grain, ref16; in Politburo, ref17; Stalin devolves power to, ref18; and Stalin’s mistrust of colleagues, ref19; as Stalin’s confidant, ref20; Stalin complains to about Rykov, ref21; and growth of state power, ref22; approves Nadya Allilueva’s travel abroad, ref23; attempts to understand Stalin, ref24; argues for industrial slow-down, ref25; accompanies Stalin family on Metro ride, ref26; Stalin’s correspondence with, ref27; writes memoirs, ref28; shares Stalin’s class attitudes, ref29; on Stalin’s fears of ‘fifth column’, ref30; and Yezhov’s appointment to NKVD, ref31; argues with Pyatnitski, ref32; participates in Great Terror, ref33; Stalin asks to prevent publication of articles, ref34; and Yezhov’s decline, ref35; class background, ref36; disagreements with Stalin, ref37, ref38; wife arrested, ref39, ref40; in People’s Commissariat of External Affairs; signs 1939 nonaggression pact with Germany, ref44; and Stalin’s view of Hitler, ref45; and Baltic States, ref46; on Stalin’s war preparations, ref47; attempts to delay war with Germany, ref48; at German invasion of USSR, ref49, ref50; on Stalin’s reaction to German invasion, ref51; in wartime Stavka, ref52; supports Stalin in conduct of war, ref53; musical abilities, ref54; social life with Stalin, ref55; Stalin’s treatment of, ref56; responsibility for tanks in war, ref57; in Berlin (1940), ref58; entertains Churchill in Moscow, ref59; and German-Polish border, ref60; demands continuing offensive, ref61; and post-war Soviet influence in world, ref62; negotiates Soviet role in UN, ref63; readiness to accept Marshall Aid, ref64; in antiTito campaign, ref65; and exploitation of eastern Europe, ref66; singing with Stalin, ref67; loyalty to Stalin, ref68; Stalin humiliates, ref69, ref70; self-control, ref71; telephones bugged, ref72; demoted and out of favour, ref73, ref74; and withering away of state, ref75; rejects socialism in one country doctrine, ref76; and succession to Stalin, ref77, ref78; wine-drinking, ref79; position after Stalin’s death, ref80; eulogy at Stalin’s funeral, ref81; approves reforms after Stalin’s death, ref82

Molotova, Polina (Zhemchuzhina),

Monastyrskoe, Turukhansk District,

Montgomery, General Bernard Law (later 1st Viscount),

Morozov, Grigori: marriage to Svetlana,

Morris, William