Stalin: A Biography

Pervukhin, Mikhail,

Pestkowski, Stanislaw,

Peter I (the Great), Tsar,

Petkov, Nikola

Petrograd see St Petersburg

Petrov (photographer)

Petrovski, G.I.

Philby, Kim

Piłsudski, Josef,

Piotrovski, V.V.: In the Steps of Ancient Cultures

Platform of the Forty-Six

Platonov, Andrei

Platonov, Sergei,

Plekhanov, Georgi: influence,; at Stockholm conference (1905), ref4; Stalin criticises, ref5; at London conference (1907), ref6; as thinker, ref7

Pokrovski, Mikhail

Poland: Stalin meets Lenin in, ref1; independence accepted, ref2; Soviet war with (1920), ref3, ref4; as potential invader, ref5, ref6, ref7; Stalin dominates, ref8; Stalin pressurises (1939), ref9; Hitler plans conquest of, ref10, ref11; defeated by Germany (1939), ref12; Soviet part-occupation and regime in, ref13; historic hostility to USSR, ref14; post-war settlement, ref15, ref16, ref17; Soviet advance in, ref18, ref19; Stalin’s post-war aims in, ref20; elections in, ref21, ref22; Provisional Government, ref23; refuses execution of Gomulka, ref24; anti-Soviet demonstrations in, ref25

Poles (ethnic): killed in Great Terror

Poletaev, Nikolai

Polish Communist Party: Stalin persecutes exiles

Politburo: and Civil War, ref1; and national question, ref2; composition and unity in, ref3; Kamenev chairs after Lenin’s death, ref4; internal factions and disputes, ref5, ref6; and Stalin’s aggressive agrarian policy, ref7; and grain shortage, ref8; approves elimination of kulaks, ref9; power and status, ref10; membership numbers, ref11; and Marxist idealism, ref12; and suppression of opponents, ref13; under 1936 Constitution, ref14; treatment of Kazakhs and Ukrainians, ref15; sanctions purge of anti-Soviet elements, ref16; Stalin purges, ref17; reforms, ref18; and Stalin’s foreign policy, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24; on Hitler’s rise to power, ref25; and Nazi-Soviet pact (1939), ref26; Stalin manipulates members, ref27, ref28; and succession to Stalin, ref29

Popkov, Pëtr

Popov, Nikolai

popular fronts,

Port Arthur,

Poskrëbyshev, Alexander,

Pospelov, P.N.

Postyshev, Pëtr

Potsdam Conference (1945),

POUM (Spanish party),

Prague Conference (1912)

Pravda (newspaper): founded, ref1; Stalin writes for, ref2, ref3; Molotov and Shlyapnikov edit, ref4; and national question, ref5; Stalin appointed to editorial board, ref6, ref7; Stalin gives up editorship, ref8; on Nadya Allilueva’s death, ref9, ref10; and non-aggression pact with Germany (1939), ref11; reporting of war, ref12; cultic writings on Stalin, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16; denigrates Western leaders, ref17; on Doctors’ Plot, ref18; limits posthumous praise of Stalin, ref19; prepares laudatory editorial on Stalin, ref20

Preobrazhenski, Yevgeni: urges Europe-wide revolution, ref1; sympathises with Trotski, ref2, ref3; opposes Stalin’s appointment as General Secretary, ref4; criticises economic policy, ref5; writings, ref6; allies with Stalin, ref7

Presidium (Bolshevik Party): internal Bureau established, ref1; and Stalin’s stroke, ref2; and succession to Stalin, ref3

Prokofiev, Sergei

Proletari (journal)

Proletarians Brdzola (journal),

proletariat, dictatorship of,

Prosveshchenie (journal)

Provisional Government (Russian): formed (1917), ref1; Russian Bureau opposition to, ref2; Lenin demands overthrow of, ref3, ref4, ref5; rule and reforms, ref6, ref7; and conduct of First World War, ref8; break-up, ref9; unpopularity, ref9, ref10; conflict with Bolsheviks, ref11

Prussia: Soviet dominance in

Przewalski, Nikolai

Pugachëv revolt (1773–5)

Pushkin, Alexander,

Putin, Vladimir,

Pyatakov, Georgi,

Pyatnitski, Osip,

Qazbegi, Alexander: The Patricide,

Rabochii put (newspaper)

Radek, Karl: and war with Poland, ref1; tried, ref2

Radzinski, Edvard

Rajk, László

Rakovski, Christian,

Ramishvili, Isidore,

Ramzin, Leonid

Rapallo, Treaty of (1922),

Rappoport, Yakov

Rasputin, Grigori