Stalin: A Biography

Voroshilov, Kliment: attends 1905 Party Congress (Stockholm), ref1; supports Stalin in Volga region, ref2, ref3; Bukharin meets, ref4; allies with Stalin, ref5; and agrarian policy, ref6; proposes Stalin head Sovnarkom, ref7; as Stalin’s confidant, ref8; rumoured to have killed Stalin, ref9; entertaining, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13; disparages opponents, ref14; argues with Pyatnitski, ref15; participates in Great Terror, ref16; and Yezhov’s decline, ref17; association with Stalin, ref18; and Finnish war, ref19; at German invasion of USSR, ref20; in wartime Stavka, ref21; and conduct of war, ref22, ref23; singing with Stalin, ref24, ref25; and Stalin’s death, ref26

Vostorgov, Archpriest Ioann

Voznesenski, Nikolai: and conduct of war, ref1; stands up to Stalin, ref2, ref3, ref4; responsibilities in war, ref5; promoted to Politburo, ref6; shot, ref7

Vyshinski, Andrei,

Wall Street Crash (1929),

War Communism,

Warsaw: in war of 1920, ref1; rising (1944), ref2

Weber, Max

Weimar Republic

White Sea-Baltic Canal,

witchcraft

Witte, Count Sergei

Workers’ Opposition,

Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate (Rabkrin): Stalin heads,

World War I (1914–18): outbreak, ref1; Russian participation in, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; conduct of, ref6, ref7; Stalin’s view of, ref8

Wrangel, General Pëtr,

Xenofontov, F.

Yagoda, Genrikh,

Yakir, Marshal Iona

Yakubov, Kamil

Yalta conference (1945),

Yaroslavski, Yemelyan,

Yefimov, Boris

Yegorov, Marshal Alexander

Yegorova, Natalya

Yeltsin, Boris: opens up archives, ref1; denounces Stalin, ref2

Yeremenko, General Andrei

Yermolov, General

Yevdokimov, E.G.

Yevdomikov, Professor (dental physician)

Yezhov, Nikolai: viciousness,; heads NKVD, ref3, ref4; and attack on Bukharin, ref5; testifies to existence of anti-state organisations, ref6; in Great Terror, ref7; Stalin asks to prevent publication of articles, ref8; removed from NKVD, ref9; sexual excesses, ref10, ref11; arrest and execution, ref12; suspects Polish exile community, ref13; purges Comintern members from Spain, ref14

Yugoslavia: delays Hitler’s invasion of USSR,; self-liberation from Germany, ref3; communism in, ref4, ref5; Stalin’s interest in, ref6; at First Cominform Conference, ref7; causes trouble for Stalin, ref8; Soviet hostility to, ref9; breach with USSR, ref10; rapprochement with, ref11, ref12

Zakharov, Filip

Zalutski, Pëtr

Zamenhoff, Ludwig

Zasulich, Vera

Zbarski, Boris

Zelenski, I.A.

Zhdanov, Andrei: and grain procurement, ref1; and national identity, ref2; in Great Terror, ref3; and recruitment of functionaries, ref4; class background, ref5, ref6; association with Stalin, ref7; in Baltic region, ref8; drinking, ref9; accompanies Stalin’s singing on piano, ref10; at Sklarska Poreba conference founding Cominform, ref11, ref12; on ‘two camps’, ref13, ref14; in anti-Tito campaign, ref15; at Second Cominform Conference, ref16; advocates strengthening power of Party, ref17; status and authority, ref18; death, ref19, ref20; praises Yugoslavs, ref21

Zhdanov, Yuri: marries Svetlana

Zhemchuzhina, Polina (Molotov’s wife) see Molotova, Polina

Zhirinovski, Vladimir

Zhiruli, Giorgi

Zhizn natsionalnostei (newspaper)

Zhordania, Noe,

Zhukov, Marshal Georgi: command in Far East, ref1; plans war with Germany, ref2; and German invasion of USSR, ref3; denied intelligence on Germany, ref4; on Stalin’s recovery after German invasion, ref5; in Stavka, ref6; in defence of Moscow, ref7, ref8, ref9; strategy, ref10, ref11; appointed Deputy Supreme Commander, ref12; and defence of Stalingrad, ref13; plans counter-offensive, ref14; awarded Order of Suvorov, ref15; on Stalin’s smoking, ref17; stands up to Stalin, ref17; Stalin mistrusts, ref18; on Stalin’s learning mastery of military matters, ref19; final offensive, ref20, ref21; and Red Army pause in Warsaw Rising, ref22; and capture of Berlin, ref23, ref24; vows to parade Hitler in cage, ref25; leads 1945 victory parade, ref26; Stalin suspects and relegates, ref27, ref28