Stalin: A Biography

Europe: post-war settlement negotiated; east under Soviet control; Marshall Aid for; economic policy in east; national independence in east; effect of Khrushchev’s Stalin denunciation in east

Fadeev, Alexander; The Young Guard

famines,

Fascism

Finland: hostility to Russia; self-rule proposed for; secedes from Russia (1918); as potential invader of USSR; Soviet war with (1939–40)

Five-Year Plans: First; Second

forced labour; see also Gulag; labour camps

Fotieva, Lidia

France: Politburo perceives as threat; attitude to USSR; Stalin woos; neutrality in Spanish Civil War; pre-war relations with USSR; Germans defeat (1940); Stalin’s concern for

Franco, General Francisco,

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria

French Communist Party

Fried, Eugen

Galperin, Lev

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma)

Gegechkori, Yevgeni

Genghis Khan

Georgia: under Russian control; social life; traditions and culture; Marxism in; unrest in; peasants in; nationalism in; Bolshevik-Menshevik differences in; Stalin’s preoccupation with; in Stalin’s Marxism and the National Question; and federal union; as Soviet republic; borders disputed; conquered by Red Army (1921); ethnic problems in; and Abkhazia; Stalin revisits (1921); uprising (1924); and Stalin’s national feelings in the 1930s; repressions in; blood feuds and revenge in; wines; Stalin’s reputation in

Georgiu-Dej, Gheorghe

Germans (ethnic): killed in Great Terror

Germany: Soviet post-war policy in; in First World War; allows Lenin to return to Russia, ref; peace ultimatum to Russia; Lenin plans intervention in; Lenin favours understanding with; military cooperation with Soviet Union; Kautsky’s influence in; economic development; Communist Party in; prospective war with USSR; and Nazi repressions; finds Soviet collaborators after invasion; economic disruption in; Stalin’s pre-war policy on; as threat; intervenes in Spanish Civil War; annexes Austria and Czechoslovakia; signs Anti-Comintern Pact; expansionism; non-aggression pact with USSR (1939); invades and conquers Poland; advance in West (1940); invades USSR (Operation Barbarossa); conquests and advance in USSR; wartime atrocities; advance halted; successes in North Africa; casualties at Stalingrad; retreats before Red Army; antipathy to Panslavism; post-war treatment by Allies; USSR demands reparations from; Allied advances against; defeat and surrender (1945); postwar denazification policy on; occupation zones; Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed; Federal Republic (West Germany) formed; Stalin proposes united government in; see also Hitler, Adolf

Germogen (Rector of Tiflis Spiritual Seminary)

Getty, J. Arch

Gio, Artem

Glavlit

Glurzhidze, Grigol

Goebbels, Josef

Gogebashvili, Yakob

Golovanov, General A.E.

Gomulka, Wladyslaw

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Gorbatov, Boris

Gori, Georgia

Gorki, Maxim

Gosplan (State Planning Committee): established; controls economy; under pressure from Stalin; success

Gottwald, Klement

GPU (formerly Cheka): on succession to Lenin; Bolsheviks’ dependence on; see also NKVD

grain: post-Revolution shortages; and procurement; and peasant hoarding; and Stalin’s economic policy; prices; exports; quotas

Great Terror: and Stalin’s despotism; Stalin’s responsibility for questioned; and Stalin’s supposed work for Okhrana; foreshadowed in Civil War; Khrushchev’s part in; effect on intellectuals; and Bolshevist values; sanctioned and practised; ends; Khrushchev denounces; effects

Greece: post-war unrest in; communism in

Grek, Mitka

Gromyko, Andrei

Groza, Petru

Guchkov, Alexander

Gulag: expanded; Trotskyists dispatched to; ethnic Russians avoid; conditions in; economic effects of; intransigence in; mineral production; prisoners-of-war in

Gumilev, Lev

Gumilev, Nikolai

Harbin: Great Terror in

Harriman, Averell,

Hervieu, Mme (Tbilisi dressmaker)

Herzen, Alexander: General Philosophy of the Soul

Hingley, Ronald

Hirohito, Emperor of Japan

Hiroshima

Hitler, Adolf: Jewish policy; becomes Chancellor; Stalin admires for brutality; repressions; cult of; rise to power; intervenes in Spanish Civil War; as threat; Communist opposition to; Stalin considers deal with; and non- aggression pact with USSR (1939); Stalin’s view of; concedes Baltic States to Stalin; Stalin appeases; aggressiveness; plans to attack USSR; invades USSR; and initial German successes in USSR; despises Slavs; occupation policy in USSR; and German isolation in USSR; orders offensive against Stalingrad; and Stalingrad defeat; and imprisonment of Stalin’s son Yakov; interferes in conduct of Russian campaign; Stalin’s rivalry with; and Soviet advance; retains army support; suicide; remains removed to Moscow; Stalin compared with; posthumous reputation; Mein Kampf; see also Germany

Hoxha, Enver

Hummet organisation (Azerbaijan)

Hungary: and Panslavism; USSR demands reparations from; anti-communist majority in; Soviet interference in

Ibarruri, Dolores (‘La Pasionaria’)

Ignatev, Sergei

Ilichev, Leonid

Ilovaiski, D.I.

Indian National Congress

Industrial Academy, Moscow

Industrial Party (fictitious)

industrialisation: Stalin introduces forced-rate; and labour force; advanced; and worker unrest; growth targets reduced; and increased output

Institute of Red Professors