Stalin: A Biography

International Brigades (Spain)

International, Fourth

Ioffe, Adolf

Irakli II, ruler of Georgia

Iran: wartime supplies to USSR through; Soviet forces in

Iremashvili, Joseph

Iskra (journal)

Israel: Stalin quarrels with

Istomina, Valentina,

Italian Communist Party

Italy: in Spanish Civil War; signs Anti-Comintern Pact; Stalin’s concern for; Eurocommunism in

Ivan IV (the Terrible), Tsar: Stalin’s view of; and Russian nationhood

Ivan the Terrible (film)

Ivanovo

Iveria (newspaper)

Japan: war with Russia (1904–5); as threat to USSR; US policy towards; occupies Manchuria; invades China; signs Anti-Comintern Pact; war with USSR (1939–40); in Second World War; Stalin promises to enter war against; Allied ultimatum to from Potsdam; surrender after atom-bomb attacks; US post-war hegemony in; and Korean War

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

Jewish Bund,

Jews: in Menshevik party; Stalin’s attitude to; and nationality question; repressed and persecuted; in foreign communist parties; post-war policy of hostility to; see also anti-semitism

Kadets see Constitutional-Democratic Party

Kaganovich, Lazar: supports Stalin in Orgburo; as First Secretary of Communist Party of Ukraine; deports Poles; shares Stalin’s assumptions; in Politburo; Stalin orders to shave off beard; Stalin devolves power to; as Stalin’s confidant; and growth of state power; approves Nadya Allilueva’s travel abroad; speaks at Nadya’s funeral; on effect of Nadya’s suicide on Stalin; pleads for industrial slowdown; requests lowering of Ukraine grain quotas; engineers Stalin’s re-election at 17th Party Congress; orders demolition of Moscow cathedral; and Stalin’s family ride on Metro; and Stalin’s views on Nakhaev; writes memoirs; shares Stalin’s class attitudes; and Stalin’s belief in decisive action; on Stalin’s fear of ‘fifth column’; and Yezhov’s appointment to NKVD; Stalin accuses; participates in Great Terror; Stalin asks to prevent publication of articles; association with Stalin; and sister’s supposed relations with Stalin; reponsibilities for transport in war; imitates Stalin; Jewishness; and Stalin’s wish to retire; and succession to Stalin; and Stalin’s death; approves reforms after Stalin’s death

Kaganovich, Maya

Kaganovich, Moisei

Kaganovich, Rosa

Kalashnikov (of Industrial Academy)

Kaledin, General Alexei

Kalinin, Mikhail: and Stalin’s return to work after appendectomy; and agrarian policy; as head of state; and popular unrest; and Stalin’s rule; wife arrested and detained; fondness for ballerinas

Kalinina, Yelena

Kamenev, Lev: character; leads Marxist group in Tbilisi; internationalism; Stalin meets in Krakow; Lenin demands punishment of; in exile; tried (1915); and Grand Duke Mikhail’s refusal to take crown; supports Provisional Government0; rejected for membership of Russian Bureau; returns to Petrograd; appointed to editorial board of Pravda; combative programme; Lenin attacks; and First World War; follows Lenin’s strategy; Lenin supports for election to Central Committee; arrested by Provisional Government; in Central Committee; opposes Lenin’s revolutionary policy; status and fame; Jewishness; opposes gratuitous violence; supports separate peace in First World War; in Civil War; and control of Cheka; and revolutions abroad; heart problems; and Stalin’s appointment as General Secretary of Party; and dispute between Stalin and Lenin on autonomisation; opposes incorporation of Soviet republics; in Lenin’s Testament; Krupskaya writes to on Stalin’s abuse; protects and allies with Stalin; authority in Politburo; administrative duties; at Lenin’s funeral; fails to press Testament charges against Stalin; defeats Left Opposition; mistaken reference to nepman; Stalin turns against; economic policy; leadership ambitions; opposes Stalin and Bukharin; writes on Leninism; excluded from Central Committee; and Bukharin’s peasant policy; as continuing threat; evidence of disloyalty to Stalin; taken into NKVD custody and sentenced; confession and execution; Voroshilov disparages; and Svetlana’s love affairs

Kamenev, Sergei

Kameneva, Olga

Kaminski, G.M.

Kaminski, V.

‘Kamo’ see Ter-Petrosyan, Semen

Kanner, Grigori

Kapanadze, Peter

Kapler, Alexei

Karamzin, Nikolai

Karpov, B.

Karpov, G.

Katyn forest massacre (1940)

Kautsky, Karl; The Driving Forces and Prospects of the Russian Revolution

Kavtaradze, Sergei

Kazakhstan: famine in; supposed genocide in; agricultural reforms in

Kemal Pasha (Ataturk)

Kennan, George

Kerenski, Alexander: in Provisional Government; and conduct of First World War; premiership; calls Democratic Conference; Lenin demands overthrow of; and Bolshevik threat; defeated in move against Petrograd

Ketskhoveli, Lado

Ketskhoveli, Vano

Ketskhoveli, Vladimir

Kharkov

Khazan, Tamara (wife of Andrei Andreev)

Khazanova, Tamara

Khlevnyuk, Oleg

Kholodnaya Rechka

Khrennikov, Tikhon

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

Khrustalev, Ivan

Kiev: falls to Germans

Kim Il-Sung

Kirov, Sergei: supports Stalin on status of republics; in Caucasian Bureau; allies with Stalin; and grain procurement; friendship with Stalin; asked to take over from Stalin; assassinated; and national identity

Kishkin, Nikolai

Kislovodsk episode

Kleiner, I.N.