Stalin: A Biography

Klimov, M. (Svetlana’s bodyguard)

Knorin, V.G.

Knunyants, Bogdan

Kobulov, Bogdan

Kolchak, Admiral Alexander

Kolkhoz Model Statute (1935)

kolkhozes (collective farms); markets

Kollontai, Alexandra

Komsomol: militancy; support for Stalin

Kondratev, Nikolai

Konev, General Ivan

Konigsberg,

Konovalov, Alexander

Korchagina, Alexandra

Korean War (1950–53)

Kornev (acquaintance of Stalin)

Kornilov, General Lavr

Korshunova, Fekla

Kosior, Stanislav

Kovalev, Ivan

Krakow

Krasin, Lev

Krasnov, General P.N.

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk Party Regional Committee

Kravchenko (prison guard)

Krestinski, Nikolai,

Kronstadt; naval mutiny (1921)

Kruglov, Sergei

Krupskaya, Nadezhda (Lenin’s wife): invites Stalin to dine; dispute with Stalin; and Lenin’s health decline; Stalin abuses; objects to embalming and display of Lenin; as Lenin’s biographer; and Lenin’s Testament; relations with Nadya Allilueva; asks Nadya Allilueva to intervene in Georgian affair; supports Zinoviev and Kamenev; and culture

Kseshinskaya, Matilda

Kuban area (north Caucasus)

Kuibyshev

Kuibyshev, Valeryan

kulaks: Stalin persecutes; Bukharin supports; wish for commercial opportunities; taxed; flourish; excluded from collective farms; repressed in Ukraine; see also peasants

Kulikov, Yevgeni

Kun, Miklos

Kuntsevo

Kuomintang,

Kurchatov, Igor

Kureika (hamlet), Turukhansk District

Kurile Islands

Kursk, battle of (1943)

Kushner, Professor

Kutaisi Prison

Kutuzov, Mikhail

Kuzakova, Maria

Kuznetsov, Alexei

Kuznetsov, Admiral N.G.

Kvali (Tbilisi newspaper)

labour camps; see also Gulag

Labouring Peasant Party (fictitious)

Lagidze, Mitrofan

Lakoba, Nestor

Landau, Lev

Largiashvili (seminarist)

Largo Caballero, Francisco

Lashevich, Mikhail,

Latvia: resists Soviet expansionism; as Soviet republic; nationhood in; reclaims independence; German-Soviet conflict over; Stalin demands and occupies; Germans conquer; reannexed by USSR; Stalin’s post-war aims in; armed resistance in; deportations from; see also Baltic states

Latvians: killed in Great Terror

Lazurkina, Dora

League of the Militant Godless,

League of Nations: excludes USSR; USSR applies for admission; ineffectiveness against Japan

Left Opposition: supports Trotski; criticises economic policy; Stalin defeats

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries

Lend-Lease

Lenin in October (film)

Lenin, Vladimir: founds USSR; Stalin’s early impressions, of; Stalin’s attitude to; agrarian policy; and founding of Iskra; Stalin meets in Finland; at 1905 Stockholm conference; at London conference (1907); offers deal to Georgian Mensheviks; accepts criminal funding; breaks with Mensheviks; forms new Central Committee; co-opts Stalin onto Central Committee; praises Stalin; Stalin meets in Krakow; convenes conference in Prague; as thinker; Stalin’s disagreements with; and national question; attacks Jews; opposes Russian participation in First World War; letter from Stalin in exile; demands overthrow of Provisional Government; returns to Russia; revolutionary policy; in hiding following arrest warrant; regard for Trotski; drafts decrees on land and peace; forms Sovnarkom; disfavours coalition of socialist parties; foreign policy; forms Cheka; and separate peace with Central Powers; and state terror; in Civil War; and Stalin’s authority in Volga region; and control of Cheka; Stalin defers to; prestige; and war with Poland (1920); attends Ninth Party Conference; and Trotski’s condemnation of trade unions; introduces New Economic Policy; seeks control of central party apparatus; approves appointment of Stalin as General Secretary of Party; health problems; administrative duties; assassination attempt on; view of and relations with Stalin; renewed alliance with Trotski; favours federal structure; Testament (‘Letter to the Congress’); and Stalin’s abuse of Krupskaya; death and funeral; posthumous cult; Stalin writes on; Nadya Allilueva works for; speaks at Tenth Party Congress; and Stalin’s personality; on capitalist competitiveness; and Mayakovski; belief in outside interference; and promotion of professionally competent; rebukes Stalin for violence; on decisive action; compared with Stalin; cult; in Stalinist Short Course; and world revolution; proposed evacuation of corpse in war; view of foreign hostility; on end of capitalism; ideological influence on Stalin; Stalin invokes in Nineteenth Party Congress speech; communist state policy; April Theses; ‘Better Fewer But Better’; ‘Marxism and Insurrection’; Materialism and Empiriocriticism; The State and Revolution; What Is To Be Done?

Leningrad see St Petersburg

Leningrad Affair (1948)

Leningrad Opposition

Levitan, Isaak

Libya: as Soviet protectorate