Lie, Trygve
linguistics: Stalin’s interest in
literacy and numeracy: increased
Lithuania: resists Soviet expansionism; regains Vilnius; established as Soviet republic; reclaims independence; and German expansionism; Stalin demands and occupies; Germans conquer; reannexed by USSR; Stalin’s post-war aims in; armed resistance in; deportations from;
Litvinov, Maxim
Livanova, V.
Lominadze, Vissarion
London: Stalin attends 1907 Party conference in
Longjumeau, near Paris
Low, (Sir) David
Lozgachev, Pavel
Ludwig, Emile
Lunacharski, Anatoli
Luxemburg, Rosa
Lvov, Prince Georgi
Lysenko, Timofei
MacArthur, General Douglas
Machavariani, David
Machiavelli, Niccolo,
Maclean, Donald
McNeal, Robert
Mach, Ernst
Magnitogorsk
Maiski, Ivan
Makharadze, Pilipe
Malenkov, Georgi: opposes Great Terror; class background; association with Stalin; and Nazi-Soviet pact (1939); and conduct of war; wartime responsibilities; on counter-productive effect of repression; encourages light industry; at Cominform Conference; visits Stalin; and administrative reforms; status and appointments; regains favour; in Leningrad Affair; and Stalin’s 70th birthday celebrations; studies political economy; Stalin teases for corpulence; delivers Central Committee political report at Nineteenth Party Congress; Stalin suspects of conspiracy; heads permanent commission on foreign affairs; fears Stalin’s disfavour; Stalin entertains; and Stalin’s stroke; and succession to Stalin; at Stalin’s funeral; reforms after Stalin’s death; rivalry with Khrushchev
Malinovski, Roman
Malkina, Yekaterina
Manchuria (Manchukuo): Japan occupies; Stalin orders invasion of; Soviet dominance of
Mandelshtam, Osip
Manstein, General Erich von
Manuilski, Dmitri
Mao Tse-tung
Marchlewski, Julian
Markizova, Gelya
Marr, Nikolai
Marshall, General George: European recovery plan
Martov, Yuli: in Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party split; at 1905 Stockholm conference; at 1907 London conference; exiled to Turukhansk; Stalin charges with slander
Marx, Karl: Bogdanov on; on capitalist competitiveness; on global revolution; on end of capitalism; influence on Stalin
Marxism-Leninism: Stalin’s commitment to; in Georgia; appeal to intellectuals; predicts class war; and national question; in Finland; propagated; and foreign policy; reasserted in war; and dictatorship of proletariat; promoted
Masaryk, Jan
Maslov, Petr
Matsesta
Mayakovski, Vladimir
Mdivani, Budu
Medvedev, Roy
Meir, Golda
Mekhlis, Lev
Mendeleev, Dmitri
Mensheviks: ridicule Stalin; formed by Party split; in Georgia; differences with Bolsheviks; Lenin breaks with; excluded from Central Committee; and national question; support Provisional Government; Kamenev and Stalin attack; members transfer to Bolsheviks; and Democratic State Conference; control soviets; walk out from Second Congress of Soviets; Bolsheviks’ fear of rivalry; as potential opposition to Stalin
Menzhinski, Vladimir
Mercader, Ramon
Merkulov, V.N.
Merzhanov, Miron
Meyer, Ernst
Meyerkhold, Vsevolod
MGB (Ministry of State Security);
Mgeladze, Akaki
Michels, Roberto
Mikhail, Grand Duke
Mikhalkov, Sergei
Mikhoels, Solomon
Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw
Mikoyan, Anastas: dacha; Stalin’s assessment of; and grain procurement; in Politburo; relations with Stalin; Armenian origins; writes memoirs; and Stalin’s admiration for Hitler; and Nazi-Soviet pact (1939); in conduct of war; on Stalin’s treatment of Molotov; on Stalin’s timorousness in war; responsibilities for food in war; telephones bugged; status and power; Stalin’s hostility to; and Stalin’s hostility to Voznesenski; proposes list of successors to Stalin; demoted and out of favour
Mikoyan, Ashken (Anastas’s wife)
Milyukov, Pavel
Milyutin, Vladimir
Mingrelians,
Minin, Sergei,
Mogren (Swedish Police Commissioner)
Molochnikov, Nikolai
Molotov, Vyacheslav: snubs Stalin on return from exile; removed from Russian Bureau; Stalin moves in with; position in Party Secretariat; quarrel with Trotski; Lenin proposes promoting; omitted from Lenin’s Testament; at Lenin’s funeral; supports Stalin in Orgburo; and Stalin’s experience with beggar; recreations; and Stalin’s view of Krupskaya; Stalin complains of Bukharin to; and Stalin’s industrialisation policy; shares Stalin’s assumptions; and Stalin’s demand for export of grain; in Politburo; Stalin devolves power to; and Stalin’s mistrust of colleagues; as Stalin’s confidant; Stalin complains to about Rykov; and growth of state power; approves Nadya Allilueva’s travel abroad; attempts to understand Stalin; argues for industrial slow-down; accompanies Stalin family on Metro ride;
