Stalin: A Biography

Perm: military disaster at

Pervukhin, Mikhail

Pestkowski, Stanislaw

Peter I (the Great), Tsar

Petkov, Nikola

Petrograd see St Petersburg

Petrov (photographer)

Petrovski, G.I.

Philby, Kim

Pilsudski, Josef

Piotrovski, V.V.: In the Steps of Ancient Cultures

Platform of the Forty-Six

Platonov, Andrei

Platonov, Sergei

Plekhanov, Georgi: influence; at Stockholm conference (1905); Stalin criticises; at London conference (1907); as thinker

Pokrovski, Mikhail

Poland: Stalin meets Lenin in; independence accepted; Soviet war with (1920); as potential invader; Stalin dominates; Stalin pressurises (1939); Hitler plans conquest of; defeated by Germany (1939); Soviet part-occupation and regime in; historic hostility to USSR; post-war settlement; Soviet advance in; Stalin’s post-war aims in; elections in; Provisional Government; refuses execution of Gomulka; anti-Soviet demonstrations in

Poles (ethnic): killed in Great Terror

Poletaev, Nikolai

Polish Communist Party: Stalin persecutes exiles

Politburo: and Civil War; and national question; composition and unity in; Kamenev chairs after Lenin’s death; internal factions and disputes; and Stalin’s aggressive agrarian policy; and grain shortage; approves elimination of kulaks; power and status; membership numbers; and Marxist idealism; and suppression of opponents; under 1936 Constitution; treatment of Kazakhs and Ukrainians; sanctions purge of anti-Soviet elements; Stalin purges; reforms; and Stalin’s foreign policy; on Hitler’s rise to power; and Nazi-Soviet pact (1939); Stalin manipulates members; and succession to Stalin

Popkov, Petr

Popov, Nikolai

popular fronts

Port Arthur

Poskrebyshev, Alexander

Pospelov, P.N.

Postyshev, Petr

Potsdam Conference (1945)

POUM (Spanish party)

Prague Conference (1912)

Pravda (newspaper): founded; Stalin writes for; Molotov and Shlyapnikov edit; and national question; Stalin appointed to editorial board; Stalin gives up editorship; on Nadya Allilueva’s death; and non-aggression pact with Germany (1939); reporting of war; cultic writings on Stalin; denigrates Western leaders; on Doctors’ Plot; limits posthumous praise of Stalin; prepares laudatory editorial on Stalin

Preobrazhenski, Yevgeni: urges Europe-wide revolution; sympathises with Trotski; opposes Stalin’s appointment as General Secretary; criticises economic policy; writings; allies with Stalin

Presidium (Bolshevik Party): internal Bureau established; and Stalin’s stroke; and succession to Stalin

Prokofiev, Sergei

Proletari (journal)

Proletarians Brdzola (journal)

proletariat, dictatorship of

Prosveshchenie (journal)

Provisional Government (Russian): formed (1917); Russian Bureau opposition to; Lenin demands overthrow of; rule and reforms; and conduct of First World War; break-up; unpopularity; conflict with Bolsheviks

Prussia: Soviet dominance in

Przewalski, Nikolai

Pugachev revolt (1773–5)

Pushkin, Alexander

Putin, Vladimir

Pyatakov, Georgi

Pyatnitski, Osip

Qazbegi, Alexander: The Patricide

Rabochii put (newspaper)

Radek, Karl: and war with Poland; tried

Radzinski, Edvard

Rajk, Laszlo

Rakovski, Christian,

Ramishvili, Isidore,

Ramzin, Leonid

Rapallo, Treaty of (1922)

Rappoport, Yakov

Rasputin, Grigori

Red Army: beginnings; in Civil War; Perm defeat; Lenin proposes for actions in Europe; triumphs in Civil War; and Lenin’s European strategy; in war against Poland (1920); exercises control of outlying regions; conquers Georgia (1921); powers; and economic development; threatened trial of commanders; suppresses peasant risings; hatred of collectivisation; campaign against religion; collaboration with German army; reinforced in Far East; and Nazi threat; and Spanish Civil War; clash with Japanese; Stalin addresses (1941); recovers from first German onslaught; prisoners-of-war; wartime conscription; scorched-earth policy; strategy against Germans; casualties at Stalingrad; Kursk victory; westward advance against Germans; appeal in east-central Europe; and Western Allies; final offensive; inactivity in Warsaw Rising; unrestrained behaviour in European advance; experience of Western civilisation; occupation of eastern Europe; redesignated Soviet Army; Stalin sees as threat

Redens, Stanislaw

Reisner, M.A.

religion: persecuted

Renner, Karl

Revolutionary-Military Council

Reznikov (informer)

Rhee, Syngman

Ribbentrop, Joachim von

Riga

Right Deviation

Robespierre, Maximilien

Rodionov, Mikhail

Rodzaevski, Konstantin

Rodzyanko, Mikhail

Rohm, Ernst

Rokossovski, Marshal Konstantin

Romania: as potential invader of USSR; Stalin woos; Soviet demands on; troops in USSR; and Panslavism; USSR demands reparations from; communist regime in; monarchy removed