Turukhansk District, Siberia
Uglanov, Nikolai
Ukraine: hostility to Russia; self-rule proposed for; regional authority (Rada); Germans occupy; Pilsudski invades; Wrangel threatens; and autonomisation; established as Soviet state; treaty with RSFSR; nationhood; grain shortages and quotas; Poles deported from; famine; supposed genocide in; frontiers closed; Stalin’s integration plans for; Germans overrun; plundered by Germans; Soviet failed offensive in (1942); resistance to Soviet rule in; post-war conditions; dissenters sent to Gulag
Ukrainian Autocephalous Church
Ulam, Adam
Ulrikh, Vasili
Ulyanova, Maria (Lenin’s sister)
Union of Writers
United Front
United Nations Organisation,
United Opposition,
United States of America: economic development; foreign policy; diplomatic recognition of USSR; Stalin encourages commercial relations with; wartime supplies to USSR; wartime relations with Allies; develops atomic bomb; post-war power and influence; Stalin suspects of post-war hostility; Stalin seeks state loan from; containment policy on USSR; and Cold War; Soviet hostility to; and Korean War; Stalin’s views on political economy in; Soviet post-Stalin relations with
Uranus, Operation
Uratadze, Grigol
USSR
Ustinov, Marshal D.F.
Valedinski, Dr Ivan
Varga, Jeno
Vasilevski, General Alexander
Vatutin, General Nikolai
Vavilov, Nikolai
Vereshchagin, I.
Vereshchak, Semen,
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
Vienna: Stalin in
Vinogradov, Dr Vladimir
Vipper, R.
Vladimir, Archbishop, Exarch of Georgia
Vlasik, Nikolai,
Vlasov, Lieut.-General Andrei
Volga region: collectivisation in
Volgokonov, Dmitri
Volodicheva, Maria,
Vologda
Volunteer Army (White Russian)
Vorontsov-Dashkov, I.I.
Voroshilov, Kliment: attends 1905 Party Congress (Stockholm); supports Stalin in Volga region; Bukharin meets; allies with Stalin; and agrarian policy; proposes Stalin head Sovnarkom; as Stalin’s confidant; rumoured to have killed Stalin; entertaining; disparages opponents; argues with Pyatnitski; participates in Great Terror; and Yezhov’s decline; association with Stalin; and Finnish war; at German invasion of USSR; in wartime Stavka; and conduct of war; singing with Stalin; and Stalin’s death
Vostorgov, Archpriest Ioann
Voznesenski, Nikolai: and conduct of war; stands up to Stalin; responsibilities in war; promoted to Politburo; shot
Vyshinski, Andrei
Wall Street Crash (1929)
War Communism,
Warsaw: in war of 1920; rising (1944)
Weber, Max
Weimar Republic
White Sea-Baltic Canal
witchcraft
Witte, Count Sergei
Workers’ Opposition
Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate (Rabkrin): Stalin heads
World War I (1914–18): outbreak; Russian participation in; conduct of; Stalin’s view of
Wrangel, General Petr
Xenofontov, F.
Yagoda, Genrikh
Yakir, Marshal Iona
Yakubov, Kamil
Yalta conference (1945)
Yaroslavski, Yemelyan
Yefimov, Boris
Yegorov, Marshal Alexander
Yegorova, Natalya
Yeltsin, Boris: opens up archives; denounces Stalin
Yeremenko, General Andrei
Yermolov, General
Yevdokimov, E.G.
Yevdomikov, Professor (dental physician)
Yezhov, Nikolai: viciousness; heads NKVD; and attack on Bukharin; testifies to existence of anti-state organisations; in Great Terror; Stalin asks to prevent publication of articles; removed from NKVD; sexual excesses; arrest and execution; suspects Polish exile community; purges Comintern members from Spain
Yugoslavia: delays Hitler’s invasion of USSR; self-liberation from Germany; communism in; Stalin’s interest in; at First Cominform Conference; causes trouble for Stalin; Soviet hostility to; breach with USSR; rapprochement with
Zakharov, Filip
Zalutski, Petr
Zamenhoff, Ludwig
Zasulich, Vera
Zbarski, Boris
Zelenski, I.A.
Zhdanov, Andrei: and grain procurement; and national identity; in Great Terror; and recruitment of functionaries; class background; association with Stalin; in Baltic region; drinking; accompanies Stalin’s singing on piano; at Sklarska Poreba conference founding Cominform; on ‘two camps’; in anti-Tito campaign; at Second Cominform Conference; advocates strengthening power of Party; status and authority; death; praises Yugoslavs
Zhdanov, Yuri: marries Svetlana
