Albert II of Monaco, Prince, 558
alcohol and alcoholism, 417, 439, 467–9, 518
Alekseev, General Mikhail, 102, 113
Aleksei, Tsarevich, 20, 33
Aleksi, Patriarch, 282, 369, 538, 547
Alexander II, Tsar, 6–7; assassinated, 18
Alexander III, Tsar, 71
Alexandra, Empress of Nicholas II, 20, 27
alienation, social, 397, 412–13
Aliev, Geidar, 424, 456
Alksnis, Colonel Viktor, 480
Allende, Salvador, 389, 399
Allies (1915–18): view of Lenin, 70; and conduct of war, 107
Allilueva, Nadezhda (Stalin’s wife), 195, 315
Allilueva, Svetlana (Stalin’s daughter), 317, 324
All-People’s Union of Struggle for Russia’s Regeneration, 200
All-Russia Congress of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies
‘All-Russia’ (party), 547
All-Ukrainian National Congress (1917), 40
All-Union Congress of Soviets: First (1922), 133; Fifth (1929), 175.
Alma-Ata: protests in, 456
alphabet (Cyrillic), 206
Al-Qaida, 555
Andreev, Andrei, 170, 241, 302, 402
Andreeva, Nina, 458, 497
Andrei, Archbishop of Chernigov, 370
Andropov, Yuri: mission to Hungary, 343; made KGB chairman, 385; and reform, 410, 428–31, 433–4, 439, 469, 490; and succession to Brezhnev, 426; appointed General Secretary, 428; background and career, 428–9; character and beliefs, 429; employs Gorbachev, 430–31, 433, 437; foreign policy, 431–2, 442; and tensions with USA, 432–3; health decline and death, 433
Anglo-Soviet agreement (1941), 268, 271
Anglo-Soviet Trade Treaty (1921), 126, 158
Angola, 399
Anpilov, Viktor, 524
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972), 555
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1973), 399
Anti-Comintern Pact (1936), 230
Anti-Fascist Jewish Committee, 316
Anti-Party Group, 346–7, 360
anti-Semitism
Antonov-Ovseenko, V.A., 162
apartments
apathy, social and political, 83, 243–4, 420, 566
Archangel, 102
Argentina, 401
aristocracy: calls for reforms, 17;
armaments industry, 4, 28, 255, 266, 275–6, 304, 329, 535–6, 552
armed forces: pre-revolutionary discontent in, 37–8; support Right, 54; form revolutionary committee, 56; democratization after revolution, 67, 87; soldiers granted direct action, 69; demobilization, 86; mutinies, 119; conscription to, 120, 255, 285; Soviet expenditure on, 329; corrupt management 533; army incompetence 533; under Yeltsin 536;
Armenia: and Provisional Government collapse, 60; as independent state, 83; Mensheviks in, 83; conflict with Georgia and Azerbaijan, 113; Soviet republic formed, 114, 207; status, 129; and Nagorny Karabakh, 133, 457; repressed under Khrushchev, 369; terrorist acts, 412; 1988 earthquake, 468–9; joins Commonwealth of Independent States, 506
artists
Assembly of Plenipotentiaries (1918), 97
associations (factory), 407–8
Aswan Dam (Egypt), 352, 389
atheism, 136 , 203–4
Augustus, Roman emperor, 226
Austria: Hitler annexes, 231; East German refugees in, 483
Austria-Hungary: relations with Imperial Russia, 1, 3; Imperial Russian rivalry with, 24–5; and outbreak of World War I, 25–6; and October Revolution, 75; 1917/18 peace agreement with Russia, 77, 80; unrest in, 81
autonomous republics: introduced, 114
Azerbaijan: and Provisional Government collapse, 60; as independent state, 83; Mensheviks in, 83; conflict with Armenia, 113; Soviet republic formed, 114, 121, 207; status, 129; and Nagorny Karabakh, 133, 457, 482; religion in, 136, 370; joins Commonwealth of Independent States, 506
Azerbaijani Popular Front, 482
Babel, Isaak, 139, 248
Babi Yar (Ukraine), 286
Baghdad railway, 1
Bagration, Operation (1944), 267
Baibakov, Nikolai, 439
Baikal, Lake, 468
Bakatin, Vadim, 486, 493, 495, 512
Baker, James, 496
Bakh, Aleksei, 247
Baklanov, Oleg, 496, 498–9, 501–2
Baku: oilfields, 4, 121, 126; Bolshevik success in, 7; Russians in, 23; Muslim Azeris massacred in, 83; disorder over Nagorny Karabakh, 482
Balkans: French influence in, 24; wars in, 24–5
Balkars, 367
Baltic states: Russians in, 23; lost in 1918 peace settlement, 77–8; incorporated in USSR (1940), 258, 456; Germans occupy, 261, 283; post-World War II demands, 298; post-World War II deportations, 300; Russianization of, 366; human chain formed, 481; decline to join Commonwealth of Independent States, 507;
banks and finance: credit squeeze in World War I, 28; nationalized (1917), 79; central, 452
Barbarossa, Operation (1941), 260, 263
Bashkir Republic, 114, 129
Bashkirs: and Russian rule, 84, 114, 424
Bashkortostan, 521
Basic Law (1905), 1, 15–16
Basmachi, 208
Bavarian Soviet Republic, 120