Robert Service - Stalin - A Biography

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 Khrushchëv

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, Pëtr

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, Ramón

Merkulov, V.N.

Merzhanov, Miron

Meyer, Ernst

Meyerkhold, Vsevolod

MGB (Ministry of State Security); see also NKVD

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,

Mnatobi (newspaper)

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; Stalin’s correspondence with; writes memoirs; shares Stalin’s class attitudes; on Stalin’s fears of ‘fifth column’; and Yezhov’s appointment to NKVD; argues with Pyatnitski; participates in Great Terror; Stalin asks to prevent publication of articles; and Yezhov’s decline; class background; disagreements with Stalin; wife arrested; in People’s Commissariat of External Affairs; signs 1939 nonaggression pact with Germany; and Stalin’s view of Hitler; and Baltic States; on Stalin’s war preparations; attempts to delay war with Germany; at German invasion of USSR; on Stalin’s reaction to German invasion; in wartime Stavka; supports Stalin in conduct of war; musical abilities; social life with Stalin5; Stalin’s treatment of; responsibility for tanks in war; in Berlin (1940); entertains Churchill in Moscow; and German-Polish border; demands continuing offensive; and post-war Soviet influence in world; negotiates Soviet role in UN; readiness to accept Marshall Aid; in antiTito campaign; and exploitation of eastern Europe; singing with Stalin; loyalty to Stalin; Stalin humiliates; self-control; telephones bugged; demoted and out of favour; and withering away of state; rejects socialism in one country doctrine; and succession to Stalin; wine-drinking; position after Stalin’s death; eulogy at Stalin’s funeral; approves reforms after Stalin’s death

Molotova, Polina (Zhemchuzhina)

Monastyrskoe, Turukhansk District

Montgomery, General Bernard Law ( later 1st Viscount)

Morozov, Grigori: marriage to Svetlana

Morris, William

Moscow: Soviet government transfers to from Petrograd; wartime defence of; victory parade (1945)

Moscow Metro: Stalin rides on with family

Moscow Revolutionary Tribunal

Moshentseva, Dr P.

Mother Tongue (Georgian anthology)

Murakhovski, A.A.

Muranov, Matvei

Murmansk

Musavatists

Mussolini, Benito,

MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs)

Nagasaki

Nagy, Ferenc

Nakhaev, General A.S.

Nalchik

Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French

Narym: Stalin exiled to

national question: Stalin on; and Stalin’s commissarship; Party policy on; and autonomous republics

Nazaretyan, Amakyan

Nazism: Stalin’s attitude to rise of; see also Germany; Hitler, Adolf

Nenni, Pietro

Neumann, Franz

New Economic Policy (NEP): introduced (1921); Trotski’s reservations on; and Stalin’s socialism; Bukharin supports; Stalin destroys; achievements

Nicholas II, Tsar: war with Japan; issues October Manifesto (1905); and composition of Duma; in First World War; disperses Duma (February 1917); abdicates; behaviour; coronation

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nikolaev, Leonid

NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs): expanded; OGPU incorporated in; arrests; purges Leningrad; and Constitution (1936); Yezhov heads0; and forced labour; in Great Terror; reports on public opinion; Beria replaces Yezhov as head; liquidates Spanish Trotskyists; purges Polish Communist Party exiles; and foreign communist activities; operations in Poland; in Baltic States; scorched-earth policy; in wartime Leningrad; repressions in wartime; post-war activities and records; see also GPU; MGB; OGPU

Nogin, Viktor

Nomonhan

Normandy invasion (1944)

North Africa: German successes in

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Novaya Uda, Irkutsk Province

Novaya zhizn (newspaper)

nuclear weapons see atomic bomb

Nutsubidze, Shalva,

October Manifesto (1905)