Robert Service - Stalin - A Biography

Ter-Petrosyan, Semën (‘Kamo’)

terror see Great Terror

Thorez, Maurice

Tiflis see Tbilisi

Tikhonov, Alexander

Til, Katerina

Timashuk, Dr Lidia

Time magazine: features Stalin as Man of the Year

Timoshenko, Semën: appointed to head People’s Commissariat of Defence; plans pre-emptive offensive against Germany; and German invasion of USSR; denied intelligence on Germany; leads Stavka (Supreme Command); in defence of Moscow; considers withdrawing from Kiev

Tito, Josip Broz

Titvinidze, M.

Togliatti, Palmiro,

Tolmachev, Vladimir

Tolstoi, Alexei

Tolstoi, Count Lev: Hadji Murat

Tomski, Mikhail

Tovstukha, Ivan; biographical sketch of Stalin

tractors: supply of

trade unions: Trotski attacks

Transcaucasian Federation

Tretyakov, A.F.

Trieste

Trotski, Lev: ridicules Stalin; leads St Petersburg soviet (1905); as thinker; criticises Stalin; speechmaking; arrested; returns to Central Committee; revolutionary policy; hostility with Stalin; denigrates Stalin as marginal; omitted from Central Committee assignments; military role in October Revolution; forms Sovnarkom; opposes coalition with other socialist parties; as People’s Commissar for External Affairs; Lenin’s attitude to; controls funds; Lenin overshadows; and revolutionary war outside Russia; and separate peace in First World War; assassinated; as People’s Commissar for Military Affairs; advocates state terror; and Stalin’s activities in Tsaritsyn; believes in conspiracies; Lenin supports as Red Army head; indifference to Party; public appearances; and 1920 war with Poland; in Civil War; attacks trade unions; loses Lenin’s favour; suppresses Kronstadt mutiny; quarrel with Molotov; administrative duties; and Lenin’s health decline; renewed alliance with Lenin; and Stalin’s policy on national question; in Lenin’s Testament; outspokenness with Lenin; at Twelfth Party Congress; unpopularity in Party; appointed to Orgburo; opposes NEP; on ‘scissors crisis’; misses Lenin’s funeral; attacked at Thirteenth Party Conference; Jewishness; as rival leader to Stalin; demands industrial growth; defeated; writings; and socialism in other countries; Stalin and Bukharin act against; in United Opposition; excluded from Central Committee; and economic reform; mocks Stalin’s international policy; and Stalin’s 1922 dispute with Lenin; as continuing threat; Stalin vilifies; exile and deportation; and culture; reviled; supporters arrested; accused of anti-Soviet actions; writes recollections; promotes on basis of competence; Voroshilov disparages; and worldwide socialist revolution; accuses Stalin of betraying October Revolution; Stalin pursues; and Fourth International; Art and Revolution ; The Lessons of October ; ‘The New Course’

Truman, Harry S.: succeeds Roosevelt; at Potsdam Conference; and use of nuclear weapons; and defeat of Japan; Stalin unimpressed by; accepts coexistence; mistrusts Soviet intentions; policy on USSR; and Cold War; non-interference in eastern Europe; denigrated in USSR; and Korean War; sends Coca-Cola to Stalin; sends condolences on Stalin’s death

Tsaritsyn ( later Stalingrad; then Volgograd): Stalin procures grain and wages war in; renamed Volgograd; see also Stalingrad, battle of

Tsereteli, Giorgi

Tsereteli, Irakli

Tskhakaya, Mikha

Tsushima, battle of (1905)

Tucker, Robert

Tukhachevski, Mikhail: in war against Poland; Stalin suspects of conspiracy; arrest and execution,

Tupolev, Andrei

Turkey: as potential invader of USSR; supports national liberation in colonies; Stalin makes territorial demands on

Turukhansk District, Siberia

Uglanov, Nikolai

Ukraine: hostility to Russia; self-rule proposed for; regional authority (Rada); Germans occupy; Piłsudski 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)

Unforgettable 1919 (film)

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 see Soviet Union

Ustinov, Marshal D.F.

Valedinski, Dr Ivan

Varga, Jeno

Vasilevski, General Alexander

Vatutin, General Nikolai

Vavilov, Nikolai

Vereshchagin, I.

Vereshchak, Semën,

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

Volga! Volga! (film)

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 Pëtr

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, Pëtr

Zamenhoff, Ludwig

Zasulich, Vera