Richard Overy - Russia's War

First World War, 4, 11, 47, 135, 176, 215, 256

Five-Year Plans, 13, 17, 18, 227

Flensburg, 278

Foch, Marshal Ferdinand, 5

Four-Year Plan, 35, 37

France, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 47

Franco, General Francisco, 37

Frankfurt an der Oder, 264, 303

Free Germany Committee, 294

Frinovsky, Mikhail, 26

Fritzsche, Hans, 276

Fruzne, Mikhail, 6, 7, 8, 12

Fuchs, Klaus, 313, 314, 316

Fulton (Missouri), 283

Galicia, 127

Geneva, 36

Genghis Kahn, 1, 292

George VI, 27, 46

Georgia, 14, 15, 43, 315

German-Soviet Pact, 42, 47–9, 53, 137, 247, 294

Germany and Allied plans, 252–4, 255–6 and Barbarossa, 61–2, 68, 70, 85, 88 and Czech crisis, 39–42 and fall of Berlin, 272–6 in First World War, 4 and Jewish policies, 135–42 and military purges in Soviet Union, 25–8 and surrender, 278–80

Goebbels, Joseph, 64, 115, 274, 275, 276, 277, 295

Goering, Reich Marshal Hermann, 34–5, 57, 133, 179, 184

Golikov, General Filip, 70

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 289, 323

Gordov, General V., 165

Gorshenin, General Konstantin, 295

Gorsky, Anatoly, 202

Gottingen, 127

Graz, 301

Great War – see First World War

Greece, 62, 63, 71, 251

Grigorenko, Petr, 280

Grossman, Vasily, 325

Grozny, 157, 169

Guderian, Field Marshal Heinz, 10, 93

Gulag — see prison camps

Gumrak, 184

Halder, Franz, 94

Hanko (Finland), 55

Harriman, W. Averell, 291, 292

Henrici, General Gotthard, 268

Hermitage Museum, 108

Hess, Rudolf, 70

Heydrich, Reinhard, 139, 141

Himmler, Heinrich, 73, 84, 125, 129, 133, 139

Hiroshima, 286, 288, 314, 316

Hiss, Alger, 253

Hitler, Adolf and 1942 campaign, 156–8 and annihilation of Jews, 135, 138–42 announces victory over Russia, 94–5 and Battle of the Bulge, 256 and collaborators, 130–31 and Czech crisis, 39–41 and Four-Year-Plan, 35 and German-Soviet Pact, 47–8 and last days in Berlin, 266, 273–5 and Molotov, 63 and partisans, 144 plans war on Soviet Union, 61–4 and Polish war, 47–8 and remains of, 276–7 and Stalingrad, 166, 183, 184

Hokkaido, 286

Hollywood, 147

Holocaust (Shoah), 139–42, 260–61, 310

Hopkins, Harry, 253, 254

Hoth, General Hermann, 206, 210

Hungary, 62, 63, 65, 236, 251, 263

Ice Road 109–11

Inber, Vera, 99

India, 62

Indian Ocean, 63

industrial evacuation – see evacuations

International Military Tribunal – see Nuremberg trials

‘Internationale’, The, 162

Iran, 63

‘iron curtain’, 283

Italy, 62, 210

Ivan the Terrible, 78, 292

Ivan the Terrible (film), 302

Japan attacks United States, 120 and China war, 100 and non-aggression pact, 69, 267 and Khalkhin-Gol, 56, 100 Pacific War, 253, 281, 283, 285–6 and Soviet attack, 285–6

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, 138, 310, 318

Jewish Anti-Hitler Committee, 138

Jewish Autonomous Region, 136

Jodl, General Alfred, 61, 278

Kabona, 109

Kaganovich, Lazar, 170

Kalach, 179

Kalinin, 114, 119, 211

Kaluga, 114, 119

Kama, 10

Kaminsky Brigade, 128

Kaminsky, Bronislaw, 128, 129

Karelian Isthmus, 55

katorga , 230, 231

Katyn massacre, 53, 82–3, 295–6, 297

Katyusha rockets, 176, 190

Kazakhstan, 20, 137, 170, 228, 233, 311

Kazakia, 127

Keitel, Field Marshal, Wilhelm, 10, 84, 279

Kennan, George, 284

Kerch Peninsula, 156

Khalkhin-Gol, 56, 100

Kharhovsk, 141

Kharkov, 134, 156, 187, 199, 203, 211–12

Khrushchev, Nikita, 50, 55, 57, 59, 71, 77, 80, 135, 195, 210, 307, 313, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 323, 324, 326

Kiev, 1, 5, 57, 65, 73, 81, 85, 87, 91, 92, 93, 117, 126, 130, 134, 140, 213, 217, 219, 234, 248

Kirov, Sergei, 24, 307

Kirov Works, 108

Kirponos, General M., 92

Kleist, Field Marshal Ewald von, 158

Klimenko, Ivan, 277

Klin, 115, 119, 122

Koch, Erich, 133

Kondratyev, Vyacheslav, 164, 329

Konev, Marshal Ivan, 65, 97, 113, 201, 207, 234, 235, 236, 239, 263, 265, 266, 267, 269, 272, 276, 306

Konigsberg, 48, 257, 263

Korsun-Cherkassky Pocket, 235

Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya, 123

Kovno, 140

Krasnow, hetman Peter, 300

Krebs, General Hans, 275–6

Krivitsky, Walter, 39

Kruglov, Sergei, 308

Kryukov, General Vladimir, 307

Kube, Wilhelm, 151

Kuibyshev, 95, 138, 227, 298

Kulakov, hetman, 128

Kuntsevo, 24, 73, 78, 211

Kurchatov, Igor, 313, 314, 315, 316

Kurile islands, 253, 286, 287

Kursk, 128, 198, 199, 200, 203–10, 214, 216, 217, 219, 222, 239, 305

Küstrin, 263, 264, 268

Kutuzov, Mikhail, 115

Kuznetsov, Alexander, 307–8

Kuznetsov, Anatoli, 325

Kuznetsov, Admiral Nikolai, 110

Kuznetsov, General V. I., 272

Lake Baikal, 298

Lake Ladoga, 105, 109, 110, 111

Landwehr Canal, 272

Lattre de Tassigny, Gen. Jean de, 279

Latvia, 36, 49, 60, 85

League of Nations, 36, 37, 56

Lefortovo Prison, 27, 319

Le Havre, 38

Leipzig, 265

Lend-Lease, 167, 193, 195–7, 229

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 3, 4, 6, 13, 15, 16–17, 18, 21, 24, 36, 54, 78, 96, 143, 321

Leningrad, 19, 28, 38, 45, 54, 55, 65, 80, 85, 90, 94, 101–12, 117, 154, 158, 177, 191, 213, 216, 236, 293, 305, 312, 313

Leningrad Physicotechnical Institute, 313

Leningrad purge, 307–8

Leningrad siege, 102, 104–12, 239, 307

Lifshits, Yevgania, 318

Lipetsk, 10

Lithuania, 36, 47, 51, 60, 85

Litvinov, Maxim, 36, 37, 40, 42, 44, 136, 194

Liutezh, 219

Livadia Palace, 252

Locarno, Treaty of, 5

Lodz, 244, 256

Lohse, Hinrich, 132

London, 12, 89

Lopatin, General Alexander, 172

losses, Soviet in 1941, 117 in Finnish war, 56 in Kursk battle, 212 in Leningrad siege, 112 of officers, 214 over whole war, 287–9 in Stalingrad battle, 185

Lozgachev, Peter, 320

Lublin, 66, 68, 239, 244, 247

Lubyanka, 22, 29, 32, 43, 69, 137, 300, 311, 319

Ludwig, Emil, 15, 292

Lutze, Viktor, 151

Lvov, 239, 244

Magdeburg, 278

Magnuszew, 244

Maidenek extermination camp, 260

Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps (Gulag), 228

Main Headquarters – see Stavka

Main Military Council (formerly Revolutionary Military Council), 54, 57, 188, 305

Maisky, Ivan, 40, 167, 168

Malenkov, Georgi, 81, 307, 317, 320, 321

Malinovsky, Marshal Roman, 185

Malta, 252

Mamayev Kurgan, 171, 172, 173, 178

Manchuria, 136, 286, 287

Manhattan Project, 313

Mannerheim Line, 56

Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von, 10, 156, 179, 181, 185, 198, 206, 219

Mayakovsky Square, 114

McCarthy, Joseph, 309

Mein Kampf , 34, 35

Meir, Golda, 310

Mekhlis, Lev, 32, 81, 187

Memel, 47

Meretskov, General Kirill, 58, 59, 67, 69, 81, 100, 110

Merkulov, Nikolai, 300

Mikhoels, Solomon, 138, 310

Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw, 247, 248

Mikoyan, Anastas, 79

military commissars, 8, 158, 160, 188

Military Council – see Revolutionary Military Council

militia units, 80, 92

Miller, General Eugene, 38

Minsk, 73, 76, 78, 86, 125, 151, 237, 239, 243, 248, 260, 310

Model, Field Marshal Walther, 10, 203, 204, 205, 206, 243

Mogilev, 125

Moldova, 286

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 35, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47–9, 51, 54, 63–4, 74, 78, 96, 136, 219, 220, 283, 285, 287, 297, 308, 313, 318

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – see German-Soviet Pact

Mongolia, 286

Moscow, 1, 6, 10, 12, 25, 27, 35, 39, 54, 62, 108, 154, 158, 177, 212, 213, 226, 248, 265, 277, 305, 306, 307, 308, 312, 314and 1941 panic, 97 in 1942, 156–8, 163, 168 in 1943, 198 and civil war, 1, 5 and evacuation, 96–7 and German attack, 76, 80, 85, 89, 91, 92, 95–7, 112–14, 115–18, 120, 129, 214 and Stalin/Churchill meeting, 251–2