Richard Overy - Russia's War

Stalin, Yakov, 81

Stalingrad, 93, 128, 149, 158, 164, 165, 166, 167, 171–7, 179, 181, 182, 183–5, 213, 220, 294, 305, 324

Stalin Line, 31, 59, 64–5

Stamenov, Ivan, 96

State Defence Committee, 79, 137

Stavka, 77, 81, 90, 113, 236, 255

Stamenov, Ivan, 96

Stemmermann, General W., 235

Stimson, Henry, 283, 327

Stolypin, Petr, 24

Stelovka, 123

Sudentenland, 39

Suez Canal, 156

Susloparov, General Ivan, 278

Suvorov, Aleksandr, 115

Sverdlovsk, 108, 223

Sweden, 63

Switzerland, 202

Taiwan, 312

Tanks, 190–1, 193, 207–10, 286, 313IS-1, 193 IS-2, 193 KV-1, 87 Panther, 193, 208, 209 T-34, 67, 87, 114, 192–3, 206, 207, 208, 209, 219 Tiger, 193, 206, 207, 208, 209

Tannenberg, 256

Tatars, 136, 233–4

Tchaikovsky, Peter, 124

Tedder, Air Marshal Arthur, 279

Teheran, 220, 282, 291

Teheran Conference, 220–22, 247, 291

Thirty Years’ War, 34

Tiflis, 14

Tikhvin, 109, 110

Timashuk, Lidya, 318

Timoshenko, Marshal Semyon, 2, 56, 57, 58, 59, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 77, 78, 80, 81, 86, 92, 165

Todt, Fritz, 34

Tokyo, 70

Tolstoy, Leo, 124

Tomka, 10

Torgau, 276

Treblinka extermination camp, 260

Tripartite pact, 62

Trotsky, Leon, 2, 6, 13, 23, 25, 103, 244

Truman, Harold S., 267, 282, 283, 284, 283, 291, 294

Tsanava, Lavrenti, 310

Tsaritsa River, 172

Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad), 16, 99, 164

Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail in 1920s, 7, 9–10and arrest, 26 trial and death, 26–9, 32, 36, 39 army reforms, 10–12, 19–20, 30–31, 32, 33, 57, 211, 241 as chief of armaments, 19–20 in civil war, 5, 7

Tula, 1, 116, 119

Tunisia, 202

Tupolev, Alexander, 224

Turkestan, 127

Turkey, 63, 287

Tyumen, 96

Ukraine, 51, 62, 66, 76, 80, 91, 92, 96, 122, 129, 136, 147, 154, 164, 166, 217, 224, 236, 266, 271, 272, 305, 309, 311in civil war, 5 and collectivization, 23 German invasion, 82–7, 114, 139 and liberation, 217–19 nationalism, 149–50, 311–12 occupation, 126, 132–5 and partisan war, 144, 149

Ukrainian Insurgent Army, 150

Ukrainian Nationalist Organization, 150

Ultra intelligence, 202

Uman, 151, 152

United Nations, 253

United States, 61, 94, 111, 120, 131, 147, 167, 193–4, 251–2, 254, 282, 285, 286, 313, 314, 316, 317

Vaksberg, Arkady, 319

Vasilevsky, Marshal Alexander, 63, 166, 168, 169, 177, 178, 189, 190, 201, 208, 209, 210, 237, 241

Vatutin, General Nikolai, 72, 169, 179, 200, 203, 206, 209, 219, 236, 306

Victory Day, 280–81

Vienna, 263

Vilnius, 163

Vinnitsa, 130, 151

Vinogradov, Vladimir, 319–20

Vistula-Oder Operation, 257–9

Vistula River, 243, 244, 245, 246, 256, 257

Vladivostok, 197

Vlasik, Nikolai, 319

Vlasov, General Andrei, 125, 129–32, 301

Volga Germans, 232–3

Volga River, 165, 166, 167, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 248

Volgograd, 324

Volkogonov, Dmitri, 16, 282

Volkssturm , 266

Vorkuta mines, 230

Voronezh, 158

Voronov, Marshal N. N., 306

Voroshilov, Marshal Kliment, 2, 8–9, 11, 19, 20, 26, 32, 45–6, 55, 56, 57, 103, 220

Voskoboinikov, Col., 128

Voskrensky, Metropolitan Sergei, 163

Vovsi, Meer, 318, 319

Voznesensky, Maria, 308

Voznesensky, Nikolai, 307–8

Vyazma, 92, 93

Vyatka camp, 231

Vyazma, 92

Vyshinsky, Andrei, 25, 28, 279, 295, 305

Waffen-SS, 246

Wagner, Richard, 185

war production, 170–71, 196–8, 231–2

Warsaw, 5, 15, 27, 246–9, 256, 284, 305

Warsaw ghetto, 246–7

Warsaw Rising, 129, 246–9

war trials – see Nuremberg Trials

Washington DC, 42,194–5

Weichs, General Maximilian von, 158

Werth, Alexander, 111, 151, 152, 154, 176

Wilno, 82

Winter Palace, 104

Winter War – see Soviet – Finnish War

Women’s Light Night Bomber Regiment, 241

Württemberg, 129

Yakir, General Jonah, 29

Yalta Brigade, 146

Yalta Conference, 252–6, 267, 281, 283, 284, 285, 299, 300

Yasnaya Polyana, 124

Yegerov, Marshal Aleksandr, 20, 29

Yelchenko, Fyodor, 184

Yelnya, 86, 102

Yeremenko, Marshal Andrei, 91, 93, 173, 176

Yezhov, Nikolai, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 39, 43

Yugoslavia, 63, 71, 250, 251

Yukhnov, 93

Zabore, 109

Zaporozhe, 217

Zeitzler, General Kurt, 178

Zhdanov, Andrei, 103, 110, 307, 318

Zhukov, Marshal Georgi K., 60, 72, 129, 146, 187, 190, 210, 211, 222, 248, 255, 257, 263, 264, 280, 282, 285and 1941 war game, 66 and Bagration, 236, 237, 241, 243 and Berlin, 265–7, 268–9, 272, 275–7 as Chief-of-Staff, 65, 67–9, 81–2, 93 in Civil War, 2 and early life, 99–100 and German invasion, 73–4, 78, 86 and Khalkhin-Gol, 57 and kursk, 199–201, 203, 204, 208, 210, 211 and Lend-Lease, 195 and Leningrad, 102–5 and Moscow, 112–19 and post-war demotion, 304–6 and ‘pre-emptive strike’ in 1941, 68–9, 72 and Stalingrad, 166–7, 168–9, 171, 173, 177, 185 and surrender, 279, 280

Zinoviev, Grigory, 23, 25

1 Josef Stalin at Lenin’s funeral, 1924

2 Victims of the Ukrainian famine, 1933

3 Ukrainian nationalist prisoners in a labour camp

4 Molotov in Berlin, 1941

5 The morning after: news of the outbreak of war, Moscow, 22 June 1941

6 Ukrainians greet German cavalrymen, summer 1941

7 Leningrad: the Ice Road, 1942

8 Leningrad: civil defence in action

9 Leningrad: Shostakovich in rehearsal, 1941

10 Soviet ski troops in action

11 Ukrainians support ‘Hitler the Liberator’

12 Babi Yar

13 The children of the ghetto

14 Death to the collaborators!

15 The ruins of Stalingrad

16 The defence of Stalingrad: women at war

17 A moment’s respite, 1943

18 The end of one man’s war

19 The fog of war

20 The blessing of war

21 Lend-Lease supplies: the vital artery

22 A soldier falls on the Ukrainian front

23 German prisoners, Moscow 1944

24 Disinfecting the Moscow streets after German prisoners had passed through

25 Massacre in Lublin

26 ‘Accursed Germany!’

27 ‘What will it mean for me?’

28 Marshal Zhukov: the battle for Berlin, 1945

29 The end of Hitler?

30 Rebuilding the homes

31 Rebuilding the city: women at work

32 ‘Big Brother’ is always watching

1 Operation Barbarossa, June-September 1941

2 The Siege of Leningrad

3 The Moscow Counter-offensive, December 1941–April 1942

4 Main Partisan Areas in the German-Occupied Soviet Union, Summer 1943

5 Operation Blue: The German Southern Offensive, June–November 1942

6 Operation Uranus, November–December 1942

7 Battle of Kursk, July 1943

8 From Kursk to Kiev, August–December 1943

9 Operation Bagration, June–August 1944

10 The Vistula-Oder Operation, January–May 1945

11 The Assault on Berlin

1 Soviet and German wartime production 1941–45

2 American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941–45

3 Soviet Losses in World War Two

‘The great merit of this volume is its judicious, dispassionate quality: Overy goes where the evidence leads him, he does not fit it into an a priori straitjacket, as so many Western historians do… Overy is extremely good on diplomacy and high politics… a book full of plums and accurate research.’