Stalin's Other War: Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941

Index

Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Afanas’iev, Yuri N.

Afghanistan

aircraft

Alksnis, Ya. I.

All-Russian Scientific-Research Institute for Documents and Archive Affairs (VNIIDAD). See also Mel’tyukhov, M. I.

American Veterans Committee (AVC)

Anfilov, Viktor A.

Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935)

Anglo-Soviet trade pact (1921)

anticolonialism

Archive of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee

archives: accessibility: and research into Stalin’s diplomacy toward Germany: on Stalin’s post-Operation Barbarossa behavior; on Stalin’s war plans; on war games

Argumenty i Fakty

Armenia

articles

Asia

Astakhov, Georgi

Axis powers. See also Germany; Japan; Mussolini, Benito

Bagramyan, Ivan Kh.

Balkans

Baltic states: acquisition of; friendship treaties with; independence of

Barbarossa, Operation: blame for; books about; and defensist arguments; Hitler’s reasons for launching; and offensist arguments; run-up to; secrecy of; Stalin’s responses to; Stalin’s self-deceptions about; time and location of; warnings of; weaponry used in; withdrawal during

Barthou, Louis

Basis Nord

Benes, E.

Beria, Lavrenti

Beria, Sergo L.

Beriyev, G. M.

Berlin

Bessarabia

Bessonov, Sergei

Bismarck, Otto

Black Shirts. See Mussolini, Benito

Bletchley Park. See Enigma Machine (Ultra)

blitzkrieg warfare. See deep battle operations

Blomberg, W.

Blunt, Anthony

Blyukher, V. K.

Bobylev, Pavel N.: analysis of war documents; on blame for Operation Barbarossa; criticism of Stalin; on offensism

Bokarev, Yu. P.

Bolshevism

Bonvetsch, B.

Borodin, Mikhail

Boundary and Friendship Treaty, German-Soviet (1939)

Brauchitsch, Walther

Brest-Litovsk Treaty (1918)

Brezhnev, L. I.

Brown Shirts. See Nazi party

Budyenny, S. M.

buffer zone

Bukovina

Bulgaria

Burgess, Guy

Bushuyev, T. S.

Byelorussia

capitalist states: anticipated war between; friendliness toward

Carpathian Ruthenia

Central Committee Information and International Department

Chadayev, Yu. E.

Chamberlain, Neville

Cheka police

Cheron, F. Y.

Chiang Kai-shek

Chicherin, Georgi V

China

Chou En-lai

Chuev, Felix

Churchill, Winston: “iron curtain” speech; on rearmament; and second European front; warning of Operation Barbarossa

Clausewitz, Carl

Cold War

collective security

Collier’s

Cominform

Comintern: alignment with Kuomintang; disbandment; establishment; global institution of; Popular Front tactic; on spread of Communism; Stalin’s interest in activities of

Commercial Agreement, German-Soviet

Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD)

Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 86th Congress, First Session (1959)

Communist Information Bureau

Communist International. See Comintern

Communist party

concealment

“Considerations.” See General Staff memorandum (May 15, 1941)

Co-Prosperity Sphere

Cripps, Sir Stafford

Czechoslovakia: abandonment of; alliance with Soviet Union; as potential ally; Soviet role in invasion of; and Versailles Treaty

Danilov, V. D.

Dardanelles. See Turkish Straits

Davies, Joseph E.

Deane, John R.

deep battle operations

defensism: arguments against; definition of; failure to plan; in indoctrination and propaganda; and Marxism-Leninism; punishment for; school of thought supporting

Dekanozov, V. G.

Den’ M (M Day) (Suvorov)

Dimitrov, Georgi: with Comintern; description of Popular Front; diary of; knowledge of Operation Barbarossa; on Soviet relations with Germany

diplomacy: archives on; and conditions for waging war; and industrialization; and Marxism-Leninism; “new” Soviet

Djilas, Milovan

Djugashvili, Yakov

documentary film

Doroshenko, V. L.

Drugaya voina 1939–1945 (The Other War 1939–1945) (Afanas’iev)

Duclos Letter

Dugas, I. A.

Dvoretsky, Lev

Eastern Europe

Eastern Front (Germany)

Eastern Locarno pact

education. See textbooks

Eisenshtein, Sergei

Engels, Friedrich

England: and collective security agreement; Hitler’s plan to attack; knowledge of Operation Barbarossa; pacifism of; as potential ally; Soviet relations with (1920s–1930s); Soviet relations with (1941); Stalin’s attempted negotiations with

Enigma Machine (Ultra)

Estonia

Ethiopia

fascism See also Mussolini, Benito

Feuer, Lewis

Finland: peace treaty with; relationship with Germany; Soviet demand for; Soviet war against

Firsov, F. I.

Five-Year Plans

France: boundaries of; and collective security agreement; as potential ally; Soviet relations with; Stalin’s attempted negotiations with

Friendship Pact, Nazi-Soviet

Frunze, M. V.

Galiyev, Sultan

Gareyev, Makhmut

Gelfand, Leon

General Staff memorandum (May 15, 1941): excerpt; on German army; Gorodetsky on; on surprise attack; as war planning document

Genoa Conference (1922)

George, David Lloyd

Georgia

Germany: admiration of; collaboration with Red Army; Communists in; declared enemy by Stalin; disinformation used by; dissatisfaction with Versailles Treaty; economic assistance to Soviet Union; encouragement of expansionism; occupation of Ukraine; record of enemy preemptions; result of war against Soviet Union; run-up to Operation Barbarossa; Soviet relations with (1920s–1930s); totalitarianism in; troops on Western Front. See also Barbarossa, Operation; Nazi-Soviet agreements

glasnost

Goebbels, Josef: admiration of Stalin; diaries of; on German-Soviet cooperation; on inevitability of war; on opposition to Operation Barbarossa

Goering, Hermann

Golikov, Filipp L

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Gor’kov, Yu. A.

Gorodetsky, Gabriel: on annexation of Poland; on collective security agreement; on General Staff memorandum (May 15, 1941); on Hess’s flight; on offensism/defensism argument; on Stalin’s attitude toward Marxism-Leninism

GPU

Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia (Gorodetsky)

Great Fatherland War: attitudes toward; Seven Lessons of; start of; studies of; and weapons production

Grigorenko, Petr G.

“Groza” (Storm), Soviet offensive-war plan

Guderian, Heinz

Gulag

Haase, Paul

Halder, Franz

Harriman, Averell

Harrison, Richard W.

Haushofer, Karl

Henderson, Sir Neville

Hermann, Joachim

Hess, Rudolf

High Command Headquarters (Stavka)

Hillgruber, Andreas

A History of Russia

Hitler, Adolf: ascent to power; on Hess’s flight; involvement in military affairs; on nonaggression pact with Soviet Union; on Operation Barbarossa; relationship with Stalin; and Soviet education methods; Soviet provocation of; underestimation of Soviet Union; war with Britain

Horn (German representative)

Hughes, E.

Hungary

Ice-Breaker (Suvorov)

ideology. See Marxism-Leninism

Ilyushin, S. V

Indian Ocean

industrialization

internationalism

Iran

Isserson, G. S.

Italy. See also Mussolini, Benito

Japan: as Axis power; expansionism of; Sorge in; Soviet relationship with; threat to England; and war with United States

Johnston, Eric

Junkers Stuka dive-bomber (Ju-87)

Kaganovich (government official)

Kalinin, Mikhail

Kalugin, Oleg

Kandelaki, David

Karelo-Finnish Soviet Republic

Katyn Forest Massacre

Katyusha

Keitel, W.

Kennan, George F.

Kennan, George V.

Kestring, E.

Khalkin-Gol River plain

Khrushchev, Nikita S.

Kiev Military District (KVO)

Kirponos, Mikhail P.

Klimovskikh, Vladimir E.

Koch, Stephen

Kokoshin, Andrei A.

Korean War (1950–53)

Kork, A. I.

Korobskov, Andrei A.

Kosygin, Alexei

Krestinsky, N. N.

Krivitsky, Walter

Kronstadt Island

Kuomintang

Kursk, Battle of

Kuusinen, Otto V

Kuznetsov, Nikolai A.

Kuznetsov, Nikolai G.

Kvashnin, Anatoly V.

Kwantung Province

Larin, Mikhail V.

Latvia

Lavochkin, S. A.

Leadership Principle

League of Nations

Lebedev, Lev

Lend-Lease aid

Lenin, V. I.: admiration of Germany; on Brest-Litovsk; definition of Western democracy; disregard of Versailles Treaty; on education; establishment of Comintern; on global sovietization; on Mussolini; support of collaboration with Germany; United Front tactic; on U.S.-Japanese war; on war

Leningrad

Life

Lipetsk, Russia

Lithuania

Litvinov, Maxim M.: firing of; on Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact; policy; and relations with West; termination of Communist activities in U.S.

Look

Lozovsky, S. A.

Ludendorff, Erich von

Luftwaffe

Lutzow

Lytton Commission

Lyulechnik, Vladimir

Machiavelli

Maclean, Donald

Maisky, Ivan

Malenkov, Andrei

Malenkov, S. G.

Malik, Yakov

Manchuria

Manstein, Erich

Mao Tse-tung

Marx, Karl

Marxism-Leninism: as basis of Soviet diplomacy; in education; manifestation of; realist school on; role in Stalin’s strategy; and thermonuclear war; traditionalist school on

Mein Kampf

Mekhlis, Lev Z.

Mel’tyukhov, M. I.: archives located by; book by; on Marxism-Leninism; on Red Army purges

memoirists

memorandum. See General Staff memorandum (May 15,1941)

Meretskov, K. A.

Mikoyan, A. I.

Mikoyan, Anastas

Military Encyclopedic Dictionary

Ministry of General and Professional Education of the Russian Federation

Mission to Moscow (Davies)

Mitrokhin Archive

Model, W.

Moldavian SSR

Molotov, Vyacheslav M.: appointment to foreign ministry; on British pacifism; broadcast of Stalin’s address; on division of territory; on German failure to declare war; on global sovietization; on May 5 speech; at meeting regarding preemptive strike; at meetings after Operation Barbarossa; on Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact; on occupation of Poland; pact with Ribbentrop; on provocation of Hitler; on Quadripartite Axis concept; on readiness of Red Army; on Stalin’s reaction to Operation Barbarossa; on warning from China

Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (Chuev)

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Mongolia

Moscow

“Mr. X” essay

Munich Agreement (1938)

Münzenberg, Willi

Mussolini, Benito

M. V. Frunze—Military Theoretician (Gareyev)

The Myth of the “Ice-Breaker” on the Eve of War (Gorodetsky)

Napoleon

navies

Nazi party

Nazi-Soviet agreements: Boundary and Friendship Treaty (1939); Brest-Litovsk Treaty (1918); on division of territory; as example of Soviet zigzagging; Friendship Pact; Hitler’s disregard of; Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; motivations for; Nonaggression Pact (1939); origins of; preludes to; significance of word order; and Stalin’s behavior; in textbooks; on trade; Treaty of Berlin (1926)

Nekrich, Aleksandr

Nevezhin, Vladimir A.

New Economic Policy (NEP) (1921)

newsreel appearance

NKVD (Commissariat of Internal Affairs)

Nonaggression Pact, Nazi-Soviet (1939)

Norway

offensism: definition of; and Marxism-Leninism; and Operation Barbarossa; promotion of in May 5 speech; and propaganda; reason for not using against Germany; school of thought supporting; secrecy of; Stalin’s use of term. See also preemptive strikes

office log

Ogarkov, N. V.

OGPU

‘On the Plan to Deploy the Strategic Forces of the Soviet in a War Against Germany and Its Allies,’

Operation Sea Lion

Orwellian Memory Hole

Outer Mongolia

Pavlov, Dmitri G.

Pavlovich, Lavrenti

peaceful coexistence

Pearl Harbor

Petlyakov, V. M.

Philby, Kim

Plato

pocket battleships

Pokrovsky, G. I.

Poland: alliance with Soviet Union; armed expansion into; boundaries of; and Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact; and offensist/ defensist argument; as potential ally

Polikarpov, N. N.

Politburo

Ponomarev, Boris N.

Popular Front

poputchikestvo (fellow travelership)

Poskrebyshev, Aleksandr N.

POWs

preemptive strikes: documentation of plan; German army record of; recommendation for; and Red Army deployments; secret conference on. See also offensism

Primakov, Yevgeny M.

propaganda

Prussia

Pugachev, V. S.

Putin, Vladimir

Quadripartite Axis

Radek, Karl

Radzinsky, Edvard

Rapallo Treaty

Raymond, Ellsworth

realist school

Red Air Force

Red Army: collaboration with Germany; deployments on June 22, 1941; effect of Marxism-Leninism on; errors of; fear of Stalin; indoctrination; offensist nature of; purges; readiness of; secrecy of; strength of; and withdrawal and desertion

The Red Mikado

Red Navy

Reinsurance Treaty

retreat

Rezun, Viktor Bogdanovich. See Suvorov, Viktor

Ribbentrop, Joachim von: admiration of Soviet Union; on division of territory; on Nazi-Soviet agreements; negotiations with Japan; relationship with Stalin; on timing of Hitler’s decision to attack

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Shirer)

RKKA. See Red Army

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rosenberg, Alfred

Rozengoltz, A. P.

Ruhr, Germany

Rumania

Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Way of War: Operational Art, 1904–1940 (Harrison)

Sakharov, Andrei D.

Sarin, Oleg

Schacht, Hjalmar

schools, public

Schulenberg, Friedrich von: on Czechoslovakia; execution of; on invasion of Poland; leaks to; Molotov’s complaint to; on Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

secrecy

Semiryaga, M. I.

Semyonov, K. V.

Shaposhnikov, Boris M.

Shcherbakov, Aleksandr S.

Shirer, William L.

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Shtern, Grigori M.

Silesia

Sindrom Nastupatel ‘noi Voiny (The Syndrome of Offensive War) (Nevezhin)

Slutsky, A.

Social-Democratic parties (SDs)

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander I.

Sorge, Richard

Soviet Military Encyclopedia

Special Tasks (Sudoplatov)

speeches: August 19, 1939 to Politburo; July 3,1941 radio address; May 5, 1941,; May 24, 1945; November 1941

Speidel, Helm

Stalin, Josef: behavior of; involvement in military affairs; Russophilia of

Stalin and Hitler: Dangerous Liaisons

Stalingrad, Battle of

Stavka (High Command Headquarters)

Steinhardt, Lawrence

Sudetenland

Sudoplatov, Pavel: on collective security policy; on conquest of border countries; publications; on Stalin’s quest for world domination

Sun Tzu

surprise tactics

Suvorov, Alexei V.

Suvorov, Viktor

Svechin, A. A.

Svetlishin, N. A.

The Syndrome of Offensive War (Nevezhin)

tanks

textbooks

Timoshenko, S. K.: on buildup on Western Front; at meeting regarding preemptive strike; at meetings after Operation Barbarossa; on readiness of Red Army; signing of General Staff memorandum (May 15, 1941); strategies of

Tokaev, Grigori A.

Topitsch, Ernst

totalitarianism

trade

traditionalist school

Treaty of Berlin (1926)

Triandafillov, Vladimir K.

Trotsky, L. D.

Truman, Harry

Tucker, Robert C.

Tukhachevsky, Mikhail N.

Turkestan

Turkey

Turkish Straits

Ukraine

Uldricks, Theodore J.

Ultra (Enigma Machine)

United Front

United States: economic assistance to Soviet Union; entry into war; as potential ally; recognition of Soviet Union; subversive activity against; and war with Japan; weapons production

United States Army orientation material

United States Office of War Information

The USSR Institutions and People: A Brief Handbook for the Use of Officers of the Armed Forces of the United States

Varga, Yevgeny

Vasilievsky, Alexander

Vasilievsky, M.

Vatutin, Nikolai F.

Ventsel’, D. A.

Versailles Treaty

Vietnam War

Vlasik, Nikolai

VNIIDAD. See All-Russian Scientific-Research Institute for Documents and Archive Affairs (VNIIDAD)

Volkogonov, Dmitri A.

Voroshilov, K. Ye.

Wagner, Richard

Die Walkiire

war: declaration of; Lenin on; Stalin on; strategies; thermonuclear

war games

warning period

weapons

Weeks, Albert L.

Weimar Germany

Weinberg, Gerhard L.

Weizsaecker, Ernst

Werth, Alexander

Western Front (Russia): in documentary; German troops on; Soviet troops on

Western states

Wilhelm, Kaiser

Willkie, Wendell

Winter War

withdrawal. See retreat

The Working Classes against Fascism (Dimitrov)

The World in the 20th Century

World War II

World War III

Yakir, I. Z.

Yakovlev, Aleksandr N.: on defensism; on Great Fatherland War; on “new” diplomacy; on offensism; on U.S. as potential Soviet ally

Yakovlev, A. S.

The Year 1941. Documents (Yakovlev)

Zakharov, Matvei V

Zentrale Moskau

Zhdanov, A. A.: archive of; on May 5 speech; promotion of; on Soviet “neutrality”; strategies of; on use of war to spread Marxism-Leninism

Zhelyabov Textile Factory

Zhigarev, P. F.

Zhukov, Georgi K.: and buildup on Western Front; on historians’ search for truth; at Khalkin-Gol River plain; at meeting regarding preemptive strike; at meetings after Operation Barbarossa; on Operation Barbarossa; on readiness of Red Army; signing of General Staff memorandum (May 15, 1941); strategies of; surprise tactics of; in war games

Zhukovsky, N. E.

Zhuravchenko, A. N.

Zolotov, V. P.