German invasion of Soviet Union,
176
,
187
–188,
198
–202
German occupation of Europe,
173
,
174
postwar settlement,
269
–270
second front plan,
223
–224,
228
,
229
,
230
Tehran Conference,
229
–230
Yalta Conference,
244
–246,
290
, Gallery
12
.
See also
Soviet-German Front
Stalin, Joseph, wartime leadership of
Wrangel, Petr,
59
,
60
,
61
Yagoda, Genrikh Grigoryevich,
255
biography of,
351
n69
and Kirov murder investigation,
131
purge of,
140
,
160
Yakovlev, Aleksandr,
157
Yalta Conference,
244
–246,
289
, Gallery
12
Yegorov, Alexandr, Gallery
10
Yegorov, Petr,
307
,
308
Yemelianov, Nikolai,
49
Yenukidze, Avel Safronovich,
139
,
193
,
352
n82
Yezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich,
154
biography of,
351
n66
execution of,
160
on Kirov’s murder,
131
removal of,
157
,
159
–160
Terror directed by,
139
,
140
,
152
,
157
,
158
–159
Yugoslavia,
235
,
280
–281
Zagumenny, Sergei,
102
Zaleski, Eugene,
267
Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich: Gallery
11
in anti-intelligentsia campaign,
265
biography of,
335
n19
and breakdown in relations with West,
267
and Central Committee,
178
death of,
282
in leadership reorganizations,
180
,
181
,
272
,
273
Politburo appointment of,
177
protégés of,
352
–353n6
at Stalin’s social gatherings,
6
in wartime leadership,
207
Zhdanov, Yuri,
260
Zhemchuzhina, Polina (Molotov’s wife),
283
–284,
314
Zhou Enlai,
298
Zhukov, Georgy Konstantinovich: biography of,
360
n2
in Command Headquarters,
202
,
204
on Crimean defeat,
221
on crimes against civilians,
236
and foreign press rumors,
269
on German intelligence,
209
and German invasion,
198
,
199
–200,
201
,
202
marshal rank of,
226
Stalin’s criticism of,
241
,
273
–274
as Stalin’s emissary,
201
and Stalin’s strategic decisions,
213
,
227
wartime commands of,
212
,
213
,
214
,
360
n2
Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseevich,
70
,
98
,
194
,
282
and anti-Trotsky coalition,
81
–82
biography of,
341
n9
Bolshevik seizure of power opposed by,
50
,
51
,
52
execution of,
139
expulsion of,
84
–85,
90
and Kirov’s murder charge,
131
as oppositionist,
82
–84,
87
in power struggle,
75
–76,
77
,
78
,
79
,
80
in Provisional Government crackdown,
48
,
49
Zoshchenko, Mikhail,
265
,
368
n9
Zubkova, Elena,
xiv
–xv
Zverev, Arseny,
274
,
275
,
277
Zvezda
(magazine),
265