Krestinsky, Nikolai, 110, 421, 423, 479: as Trotskyite, 8–9; capitulation to Party, 17; torture of, 121, 237; arrest of, 236–37; trial, 342–47, 351–54, 359; withdraws confession, 343–54; letter abandoning Trotsky, 345; last plea, 392; rehabilitation, 395
Krivitsky, Walter, 50, 87, 409, 415
Kronstadt naval base, 6, 34, 412
Kruglov, S. N., 438
Krupenik, N., 292
Krupskaya, Nadezhda K., 68–69, 73, 115, 238, 437–38
Krylenko, Nikolai V., 240, 243, 249, 420–21
Kryuchkov, P. P., 375, 377–78, 383
Kuban region, 20
Kubanin (professor), 461
Kubyak, N. A., 246
Kuchinsky, D. A. (Divisional Commander), 201, 213
Kudryavtsev, S. O., 232–33, 248
Kuibyshev, N. V., 208
Kuibyshev, V V., 12–13, 24–25, 27, 213, 248, 343, 373, 375–77, 379, 384, 397, 428: death or murder of, 71–72, 387–89
Kuibyshev province, 178, 247
Kuklin, A. S., 47–48, 88, 108, 119
Kulaks, 310
Kulbyak, M. S., 224
Kulik, G. I. (Marshal), 431, 453, 455
Kulikov, E. F., 145
Kun, Béla, 69, 402–3
Kurbas, Les, 322
Kurganov, 159
Kuropaty, 287–88, 485
Kursk province, 175, 258, 485
Kutev, 428
Kuteyshchikhov (professor), 222
Kuusinen, O. V., 403n, 408
“Kuzbas,” 142
Kuzmichev, B., 188–90
Kuznetsov, A. A., 218, 259, 438, 462
Kviring, E. I., 246
Labor Books, 21
Labor camps, 308–40: trip to, 311–14; criminals in, 313–14; women in, 314–16; children in, 316; setting up of, 316–18; prisoners’ rights, 318; ordeal of, 318–24; comparison with other prisons, 323–24; empire of, 324–25; economics of, 330–31, 461; food rations, 333–40; work rates, 336; postwar period, 458–59; Stalin’s consolidation of, 459; casualty figures, 485–86; population figures, 485–86; Western opinion toward, 472–75; Khrushchev period, 478
Laborde, Herman, 416
Lake Hassan attack, 430
Lakoba, Nestor, 225–26
Lambrev, 405
Lamont, Corliss, 466
Landau, L. D., 294
Langfang, A. I., 421
Lapin, Boris, 305
Laqueur, Walter, 470
Largo Caballero, Francisco, 409–10
Larina, Anna, 395
Lashevich, M. M., 10, 185
Laski, Harold, 467, 469
Lattimore, Owen, 328–29, 468
Latvian Communist Party, 400
Latvian intelligence service, 270
Latvians, arrest of, 272
Lazurkina, D. A., 216
Lebedenko, Alexander G., 45
Lefortovo prison, 208, 210, 268–69, 279, 288
Left Communists, 350, 373–74
Left Socialist Revolutionaries, 373–74
Leipunsky (professor), 294
Leipzig trial, 404
Lengyel, József, 277, 282, 322
Lenin, V. I., 115: assessment of Communism in Russia, 3–4; opinion of Stalin, 4, 56, 61–63, 66; creation of bureaucracy, 7; activity in Caucasus, 55–56; Party loyalty, 113; Battle of Warsaw comment, 184; Terror of, 251; creation of Comintern, 399
Leningrad: Kirov murdered in, 37–41; Komsomol, 45–46; “White Guards” executed, 46; NKVD, 49–51; Party purge, 214–18; prisons, 269–70; mass execution site. 288; writers, 303; food rations, siege, 334–35
Leningrad Komsomol, 45–46, 425
Leningrad Party: Kirov control of, 35–36; purge of, 214–16
Leninsk-Kuznetsk, 274
Lepa, A. Kh., 222
Leplevsky, I. M., 200, 230–31, 233
Lesyuchevsky, N. V, 305, 306
Levandovsky, M. K. (Army Commander), 213, 429
Levanevsky, S., 240, 295
Levin, L., 169, 342, 375–77, 379–80, 383, 386, 387, 388: recruitment of, by Yagoda, 376; execution of, 387; last plea, 393
Levin, Max, 296
Levin, Vladimir, 95
Levit, S. G., 295–96
Levitsky, G. A., 295–96
Levkovich, Antonia, 282
Likhachev, M. T., 458
Linguistics, 297
Lipper, Eleanor, 402n
Liteyni prison, 304
Lithuania, 257
Lithuanian Central Committee, 400
Litvinov, Maxim, 57, 67, 196–97, 424, 449; forms alliance with West, 196
Livshits, Benedikt, 303, 305
Livshits, Yakov, 143, 149, 153, 159–60, 166, 173, 445
Lobov, S. S., 246
Lockhart, Sir Robert Bruce, 249
Loebl, Evzen, 125–26
Loevenstein (doctor), 387
Loganovsky, 240
Logging camps, 330, 332, 335, 337–38
Loginov, V. E., 151, 178
Loktionov (Colonel-General), 455
Lominadze, V. V., 23, 31, 94, 101, 400
Lomov, G. I., 237, 421 Lozinsky, 305
Lublin Committee, 458
Lubyanka prison, 190, 201, 266, 268–69, 277–78, 287, 455
Luca, Vasile, 404
Lukács, Georg, 61
Lukina, Nadezhda, 123
Lukyanov, 426
Lumber camps, 330, 332, 335, 337–38
Lurye, Moissei, 83, 88, 96, 98, 101, 104
Lurye, Nathan, 83, 88, 98, 100–101, 104
Luthy, Hubert, 466
Luxemburg, Rosa, 401, 405, 482–83
Lykhachev, 276
Lysenkoism, 296–97
Lyubchenko, Panas, 228, 230–33, 292, 347
Lyubimov, I. E., 240, 420
Lyushkov, G. S., 81, 270, 429–31
Maari, Gurgen, 302
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 64–65, 69
Maclean, Sir Fitzroy, 236
Maclean, Neil, 167, 177
Magadan, 314, 325, 328
Magnitogorsk, 276
Magrilov, Semion, 276
Magyar, Lajos, 403
Makharadze, Philip, 68
Malenkov, Georgi, 74–75, 77, 222–23, 226, 426–27, 431–32, 478: ruthlessness, 14; Moscow purges, 234, 238; purge of Postyshev, 247; Central Committee group, 438
Malinovsky (Marshal), 209, 415
Malyshev, V. A., 438, 459
Manayev, 426
Mandelshtam, Nadezhda, 291, 479
Mandelshtam, Osip, 304–5
Mantsev, V. N., 372–74
Manuilsky, D. Z., 403, 406–8
Marchak, N. M., 233
Marchlewski, Julian, 405
Margolin, Julius, 475
Mariupol, 272
Markizov, A., 249
Markov (doctor), 448n
Marrism, 297
Marx, Karl, 331
Maslennikov, I. I., 438
Mass arrests, 434
Mass executions, 287–88, 457
Matorin, 94
Matulevich, I. O., 44, 92, 147, 240, 343
Mauriac, François, 411