The Great Terror

Radzivilovsky, A. P., 84, 194, 219

Raikh, Zinaida, 307

Railways, 276–77, 433

Rajk, Laszlo, 127, 458

Rajk Trial, 63

Rakhimbayev, A. R., 357

Rákosi, M., 63

Rakovsky, Christian, 98, 128, 162, 391, 396, 412: as Trotskyite, 8–9, 11, 360; return to Party, 30; trial, 342, 351–53; political record, 360; testimony, 360–61; last plea, 392–93; sentencing, 395; Romanian connection, 404; execution, 456

Ramzin (professor), 143

Rapava, A. N., 239

Rappaport, 50

Rataichak, S. A., 143, 151, 161

Razgon, Lev, 262

Razkolnikov, Mikhail, 117, 152, 425, 480–81

Red Army, 452

Red Army Chorus, 209

Refusal to work, 321

Rehabilitation, routine of, 339, 480

Reichstag Trial, 106n

Reingold, Isak, 83, 88, 188–90: confrontation with Kamenev, 85

Reiss, Ignace, 408, 415

Religion, 273, 317–18, 457

Remmele, Hermann, 400–401

Repnin, Prince Michael, 175–76

Republics, purges in, 223–27

Reykhman, L. I., 441

Right Socialist Revolutionaries, 374

Rightists: Stalin’s defeat of, 15–22; at XVIIth Party Congress, 32; NKVD trial testimony, 96; Yezhov’s view, 138; in military, 186; at Bukharin Trial, 342

Ring, Jerzy, 406

Rivera, Diego, 415

Robotti, Paoli, 403–4

Rodionov, M. I., 438

Rodos, B. V., 306–7

Rodriguez Sala, 410

Roginsky, G., 83, 240, 260

Rokossovsky, K. K. (Corps Commander), 429, 451

Rolland, Romain, 66, 297, 466

Romanian Communist Party, 404

Romanian Socialist Party, 360

Romanov, Pantaleimon, 300

Rosenberg, M., 209, 409

Rosenfeld, Nikolai, 76

Rosengolts, Arkady, 114, 127, 240–41, 342, 346, 350, 359, 389, 393–94, 480

Rossisky, D. M., 386

Rostov province, 175

Rousset, David, 472

Rozenblum, 216–17

Ruban, Nastya, 190

Rubashov, 118, 361

Rudzutak, Yan, 33, 128, 237–38, 242–43, 347, 359, 400, 405, 439: Stalin’s follower, 12–13; support of Ryutin, 25; arrest of, 236; execution, 420; retraction of confession, 421–22; rehabilitation, 479

Ruhemann (professor), 293

Rukhimovich, M., 159, 240, 420–21

Rumyantsev, I. P., 46, 221, 246

Russell, Bertrand, 309

Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP), 298–300, 305

Russian prisoners of war, 450

Ryazanov, D. B., 6, 61

Rychagov (General), 455

Rychkov, N. M., 147, 249

Rykov, Alexei, 24, 98, 108, 127, 136–38, 145–47, 162, 168, 237; Bukharin’s associate, 17; leadership failure, 19, 21; reception at VIIth Party Congress, 31: NKVD trial testimony about, 95–96, 101–2; and Party mind, 111; exculpation, 136; dismissal of, 139; February-March plenum, 173–74; trial of, 342–43, 348–49; 354–55, 359, 367–71, 381–83, 391, 394; assurances about execution, 343; confirmation of Krestinsky’s guilt, 347; Kirov assassination, 366; Kirov murder accusation, 391; last plea, 392; sentencing, 395; fate of family, 396

Ryutin, M. N., 129–30, 138–39, 147; attack on Stalin, 23–24, 117–18; arrest of, 24–25; expulsion from Party, 26; and Postyshev, 144

“Ryutin Platform,” 23–24, 162, 350, 354, 368

Ryvkin, 0. L., 427

Sabanin, A. V, 423

Sablin, Yu. V. (Divisional Commander), 190, 205

Sabotage, 141–47, 275–76, 283

Saburov, M. Z., 459 Safarov, G., 47–49

Safonova, Aleksandra, 89, 97, 119

Sakharov, Andrei, 326, 339

Saltanov, 426

Salvemini, G., 464

Samoilov, Fedor, 437

Samoyeds, 325

Samsonov, 320

Sangursky (Corps Commander), 428

Sapronov, T. V., 7

Sapunov, Danko, 322

Saratov jail, 447

Sarkisov, S. A., 231, 272

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 472, 475

Sats, Natalia, 306

Savitsky (Divisional Commander), 205

Schacht, Hjalmar, 197

Schubert, Hermann, 401

Schulenberg, Count Werner, 453

Schulte, Fritz, 401

Schutzbund, 411

Schwartzman (professor), 376

Second World War, 450–57

Secret Police, early role of, 34. See also NKVD; OGPU

Secret Speech (Khrushchev), 42–43, 60, 170, 476

Secretariat, 33, 36

Sedov, Lev (Trotsky’s son), 76, 78, 94, 97–101, 108, 116n, 140, 344, 414–15

Sedyakin, A. I. (Army Commander), 201, 213

Segeta camp, 205, 315

Segizbayev, S., 435

Seksots, 254, 260

Semenko, M. V, 303

Semyonov, B. A., 354

Serafimovich, A. S., 213

Serbichenko, A. K., 303

Serdich (Divisional Commander), 206, 212–13

Serdyuk, Z. T., 440

Serebryakov, Leonid P., 11, 96, 102, 116n, 129, 135, 143, 147–48, 153–54, 164, 165, 166, 298, 345

Serebryakova, Galina, 165, 298

Serfs, 320

Serge, Victor, 300, 464

Serov, I. A., 261, 478

Serpantinka camp, 325

Serpilin, 67–68, 450–51

Serrati, 115

Shakhty Trial, 35, 150, 353

Shanin, A. M., 50, 82, 180

Shapiro, I. I., 341, 384

Shaposhnikov, B. M. (Army Commander), 202, 212, 431, 452

Shaposhnikova, Lyudmila, 217

Sharangovich, V F., 223–24, 275, 342, 355, 357, 367–68, 370, 394

Shatalin, N. N., 438 Shatskin, L. A., 23, 147

Shatsky, N. N., 427

Shaw, Bernard, 471

Shchadenko, E. A., 15, 184, 205, 431, 438

Shchedrin, 62

Shcherbakov, A. S., 234, 438; career of, 215

Shcherbinskaya, 0., 306

Sheboldayev, B. P., 245–46

Shereshevsky, N. A., 380, 384, 386

Shestov, A. A., 142, 154, 156–59

Shirin, 306

Shiroky (Captain), 434

Shkiryatov, M. F., 15, 34, 77, 218, 261, 427, 432, 438–39, 478

Shklovsky, V. B., 305

Shlyapnikov, A., 5, 69, 74, 96, 114, 120, 480

Shmelyov, Nikolai, 484

Shmidt, Dmitri, 94, 188–90, 192, 194, 199

Shmidt, O., 236

Shmidt, V. V., 27, 145–46, 397

Shmuller, Dodya, 328

Shneyderman, I. I., 424

Shotemor, 357

Shpalnery prison, 266, 269

Shpigelglas, M., 82, 274, 409