The Great Terror

Shteppa, Konstantin, 292

Shtern, G. M. [“Grigorevich”] (Corps Commander), 209

Shtern, M. Z. [“General Kleber”]. 209, 411 Shubnikov (professor), 294, 331

Shukhayev, 305

Shulman, 221

Shvartsman, L. L., 126, 427

Shvernik, N. M., 167, 439

Siberia, 259

Siblag prison camp, 302

Sikorski (General), 448

Silone, Ignazio, 399–400

Simonov, Konstantin, 67, 450–51

Sinelobov, A. I., 78

Sinyavsky, Andrei, 478

Siquciros, D. A., 416–17

Sivkov, A. K. (Admiral), 211, 218

Skoblevsky [“Gorev”] (Brigade Commander), 209

Skoblin (General), 198

Skorbny, Andrei, 301

Skrypnik, N., 229–30

Slansky Trial, 92n, 125, 458n

Slave labor, 320–21: economics of, 330–33; Stalin’s theory, 332

Slavin (Army Commissar), 201

Slepkov, A., 23–24, 117

Slisarenko, 303

Sloan, Pat, 474–75

Slutski, 294

Slutsky, A. A., 82, 179, 341, 409

Smilga, Ivar T., 74, 130, 147, 167, 185n, 421, 480: arrest, 26; resistance, 120

Smirenski, Vladimir, 301

Smirnov, A. R., 129, 361, 397: attack on Stalin, 26–27; expulsion from Party, 27; execution, 248

Smirnov, Ivan, 19, 93, 96, 100, 102, 109, 116n, 138, 380, 480: arrest of, 26; alleged plot of, 83–84, 93–95; resistance to interrogation, 88–89; confession of, 89–90; trial and testimony, 97–98, 101; resistance of, 97–98, 104, 118–19; last plea, 104; credibility of evidence against, 107; Radek’s comments, 148; and Putna, 190, 202

Smirnov, Nikolai, 408

Smirnova, Olga, 89

Smirnova, Varvara, 89

Smirnova, Z., 306

Smolensk province: Secret Archive, 51; expulsions, 74–75; purge, 221

Smorodin, Pyotr, 217–18, 427, 435

Smushkevich (Lieutenant General), 209, 455

Snegov, A. V., 339

Snesarev (General), 185

Soble, Jack, 98, 415

Socialism: Stalin’s theory, 16, 177; in Stalin’s Russia, 459

Socialist Revolutionaries, 5, 272–73

Society of Former Political Prisoners, 76–78

Society of Old Bolsheviks, 76–77

Sofia Cathedral, 106

Sokolnikov, Grigori, 83, 94, 96, 102, 107, 128–29, 136–37, 146–48, 162, 164, 165, 291, 298, 423, 480: arrest and confession, 135; promise from Stalin, 140; testimony at trial, 153–54

Solovetsk, 50, 303, 310–11

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 211, 270, 297, 309, 313, 317, 319–23, 335–37, 339

Sorge, Richard, 431

Sorin, V. G., 293

Sosnovsky, L., 30, 146

South Urals railway, 160

Spain, 209

Spanish Civil War, 209, 409–12

Spanish Communist Party, 409–12

Spanish Politburo, 410

Special Board, 284–86, 477

“Special Sector,” 34

Spender, Stephen, 465

Sperber, Manès, 462

Spinoza, Baruch, 461

Spiridonova, Maria, 373, 374, 395, 425, 456

Sports, 271

Stalin, Josef: Lenin’s opinion, 3–4; crushes Left, 7–12; followers of, 12–15; defeat of Right, 15–22; Socialism theory, 16; Ryutin’s appeal against, 24; autocracy of, 29; collectivization role, 31; at XVIIth Party Congress, 31–32; Leningrad Party attitude, 35–36; Kirov murder, 37–52; personal and political character, 53–70; father of, 55; paranoia of, 56–57; comparison with Napoleon, 59; capriciousness, 67–68; power drive, 69, 111; “attempt on life,” 76; pressure on Mironov, 85; torture authorization, 122, 280; retreat on Bukharin, 136–37; attack on Yagoda, 137–38; appointment of Yezhov, 138–39; view of Trotsky’s writings, 155; double-cross of Ordzhonikidze, 167–68; procurement of Ordzhonikidze’s death, 170–73; at February-March plenum, 173–74; theoretical justification for the Terror, 177–78; Battle of Warsaw role, 184–85; timing of attack on Army, 193; and Fascism, 195–206; naval policy, 210; Moscow purges, 234–42; alleged murder of Frunze, 298–99; slave labor theory, 332; attack on Rosengolts, 393n; policy on Spain, 411; comparison with Trotsky, 414; attack on Komsomols, 425–27; replaces Yezhov, 432–33; consolidates power, 435–38; Central Committee group, 438, unrealistic attitude toward Nazis, 453–54; trust of Hitler, 453–54; forced labor consolidation, 459; industrial policy, 460; late purges, 462; attitude of West toward, 471–72; Khrushchev period, treatment of, 478; pressure for rehabilitation, 482

Stalin, Vasili, 58

Stalin, Yakov, 58

Stalin Automobile Works, 276

Stalingrad, 456–57

Stalinogorsk camp, 337

Stande, 406

“Standing cell,” 278

Stankin, 145

Starobelsk camp, 447

Starostin brothers, 271 Stasiuk, Nicholas, 259

Stasova, Elena, 69, 73

State Planning Commission (Gosplan), 71

State Security Committee, 34

“Steam room,” 278

Stetsky, A. I., 239–40, 420

Stickling, 142

Stigga, O. (Divisional Commander), 213

Stolbunsky, Ya. I. 478

Stolypin, P. A., 39n

“Stolypin trucks,” 311

Stomonyakov, V. S., 424

Stroilov, M. S., 155, 165

Struppe, P. I., 218

Stypulkowski, Z., 125

Sugak, A. G., 482

Sukhanov, N. N., 60

Sukhanovka prison, 269

Sukhomlin, K. V., 436

Sukhorukov (Colonel), 425

Sulimov, D. E., 239–40

Sunspots, 295, 445

Surits, Ya. Z., 57, 202n

Surkov, A., 306

Susskind, Heinrich, 401

Suzdal isolator, 26, 268

Svanidze, Alyosha, 68

Svanidze, Ekaterina, 58

Svechin, A. A., 213

Sverdlov, Y. M., 45, 367

Sverdlovsk, 287, 304

Swianiewicz (professor), 337

Sychev, I. I., 207

Sylakov plot, 254

Symons, Julian, 467

Syrtsov, Sergei, 23, 120, 129, 145, 428, 480

Tabidze, Titsian, 301–2, 303

Tadzhikistan, 357, 359

Taganka prison, 269

Tager, Elena, 303

Tairov, 423

Tambov province, 440

Taney, V., 404

Tarasov-Rodionov, A. I., 297