Nuremberg Tribunal (1946), 92, 449
Obremov (professor), 294, 331
Odessa, 253
OGPU, 375–76; Ryutin case, 24–25; founding of, 34.
Okhotsk Sea, 326
Okudzhava, M., 101, 225
Okulicki (General), 457–58
Okunev (Army Commissar), 213
Olberg, P., 80
Olberg, Valentin, 80, 107, 164: plot against Stalin, 80–81, 83; trial and testimony of, 98; fate of wife, 105
Old Bolsheviks, 12: confessions, 71–108; Stalin’s attitude to, 225
Old Bolsheviks, Society of, 76–77
Olesha, Yuri, 300
Olminsky, Mikhail S., 45
Orakhelashvili, M., 77, 245, 246
Order of the Red Banner, 59
Ordzhonikidze, “Sergo,” 90–91, 128–29, 139, 145–46, 156, 159, 176, 237, 420: Stalin’s follower, 12–13; and Ryutin, 24–25; alleged assassination attempt, 100; dependence on Pyatakov, 140; remarks on Yezhov, 145; “suicide,” 167–73; double-cross by Stalin on Pyatakov, 167–68; harassment of, 168–69; fate of relatives, 172–73
Orlov (Admiral), 50, 107, 127, 193, 210–11, 213
Orlov, A., 410
Orwell, George, 409
Osadchy (professor), 71
Osepyan, G. A., 207
Ossinsky, V. V., 372–74
Ostachkov camp, 447
Ostrovsky, M., 425
Ovakimian, Gaik, 417
Ozarovsky, 211
Ozeryansky, 188
Ozolin, K. A. (Corps Commissar), 213
Pacific Fleet, 211
Papanin, Ivan D., 396
Pares, Sir Bernard, 470
Parshin, P. I. 129
Pashukanis, E., 180
Pasternak, Boris, 63, 67, 250–52, 256, 258, 301, 304–5, 315–16, 457, 464
Pauker, Anna, 404
Pauker, K. V, 46, 50, 58, 146, 179–80: character of, 82
Pauker, Marcel, 404
Pavlov, D. G. (General), 454
Pavlov, Ivan, 66, 79, 127
Pavlov, K. A., 325
Pax, Magdalene, 464
Peace of Brest-Litovsk, 16, 372
Pechora camps, 315, 323, 329–30
Pegov, N. M., 438
Peluso, Edmondo, 403
Penkovsky case, 478
Pepper, John, 403
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Personality cult, 447, 460, 476–77, 482
Pervouralsk jail, 264
Pervukhin, M. G., 438
Peshkov, Maxim, 375–78, 381–83, 388–89
Peshkova, Ekaterina, 389
Peterson, A. A., 76, 368
Petkov, Nikola, 458
Petrovsky, A. N., 218
Petrovsky, Grigori, 69, 77, 111, 174, 227–30, 232, 244, 245, 247: Stalin’s follower, 12; purge of, 436–37
Petrovsky, L. G., 436–37, 439
Philatelists, 271
Piecework system, 21
Pieck, Wilhelm, 403n
Pikel, Richard, 84–85, 88, 95, 109, 190
Pilnyak, Boris, 86, 298–300, 305
“Pioneers,” 465
Piontkovsky, A. A., 291
Pletnev, D., 342, 375–76, 383–88, 393–95, 456
Pogány, Jozsef, 403
Pogodin, Nikolai F., 451
Polish Communists, 405–7
Polish intelligence services, 270
Polish population in Russia, 405–6
Polish prisoners of war, 447–50
Politburo, 46: Ryutin case, 24; and Stalin, 33, 35; Code of Terror approval, 41–42; moderates in, 71; opposition to Purge, 71, 135–36; and NKVD secret trial, 90; purge of, 236–38, 242–49, 438–39; trial of members of, 342; losses in, 438–39
Polivanov, E. D., 297
Poltava, 253
Ponomarenko, P., 438
Ponomarev, Boris, 214
Popkov, P. S., 218, 438
Poplawski, S. G., 259
Popov, M. M., 230–32, 404
Popular Front, 464
Porayko, V. I., 303, 347
Poskrebyshev, A. N., 64, 438: Stalin’s secretary, 15; “Special Sector” role, 34; Ordzhonikidze’s death, 170–71
Pospelov, Peter, 479–80
Postyshev, Pavel, 90, 135, 172, 174, 178–79, 219, 228, 230–31, 243–45, 248, 301, 426, 435: character of, 34; political history, 144; Stalin moves against, 144–45, 147; indirect attacks on, 175; objection to Purge, 176, 244; purge of, 246–47, 419; fate of family, 436; rehabilitation, 479
Potmalag complex, 205, 315
POUM, 409–11
Powers, Gary, 478
Pozern, Boris, 217–18, 435
Preobrazhensky, E., 11, 31, 166, 480: as Trotskyite, 8; resistance of, 120
Prezent, I. I., 297
Priests, 273, 317
Prigozhin, 291
Prikhodko, 426
Primakov (Corps Commander), 182, 190, 194: arrest, 190; confession, 194, 202
“Prison of Special Designation,” 311
Prisoners of war, 447–50
Prisons: conditions in, 264–70; inmate statistics, 485–86
Pritt, D. N., 107, 467
Prokofiev, G. E., 139, 180, 287
Prosecutor-Generalship of the USSR, 34
Prosecutors, Yezhov’s purge of, 180–81
Prosecutor’s Office, 82
Pryanishnikov, D. N., 296
Prygov, S. L., 446
Przhevalsky, I. M., 55
Ptukhin (General), 454
Pul’kovo Observatory, 295
Pumpur, P., 429
Punitive camps, 337
Purge Commission, 26
Pushin, G. E., 143
Putna, Vitovt (Corps Commander), 101, 153, 183–84, 190–91, 194, 202
Pyatakov, Yuri, 33, 98–99, 128–29, 137, 139, 142, 162, 202, 243, 425, 466, 468, 480–81: as Trotskyite, 8; capitulation to Party, 17; speech at XVIIth Party Congress, 31; show trial role, 34; NKVD trial role, 98–99, 101–2; Party loyalty, 112–14, 118–19; importance of, 140; Stalin’s attack on, 140–41; repentance, 141; confession, 141, 145–46, 150–52; trial of, 147–67; alleged meeting with Trotsky, 151–52; last plea, 164; Party’s attitude toward, 166; Ordzhonikidze’s loyalty toward, 167–68
Pyatnitsky, I. A., 237–38, 400, 407, 420–21
Radek, Karl, 6, 79, 96, 110, 128–29, 147, 149, 165–66, 405, 470: as Trotskyite, 8–9; capitulation to Party, 17; on Stalin, 30–31; reception at XVIIth Party Congress, 31; NKVD trial testimony about, 101–2; Stalin’s attack on, 137, 140; collaboration of, 145–46; at Pyatakov Trial, 148; last plea, 164–65; fate of daughter, 165; and Army officers, 191
Radomislskaya, F. A., 105
