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
