Vyshinsky, Andrei, 34, 44, 74, 110, 136, 147–48, 151–61, 166, 199, 260, 280, 283–84, 286–87, 306, 431–32, 438, 477: character, 15; show trial role, 35; Yagoda cross-examination, 40; operative principle, 82; NKVD trial role, 90, 93–94, 98–103; confession method, 131; sabotage prosecution, 142; Pyatakov cross-examination, 151, 191; documentary proof remark, 163; purge of old Prosecutors, 180; Moscow purges, 235, 239; trial method, 287; Bukharin Trial, 343–89; Laski’s opinion of, 469–70; denunciation of, 477
Vyshnia, Ostap, 300–301
Vyshnevetsky, 325
Walecki, Henryk, 406
Wallace, Henry, 328–29
Wandurski, 406
Wang Ming, 403n
Warski, A. S., 405–6
Webb, Beatrice, 331–32, 467, 469
Webb, Sidney, 331–32, 467, 469
Weissberg, Alexander, 53, 124, 255, 267, 273–74, 278, 281, 293, 331, 433–34; 485; torture resistance, 128–29; labor camp testimony, 472–73
Wells, H. G., 59
Western opinion, 463–76, 486–87
Western Ukraine Communist Party, 400
“White Guards,” 437: execution of, 45–46; NKVD announcement, 47
White Sea Canal camps, 50
Wilson, Edmund, 466
“Wives of enemies of the people,” 273–74, 315–16
Wolf, Erwin, 415
Women: and Stalin, 68–69; in labor camps, 314–16, 327–28
Work rates, camps, 336
Workers Opposition, 5–6
“Workers’ Truth” group, 6
World War II, 450–57
Writers, 297–300
Writers, International Congress of, 464
Yagoda, Genrikh, 46, 50, 58, 81, 194, 237, 366–67: NKVD role, 34; Kirov murder, 38–44, 50; blackmail by Stalin, 39; court testimony, 40; Kuibyshev’s death, 72; NKVD trial role, 81–83, 89, 92; Gorky murder accusation, 86; Stalin’s attack on, 137–39, 176; resistance to Purge, 138; Yezhov’s attack on, 180; at Bukharin Trial, 341–43, 348, 354; and “medical murders,” 375–89; dramatic testimony at trial, 377–79, 381–83; attempt to kill Yezhov, 380; last plea, 393
Yakir, I. E. (Army Commander), 173, 183, 185, 187–88, 192, 193–94, 196, 199, 203, 205, 212, 230, 231, 232, 237, 347: military career, 183; meeting with Shmidt, 192; arrest of, 200–1; confession, 201; and Khrushchev, 203–4; fate of family, 204; letter to Voroshilov, 204
Yakir, Peter, 485
Yakovlev (professor), 96
Yakovlev, Ya. A., 223–24, 239–40, 347, 420–21
Yakovleva, Varvara, 372–74
Yanata, A., 296
Yanovsky, 231–32
Yanson, M. M., 240
Yaroslavl isolator, 267–68
Yashvili, Pavel D., 301
Yegorov (Marshal), 183n, 184–86, 193, 212, 435, 479
Yelin, 80
Yenukidze, Abel, 38, 77, 194, 200, 305, 368, 381, 397: Kirov murder role, 39, 71; self-denunciation, 71; “attempt” on Stalin’s life, 76; expulsion of, 77; execution, 245–46; rehabilitation, 479
Yepanechnikov, 219
Yertsevo camp, 320
Yesenin, Sergei A., 301
Yevlev, B. I., 343
Yezhov, Nikolai, 75–76, 78, 127, 144–46, 148, 165, 168, 170, 176, 177, 188, 194, 200, 202–4, 244–45, 287: ruthlessness, 14–15, Purge Commission role, 34; blame for Purge, 63; appointment of, 73–74; report on Yenukidze, 77; NKVD trial role, 81, 83, 87, 92; interrogation manual, 126; confrontation with Ordzhonikidze, 167; at Ordzhonikidze’s funeral, 172; and February-March plenum, 173–74; attack on Bukharin, 174; purge of NKVD, 179–80; Moscow purges, 234–36, 239, 248; election to Politburo, 243; hatred of, 256; on NKVD “Troikas,” 286; at Bukharin Trial, 343; attempt on life by Yagoda, 380; Stalin’s distrust of, 421–23; clash with Kaganovich, 422; accused of plotting with Kosarev, 427; fall of, 431–35
“Yezhov method,” 126, 278
“Yezhovschchina,” 63, 145, 248, 265, 441
Yiddish writers, 462
Yoganson, M. G., 303
Young Communist Central Committee, 427
Yugoslav Communist Party, 404
Yurenev, K., 360, 423
Yushkevich, A. K., 429
Zabolotsky, Nikolay, 267, 303–4, 305
Zakharchenko, 200
Zakovsky, L. M., 81, 215–18, 341, 435
Zaks-Gladnev, S. M., 76, 291
Zalpeter, A. K., 274
Zalutsky, P. A., 47, 49, 147
Zalynsky, 481n
Zamyatin, Y. I., 86, 300
Zaporozhets, Ivan, 38, 245: Kirov murder, 39–41; 44, 49–51; sentencing of, 49–50
Zatonsky, V. P., 231–33, 243, 348
Zborowski, Mark, 415
Zeidel, G. S., 101, 291
Zelenin, V., 384
Zelensky, Isaak, 256, 342, 347, 361–64, 390, 394–95, 464–65, 479
Zemlyachka, R. S., 69
Zerov, Mykola, 303
Zhdanov, Andrei, 33, 41, 73, 90, 222, 236, 244, 293, 387, 434, 439, 451: educational system role, 13–14; Kirov’s replacement on Leningrad Committee, 47; alleged assassination attempt on, 100; at February-March plenum, 173, 175; Leningrad Party purge, 214–18; and Lysenko, 297; Central Committee group, 438
Zhelayev, N. S., 306
Zhitomir prison, 264–65
Zhukov (General), 452–53
Zhukov, Evgeni, 461
Zhuravliev, V. R., 438
Zilliacus, Konni, 473
Zinoviev, Grigori E., 61, 76, 115, 117, 127, 129, 165–66, 480: political history, 9–10; and Ryutin, 26; expulsion from Party, 26; confession of, 30, 48–49, 95–96, 109, 115–16, 130–31; at XVIIth Party Congress, 31; Kirov murder, 38, 43–50; arrest of, 46–47; sentencing, 49; alleged plot of, 83–85; surrender of, 87–91; trial and testimony, 95–96; last plea, 103–4; execution, 104; fate of relatives, 105; credibility of evidence against, 105–8; repentance, 109; Party loyalty, 115–16
Zionists, 475
Zipalov, V D., 386
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 305
Zubarev, P. T., 342,
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