Kursk, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
beginning of German offensive (July 1943), 1
Communist Party’s emergency meeting (22 June 1941), 1
demobilization in, 1, 2
described, 1
falls to advancing German army (1941), 1, 2
local population given tasks, 1
Old Kursk almost totally destroyed, 1
a real victory for Moscow and its allies, 1
Red Square, 1, 2
retaken by Red Army (February 1943), 1, 2, 3
the Russian military plan, 1
soldiers’ loot in, 1
veterans, 1, 2
Zhukov’s assessment of planned German offensive, 1
Kursk, Battle of, 1, 2
Kursk province, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Kustrin, 1
Kutuzov, Mikhail, 1, 2
Kuyani, 1
Kuznetsov, Orest, 1, 2
labour battalions, 1
Lake Ladoga, 1, 2
Latvia, 1, 2
Latvians, 1
laundrywomen, 1, 2
Lebedev-Kumach, Vasily, 1, 2, 3
Leipzig, 1
lend-lease programme, 1, 2
Lenin, Vladimir Il’ich, 1, 2, 3, 4
Bolshevik coup, 1, 2
class war, 1
mass reproduction of his image, 1
‘State and Revolution’, 1
Leningrad, 1, 2, 3
blockade, 1, 2
final relief of, 1
hospitals in, 1
siege lifted, 1
under siege, 1, 2, 3
Leningrad Front, 1
Leningrad military district, 1
Levitan, Yury, 1
‘Liberation Armies’, 1
Lipetsk, 1
Liskow, Alfred, 1
Lithuania, 1, 2, 3
Lithuanians, 1
Livadiya, 1
looting, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Lublin, 1, 2
Luftwaffe
bombs Soviet aircraft, 1
bombs strategic Russian cities, 1, 2
control of front-line regions, 1
and the defenders of Stalingrad, 1
Lvov, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Lyakhov, Lev Lvovich, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Lyubyanka, Moscow, 1
Maglakelidze, Shalva, 1
Maidanek extermination camp, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Maikop, 1
Makarov (battalion commander), 1
Makela, Finland, 1
Maloarkhangelsk, 1, 2
Malyshkin, Major-General, 1
Manchuria, 1, 2
Mannerheim Line, 1
Martel, Lieutenant-General, 1
Marx, Karl, 1, 2, 3
Marxism-Leninism, 1, 2, 3, 4
mass-production methods, 1
mat (profane army language), 1
medical orderlies, 1
Mekhlis, Lev, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Memorial human rights association, 1
mental illness, 1, 2, 3
Mexico, 1
Mga, 1
Mglin, 1
Mikhailovna, Valeriya, 1
Mikoyan, Anastas, 1, 2
Mikoyan, Sergo, 1
military training, 1
accommodation crisis, 1
banyas, 1
combat training, 1
communal facilities, 1
crime, 1
food, 1
ideological training, 1, 2
military stores, 1
officers, 1, 2
politruks, 1, 2
uniforms, 1, 2
Mingrelians, 1
Minin, Kuzma, 1
Ministry of Defence, 1, 2
Minsk, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
recaptured (July 1944), 1, 2, 3, 4
Model, Walter, 1, 2
Mogilev, 1, 2
Molotov, Vyachaslav, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Molotov cocktails, 1, 2, 3
Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1
Moscow, 1, 2
battles around, 1
demobilization, 1
end of war with Germany announced, 1
German advance on, 1, 2, 3
Hitler’s orders, 1
militia gangs, 1
opolchenie (citizens’ defence), 1, 2, 3, 4
‘Panfilov men’, 1
recruitment, 1, 2, 3
Red Square, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
told of German attack on Russia, 1
Moscow province, 1
Moscow University, 1, 2, 3
Moskvin, Nikolai, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Mozhaisk highway, Moscow, 1
murder squads, 1
Museum of the Great Patriotic War, 1
Museum of the Revolution, Moscow, 1
Mussolini, Benito, 1
mutism, 1
myths
hero, 1
nationalist, 1
patriotic, 1, 2
wartime, 1, 2
Nagasaki, 1
Nagy-Kallo mental hospital, 1
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
nationalism, 1, 2, 3, 4
natsmen, 1
Nazi–Soviet pact (August, 1939), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Neidenburg, 1, 2
Nemanov, Ilya Natanovich, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Nevsky, Alexander, 1
New York, 1
newspapers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, 1, 2
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1
NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs; previously Cheka), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
border troops, 1, 2, 3
and conscripts, 1
Crimean Tatars exiled to central Asia, 1
detention of military personnel, 1
escape from Sevastopol, 1
firing squads, 1, 2
and gassings, 1
prison camps, 1
Pushkarev’s collection, 1
records of anti-Semitism, 1
on Sachsenhausen, 1
search for deserters, 1
special troops, 1
tone of their reports, 1
‘uncensored songs’, 1
used for evacuating citizens, 1
Novgorod, 1
Novocherkassk, 1, 2
Nuremburg Trials, 1
obezlichka (buck-passing), 1
Oboyan, 1, 2
October Revolution anniversary (7 November), 1
‘Oh, the Long Road’, 1
Oka river, 1
Oktyabrskaya, Mariya, 1
Omsk, 1
Omskaya Pravda, 1
Operation Bagration, 1, 2
five separate, co-ordinated strikes, 1
Minsk recaptured, 1, 2, 3
momentum exhausted by October 1944, 1
one of the war’s largest military campaigns, 1
planning, 1, 2
Operation Barbarossa, 1, 2, 3
Operation Overlord, 1
Operation Uranus, 1
opolchenie (citizens’ defence), 1, 2, 3, 4
Orange Revolution (January 2005), 1
Oranienburg, 1
Order no. 1, 2, 3
Order no. 1, 2
Orel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Orthodox Church, 1, 2
Oskol, Staryi, 1
OSMBON (Motorized Infantry Brigade of the NKVD Special Forces), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Osoaviakhim (Society for Air and Chemical Defence), 1, 2, 3
Overy, Richard, 1, 2
‘Panfilov men’, 1
parachute clubs, 1, 2
Park of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Pokhlonnaya Hill, Moscow, 1
partiinost’ (party spirit), 1
partisans, 1, 2, 3, 4
partkom (party committee), 1
Pashin, P. L., 1
Passchendaele, Battle of, 1
patriotism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Paulus, General, 1, 2
Pavlov, Colonel-General D. G., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
peasant farming, 1
peasants
anger in Kursk region, 1
importance of land, stock and the next harvest, 1
the most resentful section of the population, 1
the peasant village, 1
in Red Army, 1, 2
penal battalions, 1
‘People’s Parties of Russia’, 1
Petrograd, 1
Petrov, Evgeny, 1
Podolsk, near Moscow, 1
poetry, 1
Poland, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
collectives in, 1
German and Soviet armies overrun, 1