Sokolniki district, Moscow, 1
soldiers’ choirs, 1
Somme, Battle of the, 1
songs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘sons of the regiment’, adoption of, 1
South-Western Front, 1, 2
Southern Front, 1
Soviet air force, 1, 2, 3
Soviet armed forces: total number mobilized since 1939, 1
Soviet communism
claims credit for spirit that emerged at Stalingrad, 1
collapse of, 1, 2, 3
confidence in, 1
and the Museum of the Revolution, 1
the party features as guide and teacher of the masses, 1
secret resolution on soldiers’ families, 1
sense of duty to the party, 1
the sole political outlook, 1
Soviets speak only of success, 1
Soviet Mongolia, 1
Soviet propaganda, 1
Soviet Union
attitudes to women, 1
barter economy, 1
collapse of, 1, 2
economic growth, 1, 2
five-year plans, 1, 2, 3
as Hitler’s ally in, 1939, 1
Katyn Massacre, 1, 2, 3, 4
largest engineering industry in Europe, 1
and monetary cost of the war, 1
revival of manufacturing, 1
secures a pre-eminent place in world affairs, 1
Soviet members of minority ethnic groups deported, 1
statistics of Soviet lives lost, 1
victory over fascism, 1
and Warsaw Uprising, 1
Sovinformburo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Sozh river, 1
Spanish civil war (1936), 1, 2
Spassky Gates, Moscow, 1
Special Forces’ radio headquarters, Moscow, 1
Special Section, 1, 2, 3, 4
SS, 1
‘Adolf Hitler Guards’, 1
advance on Moscow, 1, 2
at Maidanek, 1
in Berlin, 1
‘Death’s Head’ units, 1
and German offensive on Kursk, 1, 2
German soldiers attitude to, 1
Stalin, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
attitude to Poland, 1
authorizes camps for special prisoners, 1
and Belarus, 1
in Baku, as ‘Koba’, 1
carrot and stick of the dictatorship, 1
congratulates the troops, 1
ethnic cleansing, 1, 2
and German offensive at Kursk, 1
god-like status, 1, 2
ignorance about, 1
ignores warning of German invasion, 1
important speech after German attacks (3 July 1941), 1
Khrushchev’s denunciation of him, 1
in Lvov, 1
mass reproduction of his image, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Order no. 1, 2, 3
Order no. 1, 2
policy on unity and brotherhood, 1
at Potsdam conference, 1
presents from comrades worldwide, 1
purge of political and military élite, 1
and purge trials, 1
on the Red Army, 1, 2
reluctant to share credit for the victory, 1
reparations issue, 1
revises his rhetoric regarding the motherland, 1
role assumes greater prominence, 1
in secret revolutionary group at Baku, 1
sixtieth birthday (1939), 1, 2
speech of 1 May 1944, 1
speech of 6 November 1943, 1, 2
speech of 7 November 1942, 1
‘Stalin’s order’ demands restraint in Berlin, 1
as a totem, 1
tries to secure the Soviet Far East, 1
victims of, 1
vigilance warning, 1
western empire, 1
Stalin, Vasily, 1
Stalingrad, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
carpet-bombing, 1
casualties, 1, 2, 3
conditions in, 1, 2, 3
delight at Russian victory, 1
described, 1
enemy not permanently broken by the victory, 1
German rout at, 1, 2, 3, 4
low military discipline, 1
militia gangs, 1
mythical significance, 1
oath, 1
Red Army’s endurance at, 1
refugees from, 1
ruins as the icon of Red Army stoicism, 1
shooting of deserters and cowards, 1
a victory for Moscow and its allies, 1
Stalingrad Front, 1
Stalinism, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Starobel’sk, 1
starvation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
State Defence Committee, 1
Steinbeck, John, 1
Steppe Front, 1
stress, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sunday Times, 1
Supreme Soviet, 1
Suvorov, Alexander, 1
syphilis, 1, 2
taboo subjects, 1, 2
Tallinn, Estonia, 1, 2, 3, 4
Taman peninsula, 1
Tamurlane, 1
‘tank fright’, 1, 2
Tank Men, The (film), 1
tanks, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Taranichev, Kolya, 1, 2
Taranichev, Vitaly, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Taranicheva, Natalya (Natasha), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Tarnopol, 1
Tatars, 1, 2, 3
Taylorism, 1
Teltow Canal, 1
Temkin, Gabriel, 1, 2, 3, 4
Texel island, 1
‘Thieving Army, The’ (Red Army theatrical review), 1
Third Reich
collapse of, 1
reparations issue, 1
slave labour in, 1, 2
Tiergarten, Berlin, 1, 2
Timoshenko, Commissar Semen Konstantinovich, 1, 2
tobacco, 1, 2
Todleben, Eduard Ivanovich, 1
Tolstoy, Count Leo, 1
War and Peace, 1
torture, 1, 2
training camps
craze for, 1
Osoaviakhim, 1
trauma, 1
trophies, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Truman, Harry, 1
Tsarist armies, 1
Tsaritsa river, 1
tuberculosis, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tukhachevsky, Mikhail Nikolaevich, 1, 2
Tula, 1, 2
Tulebaev, Ibrai, 1
Tunisia, 1
Turkestan, 1, 2
Turkestan legion, 1
Turks, 1
Tvardovsky, Aleksandr, 1
‘Vasily Tyorkin’, 1
Tver, 1
typhus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Ukraine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
almost entirely in Soviet hands by end of 1943, 1
American planes based in, 1
attitude to the Jews, 1
citizens barred from membership of new tank crews, 1
collectives in, 1
deaths under Nazi occupation, 1, 2
described, 1
equipment shortages, 1
evacuees from, 1
guerrilla warfare, 1
June in, 1
‘Liberation Armies’, 1
most in German hands, 1
nationalism, 1
nemesis of Stalinist regime in, 1
Orange Revolution (January 2005), 1
prison camps, 1
recruitment from, 1
Russian retreat in, 1
starvation in, 1
Ukrainian captives, 1
Ukrainian Front, first, 1
Ukrainian Front, second, 1
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), 1
‘Ukrainian legion’, 1
Ukrainians, 1, 2
blamed for defeats, 1
and memorials at Kiev and Sapun ridge, 1
second largest nationality in Soviet armed forces, 1
Uman, 1
United States
American troops friendly with Red Army men in Germany, 1
bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1
economic depression, 1
lend-lease, 1, 2
Unter den Linden, Berlin, 1
Upper Inkerman lighthouse, Sevastopol, 1
Urals, 1, 2
US Department of the Army: ‘Russian Combat Methods in World War II’, 1
US intelligence service, 1
Uzbeks, 1
Valuiki, 1
Vasilevich, Ivan, 1
Vasilevsky, Aleksandr, 1
Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich, 1
venereal disease, 1, 2, 3
Verdun, Battle of, 1
Vietnam War, 1
Viipuri (now Vyborg), Finland, 1
Viktorov, Anatoly, 1
Vilnius, Lithuania, 1, 2