INDEX adoption, 121 arrest(s), 63 Afanas’ev, N. P., 187–89 arbitrary, 92 affairs, 16–17, 23, 123, 166–68, 172–74, army, 70, 206 185, 198, 200 from Central Committee, 72, 75, 77, 124, Agranov, Ia. S., 23, 45, 55–56, 60, 62, 68, 234n110 73, 84 from Communist Party, 37, 43, 75, 101, agriculture, 249n35 103, 105, 127, 130, 139–40, 146, 148, academy of, 16 151–52, 177–78, 205–6, 222n64, collectivization, 14 233n77 People’s Commissariats of, 13, 76, 146 competitions for number of, 92–93 saboteurs of, 76, 233n106 of Ezhov, 164, 181–82 albums, 136–37 mass, 79, 83, 85, 87, 89–91, 94–95, 99, Alekhin, M. S., 56, 68, 152 103–5, 137–38, 205–6, 237n46 Aleksandrovskii, M. K., 66, 67 of Mensheviks, 74–75 anarchists, 75 of military intelligence, 65–66 Andreev, Andrei, 26, 43photo, 72, 92, 100, new policy for, 156–57 108, 117, 140photo, 164, 175, 176 of NKVD officers, 61–62, 64–65, 78, 83– anti-intellectuals, 8, 202 84, 133, 135–36, 137, 144, 148, 152, Anvelt, Jan, 72 165–66, 168, 183–86, 192, 229n49, army 258n68 demobilized from, 8 political e´migre´s, foreign influences, 41– duty, 3, 5, 6–8 42, 94–95, 99, 101, 205–6, 237n46 purge of, 69–70, 75, 205 quotas of, 84–85, 89–91, 109, 131, 133, reprimand in, 7–8 135, 205–6 .......................... 9199$$ INDX 02-05-02 16:04:35 PS 264 Index of Rightists, 59 Bokii, G. I., 61, 64 small resistance of mass, 102 Bolsheviks, 6, 70, 105, 111, 125, 136, 195 of Socialist Revolutionaries (SR), 74 Bronkowski, B., 40 of Water Transportation, 152 Bukharin, N. I., 29–30, 39, 48, 49, 56, 57, articles, 13–14 75, 202, 204 Artuzov, A. Kh., 64, 66 arrest of, 59 assassinations, 102 inefficient evidence against, 51, 58 Austrin, R. I., 84 Bukharinists, 116, 117, 139, 142 Avtorkhanov, A., 102 Bulakh, P. F., 55, 86, 132, 135, 148, 154 Bulanov, P.P, 61, 62, 139, 228n40 Babel’, Isaak, 16, 123, 168, 185, 186, 189, Bulatov, D. A., 25 191 Bulganin, N. A., 175 Babulin, Anatolii (nephew), 123, 171, 172, Butovo, 182–83 182, 184, 186, 191 Babulin, Sergei (nephew), 122–23, 172 camps. See Gulag Babulin,Viktor (nephew), 2, 123, 177, 182, canal construction, 64, 65photo 184, 185, 186, 191 capitalists, 111, 116 Babulina, Liudmila (niece), 123 cartoon, hedgehog, 113, 115photo, 242n3 Bagirov, M. D., 152, 175 Center of Centers, 75–76 Balitskii, V. A., 64, 65 Central Committee, 12 Baranov, M. I., 111 arrests of, 72, 75, 77, 124, 234n110 Baryshnikov, Nikolai, 185 attendance of, 14, 217n73 Bashtakov,L. F., 189 elected to, 21, 179 Belen’kii, Z. M., 31 expulsions by, 34 believers, 80 Organization and Distribution Depart- Bel’skii, L. N., 113, 116, 124, 156 ment, 12 Bergavinov, S. A., 15 Plenum, 31, 32, 58, 59–60, 61, 75, 77–78, Beriia, L. P., 55, 69, 103, 108, 146, 157, 160, 79, 82, 92, 106, 124–26, 129, 134, 136, 167 149, 152, 234n110 NKVD appointment for, 149–52, 155–56, 158, 201, 249n35, 249nn49–50 political e´migre´s oversight/exiling and, 41 NKVD power for, 158, 160–61, secretary of, 25, 26, 54, 120, 203 162photo, 163–66, 168, 170–71, 174– against terror, 234n110. See also Orgrasp- 77, 184, 186, 187, 192–93, 202, 207 redotdel Berman, B. D., 131, 132, 152 Central Committee Department Berman, M. D., 80, 100, 113 of leading Party organizations, 157–58. See Berzin, E. P., 15 also TsIK Berzin, Ian, 66–67 Central Executive Committee, 31 biography (new) Tatar Republic, 8 archival investigation for, xi–xiii character, 2, 3, 5 biography (old) executioner, 20, 203–4, 208–9 exaggeration of, 6 nervous but well-meaning, 19–20 falsified, x, xii, 5 obstinate, 10 revolutionary romanticism of, 3 tough guy, 13 birth Chechens, 102 lying about, 1 Chekists, 42, 50, 55, 56, 62, 65–66, 86, 92, Blat, I. M., 84 113, 117, 132, 140, 142, 148, 151, 152, Bliukher, V. K., 145–46, 248n25 161, 175, 187, 192, 229n49, 249n50 Blokhin, V. M., 189 Chertok, I. I., 62 Boiarskii, Ia. I, 18, 184 Chervenkov, Vulko, x .......................... 9199$$ INDX 02-05-02 16:04:36 PS Index 265 children verification of Party (cards) documents in, in Great Terror, 97, 100, 189–90 27–29, 34–38, 43–44, 105 Chinese, 100 confession Choibalsan, Kh., 101 of Ezhov, 183–84 Chubar’, 72, 102, 140photo, 175 during tortured interrogations, xii. See also church, 85 interrogations class conspiracy erasing of borders in, 108 Ezhov, 155–56, 183, 184, 187, 204 class enemies. See counterrevolutionaries Iagoda, 61, 64, 135–36 clergy. See priests universal, 75–76, 78, 80, 139 collegia Constitution, USSR (1936), 106 Grand, 109 conversation special, 104, 240n96 glib in, 3, 5 Comintern Executive Committee, 40photo Cossacks, 6 election to, 40 counterrevolutionaries, 123 Great Terror and, 82, 85, 87, 106–7, political e´migre´s, 39–41, 42, 223n84 204–5 purge of, 72–73, 77, 101 NKVD purge of, 57, 100 Commissar-General of State Security, 59 Stalin, terror and, 29–30, 31–32, 46, 94, Commission for Foreign Travel, 21–22 105. See also Rightists; Socialist Revolu- Communist Party tionaries (SR); Trotskiists; Zinov’evists admissions to, 129 courts (judiciary), 104, 106, 148, 193 arrests from, 37, 43, 75, 101, 103, 105, reform of, 22. See also Military Collegium 127, 130, 139–40, 146, 148, 151–52, of the Supreme Court 177–78, 205–6, 222n64, 233n77 criminal gang, 2, 214n5, 215n22 discipline of, 129 criminals, 116, 193–94, 215n22 enemies (real) of, 27–28, 37, 44 execution of, 81, 82 eradication of competency in, 27–28, 37 Great Terror and, 82, 86–90, 106, 131–32, expulsions criticized within, 125–29, 134, 146 153, 206–7 investigation, facts against, 88 expulsions from, 37, 43–44, 125–27, 129, re-detained, 80–81, 87 130, 223n77 registering of, 82–83 Great Terror and, 100–103, 106, 128–29, 134 dachas, 120–21, 155, 166, 168, 182, 198 Great Terror and local, 92–93, 100–101 Dagin, I. Ia., 55, 56, 113, 121, 124, 137, 139, inner-Party opposition as crime in, 31 154–56, 164, 165, 168, 175, 176 local party verification operations in, 34– death sentence, x. See also executions 36, 38 defection moratorium on new members of, 21, 28, Liushkov, 143–147, 165 44 Orlov, 147 NKVD balance restored for, 129–30, Uspenskii disappearance, 163–64, 165 206–7 Defense Committee, 72 NKVD utilized by, 35–36, 38 Deich, Ia. I., 135 organizing of, 6 Dekanozov, V. G., 69, 150, 249n35 passivity of members of, 43–44 Dement’ev, Ivan, 170–71, 183, 184, 191, purges of, 21, 24–37, 27, 72–73, 80, 253n45 218n1, 219n2 Department of Leading Party Organizations. regional, 92–93, 100–101, 107 See ORPO spies in, 35, 36, 41 deportation, 99 unequal association with, 5–6 Deribas, T. D., 64, 65 .......................... 9199$$ INDX 02-05-02 16:04:36 PS 266 Index deserters, 7–8 method of, 109 de-Stalinization, xi of NKVD officers, 64, 68, 148, 151 Dimitrov, G., 43photo, 72, 101, 111, place of, 182–83 140photo executioners Distribution Department. See Raspredotdel burden on, x Dmitriev, D. M., 131, 133, 136, 148, 154 expulsions drinking, 18–19, 110, 121–22, 123–24, 133– appeals of, 43–44 34, 139, 150, 154–56, 166, 168, 171– from Communist Party, 37, 43–44, 125– 74, 177, 178, 187, 197–98, 200, 201, 27, 129, 130, 223n77 210 ezhevichka, x Dudorov, N. P., 158 Ezhov, Ivan (brother), 2, 121–22, 184, 191, Dukel’skii, Semen, 53, 54, 181 255n18 dvoikas, 93, 95, 97, 135, 240n96 Ezhov, Ivan (father), 1–2 Dzerzhinskii, F. E., 61 lying about, 1 Dzhambul, Dzhabaev, 117–20 Ezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich affairs and, 16–18, 23, 123, 171–74, 185, Eastern-Chinese Railway, 97 198 education army duty of, 3, 5, 6–8 apprentice, 2–3 arrest of, 164, 181–82 Marxism-Leninism, 12–13 Central Committee and, 2, 3, 5, 14, 21, 25, primary school, 2 26, 54, 120, 179, 203, 217n73 radical higher, 14, 198 character/psychology/description of, 9, 10, self, 2–3, 11–12, 198 13, 19–20, 195–96, 199–203, 208–9 Efimov, Boris, 113, 115, 115photo conspiracy alleged against, 155–56, 183, Efimov, Vasilii, 124, 184, 191 184, 187, 204 Egorov, Aleksandr, 127 divorce against Evgeniia by, 167 Eikhe, Robert I., 80, 91, 102, 107 drinking of, 18–19, 110, 121–22, 123–24, elderly 133–34, 139, 150, 154–56, 166, 168, shooting of, 85 171–74, 177, 178, 187, 197–98, 200, emergency degree on terrorism, 23 201, 210 e´migre´s, political, 39–41, 73, 76–77, 93– education of, 2–3, 11–14, 198 102, 223n84. See also foreign influences execution of, 188–89, 257n45 England, 183, 185, 187 as executioner/executor, 20, 203–4, 208–9 Enukidze, Avel’, 30 fall of, x–xi, 108, 121, 140, 154–55, 158, attack on, 31–33, 75, 204 160–61, 163–64, 164–65, 168, 170–71, execution of, 222n64 174–80, 181–84, 207 expulsion of, 34, 78 family life of, 16–17, 121–24 Esaulov, A. A., 183 hierarchical climb in power of, 202–4 Evdokimov, Efim G., 12, 55, 56, 142, 151, homosexuality/bisexuality of, 17–18, 123, 153–56, 160, 165, 177, 184, 186, 191 171–73, 183, 184, 191, 198, 224n109, execution(s), ix, x, 18, 19, 62, 64, 66, 67, 68, 256n39 70, 71, 77, 78, 103, 115, 123, 134, 139, illnesses of, 8, 9–10, 12, 15–16, 22–23, 36, 140, 146, 151, 190–91, 200, 222n64 44, 63, 155, 165, 174, 186, 196–97 approval of, 137 last public appearance of, 177 of Ezhov, 188–89, 257n45 name bestowed for, 117–18, 182, 243n14 fear and rush of NKVD, 147–48, 151 nonvindication of, 189–90 mass, 86, 87, 89, 90–91, 94, 99, 101, as People’s Commissar of Water Transpor- 103–4, 132, 138, 148, 165, 189, 205–6, tation, 140, 142, 153, 164, 177–78, 248n32 180–82, 199, 206, 207 .........................