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by Vasily Grossman

Albrecht, Karl: Der verratene Sozialismus (i)and n

  alcohol, consumption of (in Red Army) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Almaz, Nadezhda (i), (ii)

  Alter, Viktor (i)

  Americans see United States of America

  Andreevna, Sofya (i)

  Andryushenko, Vanya (i)

  Anokhin (soldier) (i)

  Antonescu, Marshal Ion (i)n, (ii), (iii)

  Antonov, General Aleksei I. (i), (ii)

  Arkanova, Tonya (i)

  Armia Krajowa (i)

  armies see German Army; Red Army

  Associated Press (i)

  Avakov, Commander (i)

  Babadzhanyan, General Arno: presumed dead by Grossman (i), (ii); meets Grossman (iii), (iv); and Katukov (v); commands XI Guards Tank Corps (vi); crushes Hungarian uprising (1956) (vii)

  Babi Yar, massacre of (i), (ii), (iii)

  Baklanov, General (i), (ii)

  Baklan, Captain (i)

  Balashov (pilot) (i)

  Baraban, Doctor (i)

  Baranov (pilot) (i)

  Barkovksy (soldier) (i)

  Baru (journalist) (i)

  Batov, General Pavel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Batrakov, Liaison Officer (i), (ii)

  Baturin (i)

  Batyuk, General Nikolai (i), (ii), and n, (iii), (iv), (v)

  Bazhan, Mykola Platonovich (i)

  Belev (i), (ii)

  Belgorod (i)

  Belgorod Axis (i), (ii)

  Belorussia (i)

  Belousov, Junior Lieutenant (i)

  Belov, General P.A. (i)

  Belugin (sniper) (i)

  Belyavtsev, Semyon (i)

  Belzec death camp (i)n

  Benash, Yura (i), (ii), (iii)

  Berdichev (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); massacre of Jews (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Beresina, River (i), (ii), (iii)

  Berezovka: massacre of Jews (i)

  Beria, Lavrenty xn, (i), (ii), (iii)n, (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Berlin (i), (ii), (iii)

  Berzarin, Colonel-General Nikolai Erastovich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Bezdidko (mortar man) (i)

  Biebow, Hans (i), (ii)

  Black Book, The (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Blank, Doctor (i)

  Bloch, Zelo (i)n

  Bobruisk (i), (ii)

  Bobryshev, Vasya (i)

  Bock, General Fedor von (i)

  Bogdanov, General (i)n

  Boginava, Lieutenant (i)

  Bokov, Lieutenant General (i)

  Bolvinov, Colonel (i)

  Borodina, Katya (i)

  Borodino (i), (ii)

  Borzna (i)

  Bratvich, Oberbürgermeister (i)

  Brovary (i)

  Bryansk (i), (ii)

  Bryansk forest (i), (ii)

  Brysin, Sergeant Ilya Mironovich (i)

  Budenny, Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich (i)

  Bug, River (i)

  Bugaev, Sergeant (i), (ii)

  Bukovksy, Kostya (journalist) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Bulatov (sniper) (i)

  Bulgakov, Mikhail (i)

  Burak (soldier) (i)

  Busch, Field Marshal Ernest (i)

  ‘campaign wives’ (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cassidy, Henry (i)

  Cathala, Jean (i)

  Chabannaya, Galya (i)

  Chapaev, Vassili Ivanovich (i)

  Chekhov, Anatoly Ivanovich (i), (ii), (iii)

  Chekhov, Anton (i), (ii)

  Chelyabinsk (i)

  Chermakov, Lieutenant (i), (ii)

  Chernigov (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Chernovitsy (i)

  Chernyakov (chairman of Warsaw community) (i)

  Chernyshev (politruk) (i)

  Chevola, Aleksandr (i)

  Chevola, Matryona (i)

  Chevola, Mikhail (i)

  Chevola, Colonel Nikifor Dmitrievich (i), (ii)

  Chevola, Pavel (i)

  Chiang Kai-shek (i)

  Chikurin, Commissar (i)

  Chistopol (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Chuikov, General Vasily Ivanovich (i), (ii)n; commands 62nd Army at Stalingrad (iii), (iv); and ‘Stalingrad Academy of Street-Fighting’ (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)n; and German bombardment (ix), (x); awaits freezing of the Volga (xi); bitterness and resentment (xii), (xiii); advances on Lublin (xiv), and Warsaw (xv); seizes ód (xvi); ordered to reduce Pozna (xvii); criticises Zhukov (xviii); attacks Berlin (xix)

  Chunyak, Khristya (i)

  Churelko, Lieutenant (i)

  Communist Party (i), (ii), (iii)n, (iv), (v), (vi); Belorussian (vii); see also Komsomol

  concerts, troop (i), (ii), (iii)

  Davydov (soldier) (i)

  Dedyulya (soldier) (i)

  Deiga (soldier) (i)

  Demidov (pilot) (i)

  deserters, Red Army (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Desna, River (i)

  Dietrich, SS General Sepp (i)

  Dnepr, River (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  dogs, army (i)

  Dolenko, Dr (i)

  Domanevka: massacre of Jews (i)

  Don, River (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Donbass, the (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Insulted and the Injured (i)

  Dovator, Major-General L.M. (i)

  Drozd, Lieutenant (i)

  Dubovka (i), (ii), (iii)

  Dubovy, Sergeant (i), (ii)

  Dubrova (i)

  Dudnikov (soldier) (i)

  Dugovaya (i)

  Duvanksy (soldier) (i)

  Dyatlenko (chief of staff) (i)

  Dzerzhinsky, Feliks (i)

  Eberl, Obersturmführer Imfried (i)n

  Efimov, General (i)

  Ehrenburg, Ilya (i), (ii); as correspondent for Krasnaya Zvezda (iii); on Grossman (iv), (v), (vi); on Stalin’s dislike of Grossman (vii), (viii), (ix), (x); admires Grossman’s writing (xi); critical of Ortenberg’s treatment of him (xii); wins Stalin Prize (xiii); and anti-Semitism (xiv); works for Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx)

  Eichhorn, Field Marshal Hermann von (i)

  Einikeit (journal) (i)

  Einstein, Albert (i), (ii)

  Elchaninov, Lieutenant-Colonel (i), (ii)

  Elista (i), (ii)

  Elyna (i)n

  Enemy at the Gates (film) (i)

  Epelfeld (electrician) (i)

  Eretik (Komsomol secretary) (i)

  Erlich, Henryk (i)

  Eryomin, Boris Nikolayevich (i), (ii)

  Evdokimov, Lieutenant (i)

  Evseev (soldier) (i)

  Evsteev (soldier) (i)

  Evtikhov (soldier) (i)

  Eziev, Captain (i), (ii)

  famine (i), (ii)

  Fatyanov, Major Ivan Sidorovich (i)

  Feldman, Doctor (i)

  Frantsevna, Klara (i), (ii)

  Franz, Kurt (i)n, (ii), (iii)

  Gabrilovich (journalist) (i)

  Gaidar, Arkady (i)

  Galin (i)

  Galitsky, Yakov: ‘Little Blue Shawl’ (i)n, (ii)

  Ganakovich (soldier) (i)

  Garan, Major (i)

  Gastello, Nikolai (i)and n

  Gaulle, Charles de (i)

  Gekhman, Efim (i), (ii), (iii)

  German, Lieutenant Colonel (i), (ii)

  German Army

  Army Groups

  Army Group A (i)

  Army Group Centre (i), (ii)

  Army Group South (i)

  Armies

  1st Panzer Group (i), (ii)

  2nd Panzer Group (later 2nd Panzer Army) (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  1st Panzer Army (i), (ii)

  2nd Panzer Army see 2nd Panzer Group

  4th Panzer Army (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  2nd Army (i)

  Sixth Army (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); at Stalingrad (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)n, (xiv), (xv); encircled by Red Army
(xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), at Odessa (xx), (xxi)

  8th Army (i)

  Seventeenth Army (i)

  Corps

  XXXV Army Corps (i)

  XIV Panzer Corps (i), (ii), (iii)

  XXIV Panzer Corps (i), (ii)

  LVI Panzer Corps (i)n

  Infantry divisions

  6th (i)n

  71st (i)

  295th (i), (ii)

  383rd (i)

  Panzer divisions

  1st (i)

  3rd (i), (ii)

  4th (i)

  9th (i)

  10th (i)

  14th (i)

  16th (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  17th (i), (ii)

  20th (i)

  116th (i)n

  16th Panzergrenadier (i), and n Grossdeutschland Panzergrenadier (ii)

  Gertler (in ód ghetto) (i)

  Giterman, Girsh (i)

  GLAVPUR (i), (ii), (iii)

  GLAVPURRKA (i)

  Glukhov (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Glushakov (soldier) (i)

  Glyanko (politruk) (i)

  Goebbels, Joseph (i), (ii)

  Goebbels, Magda (i)

  Goering, Hermann (i), (ii)

  Golfman (battery commander) (i)

  Golyaperov (soldier) (i)

  Gomel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Gomell, Major-General Ernst (i)

  Gorbatov, General (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gordov, General Vasily Nikolayevich (i)

  Gorelik, Lieutenant Colonel (i), (ii)

  Gorelov, Colonel (i), (ii)

  Gorishny, Lieutenant General Vasily A. (i)

  Gorky, Maksim (i), (ii)

  Gorokhov, Colonel S.F. (i), (ii), (iii)

  GPU (i)n

  Great Terror (i), (ii)n, (iii)n, (iv)

  Greiser, Arthur (i)

  Gromov (soldier) (i)

  Grossman, Anna Petrovna Matsuk (‘Galya’) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Grossman, Olga Mikhailovna (‘Lyusya’) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); Grossman’s letters to (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii)

  Grossman, Semyon (father) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), and n; Grossman’s letters to (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii)

  Grossman, Vasily Semyonovich: birth and early years (i); character and personality (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); at Moscow University (viii); marriage and birth of daughter (ix); works as mining engineer (x); publishes novels (xi); survives purges (xii), begins relationship with Olga Mikhailovna Guber (xiii); and his mother (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi); unfit for army (xxvii), (xxviii); employed by Krasnaya Zvezda (xxix), (xxx); trains for the front (xxxi), (xxxii); journeys to Gomel (xxxiii), (xxxiv), (xxxv); visits Aviation Fighter Regiment (xxxvi); at the front (xxxvii); at meeting of Belorussian Communist Party (xxxviii); and bombing of Gomel (xxxix); escapes to Orel (xl), (xli), (xlii); ordered back to the front (xliii), (xliv); attached to (xlv)th Army (xlvi), (xlvii); in the Ukraine (xlviii); and Major Babadzhanyan (xlix); avoids capture (l); at capture of Orel (li); escapes back to Moscow (lii), (liii), (liv); visits Tolstoy’s estate (lv); sent back to the front (lvi); visits father (lvii); begins The People Immortal (lviii), (lix), (see Works); on South-Western Front (lx), (lxi); at Svatovo airfield (lxii); with (lxiii)th Army (lxiv), (lxv); with Khasin Tank Brigade (lxvi), (lxvii), (lxviii); on leave to write novel (lxix), (lxx); ordered to Stalingrad (lxxi); visits Tolstoy’s grave again (lxxii); at Stalingrad (lxxiii), (lxxiv), (lxxv), (lxxvi), (lxxvii), (lxxviii), (lxxix), (lxxx), (lxxxi), (lxxxii), (lxxxiii), (lxxxiv), (lxxxv), (lxxxvi), (lxxxvii), (lxxxviii), (lxxxix); and death of stepson and nephew (xc), (xci); annoyed at editing of his articles (xcii), (xciii); delivers presents for Political Department (xciv); after Stalingrad (xcv), (xcvi), (xcvii), (xcviii); suffers from strain (xcix); sent to Kalmykia (c), (ci), (cii); discovers about the Holocaust (ciii), (civ); name deleted from Stalin Prize list (cv); in Ukraine (cvi), (cvii); rejoins Chuikov’s army (cviii); at battle of Kursk (cix), (cx), (cxi), (cxii), (cxiii), (cxiv); at liberation of Orel (cxv); and anti-Semitism (cxvi), (cxvii); joins Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (cxviii), (cxix), (cxx); and liberation of Ukraine (cxxi); hears of massacres of Jews (cxxii); and Berdichev massacre (cxxiii); advances with 3rd Ukrainian Front (cxxiv), (cxxv); disillusioned over Stalinism (cxxvi); in Odessa (cxxvii), (cxxviii); meets Babadzhanyan (cxxix), (cxxx); with General Batov’s (cxxxi)th Army (cxxxii), (cxxxiii), (cxxxiv); interviews German generals (cxxxv), (cxxxvi); and liberation of Poland (cxxxvii); rejoins General Chuikov (cxxxviii); visits Treblinka (cxxxix), (cxl); collapses from nervous exhaustion (cxli); rejoins 1st Belorussion Front (cxlii); enters Warsaw (cxliii); visits ghetto (cxliv); enters ód (cxlv); on behaviour of Red Army (cxlvi), (cxlvii), (cxlviii); with Chuikov’s army in Pozna (cxlix), (cl); advances towards Berlin (cli), (clii), (cliii), (cliv); reaches River Oder (clv); en route to Berlin (clvi), (clvii); in Berlin (clviii), (clix), (clx), (clxi); collapses again (clxii); and postwar anti-Semitism (clxiii), (clxiv); and publication of Life and Fate (clxv), (see Works); death (clxvi)

  Works

  ‘Accursed and Derided’ (i)

  ‘Axis of the Main Attack’ (i)

  For a Just Cause (i), (ii), (iii)

  Forever Flowing (i)

  Glück auf! (i)

  ‘The Hell Called Treblinka’ (i), (ii)

  If We are to Believe the Pythagoreans (i)

  ‘In the Enemy’s Bunker – On the Western Axis’ (i)

  ‘In the Town of Berdichev’ (i)

  ‘The Killing of Jews in Berdichev’ (i)

  Life and Fate (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)n, (xi), (xii)

  ‘Military Council’ (i)

  ‘Murder of the People’ (i)

  ‘The New Day’ (i)

  ‘On the Roads of the Advance’ (i)

  The People Immortal (i)n, (ii)n, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)

  ‘The Stalingrad Battle’ (i)

  ‘The Stalingrad Crossing’ (i)

  Stepan Kolchugin (i), (ii)

  ‘Today in Stalingrad’ (i)

  ‘Ukraine without Jews’ (i)

  The Years of War (i)

  Guadalajara, battle of (1937) (i)n

  Guber, Boris (i), (ii) Guber, Fyodor (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Guber, Misha (i), (ii), (iii)

  Guber, Olga see Grossman, Olga

  Guderian, General Heinz: successes with 2nd Panzer Group (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and nn, (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); XXIV Panzer Corps (ix); makes headquarters in Tolstoy’s estate (x); advances on Tula (xi); interrogated by Gestapo (xii)

  Gulyaev (soldier) (i)

  Gunt, Alvin (i)

  Gurov, General (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Gurtiev, General Stepan (i), (ii); at Stalingrad (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)n, (x); death (xi)

  Gusakovsky, Colonel I. I. (i), (ii)

  Gypsies (i)n, (ii)

  Hamann, Lieutenant General Adolf (i)

  Hauser, General Paul (i)

  Henrichson, Zhenni Genrikhovna (i), (ii); Grossman’s letter to (iii)

  Heyne, Lieutenant General Hans-Walter (i)

  Himmler, Heinrich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)n, (vi)

  Hitler, Adolf: and invasion of Soviet Union (i); rejects idea of Ukrainians in Wehrmacht uniform (ii); angry at German retreat (iii), (iv); addresses troops (v), (vi); and summer (1942) offensive (vii), (viii), (ix); puts pressure on Paulus (x), (xi); rumoured to have visited soldiers (xii); assassination attempt (xiii)n; and battle of Kursk (xiv), (xv)n, (xvi), (xvii); agrees to withdrawal (xviii); misled by Soviet strategy (xix); and Soviet advance (xx); enraged by evacuation of Warsaw (xxi); last birthday (xxii); suicide (xxiii); his office described by Grossman (xxiv)

  Holocaust (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); see Jewish
populations: massacres; Treblinka extermination camp

  Hoth, General Hermann (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hungarian uprising (1956) (i)n, (ii)

  Ignatiev (soldier) (i)

  Ilgachkin, Captain (i)

  Ilin, Deputy Battalion Commander (i), (ii)

  Ishkin (politruk) (i)

  Italian prisoners (i)

  Ivanov, Dmitry Yakovlevich (sniper) (i)

  Ivanov, General (i), (ii)

  Ivanov, Junior Sergeant (i)

  JAC see Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

  Japan (i)n; attack on Pearl Harbor (ii)

  Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Jewish populations (i); and anti-Semitism (ii)n, (iii)n, (iv), (v), (vi); massacres (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii); see also Treblinka extermination camp

  Jewish soldiers (i), (ii)

  Kalganova, Zoya (i), (ii)

  Kalinin (i), (ii)

  Kalinin (deputy chief of staff) (i)

  Kalisty (soldier) (i)

  Kalmykia (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Kaluga (i)

  Kamenka (i)

  Kanaev, Ivan Semyonovich (i)

  Kanysheva, Galya (i), (ii)

  Kapitonov (soldier) (i)

  Kapler, Aleksei (i)

  Kapustyansky (journalist) (i)

  Karpov, Vladimir (i)

  Katukov, Colonel-General M.I. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Kayukov (soldier) (i)

  Kazakov (soldier) (i)

  Kazary (i)

  Kazatin (i)

  Kerch (i)

  Ketselman (battery commander) (i)

  KGB (i)n, (ii)n, (iii)

  Khalikov (sniper) (i)

  Khamitsky (signals commander) (i), (ii)

  Kharkov (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); third battle of (v); fourth battle of (vi)

  Khasin, Colonel (i), (ii), (iii)

  Khasin Tank Brigade (i), (ii), (iii)

  Khitrov, Colonel Ivan (i)

  Khrennikov, Company Commander (i)

  Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Kiev (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); massacre of Jews (ix), (x), (xi)

  Kirov, Sergei (i)n

  Kirponos, General Mikhail (i)

  Kleist, Field Marshal Paul von (i), (ii), (iii)

  Klenovkin, Lieutenant (i)

  Klimenko (sapper) (i), (ii)

  Klinker, Abram (i), (ii)

  Klochko (horse driver) (i)

  Kloppfisch (in ód ghetto) (i)

  Knorring, Oleg (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Kobus, Maria (i)

  Kobus, Sofia (i)

  Kobus, Vladislava (i)

  ‘Koenig, Major’ (i)

  Kogan, Colonel (i)

  Kolaganov (commander of 3rd company) (i)

  Kolobovnikov, Lieutenant Colonel (i)

 

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