A Writer at War

by Vasily Grossman

  Kolomeitsev, P.I. (i), (ii), (iii)

  Kolosov (soldier) (i), (ii)

  Komarev, Viktor (i)

  Komarichi (i)

  Komsomol (Communist Youth Movement) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Konev, Marshal Ivan (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Konkov, Guards Sergeant (i)

  Konstantinov, Commissar (i)

  Kopylova, Klava (i), (ii)

  Korol, B. (i)

  Korol (pilot) (i)

  Korol (Treblinka guard) (i)

  Koroteev (i)

  Korotkova-Grossman, Ekaterina (‘Katya’) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Kosenko (welder) (i)

  Kosezky, Doctor (i)

  Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya (‘Tanya’) (i)

  Kostyukov, Major (i)

  Kovalchuk (motor launch helmsman) (i), (ii)

  Kovalenko, Company Commander (i)

  Kozlov, Brigade Commissar (i)

  Kozlov, Captain (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Kozyrev (soldier) (i)

  Kramer (regimental commander) (i)

  Krasilovka (i)

  Krasivaya Mecha (i)

  Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Grossman appointed special correspondent (v), (vi); Simonov as correspondent (vii)n, (viii); Grossman’s articles (ix)n, (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), see also under Grossman, Vasily; serialises The People Immortal (xix), (xx); sends Grossman to Berlin (xxi); see also Ortenberg, General David

  Krasnodon (i)

  Krasnoye (i)

  Kravchenko, General (i)n

  Kravtsov (soldier) (i)

  Krebs, General Hans (i)n

  Krivorotov, Mikhail Pavlovich (i)

  Krukov, Fyodor (i)n

  Krylov (chief of staff) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Kuban (i)

  Kuibyshev (i), (ii), (iii)

  Kuliev, Vassily Georgevich (i)

  Kuptsov, Ivan (i)

  Kursk: magnetic anomaly (i); salient (ii), (iii)n, (iv); battle (v), (vi)n, (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Kushnarev (soldier) (i)

  Kuznechik (camel) (i), (ii)

  Kuznetsov, Lieutenant (i)

  Landsberg (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lapin, Boris (i)

  Lazko, Major-General Grigorii Semenovich (i)

  Lebyazhye (i)

  Ledeke (Treblinka guard) (i)

  Lelyushenko, Major-General D.D. (i), (ii)

  Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv)n

  Leningrad (i), (ii)n

  Lesser Terror (i)n

  Levada, Aleksandr Stepanovich (i)

  Levit, Max (i)

  Levkin (i)

  Liberman, Doctor (i)

  Lichtenbaum, Maximilian (i)

  Likhatov (soldier) (i)

  Lipavsky, Major (TASS correspondent) (i)

  Litzmann, Lieutenant General Karl (i)n

  ód (i), (ii), (iii); ghetto (iv)

  Lozovsky, Solomon (i)

  Lublin, Poland (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lukyanov (soldier) (i)

  Lützov, Generalleutnant Kurt-Jürgen Freiherr Henning von (i)

  Lvov (i), (ii)

  Lyakhov (soldier) (i)

  Lysorchuk, Nina (i)

  Lysov (journalist) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lyudnikov, Colonel L. (i)n

  Majdanek death camp (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Makhno, Nestor (i)

  Malenkov, Georgi (i)

  Malinovka (i)

  Malinovksy, General Rodion I. (i), (ii)

  Malomed, Naum Moiseevich (i)

  Mamaev Kurgan (Point (i)), Stalingrad (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Mamaev, Colonel (i)

  Mandelstam, Osip (i)

  Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)n, (v)

  Manteuffel, Major-General Günther von (i)n

  Manyuk (soldier) (i)

  Manzhulya (soldier) (i)

  Marchenko (squadron commander) (i)

  Markelov, Colonel (i), (ii)

  Marshall, Brigadier General S.L.A.: Men Against Fire (i)n

  Martinyuk (commander) (i)

  Martynov, Aleksandr Vasilievich (i)

  Marusya (telephone operator) (i)

  Maslovitsy (i)

  Matrosov (soldier) (i)

  Matyukhin, Corporal (i)

  Matyushko, Lieutenant (i)

  Mazor, Aron (i)

  Melekhin, Corporal (i)

  Meleshko, Colonel (i)

  Menzhitsky, Aron (i)

  Menzhitsky, Yakov (i)

  Messereshvili (sapper) (i), (ii)

  Mikhalyev (soldier) (i), (ii)

  Mikhoels, Solomon (i), (ii), (iii)

  Milmeister (shoemaker) (i)

  Minokhodov (soldier) (i)

  Minsk (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Belorussian National Jazz Orchestra (vi)n

  Mirokhin (chief of staff) (i)

  Miroshnikov, Lieutenant (i)

  Mius, River (i)

  Molotov, Vyacheslav (i), (ii), (iii)n, (iv)

  Mordukhovich, Commissar (i)

  Morozov (gun-layer) (i)

  Morozovka (i)

  Moscow (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); defence of (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)n, (xi)n, (xii)n; State Jewish Theatre (xiii)n

  Mtsensk (i), (ii)

  Murashev (sniper) (i)

  Myshkovsky (soldier) (i)

  Nazarenko (soldier) (i)

  Nechivoloda, Vasilisa (i)

  Nekrasov, Nikolai Alekseevich (i)

  Nemtsevich (commander of aviation regiment) (i)

  Nikolaev, Sergeant (i)

  Nikolayev (i)

  NKVD (i), (ii)n, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)n, (xii); Special Departments (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii); 10th Rifle Division (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii)

  Normandy landings (i)

  Nosov, Commissar (i)

  Novaya Odessa (i)

  Novikova, Lyolya (i), (ii)

  Novo-Belitsa (i)

  Novozybkov (i)

  Novy Mir (journal) (i)n

  Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (i), (ii)

  Nuzhny (photographer) (i)

  Oder, River (i), (ii)

  Odessa (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Ofitserov (soldier) (i)

  Ogloblin, Kuzma (i)

  OGPU (i); see NKVD

  OKH (Oberkommando des Heeres) (i), (ii)n, (iii)

  OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) (i)n

  Operation Bagration (i)n, (ii), (iii)

  Operation Blue (Blau) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Operation Citadel (Zitadelle) (i)n, (ii), (iii)

  Operation Fridericus (i)

  Operation Kutuzov (i)

  Operation Little Saturn (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Operation Overlord (i)

  Operation Typhoon (Taifun) (i), (ii)

  Operation Uranus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)n, (v)n, (vi)

  Orel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); liberation of (vii), (viii)

  ‘Orel axis’ (i)

  Ortenberg, General David: appoints Grossman as special correspondent (i); sends him to the front (ii), (iii); on Grossman’s People Immortal (iv); orders him back to the front after retreat to Moscow (v), (vi), (vii); on Grossman’s method of working (viii); recognises his talents (ix); gives him leave to write novel (x), (xi); serialises The People Immortal (xii); asks for story on shooting of deserters (xiii); sends Grossman to Stalingrad (xiv); claims credit for idea of Grossman’s portrait of Gromov (xv); at Stalingrad HQ (xvi), (xvii); on Grossman’s articles (xviii), (xix), (xx), and interviewing technique (xxi); on Grossman delivering presents for Political Department (xxii); replaces him at Stalingrad with Simonov (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv); employs Platonov (xxvi); on Grossman’s adaptation to military life (xxvii); sends him on useless assignment (xxviii); on Grossman at Kursk (xxvix), (xxx); sends him to cover liberation of Orel (xxxi); leaves Krasnaya Zvezda (xxxi)n; describes Grossman’s arrival in Warsaw (xxxii)

  Osipovich, Evgeny (i)

>   Oska (soldier) (i)

  Ostapenko, Dmitry Yakovlevich (i)

  Ostrovets (i)

  Paulus, General Friedrich: commands Sixth Army (i), (ii); at Stalingrad (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); surrounded by Red Army (x)

  Pavlenko (journalist) (i)

  Pavlov, General D. G. (i), (ii)

  Pavlov (soldier) (i)

  Pekilis, Mikhel and Wulf (i), (ii)

  Perein, Hauptsturmführer Baron von (i)

  Perminov (military commander) (i)

  Pesochin, Colonel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Peterburgsky, G.: ‘Little Blue Shawl’ (i)n, (ii)

  Petlyura (driver) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Petrishchevo (i), (ii), (iii)n

  Petrov, Major-General Mikhail P. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Pilica, River (i)

  pilots, Soviet (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)n, (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), and n

  Pilyugin (soldier) (i)

  Pinikov (soldier) (i)

  Pitomnik airfield (i)

  Platonov, Andrey Platonovich (i)

  Pliev, Lieutenant General I.A. (i)

  Plysyuk, Colonel Nikolai Efimovich (i)

  Pochepa, Major (i)

  Poland, ‘liberation of’ (i)

  politruks (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Polyak (chief of staff) (i)

  Ponomarenko, Panteleimon Kondratyevich (i)

  Ponyri (i), (ii)

  Popov, General M.M. (i)

  Pozna (i), (ii)

  Pravda (i)

  Preie (SS man at Treblinka) (i)

  Pripet marshes (i), (ii)

  Prokhorovka, battle of (i), (ii)

  Pushkin, Alexander: Travel to Arzrum (i)n

  Pustogorod (i)

  Puzyrevsky, Lieutenant Colonel (i)

  Ragozhek, Isai Davidovich (i)

  RAIKOM (i), (ii)

  rasputitsa (i), (ii), (iii)

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

  Fronts

  1st Belorussian (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  2nd Belorussian (i)n

  Bryansk Front (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Central (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  South-Western (i), (ii), (iii)

  1st Ukrainian (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  2nd Ukrainian (i), (ii)

  3rd Ukrainian (i), (ii)

  Western (i), (ii)

  ‘Steppe Front’ (i)

  Armies

  3rd (i)n, (ii), (iii)

  4th (i)n

  5th (i), (ii)n

  7th (i)

  8th (i)

  9th (i), (ii)n

  11th (i)

  16th (i)n

  18th (i)

  21st (i), (ii)

  26th (i)

  28th (i)

  37th (i), (ii), (iii)

  38th (i)

  48th (i)

  50th (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  61st (i)n

  62nd (later 8th Guards Army) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)n, (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv)

  64th (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv)

  65th (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Guards Armies

  1st (i)

  3rd (i), (ii)n

  8th (formerly 62nd Army) (i), (ii)n, (iii)n, (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  24th (i)

  66th (i)

  Shock Armies

  3rd (i)

  5th (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)n

  Tank Armies

  1st (i), (ii)

  2nd (i), (ii)n

  5th (i)n

  6th (i)n

  1st Guards (i), (ii)n, (iii), (iv)

  2nd Guards (i), (ii)

  3rd Guards (i)

  5th Guards (i)

  Corps

  II Guards Cavalry (i)n

  III Guards Cavalry (i)

  IV Guards Cavalry (i), (ii)

  I Guards Mechanised (i)n

  I Guards Rifle (i), (ii)

  LXI Guards Rifle (i)n

  XI Guards Tank (i)

  IV Mechanised (i)

  IX Mechanised (i)n

  IX Rifle (i)

  XXV Tank (i), (ii)n

  divisions

  1st Guards (i), (ii)

  5th Guards (i)n

  6th Guards (i)n

  13th Guards (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  37th Guards (i), (ii)

  50th Guards (i)n

  75th Guards (i)n

  79th Guards (i)n

  120th Guards (i)n, (ii)n

  45th (i)

  74th (i)n

  87th (i)n

  94th (i)

  95th (i)

  100th (i)n

  112th (i)

  120th Guards (i)n,, (ii)n

  284th (i), (ii), (iii)

  308th (i), (ii), (iii)

  42nd Aviation (i)n

  Brigades

  124th (i), (ii), (iii)

  149th (i)

  47th Guards Tank (i)

  4th Tank (i), and n

  11th Tank (i)n

  Regiments

  103rd Aviation Fighter (i)

  207th Aviation (i)n

  7th Guards Howitzer Artillery (i)

  395th Rifle (i)

  Redkin (photo-journalist) (i)

  Reichenau, Field Marshal Walther von (i), (ii)

  Reuters bureau (i)

  Richthofen, General Wolfram von (i), (ii)

  ROA see Russian Liberation Army

  Rodimtsev, General Aleksandr Ilyich: commands (i)th Guards Rifle Division (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); and Chuikov (viii), (ix); with Grossman presents gifts to ‘most courageous women’ (x); lacks modesty (xi), defends Grossman (xii)

  Roitman, Khaim (i)

  Rokossovsky, Marshal Konstanin Konstantinovich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Romanenko, General (i)

  Romania/Romanians (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Armies

  First (i)n

  Third (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Fourth (i), (ii)

  prisoners (i), (ii), (iii)

  Romanov, Corporal (i)

  Romanov (sniper) (i)

  Roslavl (i)

  Rosly, Lieutenant General I.P. (i)

  Rostov-on-Don (i), (ii)

  Rubinchik (violinist) (i)

  Rud, Nurse (i)

  Rumkowsky, Mordechai Chaim (i)

  Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von (i)

  Russian Liberation Army (ROA) (i)n

  Russiyanov, General I.N. (i)

  Ryaboshtan (soldier) (i)

  Ryasentsev, OBKOM Secretary (i), (ii)

  Rynok (i), (ii)

  Ryumkin (photographer) (i)

  Sakharov, Andrei (i)

  Salomatin, Lieutenant (pilot) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Samotorkin (politruk) (i)

  Sarayev, Colonel (i), (ii), (iii)

  Sarkisyan, Captain (i)

  Savinov (soldier) (i)

  Schmidt (Treblinka guard) (i)

  Schwandt, Bauerführer (i)

  Schwarz (Treblinka guard) (i)

  Schwerin (i), (ii), (iii)

  Sedov, Mikhail Stepanovich (i), (ii), (iii)

  Serge, Victor (Viktor Kibalchich) (i)

  Serova, Valentina (i)

  Servernyi Donets (i)

  Sevsk (i)

  Shalygin, Major Nikolai Vladimirovich (i)

  Shapiro, Henry (i)

  Sharapovich, Major (i)n

  Shcherbakov, Aleksandr (i), (ii), (iii)

  Shcherbina, Commissar (i)

  Shchors (i), (ii)

  Sherishevsky (on Warsaw committee) (i)

  Shevernozhuk, Colonel (i)

  Shimeliovich, Boris (i)

  Shkapskaya, M.M. (i)

  Shlyapin, Brigade Commissar Nikolai Alekseevich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (i), (ii)

  Shtemenko, General Sergei M. (i)

  Shturmovik
ground-attack aircraft (i), (ii)

  Shuba, Colonel (i)

  Shuklin (artillerist) (i)

  Sicily, Anglo-American invasion of (i)

  Simon, Aisenshtadt (i)

  Simonov, Konstantin (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Days and Nights (i)n

  ‘Wait for Me’ (i)

  Sivokon (soldier) (i)

  Skakun, Senior Lieutenant (i)

  Skotnoi (pilot) (i), (ii)

  Skvortsov, Signaller (i)

  Slavin, Lev (i)

  SMERSh (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  smertniks (i)

  Smirnov, Sergeant (i)

  Smolensk (i), (ii), (iii)

  snipers (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)n, (v)

  Snitser, Divisional Commissar Serafim (i), (ii)

  Sobibor death camp (i)n

  Solodkikh (sniper) (i)

  Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (i)n

  Cancer Ward (i)n

  One Day in the Life of Ivan

  Denisovich (i)n

  Sorge, Richard (i)

  Spanish Civil War (i)n, (ii), (iii)n, (iv)n

  Spartakovka (i), (ii)

  Spiller, Professor Roger (i)n

  Spiridonov, Corporal (i)

  SS see Waffen SS

  Stalin, Josef: literary tastes (i)n; and Gorky (ii)n; agricultural policies as cause of famines (1932) (iii), (iv); checks Krasnaya Zvezda (v); dislikes Grossman (vi), (vii); unprepared for German invasion (viii), (ix); refuses to face up to German encirclement of Kiev (x), (xi); fails to authorise withdrawal from Bryansk Front (xii), (xiii); orders airlift of brigades to Orel (xiv); finally convinced of Japanese plan to attack USA (xv); launches general offensive (xvi), (xvii); recognises Orthodox Church (xviii); convinced that Hitler will attack Moscow (xix), (xx); and naming of Stalingrad (xxi), (xxii)n; panics as Germans near Stalingrad (xxiii); issues Order No. 227, (‘Not One Step Back’) (xxiv), (xxv); and defence of Stalingrad (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix), (xxx), (xxxi), (xxxii); denounces Russian civilians employed by Germans as traitors (xxxiii)n; deletes Grossman’s name from Stalin Prize list (1942) (xxxiv); military blunders (xxxv), (xxxvi), (xxxvii); issues decree downgrading commissars (xxxviii); anti-Semitic (xxxix)n, (xl), (xli); launches offensive (1943) (xlii); plans Operation Bagration (xliii), (xliv); and Warsaw uprising (xlv); spurs on Red Army advance (xlvi); fears Americans will reach Berlin first (xlvii); and Zhdanov (xlviii)n; death (xlix); denounced by Khrushchev (1956) (l)n, (li)

  Stalin, Svetlana (i)

  Stalin, Vasily (i)n

  Stalin Prizes (i), (ii)n, (iii)

  Stalingrad: German advance on (i); and German attack (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); Grossman reports from (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)ff.; Russian defence of (xi), (xii)n, (xiii)n; and Chuikov’s ‘Academy of Street-Fighting’ (xiv); and Volga crossings (xv); and German October offensive (xvi), (xvii), (xviii); and encirclement of German army (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii); and freezing of the Volga (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), and n, (xxvi); after the battle (xxvii), (xxviii)

  Stalingrad (film) (i)

  Stalinsky sokol (newspaper) (i)

  Stangl, Obersturmführer Franz (i)n, (ii)n