A Writer at War (65 page)

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)