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Authors: Antony Beevor
Tags: #History, #General, #World, #Europe, #Military, #World War II, #Modern, #20th Century
Wolf, Friedrich
Wolf, Koni
Wolf, Markus
World War, First (1914—18) outbreak
Russian army defeats in
popular attitude to
food shortages
World War, Second (1939-45)
Russia enters
see also
Red Army
Wrangel, Baron Pyotr
Yagoda, Genrikh
Yalta;
see also
Crimea
Yeltsin, Boris
Yerevan, Armenia
Yezhov, Nikolai
Yorck
Yousoupov, Prince Feliks
Yudenich, General Nikolai
Yugoslavia
Zarubin, Vasily (Zoya’s father)
Zarubina, Zoya
Zelenin, General
Zeppelin (intelligence group)
Zhdanov, Andrei
Zhukov, Marshal Georgi
Ziller, Xenia Karlovna, see Chekhova, Xenia
Zinoviev, Grigori
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Table of Contents
I. The Cherry Orchard of Victory
5. The Beginning of a Revolution
11. The Early 1920s in Moscow and Berlin
13. The End of Political Innocence