Stalin: A Biography
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5. See the unpublished memoirs of K. Charkviani, p. 35.
6. These observations come from a visit on 11 September 2002.
7. A barracks for the guards was adjacent to Stalin’s quarters.
8. Visit by author: 11 September 2002.
9. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 140; S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, p. 191.
10. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 140.
11. Ibid.
12. Tak govoril Kaganovich, p. 52.
13. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 527.
14. See S. Wheatcroft, ‘From Team-Stalin to Degenerate Tyranny’, p. 92.
15. L. M. Kaganovich, Pamyatnye zapiski, p. 498.
16. See O. Khlevnyuk, ‘Stalin i organy gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti v posle-voennyi period’, p. 544.
17. A. Mgeladze, Stalin, kakim ya ego znal, pp. 71–2.
18. Ibid., pp. 72–3.
19. Ibid., pp. 83–4.
20. Ibid. See also S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 134.
21. Ibid., p. 92; S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 134.
22. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 529; K. Charkviani’s memoirs, op. cit., p. 21.
23. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 134.
24. Ibid., p. 141.
25. Ibid., p. 142.
26. Ibid., p. 240.
27. Politbyuro TsK VKP(b) i Sovet Ministrov SSSR, 1945–1953, pp. 349–51.
28. A. Mgeladze, Stalin, kakim ya ego znal, p. 91.
29. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 237.
30. J. Bardach and K. Gleeson, Surviving Freedom, pp. 87 and 235.
31. J. Rubenstein and V. P. Naumov (eds), Stalin’s Secret Pogrom.
32. See G. V. Kostyrchenko, Tainaya politika Stalina. Vlast’ i antisemitizm, pp. 671–84.
33. M. G. Pervukhin, ‘Korotko o perezhitom’, p. 143.
34. L. M. Kaganovich, Pamyatnye zapiski, p. 498.
35. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 570.
36. K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya, p. 209.
37. Ibid., p. 210: I have put the text together from Simonov’s remarks. No stenographic record was made of the proceedings: see A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 575.
38. K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya, p. 210.
39. Ibid., p. 209.
40. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, pp. 574–5.
41. M. G. Pervukhin, ‘Korotko o perezhitom’, p. 144.
42. Politbyuro TsK VKP(b) i Sovet Ministrov SSSR, 1945–1953, p. 89
43. Ibid., pp. 89–90.
44. Ibid., pp. 432–5.
45. Ibid., p. 434.
46. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 579.
47. T. H. Rigby, ‘Was Stalin a Disloyal Patron?’
54. Death and Embalming
1. I follow Svetlana Allilueva’s memoir here. W. Taubman suggests it was the (later) New Year’s Eve party, but I think this is based on a rather vague reference in Khrushchëv’s memoirs.
2. S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, p. 21.
3. J. Davrichewy, Ah! Ce qu’on rigolait bien, p. 71. See above, p. 26.
4. N. Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, p. 256.
5. Politbyuro TsK VKP(b) i Sovet Ministrov SSSR, pp. 395–6.
6. Pravda, 13 January 1953.
7. N. S. Khrushchëv, ‘Memuary Nikity Sergeevicha Khrushchëva’, Voprosy istorii, no. 2/3, pp. 90–1.
8. Ibid.
9. See Lozgachëv’s testimony to E. Radzinsky, Stalin, pp. 552–3.
10. P. I. Yegorov, ‘Poslednyaya noch’ Stalina’, Argumenty i fakty, no. 10 (March 2003), p. 10. Yegorov was on guard duty, at position number 6, at Stalin’s dacha on 1 March.
11. Ibid.
12. This is the plausible suggestion in E. Radzinsky, Stalin, pp. 553–4.
13. See Lozgachëv’s testimony to E. Radzinsky, ibid.
14. J. Brent and V. P. Naumov, Stalin’s Doctors’ Plot, pp. 316–17.
15. S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, p. 5.
16. J. Brent and V. P. Naumov, Stalin’s Doctors’ Plot, p. 318.
17. Ibid.
18. Y. Rappoport, The Doctors’ Plot, pp. 151–2.
19. A. Mgeladze, Stalin, kakim ya ego znal, pp. 234–5.
20. J. Brent and V. P. Naumov, Stalin’s Doctors’ Plot, p. 319.
21. S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, p. 7.
22. ‘Poslednyaya “otstavka” Stalina’, p. 110. A. Mgeladze, however, suggested — wrongly — that Stalin was already dead: Stalin, kakim ya ego znal, pp. 235.
23. ‘Poslednyaya “otstavka” Stalina’, p. 110.
24. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 238.
25. J. Brent and V. P. Naumov, Stalin’s Doctors’ Plot, p. 314.
26. I. Zbarsky and S. Hutchinson, Lenin’s Embalmers, p. 164.
27. Ibid., p. 165.
28. P. I. Yegorov, ‘Poslednyaya noch’ Stalina’, Argumenty i fakty, no. 10 (March 2003), p. 11.
29. V. Semichastnyi, Bespokoinoe serdtse, p. 77.
30. This account comes from the report of Sir A. Gascoigne, 16 March 1953: Churchill and Stalin: Documents from the British Archives, Appendix, pp. 1–2.
31. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 250.
55. After Stalin
1. See above, p. 587.
2. See Zh. and R. Medvedev, Neizvestnyi Stalin, chapter 3.
3. Robert McNeal undertook this task unofficially and published volumes 14–16 through the Hoover Institution in 1967.
4. Quoted by Zh. and R. Medvedev, Neizvestnyi Stalin, pp. 82–3.
5. K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya, pp. 241–2.
6. See R. Conquest, Power and Policy in the USSR, pp. 211–27.
7. R. Service, ‘The Road to the Twentieth Party Congress’.
8. V. Semichastnyi, Bespokoinoe serdtse, p. 82.
9. See N. Barsukov, ‘Kak sozdavalsya “zakrytyi doklad” Khrushchëva’, p. 11.
10. Istoriya Kommunisticheskoi Partii Sovetskogo Soyuza.
11. The Politburo minute is quoted by V. Bukovskii, Moskovskii protsess, p. 88.
12. Rossiiskaya gazeta, 6 November 1999.
13. See R. Service, Russia: Experiment with a People, pp. 211–13.
14. Ibid., p. 110.
15. V. Topolyansky, ‘The Cheynes–Stokes Draught’, p. 29.
16. See the argument in R. Service, ‘Architectural Problems of Reform in the Soviet Union: From Design to Collapse’, pp. 9–17.
17. Ibid., pp. 11–16.
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