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28. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 647, pp. 432–3.

29. Ibid., p. 433.

30. Ibid.

31. The contents of the booklet are discussed below, pp. 96–100.

32. F. Samoilov, ‘O Lenine i Staline’: RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 659, p. 1.

33. Prosveshchenie, nos 3–5 (1913).

34. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 1, pp. 368–72: ‘Polozhenie v sotsial- demokraticheskoi fraktsii’. It was published in Pravda on 26 February 1913.

9. Koba and Bolshevism

1. Bogdanov developed ideas which, if he had become more widely known, would have given pause to thinkers since the 1960s who have become known as post-modernists. Although he insisted that ‘culture’ is never simply a reflection of economic production relations, he stipulated too that collective insights, indeed insights which reflect the interests of particular social groups, inform and condition what both is and can be thought in society. Bogdanov did not have all the answers. Yet his turn-of-the-century oeuvre was overlooked abroad and suppressed at home, and the neglect of his ideas has delayed the philosophical demise of fashionable postmodernism.

2. See below, pp. 357–8.

3. J. Davrichewy, Ah! Ce qu’on rigolait bien, p. 212.

4. Slovo tovarishchu Stalinu, p. 462: from notes taken by V. D. Mochalov at meeting with Stalin on 28 December 1945.

5. Even Davrishevi admitted this: Ah! Ce qu’on rigolait bien, p. 212.

6. See also below, p. 300.

7. See above, pp. 62–3.

8. See above, p. 63.

9. S. Shaumyan, Izbrannye proizvedeniya, vol. 1, p. 267.

10. I. M. Dubinskii-Mukhadze, Shaumyan, p. 156.

11. F. D. Kretov, Bor’ba V. I. Lenina za sokhranenie i ukreplenie RSDRP v gody stolypinskoi reaktsii, p. 141.

12. I. M. Dubinskii-Mukhadze, Shaumyan, p. 156.

13. ‘Sotsial-demokratiya i natsional’nyi vopros’ in I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 1, p. 295.

14. Ibid.

15. See above, p. 53. I am grateful to Stephen Jones for his help with formulating this paragraph. See also chapter 8 of his forthcoming history of Georgian Marxism before the October Revolution.

16. ‘Sotsial-demokratiya i natsional’nyi vopros’, Prosveshchenie, no. 5 (1913), p. 27.

17. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 1, p. 296.

18. See above, p. 38.

19. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 1, p. 307.

20. Ibid., p. 313.

21. Prosveshchenie, no. 5 (1914), p. 27.

22. Ibid.

23. Ibid., pp. 32–6.

24. An [N. Zhordaniya], ‘Natsional’nyi vopros’, Bor’ba (St Petersburg), no. 2, 18 March 1914, p. 31.

25. Ibid., p. 26.

26. Sotsial-demokratiya i natsional’nyi vopros’, Sochineniya, vol. 1, p. 340.

27. Ibid., pp. 340–1.

28. Ibid.

29. ‘K natsional’nomu voprosu: evreiskaya burzhuznaya i bundovskaya kul’turno-natsional’naya avtonomiya’, Prosveshchenie, no. 6 (June 1913), pp. 69–76.

30. Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, p. 258.

31. See R. Service, Lenin: A Biography, pp. 16–18.

10. Osip of Siberia

1. B. I. Ivanov, Vospominaniya rabochego bol’shevika, p. 21.

2. N. L. Meshcheryakov, Kak my zhili v ssylke, p. 63.

3. A. V. Baikalov, ‘Turukhanskii “bunt” politicheskikh ssyl’nykh’, p. 56; Atlas aziatskoi Rossii, map 56.

4. Atlas aziatskoi Rossii, maps 48–51 and 54–5.

5. Atlas aziatskoi Rossii, map 58a; S. Spandar’yan (Timofei), Stat’i, pis’ma, dokumenty, 1882–1916, p. xxxviii (editorial note).

6. A. V. Baikalov, ‘Turukhanskii “bunt” politicheskikh ssyl’nykh’, pp. 51–2.

7. See the account of G. Kennan, Siberia and the Exile System, vol. 1, p. 329 and vol. 2, p. 43.

8. Bol’shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912–1927, p. 18.

9. N. L. Meshcheryakov, Kak my zhili v ssylke, p. 75.

10. A. V. Baikalov, ‘Turukhanskii “bunt” politicheskikh ssyl’nykh’, pp. 53 and 57.

11. A. V. Baikalov, ‘Turukhanskii “bunt” politicheskikh ssyl’nykh’, p. 53.

12. Report of 27 April 1914 in ‘K 20-letiyu smerti Ya. M. Sverdlova’, Krasnyi arkhiv, no. 1 (1939), pp. 83–4.

13. Bol’shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912–1927, p. 19.

14. Ibid.

15. See A. Ostrovskii, Kto stoyal za spinoi Stalina?, pp. 400–1.

16. Bol’shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912–1927, p. 19.

17. Ya. M. Sverdlov, Izbrannye proizvedeniya, vol. 1, p. 266.

18. This was made clear, if only implicitly, in S. Spandar’yan (Timofei), Stat’i, pis’ma, dokumenty, p. xxxviii (editorial note). As far as I know, no biography of Stalin has pointed out that Sverdlov’s letter contained a basic misapprehension or that Stalin therefore did not live on the River Kureika north of the Arctic Circle.

19. Yu. Trifonov, Otblesk kostra (Moscow, 1966), pp. 47–8 in R. Medvedev, Let History Judge, pp. 5–6.

20. Ya. M. Sverdlov, Izbrannye proizvedeniya, vol. 1, pp. 268–9.

21. Ibid., p. 268

22. Ibid., pp. 276–7.

23. Ibid., p. 289.

24. Izvestiya, 8 December 2000; ‘I. V. Stalin dal slovo zhenit’sya’, Istochnik, no. 4 (2002), p. 74. See also A. Ostrovskii, Kto stoyal za spinoi Stalina?, p. 407.

25. Ya. M. Sverdlov, Izbrannye proizvedeniya, vol. 1, p. 289.

26. Bol’shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912–1927, p. 18.

27. Ibid.