Stalin: A Biography

27. Ibid., p. 190.

28. Ibid., p. 191.

29. F. S. Alliluev, ‘Ot Moskvy do Tsaritsyna. Vstrechi s t. Stalinym’ (unpublished typescript): RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 663, p. 15.

30. Ibid.

31. Shestoi s”ezd RSDRP(b), p. 250.

32. See below, p. 244.

33. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta RSDRP(b). Avgust 1917–fevral’ 1918, p. 32.

34. Ibid., p. 39.

35. Ibid., p. 46.

36. Ibid., p. 49.

37. Ibid., pp. 52–3.

38. V. I. Lenin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, vol. 34, pp. 239–41.

39. Ibid., p. 246.

40. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta RSDRP(b). Avgust 1917–fevral’ 1918, p. 55.

13. October

1. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, pp. 84–6.

2. See R. Service, Lenin: A Political Life, vol. 2, pp. 252–4.

3. See their statement on 11 October 1917: Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, pp. 87–92.

4. Rabochii put’, no. 32, 10 October 1917.

5. Ibid.

6. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 99.

7. Ibid., p. 101.

8. Ibid.

9. Novaya zhizn’, 18 October 1917.

10. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 113.

11. Ibid., p. 114.

12. Ibid., p. 115.

13. Ibid., p. 107

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid., p. 118.

16. Ibid., p. 117.

17. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 3, p. 389.

18. Ibid., p. 390.

19. L. Trotskii, Stalin. An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence, pp. 225–6.

20. R. M. Slusser, Stalin in October, p. 239.

21. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 120.

22. M. P. Zhakov, ‘Pis’mo M. Zhakova’, pp. 88–93.

23. Ibid.

24. A. S. Allilueva, Vospominaniya, p. 61.

25. See R. Service, Lenin: A Political Life, p. 262.

26. I am unconvinced by R. Slusser’s attempt to downgrade Stalin’s role in October 1917 in Stalin in October, chaps 6–7. But I wish to record my appreciation of the book’s empirical research.

27. F. S. Alliluev, ‘Vstrechi s t. Stalinym’ (unpublished typescript, n.d.): RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 668, p. 39.

28. L. D. Trotski, Stalin. An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence, p. 352.

29. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 134: co-signed statement of 3 November 1917.

30. GDMS, Hall 2.

14. People’s Commissar

1. F. S. Alliluev, ‘Vstrecha’ (unpublished typescript, n.d.): RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 668, p. 30.

2. See below, p. 359. Fedor Alliluev’s memoir nevertheless remained unpublished, presumably because Stalin preferred to claim obscurity on his own behalf rather than to let others do it for him.

3. S. Pestkovskii, ‘Vospominaniya o rabote v Narkomnatse (1917–1919 gg.)’, pp. 129–30.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid., pp. 127.

6. See the unpublished account by F. S. Alliluev: ‘V Moskve. (Vstrechi s t. Stalinym)’, RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 663, p. 18.

7. A. Allilueva, Vospominaniya, p. 187.

8. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 1, d. 5397, p. 2.

9. Collegium meeting, item 8, 21 April 1918: GARF, f. 1318, op. 1, d. 1, p. 11.

10. GARF, f. 1318, op. 1, d. 1, p. 3/1a: People’s Commissariat for Nationalities’ Affairs collegium, 15 February (2 March) 1918.

11. See the undated collegium discussion at an undated meeting: GARF, f. 1318, op. 1, d. 1, pp. 52–5.

12. Collegium meeting, item 5, 8 March 1919: GARF, f. 1318, op. 1, d. 2, pp. 94–5.

13. Tretii Vserossiiskii S”ezd Sovetov Rabochikh, Soldatskikh i Krestyanskikh Deputatov, p. 73.

14. Ibid., p. 74 and 78–9.

15. Commission for the Drafting of the RSFSR Constitution: GARF, f. 6980, op. 1, d. 3, p. 12 (5 April 1918).

16. Ibid. (10 April 1918).

17. Ibid., p. 22 (12 April 1918).

18. Pravda, 1 April 1918.

19. See above, p. 75–6.

20. RGASPI, f. 558, 2, d. 42. On this file see M. Kun, Stalin: An Unknown Portrait, pp. 82–3.

21. ‘M. I. Ulyanova ob otnoshenii V. I. Ul’yanova i I. V. Stalina’, ITsKKPSS, no. 12 (1989), p. 197.

22. See above, pp. 100–1.

23. Commission for the Drafting of the RSFSR Constitution: GARF, f. 6980, op. 1, d. 6, p. 38 (19 April 1918). The Russian phrase here was avtonomnaya oblastnaya respublika.

24. Ibid., p. 10.

25. Ibid., p. 12.

26. Ibid., p. 1.

27. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 150.

28. Bol’shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912–1927, p. 36.

29. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 173.