1. This attitude endured. Stalin expressed it at length in an improvised speech to Georgi Dimitrov and others in November 1937 at the height of the Great Terror: see the summary by R. C. Tucker in Stalin in Power, p. 483.
2. This was Trotski’s recollection of what Kamenev told him about a conversation he had had with Stalin and Dzierzynski in mid-1923: Trotsky’s Diary in Exile, 1935, p. 64.
3. S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, p. 90; V. Alliluev, Khronika odnoi sem’i: Alliluevy. Stalin, p. 9.
4. RGASPI, f. 134, op. 3, d. 36, p. 15. This comment comes in Kollontai’s 1920 diary. There must be some suspicion, however, about the authenticity of some parts of this source: certain entries for some years seem to have been modified in the light of later political developments.
5. A. S. Allilueva, Vospominaniya, p. 186. See above, p. 186.
6. RGASPI, f. 589, op. 3, d. 15904, l. 14.
7. Ibid., f. 2, op. 1, d. 14228. See also the direct-line conversation between Ordzhonikidze and Nadezhda Allilueva, 4 December 1920: ibid., d. 6404.
8. Ibid., f. 589, op. 3, d. 15904, l. 12.
9. Sergei Alliluev’s note on 1919: ibid., f. 4, op. 2, d. 46, p. 1.
10. See for example his telegram of 7 November 1919: ibid., f. 558, op. 1, d. 910, p. 1.
11. F. Alliluev, ‘Vstrechi s t. Stalinym’: ibid., op. 4, d. 663, p. 39.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., p. 40.
14. S. Kavtaradze, tsareulis purtsebli, vol. 1, p. 55.
15. Anecdote recounted to Felix Chuev by Yakov Dzhughashvili’s son Yevgeni: see Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, p. 245.
16. G. Uratadze, Vospominaniya gruzinskogo sotsial-demokrata, p. 209.
17. Testimony of A. F. Sergeev to F. Chuev: Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, p. 359.
18. V. Semichastnyi, Bespokoinoe serdtse, p. 39.
19. Letter to M. I. Kalinin: RGASPI, f. 78, op. 1, d. 46, p. 2.
20. Letter of 30 November 1918: ibid., f. 86, op. 1, d. 84.
21. GARF, f. 3316s/g, op. 64, d. 258, pp. 5 and 7.
22. V. Alliluev, Khronika odnoi sem’i: Alliluevy. Stalin, p. 131.
23. S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu.
24. RGASPI, f. 589, op. 3, d. 15904, pp. 12 and 15.
25. Ibid., pp. 16 and 19.
26. See above, p. 188.
27. RGASPI, f. 5, op. 1, d. 456: 18 October 1922.
28. Ibid., f. 558, op. 3, d. 4: B. Andreev, Zavoevanie Prirody.
29. Iosif Stalin v ob”yatiyakh sem’i, p. 7.
30. See above, chapters 6–7. See also S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, pp. 24–5.
31. In strict terms, of course, the dacha was not Stalin’s property but the state’s.
32. S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, pp. 26–9; ‘Bosco d’inverno a Zubalov’, Slavia (1997).
33. See Pis’ma I. V. Stalina V. M. Molotovu, p. 23 for an example.
34. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 351.
35. Ibid., pp. 351–2; A. Mikoyan, ‘Iz vospominaniya A. I. Mikoyana’, Sovershenno sekretno, no. 10 (1999), p. 25. There is a doubt about the date of this advice: see A. Kirilina, Neizvestnyi Kirov, p. 305.
36. Letter of Stalin, 30 July 1922: A. Kirillina, Neizvestnyi Kirov, p. 305.
37. Pis’ma I. V. Stalina V. M. Molotovu, pp. 70 and 156.
38. I. A. Valedinskii, ‘Vospominaniya o vstrechakh s t. I. V. Stalinym’, p. 68.
39. S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, p. 19.
40. I. A. Valedinskii, ‘Vospominaniya o vstrechakh s t. I. V. Stalinym’, p. 69.
41. Iosif Stalin v ob”yatiyakh sem’i, p. 22 ff.
42. Ibid., pp. 22–3.
43. Ibid., p. 19.
44. B. Bazhanov, Bazhanov and the Damnation of Stalin, p. 36.
45. RGASPI, f. 44, op. 1, d. 1, p. 417.
46. Ibid., p. 418.
47. Iosif Stalin v ob”yatiyakh sem’i, p. 23.
48. Ibid., pp. 31 and 35 for letter of 1929 and 1931.
49. Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, p. 365. The incident probably occurred in 1928.
50. B. Bazhanov, Bazhanov and the Damnation of Stalin, p. 38.
22. Factionalist Against Factions
1. Chetyrnadtsatyi s”ezd Vsesoyuznoi Kommunisticheskoi Partii (b), pp. 427–31 and 503.
2. Ibid., p. 508.
3. Ibid., pp. 274–5.
4. Ibid., p. 455.
5. Ibid., p. 52. This number includes probationary members.
6. RGASPI, f. 44, op. 1, d. 5, pp. 37–8.
7. Iosif Stalin v ob”yatiyakh sem’i, pp. 30–1.
8. See Ye. P. Frolov’s recollection as adduced by R. Medvedev, Let History Judge, pp. 224–5.
9. See above, p. 244.
10. See R. Service, ‘Joseph Stalin: The Making of a Stalinist’, pp. 22–3.
11. See G. Gill, The Origins of the Stalinist Political System, pp. 125–34.
12. Bol’shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912–1927, p. 90.
13. Pis’ma I. V. Stalina V. M. Molotovu, p. 71.
14. Ibid., pp. 72–3.
15. Ibid., p. 74.
16. Ibid., p. 69.
17. Bol’shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912–1927, p. 90.
18. Ibid., p. 105.
19. Stalin v vospominaniyakh sovremennikov i dokumentov epokhi, p. 146.
20. Pis’ma I. V. Stalina V. M. Molotovu, p. 102.
21. Ibid., pp. 103, 104, 106, 107 and 116–17.
22. Ibid., p. 107.
23. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 10, p. 193.
