Stalin: A Biography

10. V. Tsypin, Istoriya Russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi, 1917–1990, pp. 95, 104 and 106.

11. See D. Pospielovsky, The Russian Orthodox Church under the Soviet Regime, p. 111.

12. V. A. Alekseev, ‘Neozhidannyi dialog’, Agitator, no. 6 (1989), pp. 41–4.

13. V. A. Alekseev, Illyuzii i dogma, pp. 336–7.

14. G. Dimitrov, Diario. Gli anni di Mosca (1934–1945), pp. 615 and 617.

15. Ibid., p. 618.

16. See M. Mevius, Agents of Moscow, chapter 3.

17. J. Rossi, Spravochnik po Gulagu, part 1, p. 40.

18. See P. J. S. Duncan, Russian Messianism, p. 59.

19. ‘Proidet desyatok let, i eti vstrechi ne vosstanovish’ uzhe v pamyati. Dnevnikovye zapisi V. A. Malysheva’, pp. 127–8. See also G. Dimitrov, Diario. Gli anni di Mosca (1934–1945), p. 802.

20. See A. V. Fateev, Obraz vraga v Sovetskoi propagande, 1945–1954 gg., p. 23. Fadeev’s article appeared in Pod znamenem marksizma, no. 11 (1943).

21. See C. Andreyev, Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement. Soviet Realities and emigre Theories.

41. Supreme Commander

1. Sochineniya, vol. 14, p. 1.

2. See below, note 4.

3. Sochineniya, vol. 14, p. 5.

4. Letter of July 1941: Zvezda, no. 2 (2003), p. 191.

5. Sochineniya, vol. 14, p. 6.

6. Ibid., p. 33.

7. Ibid., p. 34.

8. This is a point made by J. Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin!, p. 160.

9. See in general D. C. Watt, How War Came, pp. 224–33.

10. The Times, 4 January 1943.

11. Ibid., 1 January 1940.

12. See below, chapter 32.

13. N. K. Baibakov, Ot Stalina do Yel’tsina, pp. 43–8.

14. Ibid., p. 64.

15. Ibid.

16. Testimony of A. E. Golovanov in G. A. Kumanev (ed.), Ryadom so Stalinym, pp. 272–3.

17. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 3, p. 59.

18. Ibid., pp. 113 and 115.

19. K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya, p. 111.

20. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 463.

21. P. A Sudoplatov and A. Sudoplatov, Special Tasks, p. 328.

22. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 2, p. 266.

23. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 244.

24. Ibid., p. 270.

25. Ibid., p. 134.

26. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 563.

27. G. A. Kumanev, ‘Dve besedy s L. M. Kaganovichem’, Novaya i noveishaya istoriya, no. 2 (1999), p. 107.

42. The Big Three

1. Perepiska predsedatelya Soveta Ministrov SSSR, vol. 2, p. 98. See also W. S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 4, p. 594.

2. Perepiska predsedatelya Soveta Ministrov SSSR, vol. 2, p. 101.

3. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 93.

4. The carriage now stands outside the State Home-Museum of I. V. Stalin at Gori.

5. W. S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 4, p. 447.

6. Perepiska predsedatelya Soveta Ministrov SSSR, vol. 2, p. 43.

7. W. S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 4, p. 443.

8. J. von Ribbentrop, Zwischen London und Moskau. p. 25.

9. I. P. McEwan, ‘Quo Vadis?’, p. 113. I am grateful to Philippa McEwan for supplying me with this memoir.

10. W. S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 5, pp. 334–6.

11. Churchill and Stalin: Documents from the British Archives: conversation of Churchill and Stalin, 28 November 1943, doc. 46, p. 3.

12. Ibid., doc. 48, p. 2: meeting at Soviet embassy in Tehran, 1 December 1943.

13. W. S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 5, p. 350.

14. Churchill and Stalin: Documents from the British Archives, doc. 47

15. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 93.

16. W. S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 6, p. 198. The English spelling in Churchill’s manuscript and book was ‘Roumania’.

17. Ibid.

18. Istochnik, no. 4 (1995), p. 17.

19. N. Lebrecht, ‘Prokofiev was Stalin’s Last Victim’.

20. W. S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 6, p. 345. This was sometimes shortened to ‘U.J.’: ibid., p. 199.

21. Ibid., The Second World War, vol. 4, p. 596.

22. Ibid., vol. 5, p. 330.

23. Ibid., p. 342.

43. Last Campaigns

1. See R. Overy, Russia’s War, pp. 240–1.

2. J. Erickson, The Road to Berlin, pp. 274–90; N. Davies, Rising ’44, pp. 209–11 and 265–72.

3. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 3, pp. 173–4. Alas, the other participants — Stalin, Molotov and Beria — left no useful memoirs on the subject.

4. W. S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 6, p. 117.

5. Churchill and Stalin: Documents from the British Archives, doc. 55, p. 1: telegram of A. Eden to Sir O. Sergeant, 12 October 1944. It must be added that Churchill said this in a moment when he was trying to cajole Stalin into making concessions to the ‘London Poles’.