Stalin: A Biography

27. I. V. Stalin, Marksizm i voprosy yazykoznaniya in Sochineniya, vol. 16, p. 159.

28. Ibid., p. 143.

29. Ibid., p. 169.

30. Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, p. 301.

31. K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya.

32. Ekonomicheskie problemy sotsializma v SSSR in I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 16, pp. 188–304.

33. Ibid., p. 197.

34. Ibid., p. 226.

35. Ibid.

36. Ibid., p. 224.

37. Ibid., p. 256.

38. Ibid., p. 231.

39. Ibid., pp. 235–6.

40. See above, p. 94.

41. See above, pp. 153–5.

42. See above, p. 226.

43. See above, pp. 432–4.

44. See also above, p. 390.

45. See B. Pinkus, The Soviet Government and the Jews, 1948–1967, pp. 151–64. I am grateful to John Klier for help in elaborating this paragraph.

46. See L. Rucker, Staline, Israel et les Juifs, p. 238.

47. Tak govoril Kaganovich, p. 211. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 211: apparently Lavrenti Beria too thought Stalin was not an anti-semite.

48. Tak govoril Kaganovich, p. 175.

53. Ailing Despot

1. See above, pp. 231–2 and 437–8.

2. P. Moshentseva, Tainy kremlevskoi bol’nitsy, pp. 6–7.

3. Y. Rapoport, The Doctors’ Plot, p. 218.

4. Politbyuro TsK VKP(b) i Sovet Ministrov SSSR, 1945–1953, p. 398: his stay in the south lasted from 10 August to 22 December 1951.

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 See the unpublished memoirs of K. Charkviani, p. 35.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 Khrushchev’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. Khrushchev, ‘Memuary Nikity Sergeevicha Khrushcheva’, Voprosy istorii, no. 2/3, pp. 90–1.

8. Ibid.