32. Emma Gershtein, Memuary (Memoirs) (St. Petersburg, 1998), p. 51.
33. Nadezhda Mandelstam, Vospominaniia [Reminiscences] (New York, 1970), p. 35.
34. Quoted in: Nikita Zabolotskii, Zhizn’ N. A. Zabolotskogo [Life of N. A. Zabolotsky](Moscow, 1998), p. 215.
35. Ibid., p. 216.
36. Ibid., p. 567.
37. Ibid., p. 281.
38. V. Kaverin, Epilog. Memuary [Epilogue: memoirs] (Moscow, 1989), p. 281.
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1. Vlast’ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsia, p. 739.
2. Ibid., pp. 110, 112.
3. Quoted in: Evgenii Gromov, Stalin: vlast’ i iskusstvo [Stalin: power and art] (Moscow, 1998), p. 113.
4. Quoted in: Poetika. Istoriia literatury. Lingvistika. Sb. k 70-letiu Viacheslava Vsevolodovicha Ivanova [Poetics, history of literature, linguistics: a collection for the 70th birthday of Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov] (Moscow, 1994), p. 184.
5. Maxim Gorky, Nesvoevremennye mysli. Zametki o revoliutsii i kul’ture [Untimely thoughts: notes on revolution and culture] (Moscow, 1990), p. 151.
6. Ibid.
7. Quoted in: Dmitrii Volkogonov, Lenin, in two volumes, volume 2 (Moscow, 1994), p. 184.
8. Stalin, Sochineniia, vol. 3, p. 386.
9. Ibid.
10. Konstantin Fedin, Sobraniie sochinenii [Collected works], in ten volumes, vol. 10 (Moscow, 1973), p. 41.
11. Vesy, 4 (1905), p. 50.
12. Blok, Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 6, p. 92.
13. Gorky, Nesvoevremennye mysli, p. 136.
14. Vladislav Khodasevich, Belyi koridor: Vospominaniia. Izbrannaia proza [White corridor: reminiscences and selected prose], in two volumes, vol. 1 (New York, 1982), p. 265.
15. Gorky, Nesvoevremennye mysli, p. 257.
16. Vlast’ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsia, p. 138.
17. Ibid., p. 125.
18. Ibid., p. 107.
19. Ibid., p. 104.
20. Stalin, Sochineniia, vol. 6, p. 188.
21. Ibid., pp. 187–188.
22. N. Punin, O Tatline [On Tatlin] (Moscow, 1994), p. 21.
23. Valentina Khodasevich, Portrety slovami [Portraits in words] (Moscow, 1987), p. 155.
24. Rodchenko, Opyty dlia budushchego, p. 235.
25. Ibid., p. 282.
26. Grigory Alexandrov in conversation with the author.
27. Sergei Eisenstein, Izbrannye proizvedeniia [Selected works], in six volumes, vol. 2 (Moscow, 1964), p. 55.
28. Vladimir Mayakovsky, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii [Complete collected works], in thirteen volumes, vol. 12 (Moscow, 1959), pp. 358–359.
29. Ibid., p. 95.
30. Boris Pasternak, Vozdushnye puti. Proza raznykh let [Aerial ways: prose of various years] (Moscow, 1982), p. 452.
31. Pravda, December 5, 1935.
32. Quoted in: Lenin, O literature, p. 226.
33. Ibid.
34. Alexander Gladkov, Pozdnie vechera. Vospominaniia, stat’i, zametki [Late evenings: reminiscences, articles, notes] (Moscow, 1986), p. 261.
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