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79. V. Baevskii, ‘Syn kulaka i vrag naroda: A. T. Tvardovskii v Smolenske v 1937 g.’, in Stalinizm v rossiiskoi provinstii: smolenskie arkhivnye dokumenty v pochtenii zarubezhnykh i rossiiskikh istorikov (Smolensk, 1999), p. 256.
80. Istoriia sovetskoi politicheskoi tsenzury (Moscow, 1997), p. 109; Baevskii, ‘Syn kulaka’, pp. 255–8.
81. I. Tvardovskii, ‘Stranitsy perezhitogo’, Iunost’, 1988, no. 3, pp. 14, 18.
82. Ibid., p. 23.
83. Ibid., p. 26.
84. Ibid., p. 27.
85. E. Iaroslavskii (ed.), Kak provodit’ chistku partii (Moscow, 1929), p. 10.
86. See S. Fitzpatrick, ‘The Problem of Class Identity in NEP Society’, in S. Fitzpatrick, A. Rabinowitch and R. Stites (eds.), Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture (Bloomington, 1991), pp. 21–33.
87. G. Alexopoulos, ‘Portrait of a Con Artist as a Soviet Man’, Slavic Review, vol. 57, no. 4 (Winter 1998), pp. 774–90. See further, S. Fitzpatrick, ‘Making a Self for the Times: Impersonation and Imposture in 20 th Century Russia’, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 2, no. 3 (Summer 2001), pp. 469–87; and same author, Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia (Princeton, 2005).
88. E. Bonner, Mothers and Daughters (London, 1992), p. 317.
89. S. Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Oxford, 1999), pp. 118– 38.
90. Geiger, The Family in Soviet Russia, pp. 141–2. See further Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism, p. 133.
91. B. Engel and A. Posadskaya- Vanderbeck, A Revolution of their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History (Boulder, 1997), pp. 29–32 (translation slightly altered for clarity).
92. Geiger, The Family in Soviet Russia, p. 143; N. Novak-Decker (ed.), Soviet Youth: Twelve Komsomol Histories (Munich, 1959), p. 99.
93. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 10, d. 339, l. 6.
94. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 10, d. 339, l. 3.
95. K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniia (Moscow, 1990), pp. 29–30.
96. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 10, d. 339, l. 5.
97. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka, p. 32.
98. Ibid., p. 33.
99. Ibid., pp. 35–6.
100. W. Leonhard, Child of the Revolution (London, 1957), p. 143.
101. J. Hellbeck, ‘Fashioning the Stalinist Soul: The Diary of Stepan Podlubnyi (1931–1939)’, Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, 44 (1996), pp. 350, 353–5 (translation slightly altered for clarity).
102. MSP, f. 3, op. 14, d. 3, l. 22.
103. MSP, f. 3, op. 14, d. 2, l. 31; d. 3, ll. 18–19.
104. MSP, f. 3, op. 14, d. 2, l. 38.
105. MSP, f. 3, op. 14, d. 2, l. 84.
106. MSP, f. 3, op. 14, d. 2, ll. 119– 20.
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1. SLFA, letter from Fania and Sonia Laskina to Gavril Popov, 18 May 1990; M. Laskin, ‘Vospominaniia’, ms., p. 31; interviews with Fania Laskina and Aleksei Simonov, Moscow, July 2004, March 2005.
2. T. Colton, Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), pp. 214, 270ff.
3. RGALI, f. 2772, op. 1, d. 93, l. 2; Colton, Moscow, pp. 280, 327.
4. RGALI, f. 2772, op. 1, d. 6, l. 24; d. 87, l. 5.
5. RGALI,, f. 2772, op. 1, d. 94, l. 55; D. Neutatz, Die Moskauer Metro: Von den ersten Planen bis zur Grossbaustelle des Stalinismus (1897– 1935), Beitrage zur Geschichte Osteuropas 33 (Vienna, 2001), pp. 173, 181–2; Colton, Moscow, p. 257; Pravda, 20 May 1935, p. 3.
6. RGALI, f. 2772, op. 1, d. 97, ll. 17– 18.
7. RGALI, f. 2772, op. 1, d. 87, l. 87; d. 90, ll. 20–21; interview with Fania Laskina, Moscow, November 2003.
8. E. Zaleski, Planning for Economic Growth in the Soviet Union, 1918–1932 (Chapel Hill, 1971), p. 120; N. Lampert, The Technical Intelligentsia and the Soviet State: A Study of Soviet Managers and Technicians 1928– 1935 (London, 1979), p. 71; S. Fitzpatrick, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934 (Cambridge, 1979), pp. 199–200; R. Davies, The Soviet Economy in Turmoil, 1929–30 (London, 1989), pp. 134–5.
9. A good sampling of these letters can be found in Obshchestvo i vlast’ 1930-e gody: povestvovanie v dokumentakh (Moscow, 1998) and Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents, edited by L. Siegelbaum and A. Sokolov (New Haven, 2000).
10. See L. Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance (Oxford, 1996); same author, ‘Popular Resistance in the Stalinist 1930s: Soliloquy of a Devil’s Advocate’, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 45–69; J. Rossman, ‘The Teikovo Cotton Workers’ Strike of April 1932: Class, Gender and Identity Politics in Stalin’s Russia’, Russian Review, vol. 56, no. 1 (January 1997), pp. 44–69.
