Thurston and B. Bonwetsch (eds.), The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union (Urbana, 2000), pp. 193 ff.
5. Simonov, 100 sutok voiny, pp, 17–21, 53, 121, 409–11.
6. Moskva voennaia 1941–1945: memuary i arkhivnye dokumenty (Moscow, 1995), p. 475; C. Merridale, Ivan’s War: The Red Army 1939–1945 (London, 2005), p. 84; Simonov, 100 sutok voiny, p. 50.
7. Moskva voennaia, p. 478; R. Bidlack, ‘The Political Mood in Leningrad During the First Year of the Soviet– German War’, Russian Review, vol. 59, no. 1 (January 2000), pp. 101–11; G. Bordiugov, ‘The Popular Mood in the Unoccupied Soviet Union: Continuity and Change during the War’, in The People’s War, pp. 59–60; M. Gorinov, ‘Muscovites’ Moods, 22 June 1941 to May 1942’, in The People’s War, pp. 119–20.
8. V. Shapovalov (ed.), Remembering the Darkness: Women in Soviet Prisons (Lanham, Maryland, 2001), pp. 150–51; MSP, f. 3, op. 35, d. 1, l. 1; d. 2, l. 34.
9. R. Overy, Russia’s War (London, 1997), p. 94.
10. E. Maksimova, Deti voennoi pory (Moscow, 1988), pp. 235–308; Merridale, Ivan’s War, p. 216.
11. Interviews with Iurii Streletsky, St Petersburg, May 2003, February 2004.
12. J. Dunstan, Soviet Schooling in the Second World War (Basingstoke, 1997), p. 82; J. Barber and M. Harrison, The Soviet Home Front, 1941–1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II (London, 1991), p. 128.
13. MSP, f. 3, op. 3, d. 2, ll. 14–15, 34–42; d. 3, l. 28.
14. MSP, f. 3, op. 45, d. 2, ll. 9, 53, 88, 165.
15. MSP, f. 3, op. 45, d. 2, ll. 11, 46.
16. Moskva voennaia, pp. 478, 481.
17. Ibid., pp. 149, 152.
18. K. Simonov, Sobranie sochinenii, 12 vols. (Moscow, 1979–87), vol. 1, p. 171. I have borrowed from the translation by Mike Munford (www.simonov.co.uk).
19. Interview with Fania Laskina, Moscow, February 2003; interview with Aleksei Simonov, Moscow, September 2003; SLFA, Sonia Laskina’s papers; RGALI, f. 1814, op. 10, d. 339, l. 41.
20. N. Pushnova, Valentina Serova: krug otchuzhdeniia (Moscow, 2003), pp. 150–52, 161–5; interview with Aleksei Simonov, Moscow, November 2003; RGALI, f. 1814, op. 9, d. 2788, l. 1.
21. A. Todd and M. Hayward (eds.), Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry (London, 1993), pp. 623–4 (translated by L. Yakovleva).
22. L. Lazarev, Konstantin Simonov. Ocherk zhizni i tvorchestva (Moscow, 1985), pp. 66–7, 71, 78–9; L. Pushkarev, Po dorogam voiny: vospominaniia fol’kloristafrontovika (Moscow, 1995), pp. 56–7; B. Pankin, Chetyre Ia Konstantina Simonova (Moscow 1999), p. 80; Poslednie pis’ma s fronta. Sbornik, 5 vols. (Moscow, 1992), vol. 3 (1943), p. 257.
23. RGALI. f. 1814, op. 1, d. 765, l. 9.
24. Pushkarev, Po dorogam voiny, pp. 31, 57–8.
25. On this see Merridale, Ivan’s War, pp. 93, 208, 272–4.
26. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 8, d. 93, ll. 61–2.
27. Simonov, Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 1, pp. 129–32.
28. Lazarev, Konstantin Simonov, pp. 38–9, 70–72; same author, Pamiat’ trudnoi godiny. Velikaia otechestvennaia voina v russkoi literature (Moscow, 2000, pp. 47–9; Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (Princeton, 1990), p. 13; R. Stites, ‘Soviet Russian Wartime Culture: Freedom and Control, Spontaneity and Consciousness’, in The People’s War, p. 175; V. Dunham, In Stalin’s Time: Middle-Class Values in Soviet Fiction (Durham, 1990), pp. 70–71; RGALI, f. 1814, op. 1, d. 772, l. 362.
29. L. Lazarev, Shestoi etazh. Kniga vospominaniia (Moscow, 1999), pp. 202–3.
30. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 9, d. 1532, l. 4; d. 775, l. 1; interviews with Fania Laskina, Moscow, June and September 2003; Pushnova, Valentina Serova, pp. 181–2, 290; T. Okunevskaia, Tat’ianin den’ (Moscow, 1998), pp. 119–20.
31. See e.g. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 1, d. 765, ll. 15, 66, 68, 77.
32. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 9, d. 1530, l. 2; d. 1533, ll. 29–30.
33. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 9, d. 2768, l. 10; d. 1, l. 1; d. 1533, ll. 18–19; d. 2768, l. 15.
34. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 9, d. 1, l. 3.
35. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 9, d. 1533, l. 19.
36. N. Ivanova, ‘Konstantin Simonov “Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniia”’, Znamia, 1997, no. 7; RGALI, f. 1814, op. 10, d. 339, l. 8; interview with Aleksei Simonov, London, May 2004; interview with Marina Babak, Moscow, November 2003.
37. RGALI, f. 1814, op. 6, d. 170, l. 17; interview with Aleksei Simonov, Moscow, September 2003; Lazarev, Shestoi etazh, p. 213.
38. Karaganov, Konstantin Simonov, pp. 9–10; A. Simonov, Chastnaia kollektsiia (Nizhny Novgorod, 1999), pp. 22–4; SLFA, Zhenia Laskina to Vladimir Lugovskoi, 28 August 1943; Sonia Laskina to Vladimir Lugovskoi, 21 August 1943; interview with Lazar Lazarev, Moscow, November 2003;
