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6.

74. MP, f. 12, op. 16, d. 2, l. 23; op. 17, d. 2, l. 52.

75. MP, f. 12, op. 17, d. 2, ll. 52–3.

76. B. Slutskii, Sud’ba. Stikhi raznykh let (Moscow, 1990), p. 40.

77. See e.g. MP, f. 4, op. 5, d. 2, l. 20; op. 24, d. 2, ll. 70–73. Some oral historians have argued that under Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian government, after 2000, the Russians became ‘socialized into reticence’, as they had been in the Soviet period, and that, compared to the early 1990s, they were ‘reluctant to give candid interviews’ (D. Bertaux, P. Thompson and A. Rotkirch (eds.), On Living Through Soviet Russia (London, 2004), pp. 8–9).

78. MSP, f. 3, op. 14, d. 3, ll. 52– 4.

79. MSP, f. 3, op. 14, d. 2, ll. 41–5, 59–64, 76, 85–9, 93, 119; d. 3, ll. 34, 39–40, 45–6. Antonia died in December 2006.

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AFSBTO

 Archive of the Federal Security Service of Tambov Oblast, Tambov

AFSBVO

 Archive of the Federal Security Service of Vologda Oblast, Vologda

AMILO

 Archive of the Moscow Historical-Literary Society (‘Vozvrashchenie’)

ARAN

 Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

GAOO

 State Archive of Orel Oblast, Orel

GAPO

 State Archive of Perm Oblast, Perm

GARF

 State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow

GARK

 State Archive of the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar

GASO

 State Archive of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

GAVO

 State Archive of Vologda Oblast, Vologda

GMPIR

 State Museum of Political History of Russia, St Petersburg

GOPAPO

 State Socio-Political Archive of Perm Oblast, Perm

HP

 Harvard Project (‘Project on the Soviet Social System’), Harvard University, USA

IISH

 International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

IRL RAN

 Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences (‘Pushkin House’), St Petersburg

MM*

 Archive of the Memorial Society, Moscow

MP*

 Archive of the Memorial Society, Perm

MSP*

 Archive of the Memorial Society, St Petersburg

OR RNB

 Manuscripts Department, Russian National Library, St Petersburg