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2. Ibid., pp. 470–2.

3. Ibid.,p. 471.

4. Speech by G. M. Malenkov, Cominform: Minutes of the Three Confererences, p. 82.

5. Istoriya Sovetskoi politicheskoi tsenzury, p. 507. In 1946 there were still sixteen Soviet republics: the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Republic was abolished in 1956.

6. Ibid.

7. I owe this idea to Rosamund Bartlett.

8. N. Voznesenskii, Voennaya ekonomika SSSR v period otechestvennoi voine, passim; Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin. Kratkaya biografiya (2nd edn); Istoriya Vsesoyuznoi Kommunisticheskoi Partii (Bol’shevikov). Kratkii kurs (2nd edn).

9. I. Ehrenburg, Post-War Years: 1945–1954, p. 160.

10. Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin. Kratkaya biografiya (2nd edn), passim.

11. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 1, p. xiii.

12. See J. Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin!, pp. 195–232.

13. Kniga o vkusnoi i zdorovoi pishche.

14. Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin. Kratkaya biografiya (2nd edn), pp. 1–161.

15. Ibid., pp. 172 and 208.

16. Ibid., p. 228.

17. S. Alliluev, Proidënnyi put’; A. S. Allilueva, Vospominaniya.

18. RGASPI, f. 668, op. 1, d. 15, p. 67.

19. See in particular sections of the original text of Anna’s memoir in RGASPI, f. 4, op. 2, d. 45.

20. S. Alliluev, Proidënnyi put’, p. 109.

21. A. S. Allilueva, Vospominaniya, pp. 165, 167, 168 and 191.

22. RGASPI, f. 668, op. 1, d. 15, p. 67.

23. Ibid., p. 69.

24. J. Bardach and K. Gleeson, Surviving Freedom, p. 117.

25. Really he had turned seventy in 1948: see above, p. 14.

26. Churchill and Stalin: Documents from the British Archives, doc. 70, p. 4: conversation of Churchill and Stalin at Potsdam, 17 July 1945.

27. Vostochnaya Evropa v dokumentakh rossiiskikh arkhivov, 1945–1953 gg., vol. 1, p. 407.

28. Ibid., p. 443.

29. Ibid., p. 582.

51. Dangerous Liaisons

1. See above, p. 501 and below, p. 567.

2. See the account by A. M. Ledovskii in I. V. Kovalër, ‘Dvenadtsat’ sovetov I. V. Stalina rukovodstvu kompartii Kitaya’, p. 130.

3. Ibid., pp. 134–9.

4. ‘Posetiteli kremlëvskogo kabineta Stalina’, pp. 49–50.

5. G. Dimitrov, The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933–1949, p. 443. Dimitrov’s diary entry concurs in essentials with Djilas’s memoir, at least about the Chinese communists in Conversations with Stalin, p. 141.

6. See D. Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb, p. 277.

7. A. A. Gromyko, Pamyatnoe, vol. 2, pp. 249–50.

8. See D. Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb, pp. 280–1.

9. Quoted by V. Zubok and C. Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War, pp. 66–7.

10. Ibid., pp. 67–8.

11. Ibid., pp. 68–9.

12. Ibid., p. 69.

13. V. Zubok and C. Pleshakov give the intelligence reports on which Stalin based his judgement: Ibid., p. 63.

14. See D. Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb, p. 283.

15. V. Semichastnyi, Bespokoinoe serdtse, p. 58

16. See Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb, p. 285.

17. Ibid.

52. Vozhd and Intellectual

1. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 143.

2. Ibid.

3. A. Mgeladze, Stalin, kakim ya ego znal, p. 271.

4. See D. Joravsky, The Lysenko Affair, chapter 3, ff.,

5. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 143.

6. A. Malenkov, O moëm ottse Georgii Malenkove, p. 24.

7. Pravda: 10 February 1946 (speech to electors of the Stalin Electoral District); 13 April 1948 (speech to reception of official Finnish delegation); 15 October 1952 (speech to the Nineteenth Party Congress).

8. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 16, pp. 114–57.

9. A. Mgeladze, Stalin, kakim ya ego znal, pp. 224–5.

10. V. Brodskii and V. Kalinnikova, ‘Otkrytie sostoyalos”, Nauka i zhizn’, no. 1 (1988).

11. Konstantin Simonov, chief editor of Literaturnaya gazeta, wrote down his impressions in a self-censoring form, in his diary; and later, in 1979, he wrote additions and a commentary on the meeting: Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya, pp. 113–16.

12. Ibid., p. 111.

13. Ibid.

14. This is not to say that he would not have preferred the Soviet order to have been more amenable to his commands: see above, pp. 537–40.