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15. Vosemnadtsatyi s”ezd Vsesoyuznoi Kommunisticheskoi Partii (b), p. 36.

16. Ibid.

17. Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, pp. 346, 348, 351 and 352–3.

18. Ibid., p. 353.

19. Ibid., p. 19.

20. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 3, d. 165: V. V. Piotrovskii, Po sledam drevnikh kul’tur, p. 77.

21. Ibid., p. 8.

22. See Roy Medvedev’s memoir in Zh. and R. Medvedev, Neizvestnyi Stalin, pp. 259–60.

23. I. V. Stalin, Marksizm i voprosy yazykoznaniya, in Sochineniya, vol. 16, p. 119.

24. Ibid., pp. 123 and 133.

25. Ibid., p. 145.

26. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 237.

27. I. V. Stalin, Marksizm i voprosy yazykoznaniya in Sochineniya, vol. 16, p. 159.

28. Ibid., p. 143.

29. Ibid., p. 169.

30. Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, p. 301.

31. K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya.

32. Ekonomicheskie problemy sotsializma v SSSR in I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 16, pp. 188–304.

33. Ibid., p. 197.

34. Ibid., p. 226.

35. Ibid.

36. Ibid., p. 224.

37. Ibid., p. 256.

38. Ibid., p. 231.

39. Ibid., pp. 235–6.

40. See above, p. 94.

41. See above, pp. 153–5.

42. See above, p. 226.

43. See above, pp. 432–4.

44. See also above, p. 390.

45. See B. Pinkus, The Soviet Government and the Jews, 1948–1967, pp. 151–64. I am grateful to John Klier for help in elaborating this paragraph.

46. See L. Rucker, Staline, Israël et les Juifs, p. 238.

47. Tak govoril Kaganovich, p. 211. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 211: apparently Lavrenti Beria too thought Stalin was not an anti-semite.

48. Tak govoril Kaganovich, p. 175.

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1. See above, pp. 231–2 and 437–8.

2. P. Moshentseva, Tainy kremlëvskoi bol’nitsy, pp. 6–7.

3. Y. Rapoport, The Doctors’ Plot, p. 218.

4. Politbyuro TsK VKP(b) i Sovet Ministrov SSSR, 1945–1953, p. 398: his stay in the south lasted from 10 August to 22 December 1951.

5. See the unpublished memoirs of K. Charkviani, p. 35.

6. These observations come from a visit on 11 September 2002.

7. A barracks for the guards was adjacent to Stalin’s quarters.

8. Visit by author: 11 September 2002.

9. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 140; S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, p. 191.

10. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 140.

11. Ibid.

12. Tak govoril Kaganovich, p. 52.

13. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 527.

14. See S. Wheatcroft, ‘From Team-Stalin to Degenerate Tyranny’, p. 92.

15. L. M. Kaganovich, Pamyatnye zapiski, p. 498.

16. See O. Khlevnyuk, ‘Stalin i organy gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti v posle-voennyi period’, p. 544.

17. A. Mgeladze, Stalin, kakim ya ego znal, pp. 71–2.

18. Ibid., pp. 72–3.

19. Ibid., pp. 83–4.

20. Ibid. See also S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 134.

21. Ibid., p. 92; S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 134.

22. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 529; K. Charkviani’s memoirs, op. cit., p. 21.

23. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 134.

24. Ibid., p. 141.

25. Ibid., p. 142.

26. Ibid., p. 240.

27. Politbyuro TsK VKP(b) i Sovet Ministrov SSSR, 1945–1953, pp. 349–51.

28. A. Mgeladze, Stalin, kakim ya ego znal, p. 91.

29. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 237.

30. J. Bardach and K. Gleeson, Surviving Freedom, pp. 87 and 235.

31. J. Rubenstein and V. P. Naumov (eds), Stalin’s Secret Pogrom.

32. See G. V. Kostyrchenko, Tainaya politika Stalina. Vlast’ i antisemitizm, pp. 671–84.

33. M. G. Pervukhin, ‘Korotko o perezhitom’, p. 143.

34. L. M. Kaganovich, Pamyatnye zapiski, p. 498.

35. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 570.

36. K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya, p. 209.

37. Ibid., p. 210: I have put the text together from Simonov’s remarks. No stenographic record was made of the proceedings: see A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 575.

38. K. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya, p. 210.

39. Ibid., p. 209.

40. A. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, pp. 574–5.

41. M. G. Pervukhin, ‘Korotko o perezhitom’, p. 144.

42. Politbyuro TsK VKP(b) i Sovet Ministrov SSSR, 1945–1953, p. 89

43. Ibid., pp. 89–90.

44. Ibid., pp. 432–5.

45. Ibid., p. 434.