Notes

CHAPTER ONE

1.   A.V. Kvashonkin et al., Bolshevistskoe rukovodstvo: perepiska, 1912–1927 (Moscow, Rosspen, 1996), p. 16.

2.   Dmitri Volkogonov, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, translated and edited by Harold Shukman (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1991), p. 155.

CHAPTER TWO

1.   Cited in Bertram D. Wolfe, Three Who Made a Revolution (New York, Dial Press, 1948), p. 453.

2.   Leon Trotsky, Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence, edited and translated by Charles Malamuth (New York, Universal Library, 1941), p. 23, citing Joseph Iremashvili.

CHAPTER THREE

1.   Stalin’s report on the congress was published in the local party press and is cited in Wolfe, Three Who Made a Revolution (pp. 465–6).

2.   Cited in Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed. Trotsky: 1879–1921 (London, Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 90.

3.   Trotsky, Stalin, p. 417.

4.   Stalin, Collected Works, vol. II, (Russian edition), pp. 50–1, cited in Wolfe, Three Who Made a Revolution, p. 468.

CHAPTER FOUR

1.   Kvashonkin et al., Bolshevistskoe rukovodstvo, pp. 17–21; the letter to Malinovsky is cited in R.A. Medvedev, O Staline i stalinizme (Moscow, 1990), pp. 25–6.

2.   Russia No. 1 (1921): Report (Political and Economic) of the Committee to Collect Information on Russia (London, HMSO, 1921), p. 26.

CHAPTER FIVE

1.   David Shub, Lenin: A Biography (Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1948), p. 377.

2.   Ibid., pp. 381–2.

3.   Dmitri Volkogonov, Trotsky; The Eternal Revolutionary, translated and edited by Harold Shukman (London, HarperCollins, 1996), p. 266.

CHAPTER SIX

1.   Churchill, W., The Second World War (London, Cassell, 1951), vol. 4, pp. 447–8.

2.   Lars T. Lih et al. (eds), Stalin’s Letters to Molotov, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick (New Haven, CT and London, Yale University Press, 1995), p. 213.

3.   Dmitri Volkogonov, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, p. 145.

CHAPTER SEVEN

1.   For this account I am indebted to Iverach Macdonald who was present as The Times correspondent.

2.   Volkogonov, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, pp. 197–9.

3.   Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1929–1940 (London, Oxford University Press, 1963, p. 412.

CHAPTER EIGHT

1.   Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (London, HarperCollins, 1991), p. xviii.

2.   Volkogonov, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy, p. 460, citing Soviet Ministry of Defence Archives.

3.   Feliks Chuev, Molotov Remembers, edited with introduction and notes by Albert Resis (Chicago, Ivan. R. Dee, 1993), p. 325.

4.   Edvard Radzinsky, Stalin (London, Sceptre, 1996), p. 522.

5.   Arkady Vaksberg, Stalin Against the Jews, translated by Antonia Bouis (New York, Knopf, 1994), p. 247.

6.   Cited in Vadim. Z. Rogovin, 1937: Stalin’s Year of Terror (Oak Park, Missouri, Mehring Books, 1998), p. 156.

7.   Cited in Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge, revised and expanded edition, edited and translated by George Shriver (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 867.