Stalin (72 page)

no. 2 (1992): 24–25.

85

. Vasilevskii,

p. 189.

86

. Cited in

no. 5 (1995): 41.

87

. GARF (not yet catalogued). From the memoirs of Yakov Chadaev.

88

. Zolotarev,

vol. 16 (5–2), pp. 236–239.

89

. Interview with Georgy Zhukov in Simonov,

p. 366.

90

. Vasilevskii,

pp. 195–196.

91

. Krivosheev et al.,

p. 179.

92

. Zolotarev,

vol. 16 (5–2), pp. 263–264.

93

. After reading this letter, Stalin placed it in his personal archive. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 762, ll. 6–8.

94

. K. K. Rokossovskii,

(Moscow, 2013), p. 211.

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896–1968) was a much-acclaimed marshal of the Great Patriotic War. He was arrested during the purges and spent 1937–1940 in prison. During the war he was placed in charge of armies and fronts. In 1949–1956 he served as Poland’s minister of defense before holding senior posts in the Soviet ministry. His rather candid memoirs,

(A soldier’s duty), were published in 1968 with major excisions. An uncensored edition came out in 1997.

95

. Cited in Zolotarev,

vol. 16 (5–2), pp. 276–279.

96

. O. A. Rzheshevskii,

(Moscow, 2004), pp. 348–383.

97

. Krivosheev et al.,

pp. 60–61.

98

.

no. 4 (2005): 65.

99

. Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov (1896–1962) was a senior Soviet military officer who served as deputy head of the General Staff during the war years and often reported directly to Stalin.

100

. Vasilevskii,

pp. 311.

101

. A. Eremenko,

(Moscow, 1986), pp. 36, 38; Dmitri Volkogonov,

(New York, 1991), p. 481; Deviatov et al.,

pp. 184, 186.

102

.

(Moscow, 1957). Stalin’s letter to Churchill is dated 9 August 1943 (vol. 1, pp. 141–142). Stalin’s letter to Roosevelt is dated 8 August 1943 (vol. 2, p. 77).

103

. Stalin’s letter to Churchill, 24 June 1943, which he sent that same day to Roosevelt for his information;

vol. 2, pp. 72–75.

104

. Cited in S. M. Shtemenko,

(Moscow, 1989), p. 148.

105

. Golovanov,

pp. 351–356.

106

. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 377, l. 61.

107

. Cited in Gorinov et al.,

pp. 694–695;

no. 2 (1995): 138–139.

108

.

no. 1 (1997): 66–68.

109

. V. A. Zolotarev, ed.,

vol. 16 (5–4) (Moscow, 1999), p. 12.

110

. For an examination of the populations affected by mass killings in the geographic region between Germany and the Soviet Union by both Stalin and Hitler, see Timothy Snyder,

(New York, 2010).

111

.

pp. 346–348.

112

. Khaustov et al.,

p. 405.

113

. Alexander Statiev, “The Nature of Anti-Soviet Armed Resistance, 1942–1944: The North Caucasus, the Kalmyk Autonomous Republic, and Crimea,”

6, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 285–318.

114

. V. A. Kozlov and S. V. Mironenko, eds., “

(Moscow, 1994).

115

. GARF, f. R-9401, op. 2, d. 64, l. 167.

116

. Ibid., l. 166.

117

. Ibid., l. 165

118

. Ibid., d. 66, ll. 9–10, 40–46.

119

. Ibid., ll. 334–340.

120

. Ibid., d. 67, ll. 319–324; d. 68, ll. 268–273.

121

. N. M. Naimark,

(Cambridge, MA, 1995).

122

. Khaustov et al.,

pp. 502–504.

123

. Cited in M. Dzhilas [Milovan Djilas],

(Moscow, 1992), p. 82.

124

. Transcript of conversations between Stalin and Roosevelt; RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 235, l. 8.

125

. N. V. Petrov,

(Moscow, 2011), pp. 44–52.

126

. Cited in V. A. Zolotarev,

vol. 16 (5–3) (Moscow, 1996), p. 185.

127

. RGASPI, f. 17, op. 3, d. 1045, l. 55.

128

. Zolotarev,

vol. 16 (5–2), p. 420.

129

. Interview with Aleksandr Vasilevsky in Simonov,

p. 446.

130

. Vasilevskii,

pp. 496–497.

131

. Shtemenko,

pp. 102–104. V. A. Zolotarev, ed.,

vol. 23 (12–1) (Moscow, 1997), pp. 11–12.

132

. From a 2 April 1965 memorandum from Marshal Konev to the Central Committee Presidium; Shtemenko,

pp. 104, 192; I. S. Konev,

(Moscow, 2000), p. 498.

133

. Interview with Zhukov in Simonov,

p. 377.

134

. Konev,

p. 498.

135

. Vasilevskii,

p. 497.

136

. The SNK Bureau’s Commission on Current Issues existed from June 1941 to December 1942. The SNK Bureau met in regular session from December 1942 through August 1945. Background on the establishment of these bodies can be found in RGASPI, f. 17, op. 163, d. 1326, l. 233; d. 1350, l. 40; d. 1356, ll. 120–121; d. 1406, l. 27.

137

. Ibid., d. 1356, ll. 120–121.

138

. Ibid., d. 1406, l. 27.

139

. State Defense Committee resolution dated 4 February 1942; RGASPI, f. 644, op. 2, d. 36, ll. 32–35.

140

. Mikoian,

p. 465.

141

. APRF, f. 3, op. 52, d. 251, l. 93.

142

. In December 1943, Andrei Andreev, a Central Committee secretary and Politburo member, was appointed people’s commissar for agriculture.

143

. APRF, f. 3, op. 52, d. 251, l. 93; Mikoian,

p. 466.

144

. RGASPI, f. 17, op. 163, d. 1420, l. 136.

145

. Bulganin was made a member of the State Defense Committee in place of Voroshilov, with whose performance Stalin was displeased. Ibid., op. 3, d. 1051, l. 44, 46.

146

. V. A. Zolotarev, ed.,

vol. 13 (2–3) (Moscow, 1997), p. 332.

147

. Ibid., p. 337–338.

148

. David Brandenberger,

(Cambridge, MA, and London, 2002).

149

. Chernobaev,

p. 417.

150

. From notes taken by the head of the Council on the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, G. G. Karpov, on the meeting between Stalin and the church leaders. GARF, f. R-6991, op. 1, d. 1, ll. 1–10; M. I. Odintsov,

(Moscow, 1994), pp. 283–291.

151

. Rzheshevskii,

p. 420; Michael Ellman, “Churchill on Stalin: A Note,”

58, no. 6 (September, 2006): 969–970.

152

. GARF, f. R-9401, op. 2, d. 94, ll. 15–27.

no. 5 (1993): 123–128.

153

. Cited in D. Omel’chuk and S. Iurchenko, “Krymskaia konferentsiia: Neizvestnye stranitsy,”

no. 2 (2001): 122–123.

154

.

vol. 2, pp. 204, 205; V. Pechatnov,

(Moscow, 2006), pp. 305–306.

155

.

vol. 2, pp. 211, 212; Commission for the Publication of Diplomatic Documents under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the U.S.S.R., comp.,

(Honolulu, 2001), p. 214.

156

. Secret telegram from Joseph Stalin to Dwight D. Eisenhower on the eve of the Battle of Berlin;

no. 3 (2000): 180–181.

157

. Krivosheev et al.,

p. 171.

158

. Shtemenko,

p. 265.

159

. V. A. Zolotarev and G. N. Sevast’ianov, eds.,

vol. 3 (Moscow, 1999), p. 279.

160

.

no. 4 (2005): 99.

1

. A. Ostrovskii,

(Moscow, 2002), pp. 235–236.

2

. This letter was included in a summary of incoming correspondence prepared for Stalin and then sent to Bulganin, evidently so he could look into granting the requests for assistance; RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 895, l. 59.

3

. Ostrovskii,

p. 249.

4

. Ibid., pp. 251–252.

5

. Ibid., pp. 308–309, 329, 332–334.

6

. Ibid., pp. 340–341.

7

. Cited in ibid., pp. 349, 357.

8

.

no. 10 (1989): 190.

9

.

no. 8 (1991): 150.

10

. Cited in Iu. G. Murin, comp.,

(Moscow, 1993), pp. 7–8.

11

. Ibid., p. 154.

12

. Ibid., p. 22.

13

. Cited in V. A. Nevezhin,

(Moscow, 2011), p. 279.

14

. “Pis’ma N. S. Alliluevoi Z. G. Ordzhonikidze,”

no. 5 (1993): 74.

15