Stalin: A Biography

5. Marxist Militant

1. Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin: biografiya (2nd edn), p. 10. Since such an occupation was hardly to Stalin’s credit as a Marxist militant it is probably true.

2. Hall I, GDMS.

3. See the magnetic tape and various written records in Hall II, GDMS.

4. Istoricheskie mesta Tbilisi. Putevoditel’ po mestam, svyazannym s zhizn’yu i deyatel’nost’yu I. V. Stalina, pp. 30–1.

5. Ibid., p. 32.

6. Lado Ketskhoveli: Sbornik dokumentov i materialov, pp. 174–5.

7. J. Iremaschwili, Stalin und die Tragödie Georgiens, p. 24.

8. A. Gio, Zhizn’ podpol’nika, p. 25 (writing about the group led by Stalin’s acquaintance Silva Dzhibladze).

9. Ibid., p. 54.

10. J. Davrichewy, Ah! Ce qu’on rigolait bien, p. 111.

11. N. Zhordaniya, Moya zhizn’, pp. 29–30.

12. J. Iremaschwili, Stalin und die Tragödie Georgiens, p. 25.

13. Ibid.

14. G. Uratadze, Vospominaniya gruzinskogo sotsial-demokrata, pp. 66–7.

15. See E. Smith, The Young Stalin, p. 78.

16. See below, pp. 72–4.

17. See the forthcoming history of Georgian Marxism by Stephen Jones, chapter 4. A succinct summary of N. Zhordaniya’s ideas appeared in his ‘Nat-sional’nyi vopros’, Bor’ba, no. 2 (1914), pp. 26–31.

18. Stalin’s account at a Kremlin meeting of 28 December 1945, recorded by V. D. Mochalov: Slovo tovarishchu Stalinu, p. 461.

19. A. Yenukidze, ‘Istoriya organizatsiya i raboty nelegal’nykh tipografii R.S.D.R.P. (bol’shevikov) na Kavkaze za vremya ot 1900 po 1906 g.’ in Tekhnika bol’shevistskogo podpol’ya, p. 20.

20. L. B. Krasin, ‘Bol’shevistskaya partiinaya tekhnika’ in ibid., p. 10.

21. G. Uratadze, Vospominaniya gruzinskogo sotsial-demokrata, p. 193; A. S. Yenukidze, ‘Istoriya organizatsii i raboty nelegal’nykh tipografii R.S.R.P. (bol’shevikov) na Kavkaze’, pp. 20–5; N. Zhordaniya, Moya zhizn’, p. 35.

22. S. T. Arkhomed, Rabochee dvizhenie i sotsial-demokratiya na Kavkaze, pp. 81–4.

23. G. Uratadze, Vospominaniya gruzinskogo sostial-demokrata, pp. 66–7.

24. S. T. Arkhomed, Rabochee dvizhenie i sotsial-demokratiya na Kavkaze, pp. 81–4.

25. Stalin i Khasim (1901–1902 gg.). The importance of this account was established by M. Kun, Stalin: An Unknown Portrait, pp. 49–50. My thanks to George Hewitt for advice on Abkhazian nomenclature and on the peasant’s probable nationality.

26. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 1, pp. 11–31.

27. See Stalin’s account at a Kremlin meeting of 28 December 1945, recorded by V. D. Mochalov: Slovo tovarishchu Stalinu, p. 461.

28. Ibid., p. 462.

29. A. Yenukidze, ‘Istoriya organizatsiya i raboty nelegal’nykh tipografii’, p. 28.

30. Ibid.

31. N. Zhordaniya, Moya zhizn’, p. 30.

32. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 1, pp. 7 and 9.

33. S. Kavtaradze, tsareulis purtsebli, vol. 1, pp. 17–20. I am grateful to Zakro Megreleshvili for his help in translating this important memoir for me.

34. G. Uratadze, Vospominaniya gruzinskogo sotsial-demokrata, p. 70.

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

36. G. Uratadze, Vospominaniya gruzinskogo sotsial-demokrata, p. 68.

37. Ibid., p. 66.

38. Ibid., p. 65.

39. Ibid.

40. Ibid., p. 66.

41. S. Kavtaradze, tsareulis purtsebli, vol. 1, p. 17.

42. Ibid., p. 18.

43. Ibid., p. 20; Stalin’s account as given to a confidential meeting of leading official propagandists on 28 December 1945: see V. D. Mochalov’s notes in Slovo tovarishchu Stalinu, p. 463.

44. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 1, p. x: comment by the anonymous editorial group of the Institute of Marx–Engels–Lenin.

45. S. Kavtaradze, Tsareulis purtsebli, vol. 1, pp. 17–20.

46. Ibid., p. 18.

47. Ibid.

6. The Party and the Caucasus

1. S. Kavtaradze, tsareulis purtsebli, vol. 1, p. 24.

2. Revolyutsiya 1905 goda v Zakavkaz’i, pp. 70–1.

3. Ibid., p. 89.

4. S. Vereshchak, ‘Stalin v tyur’me’, part 2, Dni, 24 January 1928.