Stalin: A Biography

15. Ibid., p. 118.

16. Ibid., p. 117.

17. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 3, p. 389.

18. Ibid., p. 390.

19. L. Trotskii, Stalin. An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence, pp. 225–6.

20. R. M. Slusser, Stalin in October, p. 239.

21. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 120.

22. M. P. Zhakov, ‘Pis’mo M. Zhakova’, pp. 88–93.

23. Ibid.

24. A. S. Allilueva, Vospominaniya, p. 61.

25. See R. Service, Lenin: A Political Life, p. 262.

26. I am unconvinced by R. Slusser’s attempt to downgrade Stalin’s role in October 1917 in Stalin in October, chaps 6–7. But I wish to record my appreciation of the book’s empirical research.

27. F. S. Alliluev, ‘Vstrechi s t. Stalinym’ (unpublished typescript, n.d.): RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 668, p. 39.

28. L. D. Trotski, Stalin. An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence, p. 352.

29. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 134: co-signed statement of 3 November 1917.

30. GDMS, Hall 2.

14. People’s Commissar

1. F. S. Alliluev, ‘Vstrecha’ (unpublished typescript, n.d.): RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 668, p. 30.

2. See below, p. 359. Fëdor Alliluev’s memoir nevertheless remained unpublished, presumably because Stalin preferred to claim obscurity on his own behalf rather than to let others do it for him.

3. S. Pestkovskii, ‘Vospominaniya o rabote v Narkomnatse (1917–1919 gg.)’, pp. 129–30.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid., pp. 127.

6. See the unpublished account by F. S. Alliluev: ‘V Moskve. (Vstrechi s t. Stalinym)’, RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 663, p. 18.

7. A. Allilueva, Vospominaniya, p. 187.

8. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 1, d. 5397, p. 2.

9. Collegium meeting, item 8, 21 April 1918: GARF, f. 1318, op. 1, d. 1, p. 11.

10. GARF, f. 1318, op. 1, d. 1, p. 3/1a: People’s Commissariat for Nationalities’ Affairs collegium, 15 February (2 March) 1918.

11. See the undated collegium discussion at an undated meeting: GARF, f. 1318, op. 1, d. 1, pp. 52–5.

12. Collegium meeting, item 5, 8 March 1919: GARF, f. 1318, op. 1, d. 2, pp. 94–5.

13. Tretii Vserossiiskii S”ezd Sovetov Rabochikh, Soldatskikh i Krestyanskikh Deputatov, p. 73.

14. Ibid., p. 74 and 78–9.

15. Commission for the Drafting of the RSFSR Constitution: GARF, f. 6980, op. 1, d. 3, p. 12 (5 April 1918).

16. Ibid. (10 April 1918).

17. Ibid., p. 22 (12 April 1918).

18. Pravda, 1 April 1918.

19. See above, p. 75–6.

20. RGASPI, f. 558, 2, d. 42. On this file see M. Kun, Stalin: An Unknown Portrait, pp. 82–3.

21. ‘M. I. Ulyanova ob otnoshenii V. I. Ul’yanova i I. V. Stalina’, ITsKKPSS, no. 12 (1989), p. 197.

22. See above, pp. 100–1.

23. Commission for the Drafting of the RSFSR Constitution: GARF, f. 6980, op. 1, d. 6, p. 38 (19 April 1918). The Russian phrase here was avtonomnaya oblastnaya respublika.

24. Ibid., p. 10.

25. Ibid., p. 12.

26. Ibid., p. 1.

27. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 150.

28. Bol’shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912–1927, p. 36.

29. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 173.

30. Ibid., p. 171.

31. Ibid., p. 172.

32. See above, p. 136.

33. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta, p. 178 (19 January 1918).

34. Ibid., p. 200.

35. Ibid., p. 202.

36. Ibid., p. 212.

37. GARF, f. R-130, op. 2, d. 1(3), item 4 (3 April 1918).

15. To the Front!

1. F. S. Alliluev, ‘V puti. (Vstrechi s t. Stalinym)’, RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 663, p. 18.

2. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 4, p. 116.

3. See A. Zimin, U istokov stalinizma, 1918–1923, p. 134.

4. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 4, pp. 120–1.

5. F. S. Alliluev, ‘V Tsaritsyne. (Vstrechi s t. Stalinym)’, RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 663, pp. 20–2.

6. F. S. Alliluev, ‘Obed u Minina’: RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 668, p. 57.

7. I. V. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol. 4, p. 118.

8. If Stalin had repeated his risky behaviour after his trip to Abganerovo-Zutovo, there would surely have been fanfares about it in the memoirs written in the years of his supremacy.

9. F. S. Alliluev, ‘T. Stalin na bronepoezde’: RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 668, p. 90.

10. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 1, d. 258, p. 1.

11. F. S. Alliluev, ‘Vstrechi s Stalinym’: RGASPI, f. 558, op. 4, d. 668, p. 39.

12. Ibid., p. 38.

13. Ibid., p. 35.

14. S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, p. 90.

15. Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, p. 297.

16. A. Allilueva, Vospominaniya, p. 170.

17. See below, pp. 289–91.