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12. See H. P. von Strandmann, ‘Obostryaushchiesya paradoksy: Gitler, Stalin i germano-sovetskie ekonomicheskie svyazi. 1939–1941’, p. 376.

13. See J. Erickson, The Soviet High Command, p. 566.

14. See G. Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion, p. 129–35.

15. Dimitrov in Zastol’nye rechi Stalina, p. 234.

16. Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, pp. 40–1.

17. G. Dimitrov, Diario. Gli anni di Mosca (1934–1945), p. 302.

18. N. Lyashchenko, ‘O vystuplenii I. V. Stalina v Kremle, 5 maya 1941’, Volkogonov Papers, reel no. 8, p. 1.

19. G. Dimitrov, Diario. Gli anni di Mosca (1934–1945), p. 310.

20. These comments come from the notes taken by V. A. Malyshev: ‘Proidët desyatok let, i eti vstrechi ne vosstanovish’ uzhe v pamyati’, p. 117.

21. See D. Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, p. 97.

22. L. Samuelson, Plans for Stalin’s War Machine, p. 199.

23. N. Lyashchenko, ‘O vystuplenii I. V. Stalina v Kremle, 5 maya 1941’, Volkogonov Papers, reel 8, p. 3. The episode was recounted to Lyashchenko by Minister of Defence Semën Timoshenko.

37. Barbarossa

1. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 2, p. 8.

2. Ibid., p. 9.

3. See the archivally based account of G. Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion, p. 311.

4. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 2, p. 9.

5. Ibid., pp. 9–10.

6. Ibid., p. 10.

7. Ibid., pp. 12–13.

8. G. Dimitrov, Diario. Gli anni di Mosca (1934–1945), p. 319.

9. See G. Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion, pp. 275–8; D. Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, p. 242.

10. See G. Gorodetsky, Grand Delusion, pp. 53–5.

11. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 2, p. 9.

12. Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, p. 60.

13. ‘Zhurnal poseshcheniya I. V. Stalina v ego Kremlëvskom kabinete’ in Yu. Gor’kov, Gosudarstvennyi Komitet Oborony postanovlyaet, pp. 223–4.

14. Ibid.

15. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 2, p. 73.

16. ‘Zhurnal poseshcheniya I. V. Stalina v ego Kremlëvskom kabinete’, loc. cit., pp. 223–4.

17. A. Mikoyan. Tak bylo, p. 390.

18. Ibid., p. 391. Molotov recorded that Stalin ‘wasn’t himself’ that day but insisted that his mood was firm: Molotov. Poluderzhavnyi vlastelin, p. 60.

19. A. Mikoyan. Tak bylo, pp. 391–2.

20. Pravda, 1 July 1941.

21. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 71 gives the account supposedly provided by his father. This account has Moscow Party City Committee Secretary Alexander Shcherbakov, not Voznesenski, as having made the proposal for Molotov to take over the leadership.

22. Yu. Gor’kov, Gosudarstvennyi Komitet Oborony postanovlyaet, p. 501.

38. Fighting On

1. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 2, pp. 126–7.

2. R. Overy, Russia’s War, p. 171.

3. There is nothing in the memoirs of Molotov, Kaganovich, Khrushchëv and Zhukov — men who knew him very well in the war — to contradict this point.

4. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 2, p. 344.

5. Ibid., p. 346.

6. Ibid., p. 347.

7. Ibid., pp. 348–9.

8. Ibid., p. 361.

9. Ibid. This statement, like many others, was censored in the 1969 edition and allowed to be published only in its 1995 successor.

10. Ibid., p. 367.

39. Sleeping on the Divan

1. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 154.

2. G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya i razmyshleniya, vol. 3, pp. 215–16.

3. A. M. Vasilevski: interview in G. A. Kumanëv (ed.), Ryadom so Stalinym, p. 242.

4. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, pp. 153–4. This story was told to Sergo Beria by his mother, who spoke to Yakov.

5. Ibid., p. 155.

6. ‘Dnevnik M. A. Svanidze’ in Iosif Stalin v ob”yatiyakh sem’i, p. 159.

7. Testimony of Alexei Kapler: E. Biagi, Svetlana, p. 21.

8. Ibid., p. 27.

9. ’Dnevnik M. A. Svanidze’: Iosif Stalin v ob”yatiyakh sem’i, p. 161.

10. Ibid., p. 158.

11. S. Allilueva, Tol’ko odin god, p. 320.

12. Ibid., p. 326.

13. Ibid., pp. 129–30.

14. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 150.

15. S. Allilueva, Dvadtsat’ pisem k drugu, pp. 163–6.

16. Ibid., pp. 166–7.

17. Ibid., pp. 167–8.

18. Ibid., p. 169.

19. S. Beria, Beria, My Father, p. 152.

20. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 1, d. 5078.