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66. Ibid., L.12. Rolland wanted to publish the transcript of the interview but Stalin didn’t respond to his requests. An English translation of the French version of the transcript may be found here: https://mltoday.com/from-the-archives-1935-interview-of-stalin-by-romain-rolland.

67. W. Z. Goldman, Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2007 p.72.

68. D. M. Crowe, ‘Late Imperial and Soviet “Show” Trials, 1878–1938’ in D. M. Crowe (ed.), Stalin’s Soviet Justice: ‘Show’ Trials, War Crimes Trials and Nuremberg, Bloomsbury Academic: London 2019, and W. Chase, ‘Stalin as Producer: The Moscow Show Trials and the Construction of Mortal Threats’ in S. Davies & J. Harris (eds), Stalin: A New History, Cambridge: Cambridge 2005.

69. Ibid., pp.105–8.

70. Getty & Naumov, The Road to Terror, pp.565–6.

71. The full text (in Russian) of Stalin’s speech to the plenum may be found in Lubyanka: Stalin i Glavnoe Upravlenie Gosbezopastnosti NKVD, 1937–1938, Demokratiya: Moscow 2004 doc.31. For a translated extract see https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1937/03/03.htm. Accessed 4 August 2021.

72. P. Whitewood, ‘Stalin’s Purge of the Red Army and the Misperception of Security Threats’ in J. Ryan & S. Grant (eds), Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions and Controversies, Bloomsbury Academic: London 2020 p.49. See also the same author’s The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Soviet Military, University Press of Kansas: Lawrence 2015.

73. Lubyanka: Stalin i Glavnoe Upravlenie, doc.92.

74. Shearer & Khaustov, Stalin and the Lubianka, doc.104.

75. Ibid., doc.109 and J. Harris, The Great Fear: Stalin’s Terror of the 1930s, Oxford University Press: Oxford 2016 pp.176–7. For an analysis of what prompted these Politburo decisions, see also J. Arch Getty, ‘Pre-Election Fever: The Origins of the 1937 Mass Operations’ in Harris, The Anatomy of Terror. According to other figures, the plan was to repress 268,950 kulaks, including 75,950 executions. In the event, 767,397 people were repressed, of which 386,798 were executed.

76. On Stalin and Spain see O. Khlevniuk, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator, Yale University Press: London & New Haven 2015 pp.153–6. Also: D. Kowalsky, ‘Stalin and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939: The New Historiography’ in Ryan & Grant (eds), Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism.

77. Khlevniuk, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator, p.155.

78. I. Banac (ed.), The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933–1949, Yale University Press: London & New Haven 2003 p.67.

79. Bol’shaya Tsenzura: Pisateli i Zhurnalisty v Strane Sovetov, 1917–1956, doc.373. Stalin’s handwritten corrections to the draft of the article may be viewed here: RGASPI, F.558, Op.11, D.1124, doc.6. The article was published in Pravda on 24 August, though not precisely in the form prescribed by Stalin.

80. See the documents in Getty & Naumov, The Road to Terror, chap.12.

81. Stalin’s report to the 18th party congress in J. Stalin, Leninism, Allen & Unwin: London 1940, esp. pp.656–62.

82. The original of the document was on display at an exhibition in Moscow in 2016.

83. M. Folly, G. Roberts & O. Rzheshevsky, Churchill and Stalin: Comrades-in-Arms during the Second World War, Pen & Sword Books: Barnsley 2019 doc.38 p.145.

84. RGASPI, F558, Op.3, D.26 p.198 of the book for Stalin’s underlining.

85. Ch. Rossel’, Razvedka i Kontr-Razvedka, Moscow: Voenizdat 1937; RGASPI, F.558, Op.11, D.743.

86. Khlevniuk, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator, p.155.

87. W. Bedell Smith, Moscow Mission, 1946–1949, Heinemann: London 1950 pp.176–7.