Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

88. RGASPI, F.558, Op.1, D.5754, L.126. Cited by M. Lavrent’eva, Osobennosti Tekhnologii i Metodov Informatsionno-Psikhologicheskikh Voin SSSR s Velikobritanniei i SShA v Period, 1939–1953 gg, Candidate’s Dissertation, Rossiiskii Universitet Druzhby Narodov, Moscow 2020 p.127.

89. Ibid., Op.11, D.1605.

90. It was initially published by Pravda in February–March 1948. It was published in English in a supplement to the journal New Times in March 1948.

91. For reasons that remain unclear, the film was not completed. Dovzhenko died in 1956 and there were rumours the project had been abandoned because Bucar had redefected to the west. That was not true. In the 1950s she started working for the English-language branch of Radio Moscow and remained there for the rest of her working life. Remembered with affection by her Soviet colleagues, she died in Moscow in 1998. Stalin i Kosmopolitizm, 1945–1953: Dokumenty, Demokratiya: Moscow 2005 docs.120 & 182; R. Magnúsdóttir, Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945–1959, Oxford University Press: Oxford 2019 p.24; A. Kozovoi, ‘“This Film Is Harmful”: Resizing America for the Soviet Screen’ in S. Autio-Saramo & B. Humphreys (eds), Winter Kept Us Warm: Cold War Interactions Reconsidered, Aleksanteri Cold War Series 1 (2010); https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1949v05/d335; https://www.themoscowtimes.com/archive/moscow-mailbag-voice-of-russias-voices-that-came-from-afar. Dovzhenko’s unfinished film may be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUpaqunbR9w.

92. RGASPI, F.558, Op.3, D.28. The cited text marked by Stalin may be found on pp.43–7 of the book.

93. G. Kennan, Memoirs, 1925–1950, Hutchinson: London 1968 pp.279–80.

94. See, for example, Kennan’s Reith Lectures: Russia, the Atom and the West, Oxford University Press: London 1958.

95. I am grateful to Vladimir Nevezhin for pointing me in this direction and providing me with a copy of his article ‘I. V. Stalin o Vneshnei Politike i Diplomatii: Po Materialam Lichnogo Arkhiva Vozhdya (1939–1941)’, Rossiiskaya Istoriya, 6 (2019).

96. RGASPI, F.558, Op.11, D.200, L.13.

97. https://minimalistquotes.com/otto-von-bismarck-quote-45423/. Accessed 4 August 2021.

98. M. Ya. Gefter, ‘Stalin Umer Vchera’, Rabochii Klass i Sovremennyi Mir, no.1, 1988. I am grateful to Holly Case for this reference and to Vladimir Nevezhin for obtaining for me a copy of the Gefter interview. Yerusalimsky’s introduction was subsequently published as a separate pamphlet under the title (in Russian) ‘Bismarck as Diplomat’.

99. R. Medvedev, Chto Chital Stalin?, Prava Cheloveka: Moscow 2005 p.81.

100. RGASPI, F.558, Op.11.760 L.145.

101. A handwritten archive register listing these two volumes as having been marked by Stalin was on display at an exhibition on the history of Stalin’s lichnyi fond in the foyer of RGASPI in October 2018.

102. N. Ryzhkov, Perestroika: Istoriya Predatel’stv, Novosti: Moscow 1992 pp.354–5. Stephen Cohen, who died in 2020, was an American historian who wrote a biography of the Bolshevik leader Nikolai Bukharin, which was translated into Russian and published in the USSR during the Gorbachev era.

103. R. G. Suny, Stalin: Passage to Revolution, Princeton University Press: Princeton 2020 p.584.

104. Kuromiya, Stalin, p.120. RGASPI, F.588, Op.3, D.84, p.51. Vyshinsky’s remarks on Kamenev and Zinoviev may be found here: https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/law/1936/moscow-trials/22/double-dealing.htm. Accessed 4 August 2021.

105. http://www.florentine-society.ru/Machiavelli_Nikitski_Club.htm. Accessed 4 August 2021. I am grateful to David Brandenberger for this reference.

106. RGASPI, F.558, Op.11, D.208, L.33.

107. Ibid., Op.1, D.5754, Ll.124–5.

108. Ibid., Op.3, D.18 pp.35–6 of the encyclopaedia.