Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

268. K. Osipov, Suvorov, Gospolizdat: Moscow 1941. The book contains a note by Osipov dated 28 June 1941. It was also translated and published in English during the war: Alexander Suvorov: A Biography, Hutchinson & Co.: London n.d.

269. RGASPI F.558. Op.11, D.204, n.2.

270. RGASPI, F.558, op.11, D.1599. Osipov’s second book on Suvorov, as corrected by Stalin, was published in various editions during the war. He also gave many public lectures on Suvorov.

271. Clark et al., Soviet Culture and Power, doc.130. Russian text: I.V. Stalin: Istoricheskaya Ideologiya v SSSR v 1920–1950 e gody (Sbornik Dokumentov i Materialov), vol.1, Nauka-Piter: St Petersburg 2006 doc.221.

272. The stenograms of Stalin’s speech may be found here: Zimnyaya Voina, 1939–1940: I.V. Stalin i Finskaya Kampaniya, Nauka: Moscow 1999 pp.272–82. In English: A. O. Chubaryan & H. Shukman (eds), Stalin and the Soviet–Finnish War, 1939–1940, Frank Cass: London 2001 pp.263–74. See further: M. L. G. Spencer, Stalinism and the Soviet–Finnish War, 1939–40, Palgrave: London 2018.

273. Istoriya Russkoi Armii i Flota, Obrazovanie: Moscow 1911. RGASPI, F.558, Op.3, F.80, pp.7–23 for Stalin’s markings. He read the book in the mid-late 1930s.

274. ‘Kratkaya Zapis’ Vystupleniya na Vypuske Slushatelei Akademii Krasnoi Armii, 5 Maya 1941 goda’, I. Stalin, Sochineniya, vol.18, Soyuz: Tver’ 2006 pp.213–18.

275. Dimitrov, Diary, p.160.

276. E. Mawdsley, ‘Explaining Military Failure: Stalin, the Red Army, and the First Period of the Patriotic War’ in G. Roberts (ed.), Stalin: His Times and Ours, IAREES: Dublin 2005 p.138.

277. I. Stalin, O Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voine Sovetskogo Soyuza, Moscow 1950 p.205.

278. Ibid., pp.271–303.

279. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/116179.pdf. Accessed 4 August 2021.

280. E. Mawdsley, ‘Stalin: Victors Are Not Judged’, Journal of Slavic Military Studies 19 (2006) p.715.

281. D. E. Davis & W. S. G. Kohn, ‘Lenin’s ‘Notebook on Clausewitz’, http://www.clausewitz.com/bibl/DavisKohn-LeninsNotebookOnClausewitz.pdf. Accessed 4 August 2021. Stalin’s unmarked copy of the 1931 volume is located in the Stalin collection in the SSPL.

282. RGASPI, F.558, Op.3, D.47.

283. ‘Zapis’ Besedy’, p.3.

284. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1946/02/23.htm. Accessed 4 August 2021.

285. R. Medvedev, ‘Generalissimo Stalin, General Clausewitz and Colonel Razin’ in Medvedev & Medvedev, Unknown Stalin, p.188.

286. A. M. Ball, Imagining America: Influence and Images in Twentieth-Century Russia, Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham MD 2003 p.24.

287. J. Stalin, Works, vol.6, Foreign Languages Publishing House: Moscow 1953 pp.194–5.

288. Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen, p.43.

289. B. O’Keeffe, Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia, Bloomsbury Academic: London 2021 pp.148–51.

290. Yu. G. Murin (ed.), Iosif Stalin v Ob”yatiyakh Sem’i, Rodina: Moscow 1993 docs 46–7.

291. J. Stalin, Works, vol.13, Foreign Languages Publishing House: Moscow 1955 p.271.

292. Ibid., vol.3 (1953) pp.250–3.

293. K. Zubovich, Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital, Princeton University Press: Princeton 2021 chap.2; Belodubrovskaya, Not According to Plan, p.27.

294. S. Lomb, Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft, Routledge: New York 2018.

295. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/11/25.htm. Accessed 4 August 2021.

296. RGASPI, F.558, Op.11, D.143.

297. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1937/12/11.htm.

298. RGASPI, F.558, Op.3, D.369.

299. Stalin, Works, vol.13, p.284.

300. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/07/23.htm. Accessed 4 August 2021.