Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books

301. Cited by M. Edele, ‘Better to Lose Australia’, Inside Story, https://insidestory.org.au/better-to-lose-australia (25 May 2021).

302. Roberts, Stalin’s Wars, p.267.

303. G. Roberts, ‘Why Roosevelt Was Right about Stalin’, History News Network, http://hnn.us/articles/36194.html (19 March 2007). For a radically different view of Stalin’s attitude to Roosevelt: R. H. McNeal, ‘Roosevelt through Stalin’s Spectacles’, International Journal, 18/2 (Spring 1963).

304. J. Stalin, Works, vol.10, Foreign Languages Publishing House: Moscow 1954 pp.141 ff.

305. RGASPI, F.558, Op.3, D.41, pp.82–4 of the article for the quotes marked by Stalin.

306. A. Girshfel’d, ‘O Roli SShA v Organizatsii Antisovetskoi Interventsii v Sibiri i na Dal’nem Vostoke’, Voprosy Istorii, 8 (August 1948) p.15 of the article for the Stalin notation.

307. Magnúsdóttir, Enemy Number One.

CHAPTER 6: REVERSE ENGINEERING: STALIN AND SOVIET LITERATURE

1. This chapter is focused on Stalin’s general attitudes to fictional literature. On his relations with individual Soviet writers, see: A. Kemp-Welch, Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia, 1928–1939, St Martin’s Press: New York 1991; B. J. Boeck, Stalin’s Scribe: Literature, Ambition and Survival, Pegasus Books: New York 2019; Y. Gromov, Stalin: Iskusstvo i Vlast’, Eksmo: Moscow 2003; B. Frezinskii, Pisateli i Sovetskie Vozhdi, Ellis Lak: Moscow 2008; and B. Sarnov, Stalin i Pisateli, 4 vols, Eksmo: Moscow 2010–11.

2. A. Gromyko, Memories, Hutchinson: London 1989 p.101.

3. K. Clark et al. (eds), Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917–1953, Yale University Press: London & New Haven 2007 doc.18.

4. Ibid., doc.19.

5. Ibid., doc.20.

6. Vlast’ i Khudozhestvennaya Intelligentsiya, 1917–1953, Demokratiya: Moscow 2002 doc.46, p.40.

7. Clark et al., Soviet Culture and Power, doc.21.

8. J. Barber, ‘The Establishment of Intellectual Orthodoxy in the U.S.S.R. 1928–1934’, Past & Present, 83 (May, 1979) p.159.

9. L. Maximenkov & L. Heretz, ‘Stalin’s Meeting with a Delegation of Ukrainian Writers on 12 February 1929’, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 16/3–4 (December 1992). This publication contains the Russian transcript of the meeting, together with an English translation. A substantial extract from the transcript may be found in Clark et al., Soviet Culture and Power, doc.27. The archive typescript may be found here: Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Sotsial’no-Politicheskoi Istorii (hereafter RGASPI), F.558, Op.1, D.4490.

10. Clark et al., Soviet Culture and Power, doc.33.

11. Stalin’s reply was private at the time but published in his collected works after the war: J. Stalin, Works, vol.13, Foreign Languages Publishing House: Moscow 1955 pp.26–7.

12. N. Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir, Harvill Press: London 1999 p.26. Reputedly, Bedny was betrayed by his secretary, who copied this entry from his diary and sent it to Stalin.

13. R. V. Daniels, ‘Soviet Thought in the 1930s: The Cultural Counterrevolution’ in his Trotsky, Stalin and Socialism, Westview Press: Boulder CO 1991 p.143.

14. Mezhdu Molotom i Nakoval’nei: Soyuz Sovetskikh Pisatelei SSSR, vol.1, Rosspen: Moscow 2010 doc.29.

15. S. Kotkin, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941, Penguin: London 2017 pp.151–2. See further Michael David-Fox’s chapter ‘Gorky’s Gulag’ in his Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy & Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921–1941, Oxford University Press: Oxford 2012.