31 Death-toll estimates are very approximate. The rumour at the time was of 17,000 lives lost; the official Soviet version was 5,000. A post-Soviet Russian naval historian puts it at ‘over 12,000’. See Salisbury, The 900 Days, p. 238, and Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941–1945, p. 83.

32 Glantz, The Battle for Leningrad 1941–1944, p. 46.

33 On 29 September 1941 the head of the Baltic Fleet’s Political Directorate instructed his staff to inform all naval personnel that family members of sailors who surrendered to the Germans would immediately be executed as ‘traitors to the Motherland’. In January 1942 the directive was rescinded and branded as illegal; there is no record of it having been put into force (see Lomagin, Soldiers at War, p. 15).

Chapter 4: The People’s Levy

1 Ilya Frenklakh, www.iremember.ru, pp. 2–3.

2 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 22.

3 Interviewed by the author, St Petersburg, March 2008.

4 Report by Nikita Karpov, Partorg at the Kirov plant and member of the First Division of LANO, 30 September 1943. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 4000, op. 10, delo 1320, p. 14.

5 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 25, op. 12, svyazkha 3, 1118, ed. kr. 13. Harrison Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, p. 220.

6 David Glantz, The Battle for Leningrad 1941–1944, pp. 126–7; Richard Bidlack, Workers at War: Factory Workers and Labor Policy in the Siege of Leningrad, Carl Beck Papers, 902, p. 8.

7 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 25, op. 12, svyazkha 13.

8 Nikita Karpov. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 4000, op. 10, delo 1320, p. 15.

9 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 15, p. 9. Notes to Pages 77–89

10 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 2, p. 35.

11 Leon Gouré, The Siege of Leningrad, p. 31; Dmitri Likhachev, Reflections on the Russian Soul: A Memoir, p. 226.

12 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2201, op. 1, delo 23.

13 Ibid., political report of 10 July 1941.

14 Ibid., political report from the Moskovsky district LANO division, 9 July 1941.

15 Lidiya Ginzburg, Blockade Diary, p. 79.

16 See for example TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 28, p. 20.

17 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 15, p. 12.

18 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2201, op. 1, delo 23.

19 Andrei Dzeniskevich, Leningrad v osade: sbornik dokumentov, doc. 49, p. 131.

20 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 29, pp. 2–4.

21 Iosif Altman, workshop supervisor at the Red Chemist Factory and member of the First Division. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 4000, op. 10, delo 1305.

22 From Subbotin to the Defence Council of the Northern Front, July 1941. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 11; Gouré, The Siege of Leningrad, pp. 33–4.

23 Political Department meeting of 8 July 1941. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 15, pp. 7–8.

24 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 15, p. 13.

25 Charles Burdick and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, eds, Franz Halder, The Halder War Diary, 1939–1942, p. 452 (6 July 1941).

26 Meeting of 29 July 1941. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 46.

27 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 26, p. 2.

28 Dobrzhinsky, First Division, TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 15, pp. 10–11.

29 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 22, pp. 132–4.

30 Ibid., p. 137.

31 Political dept report of 29 August 1941. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 202. Salisbury, The 900 Days, p. 191.

32 Report to Zhdanov from LANO political department head Kononchuk, mid-August 1941. TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 18.

33 TsGAIPD SPb: Fond 2281, op. 1, delo 18.

34 Dzeniskevich, Leningrad v osade, doc. 49, pp. 132–3.

35 Gouré, The Siege of Leningrad, p. 35.

36 Alexander Werth, Leningrad, pp. 110–11.

37 TsAMO: Fond 96a, op. 2011, delo 5, pp. 133–7.

38 Frenklakh, www.iremember.ru, p. 6. Notes to Pages 89–101

39 Given in Dmitri Volkogonov, ‘Voroshilov’, in Harold Shukman, ed., Stalin’s Generals, p. 318.

Chapter 5: ‘Caught in a Mousetrap’

1 Vera Inber, Leningrad Diary, p. 10.

2 Dmitri Pavlov, Leningrad 1941: The Blockade, p. 9. This is often wrongly referred to as the ‘Enemy at the Gates’ announcement. In fact the Leningradskaya Pravda article headlined ‘The Enemy is at the Gates’ did not appear until 16 September.

3 Inber, Leningrad Diary, pp. 11, 13, 15 (24 and 26 August, 1 and 8 September 1941).

4 Ales Adamovich and Daniil Granin, A Book of the Blockade, pp. 271–2.

5 Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Avtobiograficheskiye zapiski: Leningrad v blokade, pp. 252–3 (4 and 16 August).

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