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86. Shreider has a version of the internal OGPU struggle: Shreider, NKVD iznutri, 10, 13, 14–15.

87. Yagoda concluded: “There is not a single blot on the glorious banner of the OGPU. Ahead are still many years of struggle and glorious victories. We shall close Chekist ranks still more tightly!” Khaustov et al., Lubianka: Stalin i VChK, 277–9 (APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 171, l. 6–9); Istoriia sovetskikh organov gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (Moscow: Vysshaia krasnoznamennaia shkola KGB, 1977), 234–5. Slyly, Yagoda gave the Yevdokimov protégé Yakov Weinstok the assignment of evicting Yevdokimov’s family from their Moscow apartment, ensuring everlasting bad blood between patron and protégé. Zhukovskii, Lubianskaia imperiia NKVD, 211.

88. Kvashonkin, Sovetskoe rukovodstvo, 161 (RGASPI, f. 74, op. 2, d. 38, l. 46: Sept. 24, 1931).

89. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 728, l. 29. See also Valedinskii, “Organizm Stalina vpolne zdorovyi,” 69. Stalin wrote a similar letter (undated) to Molotov. Kosheleva, Pis’ma Stalina Molotovu, 255; Lih et al., Stalin’s Letters to Molotov, 239. Stalin was traveling through Mingrelia and Abkhazia in mid-Aug. 1931, on his way to Sochi.

90. Khromov, Po stranitsam, 12–5.

91. Davies, “Stalin as Economic Policy-Maker,” 126–9.

92. The letters to Stalin brought to his attention were enumerated in lists in late 1930 and for Jan.–July 1931; no other such lists survive until 1945. Khlevniuk, “Letters to Stalin,” citing RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 849-82.

93. Functionaries left Stalin to decide whether the people really knew him, or whether the proposed inventions should be considered. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 861, l. 100.

94. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 856, l. 138. Stalin occasionally replied to letters in the press, when he perceived an issue of general interest. Stalin, “Reply to Comrade Kolkhozniks,” Pravda (April 3, 1930), reprinted in Sochineniia, XII: 202.

95. Khlevniuk, “Letters to Stalin,” 331 (citing RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 850, l. 34–55).

96. Khlevniuk et al., Stalin i Kaganovich, 50–1 (RGASPI, f. 81, op. 3, d. 100, l. 101–2).

97. Two days later he told Kaganovich to circulate to politburo members a telegram accusing Mikoyan of lying about the silos there for tea and tobacco, based on other reports the dictator received (“Who is right and who is deceiving the Central Committee?”). Mikoyan replied that he had reported the truth, not conflated grain silos with other kinds; Stalin went back at him, prompting an irate Mikoyan to tender his resignation (“Dear Stalin!”). Stalin resolved the incident by denigrating supply personnel for their red tape, and instructing Kaganovich to have the workers’ and peasants’ inspectorate, as well as Caucasus OGPU boss Beria, oversee the silos in western Georgia. Khlevniuk et al., Stalin i Kaganovich, 51–2 (RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 76, l. 14–8); Khromov, Po stranitsam, 35–6 (citing RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 76, l. 8–8ob,14–5); Pavlov, Anastas Mikoian, 83–4 (citing RGASPI, f. 84, op. 1, d. 134, l. 2, 5: Sept. 12, 1931); RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 76, l. 72–3.

98. Andrei F. Andreyev, a Red Army veteran in Zdorovets village of the Central Black Earth province, somehow got a letter through to Stalin on Feb. 2, 1931, in which he claimed that he had fought the Whites in the civil war and been wounded, returned to his poor family in his native village, and become a rural correspondent, continuing the struggle, but had been hindered by local officials, who evicted him from the collective farm. “Now all these criminals, whose work I exposed in the press, have managed to have me arrested without even presenting a cause for my arrest,” he wrote of fruitless petitions to the county procurator and OGPU. “I led companies, regiments, and battalions into battle against the Whites not in order that I would now sit under arrest by these same White Guards.” Stalin wrote on the letter: “To comrade Yagoda. Request: immediately assign one of your people (someone completely reliable) to sort this out in Bolshevik fashion—honestly, quickly, and impartially and ‘no matter who.’” Vinogradov, Genrikh Iagoda, 351–3 (TsA FSB, f. 2, op. 9, d. 11, l. 138–40); Khaustov et al., Lubianka: Stalin i VChK, 260–1 (APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 171, l. 2–3). Andreyev (b. 1894) was vindicated and readmitted to a collective farm. (He would be arrested in 1942 and sentenced to ten years in a labor camp.)