299. Khatayevich wrote on Sept. 22, 1932; he had been in Stalin’s office on Sept. 1, 2, and 14. Na prieme, 70–1. On Oct. 23, Kosior wrote to Stalin that Khatayevich “acted incorrectly, doing all this without an agreement with me” (again, the letter is underlined through and through in red pencil), and assured the dictator that the grain still might be procured, and that “the weather right now in the south of Ukraine, even in the Right Bank, is exceptionally fine,” and “the mood of the mass of collective farms is also not bad.” Antipova et al., Golod v SSSR, 187–91 (APRF, f. 3, op. 40, d. 82, l. 136–40), 192–5 (l. 132–5). Khatayevich wrote to Stalin again, at length (Dec. 27, 1932), declaring how hard he was working for the cause, and requesting new party personnel for localities in Ukraine immediately. Antipova et al., Golod v SSSR, 224 (APRF, f. 3, op. 40, d. 85, l. 88–94).
300. In normal times, Ukraine and the North Caucasus produced perhaps one-third of the country’s harvest and half its marketable grain. Conquest, Harvest of Sorrow, 221 (no citation).
301. Davies et al., Economic Transformation, 316 (table 48). See also Lewin, Making of the Soviet System (1985), 166–7. The 1932 grain procurement plan had been based upon an assumed harvest of 90 million tons, with planned collection of 29.5 million tons—5 million more than the previous year—and export of 6.235 million.
302. VKP (b) v rezoliutsiiakh (1933), II: 747–61; VKP (b) v rezoliutsiiakh (1936), II: 669. Pravda (Oct. 11, 1932) published the expulsion resolution and a list of the Ryutin group. Twenty Communists were expelled without recourse, and four others for a year, after which they could appeal for reinstatement.
303. Anfert’ev, “‘Delo M. N. Riutina’ v sud’be G. E. Zinovieva i L. B. Kameneva, oktiabr’ 1932 g.,” Istoricheskii arkhiv, 2006, no. 1: 73, 80; “O dele tak nazyvaemogo ‘Soiuza Marksistov-Lenintsev,’” 107. All during the summer of 1932, the politburo had been mulling over proposals by the light industry commissar (I. E. Lyubimov) to allow state industrial enterprises to sell their above-plan output on the open market, but now, after Stalin’s return to the capital from holiday, the idea was turned aside. Khlevniuk et al., Stalin i Kaganovich, 188–90 (RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 740, l. 76–81), 190n6 (f. 17, op. 3, d. 887, l. 7; d. 891, l. 4; d. 895, l. 3; d. 903, l. 15: Oct. 16, 1932). Stalin did not seek Ryutin’s execution. Rees, “Stalin as Leader, 1924–1937,” 45. On Dec. 14, 1933, both Zinoviev and Kamenev would be reinstated in the party.
304. Serge, Portrait de Staline, 95; Basseches, Stalin, 188. See also Letter of an Old Bolshevik; Krivitsky, I Was Stalin’s Agent, 203; and Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 259.
305. Pravda, Oct. 14, 1932. “Ryutin in prison!” recalled Ante Ciliga (b. 1898), a Yugoslav-born inmate and fervent Trotsky supporter. “The prison received Ryutin coldly but calmly.” (Ryutin was soon transferred.) Ciliga noted that it had been arduous trying to follow political events in the Soviet Union while at liberty, “but to be among two hundred prisoners representing . . . all the shades of opinion that are to be found in the immense country that is Russia—that was a precious privilege which allowed me to acquire a full knowledge of Russian political life in all its aspects.” He called the prison groupings “truly an illegal parliament.” Ciliga, Russian Enigma, 228, 209–10. Ciliga would become an ardent supporter of the Croatian Ustaše fascist regime, criticizing Ante Pavlević as too soft.
306. Radzinsky, Stalin, 274 (no citation). See also Vinogradov, Genrikh Iagoda, 361–3 (TsA FSB, f. 2, op. 11, d. 1264, l. 1–3).
307. Alliluyeva, Twenty Letters, 223.
308. “My dear child Ioseb, first of all I greet you with great love and wish you a long life and good health together with your family. Child, I ask nature to give you complete victory and annihilation of the enemy. . . . Be victorious!” Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen, 7 (citing RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 721, l. 68). This letter is absent from Murin.
309. Murin, Stalin v ob”iatiiakh, 1–19 (APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 1549, l. 1–2, 13–4, 15–6, 19–20, 21–2, 23–4, 36–7, 38–9, 41–2, 43–4, 45–6, 51–2, 53–4, 55–6, 59–60, 72–3, 61–3, 64–5).
310. Murin, Stalin v ob”iatiakh sem’i, 16 (Dec. 22, 1931).
311. Alliluyeva, Dvadtsat’ pisem, 71; MacNeal, “Stalin’s Family.” Nadya might have visited her sister Anna in Kharkov, in famine-stricken Ukraine, that fall.
