Stalin полностью

52. RGANI, f. 89, op. 63, d. 14, l. 1–8. The Mongols were in the Soviet Union Oct. 21–Dec. 2, 1934. On Nov. 24, 1934, Molotov hosted a diplomatic luncheon for them: Stalin, Voroshilov, and, Mikoyan attended. Gol’man and Slesarchuk ; RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 351, l. 66.

53. Baabar, Twentieth-Century Mongolia, 342–3.

54. A letter from the Mongol leadership in Ulan Bator (Dec. 20, 1934) to Stalin reported unanimous formal approval of the negotiations with the USSR (RGANI, f. 89, op. 63, d. 15, l. 1–4).

55. Stalin had decided unilaterally to abolish rationing for bread in the new year while in Sochi in Oct. 1934. On Dec. 8 the regime finally published the much-rumored forthcoming decree. Malenkov wrote to Kaganovich (Dec. 21) about large numbers of workers at factories condemning the move, amid anger over wage arrears as well. Khlevniuk et al., Stalin i Kaganovich, 513 (RGASPI, f. 81, op. 3, d. 100, l. 83–7); Davies and Khlevniuk, “Otmena kartochnoi sistemy v SSSR”; Khlevniuk and Davies, “The End of Rationing in the Soviet Union, 1934–1935”; Kvashonkin, Sovetstskoe rukovodstvo, 302–3 (RGASPI, f. 81, op. 3, d. 255, l. 1).

56. Stalin added: “Money will circulate, money will become fashionable, which has not been the case here for a long time, and the money economy will strengthen.” RGASPI, f. 17, op. 2, d. 530, l. 79–98.

57. On Nov. 6, at dinner with Bagirov, Orjonikidze fell ill with high fever and chills. He returned to Tiflis to take part in the Revolution Day parade, but that night, at Beria’s apartment, he suffered stomach pains and intestinal bleeding. Four days later, he had heart palpitations. Several photos of Orjonikidze with Beria were published in the newspaper Beria controlled: Zaria Vostoka, Nov. 4, 18, and 27, 1934.

58. Rybin, Riadom so Stalinym, 10.

59. Kirilina, Rikochet, 38–9.

60. They lived at Bateinin St. 9/39, Vyborg Side. According to her party autobiography (June 1933), Draule was born in St. Petersburg gubernia of peasant parents; her supposedly landless father had moved there from the ethnic Latvian province, and Milda supposedly began tending the gentry family’s pigs and cows at age nine. Secret police files indicate her father managed an estate in Luga province and was well-off, making her a class enemy. Deviatov et al., “Gibel’ Kirova,” 60–1 (TsGA IPD St.P, f. 1051, op. 2, d. 6, l. 93; f. 1728, d. 698355, l. 10–12ob.: Olga Draule); Sukharnikova, “My nagnli takoi.”

61. Deviatov et al., “Gibel’, Kirova” 62.

62. Sedov et al., “Spravka,” 465; Kirilina, “Vstrely v Smol’nom,” 72; Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 200–5 (RGANI, f. 6, op. 13, d. 25, l. 39–43).

63. Kirilina, Neizvestnyi Kirov, 247; Sedov et al., “Spravka,” 464; RGASPI, f. 671, op. 1, d. 112, l. 5; Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 215–6 (RGANI, f. 6, op. 13, d. 1, l. 10–53). Also in Aug. 1934, borrowing money, Milda had rented a dacha on the Gulf of Finland at Sestroretsk with the two children. Deviatov et al. have Kirov on holiday there at the same time, but Kirov was in Sochi with Stalin for all of Aug. Deviatov et al., “Gibel’ Kirova,” 62 (TsGA IPD ST.P, f. 1957, op. 2, d. 3754, l. 161).

64. Kirilina, Neizvestnyi Kirov, 257; Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 220–2 (RGANI, f. 6, op. 13, d. 1, l. 65–74).

65. Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 398–9 (RGANI, f. 6, op. 13, d. 13, l. 7–45: Klimov report on Nikolayev detentions, 1961). See also Tumshis and Papchinskii, 1937, bol’shaia chistka, 43; and Barmine, One Who Survived, 252.

66. Deviatov et al., “Gibel’ Kirova” 57–8; Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 183, 185, 191, 647, 664, 685. Nikolayev purchased bullets and practiced shooting at the city’s Dynamo sport society, run by the NKVD (perhaps the only place to get ammunition legally).

67. According to Draule’s testimony: Zhukov, “Sledstvie,” 40 (citing Yezhov archive materials).

68. Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 209, 227 (TsA FSB, a.u.d. N-Sh44, t. 12, l. 401–10: May 13, 1934); Zhukov, “Sledstvie,” 40; Kirilina, Neizvestny Kirov, 253.

69. Sotsialisticheskaia zakonnost’, 1991, no. 2: 70–1; Sedov et al., “Spravka,” 466–7; Kirilina, Neizvestnyi Kirov, 262; Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 229–35 (RGANI, f. 6, op. 13, d. 24, l. 24–32; d. 1, l. 65–74). “Dear Wife and School Brothers!” he wrote again, probably in late Oct. “I am dying for political convictions, on the basis of historical reality, without even a dollop of fear, or an iota of consolation . . . I must die since there is no freedom of agitation, the press, or voting, in life.” Zhukov, “Sledstvie,” 38; Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 228 (RGANI, f. 6, op. 13, d. 24, l. 24–32).

70. Kirilina, Neizvestnyi Kirov, 258–9, 397; Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 237–8, 242–3 (TsA FSB, a.u.d. N-Sh44, t. 12, l. 401–10).