Stalin полностью

176. Eisenstein’s closing remarks were published (Kino, Jan. 17, 1935: 4), and Shumyatsky sent a withering complaint about them. Fomin and Deriabin, Letopis’ rossiiskogo kino, II: 317 (RGALI, f. 2456, op. 4, d. 23, l. 17–8). When the film industry completed an apartment house in 1934 in central Moscow (between Malaya Nikitskaya and Povarskaya streets, behind the House of Cinema), Eisenstein put in for two apartments (for himself and his mother); he got nothing. Bulgakowa, Eisenstein, 159–60.

177. Leyda, Kino, 319–20. Leyda attended the evening at the Bolshoi.

178. Shumiatskii, Kinematografiia millionov, 249, 8.

179. Evans, Third Reich in Power, 623–7; Domarus, Hitler: Reden, II: 643–8 (at 644); Kershaw, Hitler: 1889–1936, 546–8. “The French have definitely missed the opportunity for a preventive war,” Hitler remarked internally once the plebiscite arrangements had been finalized. DGFP, series C, III: 704–6 (Dec. 4, 1934).

180. Bud, “Fil’m o Kirove.”

181. Iakovlev et al., Reabilitatsiia: politicheskie protsessy, 162, 166

182. Pravda, Jan. 16, 1935. See also Haslam, “Political Opposition,” 409–10.

183. A third trial, with another 77 defendants, including Zinoviev’s wife, Zlata Radić, and various relatives of Nikolayev, would result in sentences of two to five years.

184. Stalin authored the letter. The day before he sent the text to other politburo members. “O tak nazyvaemom ‘Antisovetskom ob”edinennom tsentre Trotskistko-Zinov’evskom tsentre,’” 95–100; Iakovlev et al., Reabilitatsiia: politicheskie protsessy, 191–5; Getty and Naumov, Road to Terror, 147–50; Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 381 (RGANI, f. 6, op. 13, d. 13, l. 18).

185. Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 446–7 (APRF, f. 3, op. 24, d. 201, l. 106–8, 114), 447–50 (RGANI, f. 6, op. 13, d. 92, l. 173–7: draft), 450 (169–72: draft). A draft is also in Khaustov et al., Lubianka: Stalin i VChK, 592–3 (TsAFSB, f. 3, op. 2, d. 7, l. 1–2).

186. Brontman, Dnevniki. See also Kommunisticheskaia revoliutsiia, 1935, no. 1: 23–4.

187. Stalin offered both praise and complaints about parts that were missing despite his instructions. Anderson et al., Kremlevskii kinoteatr, 989–90 (RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 828, l. 111); Pravda, Jan. 21 and 22, 1935. I. P. Kopalin and I. F. Setkina made the Lenin documentary.

188. Lenoe, Kirov Murder, 436–52 (RGANI, f. 6, op. 13, d. 79, l. 99–104; d. 82, l. 15–132).

189. See also Gronsky to Stalin in 1933 on Kuibyshev’s drinking: RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 725, l. 49–58.

190. Recently, on his trip to Central Asia to pressure the cotton harvest, he had undergone an emergency operation, but then returned to Moscow to work, refusing to lie in hospital. One evening, after countless meetings, he told his staff that before giving a speech that night he was going across the courtyard to his nearby apartment (on the third floor) to lie down. His aides and then the apartment staff woman wanted to call a doctor. He refused. By the time a doctor arrived, he was dead. Kabytov, “Valerian Kuibyshev”; Sochineniia, XI: 220.

191. Lota, “Alta” protiv “Barbarossy,” 143–191, 248–55; Lota, Sekretnyi front, 75–94; Lurie and Kochik, GRU, 504, 511–2, 531, 532.

192. Sorge had been born in the Baku oil fields (1895)—his father was an oil technician—and grew up in Germany, where he fought in the Great War, then became a Communist in 1919, before moving to Moscow. In late 1929, military intelligence poached him from Comintern intelligence and sent him to China; he arrived in Tokyo in 1933. He joined the Nazi party, to aid his spy work, and criticized Nazi officials and actions, which, however, enhanced his credibility. He chased women and drank. Colonel Ott, the German military attaché in Tokyo, invited Sorge to travel with him to Manchuria in Oct. 1934; Sorge wrote the trip’s report. Soon, Sorge bedded Ott’s wife, Helma. When Ott learned of the affair, he surmised it would not endure and did nothing, keeping the valuable Sorge, whom he called “the Irresistible” and “the man who knew everything.” Whymant, Stalin’s Spy, 145–94 (at 153, 184, no citation).

193. Primakov, Ocherki, III: 20, 26–39, 41; Costello and Tsarev, Deadly Illusions, 448n50, 449n65; Tsarev and West, KGB v Anglii, 44–7; Poretsky, Our Own People, 72–85; Peake, Private Life of Kim Philby, 220–1; Gazur, Secret Assignment, 15. See also Borovik, Philby Files; and Koch, Double Lives.