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201. On March 13, 1939, Frinovsky had written to Stalin recalling a conversation he had had in Molotov’s office in Jan. 1938 when, in front of Kaganovich and Mikoyan, Stalin had informed Frinovsky that a number of others had testified against him. Stalin had asked Frinovsky whether he was “honest before the party.” Frinovsky had answered affirmatively. “You will not let us down, then?” Stalin had said. “No,” Frinovsky had answered. What was this? A psychological game, theater, self-amusement, a moment of indecision? Toptygin, Neizvestnyi Beriia, 50.

202. “‘Druzhba narodov’: pervaia polveka (1939–1989)”: http://magazines.russ.ru/dru zhba/site/history/i39.html.

203. E. V. Tarle, Taleiran (Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1939).

204. Khaustov, “Deiatel’nost’ organov,” 237 (APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 180, l. 30). The Polish ambassador to Tokyo had been told by the Japanese foreign minister that the fisheries negotiations with the USSR were a matter not merely of economics but of national prestige, and that if a new agreement were not reached the Japanese “would undertake decisive steps, as I understand, of a military nature.” The Japanese foreign minister also said that “the Japanese government had not yet definitively decided the issue of deepening the Anti-Comintern Pact.” Gromyko et al., SSSR v bor’be za mir nakanune, 230 (March 10, 1939).

205. Anderson et al., Kremlevskii kinoteatr, 529 (RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 163, l. 2–2ob.). On April 9, Eisenstein wrote to Stalin requesting permission to travel to London for the premiere there of Alexander Nevsky. Stalin wrote to Molotov that “this matter does not concern me,” but Molotov knew Stalin’s views and forbid Eisenstein to travel. Anderson et al., Kremlevskii kinoteatr, 538 (APRF, f. 3, op. 35, d. 86, l. 45–6). Andro Kobaladze would play Stalin in Yakov Sverdlov (1940).

206. Trauberg, “Rasskaz o velikom vozhde,” 7–15; Trauberg, “Proizvedenie mysli i strasti,” 32–8. See also Tsimbal, “Obraz Lenina v kino,” 13–7; and Lebedev, Shchukin—akter kino; Sovetskie khudozhestvennye fil’my, 4 vols. (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1961–77), II: 197.

207. Toward the film’s end, Dzierżyński divulges that an agent-provocateur has “penetrated” the Cheka. Kataev, “Lenin v 1918 godu”; Sadovskii, “Lenin v 1918 godu”; Dobrenko, Stalinist Cinema, 220–9.

208. Vernadskii, Dnevniki, 1935–1941, II: 52.

209. Khaustov et al., Lubianka: Stalin i NKVD, 33–50 (APRF, f. 3, op. 24, d. 373, l. 3–44); Petrov and Jansen, Stalinskii pitomets, 204 (citing APRF, f. 3, op. 24, d. 374, l. 3–47); Stepanov, “O masshtabakh repressii” (no. 5), 61–2.

210. D. N. Sukhanov, an aide to Malenkov, claimed he witnessed Yezhov’s arrest by Beria in Malenkov’s office: Hoover Institution Archives, Volkogonov papers, container 13, excerpted memoirs (dated March 6, 1993); Khrushchev, Vospominaniia, I: 179–81; Briukhanov and Shoshkov, Opravdaniiu ne podlezhit, 132; Sudoplatov, Spetsoperatisii, 100; Petrov and Jansen, Stalinskii pitomets, 200–1; Pavliukov, Ezhov, 512–3; Polianskii, Ezhov, 205–6, 219.

211. Kostrychenko and Khazanov, “Konets Kar’ery Ezhova,” 129–30 (RGASPI, f. 17, op. 3, d. 1003, l. 82–4).

212. Khaustov, “Razvitie sovetskikh organov gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti,” 362 (citing TsA FSB, f. 3, op. 45, d. 29, l. 246).

213. Khrushchev, Vospominaniia, I: 182.

214. Nikolai P. Afanasev, USSR deputy general procurator, recalls this as taking place at Lefortovo, but all other sources indicate Yezhov was held in Sukahnovka. Ushakov and Stukalov, Front voennykh prokurorov, 69.

215. Viktorov, Bez grafa “sekretnosti,” 326.

216. “Vospominaniia: memurary Nikity Sergeevicha Khrushcheva,” 87; Piliatskin, “‘Vrag naroda’”; Pavliukov, Ezhov, 513; Polianskii, Ezhov, 216–7. Others suggest these documents—which disappeared—need not have been compromising, but could have been flattering material Yezhov collected for a Stalin museum. Petrov and Jansen, Stalinskii pitomets, 228.

217. Briukhanov and Shoshkov, Opravdaniiu ne podlezhit, 132–3. Malenkov’s son would assert that when his father had Yezhov’s safe opened, they discovered dossiers on Malenkov as well as Stalin; the latter included the recollections of an old Bolshevik that Stalin had prerevolutionary links to the tsarist okhranka. Malenkov, O moem otse Georgii Malenkove, 34.