73. Yagoda would later testify under pressure that he gave both Rykov and Bukharin, at their requests, “secret OGPU material on the situation in the village.” This 1937 testimony, despite the circumstances under which it would be taken, is plausible. Vinogradov, Genrikh Iagoda, 112–7 (interrogation April 26, 1937: TsA FSB, f. N-13614, tom 2, l. 57–8). On Trilisser’s Comintern intelligence (“communications service”)—65 people in Moscow as well as a worldwide system of radio operators, couriers, and safe houses—see Lebedeva and Narinskii, Komintern i vtoraia mirovaia voina, 52, 54–5.
74. Dmitrievskii, Sovetskie portrety, 218–20.
75. The politburo (Sept. 12, 1929) again ordered him to follow his doctor’s regimen. Khaustov et al., Lubianka: Stalin i VChK, 190 (RGASPI, f. 17, op. 3, d. 757, l. 9, 15).
76. Kokurin and Petrov, “OGPU, 1929–1934 gg.”; Gladkov, Nagrada, 345–6. Trilisser maintained that his party meeting report had been approved at the “Central Committee.”
77. Kokurin and Petrov, “OGPU, 1929–1934 gg.,” 95 (June 27, 1929).
78. Khaustov et al., Lubianka: Stalin i VChK, 191 (APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 170, l. 42).
79. Khaustov et al., Lubianka: Stalin i VChK, 219–20 (APRF, f. 3, op. 50, d. 32, l. 115). Trilisser got kicked over to the workers’ and peasants’ inspectorate.
80. Tumshis and Papchinskii, 1937, bol’shaia chistka, 202.
81. Papchinskii and Tumshis, Shchit, raskolotii mechom, 208–9.
82. Tumshis and Papchinskii, 1937, bol’shaia chistka, 202 (citing TsA FSB, arkhivnoe sledvestvennoe delo No. 13144 on Kaul A. I., II: no pagination, words of I. Ia. Ilin; arkhivnoe sledvestvennoe delo N. 14963 on Papashenko I. P., l. 184: M. A. Listengrut), 203 (l. 240–1). Mikhail Frinovsky was gone by then, out of Yevdokimov’s shadow; in Rostov, Frinovsky had had his own gatherings at his house, attended by Yevdokimov.
83. For Stalin’s patronage of Yevdokimov in fall 1929, see Khaustov et al., Lubianka: Stalin i VChK, 191 (APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 170, l. 42). The full membership of the OGPU collegium became: Redens, Prokofyev, Blagonravov, Boki, Balytsky, Messing, and Yevdokimov. Peterrs and Pavlunovsky were taken off.
84. On Oct. 2, 1929, Yagoda wrote apologetically to the dictator that he had spoken to Mężyński and there were no differences between them (contrary to what Yagoda had earlier told Stalin). Vinogradov, Genrikh Iagoda, 344–5 (TsA FSB, f. 3, op. 2, d. 9, l. 248).
85. Kokurin and Petrov, Lubianka, 42–3. Deribas was pushed out to the Soviet Far East.
86. Kosheleva, Pis’ma Stalina Molotovu, 135–8; Lih et al., Stalin’s Letters to Molotov, 162–3. Stalin included Beso Lominadze among the wayward young functionaries. In early Aug. 1929, Lominadze, demoted to a provincial post, wrote an inflammatory letter about Stalin and party policy to his patron Orjonikidze, who wrote in a protective draft response: “although I keep no party secrets from Stalin, I did not show him your letter.” It seems that Orjonikidze did not send the draft and later read Lominadze’s letter to Stalin, perhaps when Orjonikidze pushed to promote Lominadze to head the South Caucasus party committee (the appointment took effect May 8, 1930). Khlevniuk, Stalin i Ordzhonikidze, 23–5 (citing RGASPI, f. 85, op. 1/s, d. 115, l. 6–10, 1–5); Kommunist, 1991, no. 13: 56–7 (RGASPI, f. 17, op. 2, d. 607, l. 267–9: Stalin at the Feb.–March 1937 plenum). Lominadze became a full member of the Central Committee in summer 1930.
87. Kosheleva, Pis’ma Stalina Molotovu, 154–8; Lih et al., Stalin’s Letters to Molotov, 174–6. The main anti-Bukharin essay appeared in Pravda on Aug. 24, 1929; Cohen, Bukharin, 332.
88. Stalin insisted that re-recognition of the USSR precede any settlement on debts, and that he was not going to rein in Comintern propaganda. Kosheleva, Pis’ma Stalina Molotovu, 160–3 (Sept. 9, 1929); Lih et al., Stalin’s Letters to Molotov, 177–9.
89. Murin, Stalin v ob”iaitiakh, 22 (APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 1550, l. 5).
