18. Rudolf Pikhoya, Moskva. Kreml’. Vlast’. Sorok let posle voiny 1945–1985 (Moscow: AST, 2007), 47–50 (in Russian).
19. A. N. Buchin, 170,000 kilometrov s G. K. Zhukovym (Moscow: Molodaya gvardiya, 1994), 184–5 (in Russian).
20. Zhukov and Telegin’s telegram to the GSOVG troops, dated June 30, 1945, quoted in Petrov, Pervyi predsedatel’ KGB, 49–50.
21. Zhukov’s Order No. 00138/op, dated September 9, 1945, and quoted in ibid., 54.
22. Stalin’s directive to the Military Council of GSOVG, dated September 20, 1945, published in Voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv, no. 10 (2000), 146–8 (in Russian).
23. Directive of the Plenum of the USSR Supreme Court No. 13/14/V, dated November 27, 1945, cited in Petrov, Pervyi predsedatel’ KGB, 56.
24. Serov’s note to General S. F. Gorokhov and Colonel S. I. Tyulpanov, dated December 1946, quoted in ibid., 57.
25. Order No. 0409, dated December 26, 1944. Document No. 281 in Russkii Arkhiv. Velikaya Otechestvennaya. Prikazy Narodnogo komissara Oborony SSSR (1943–1945), Tom 13 (2-3) (Moscow: Terra, 1997), 343–7 (in Russian).
26. P. Knyshevsky, Dobycha. Tainy germanskikh reparatsii (Moscow: Soratnik, 1994), 120, 137 (in Russian).
27. Abakumov’s Order No. 00170, dated September 27, 1945. Quoted in Yevgenii Tolstykh, Agent Nikto. Iz istorii ‘Smersh’ (Moscow: Sovershenno sekretno, 2004), 149–50 (in Russian).
28. An excerpt from Serov’s report to Stalin about Abakumov, dated September 8, 1946. Page 245 in Document No. 19 in Petrov, Pervyi predsedatel’ KGB, 244–7.
29. Pages 245–6 in ibid.
30. On the ‘Aviators Case’ see I. N. Kosenko, ‘Taina “Aviatsionnogo dela,”’ VIZh, nos. 6 & 8 (1994); Pikhoya, Moskva. Kreml’. Vlast’, 50–55.
31. Text of Stalin’s order, dated May 26, 1943, in O. S. Smyslov, Vasilii Stalin. Zalozhnik imeni (Moscow: Veche, 2003), 153 (in Russian).
33. Recollection by Svetlana Novikova, a daughter of Aleksandr Novikov, in Larisa Goryacheva, ‘Interview no. 28,’ 2000 (in Russian), http://www.peoples.ru/military/aviation/novikov/, retrieved September 9, 2011.
34. On the case of S. A. Khudyakov (1902–1950) see Nikolai Smirnov, Vplot’ do vysshei mery (Moscow: Moskovskii rabochii, 1997), 132–6 (in Russian).
35. Vyacheslav Zvyagintsev, Tribunal dlya ‘stalinskikh sokolov’ (Moscow: Terra, 2008), 339–49 (in Russian).
36. Text of the letter in Pikhoya, Pikhoya, Moskva. Kreml’. Vlast’, 53.
37. Quoted in Aleksandr Vais, ‘Dolgozhitel’. ‘Aviatsionnoe’ delo, Argumenty i fakty, 8 (92), April 21, 2006 (in Russian), http://gazeta.aif.ru/online/longliver/92/23_01, retrieved September 9, 2011.
38. Decision of the Presidium of the Central Committee on rehabilitation of A. I. Shakhurin, A. A. Novikov, and others, dated June 12, 1953. Document No. I-28 in Reabilitatsiya: Kak eto bylo. Dokumenty Prezidiuma TsK KPSS i drugie materially. Mart 1953–fevral’ 1956, edited by A. Artizov et al., 50–51 (Moscow: Demokratiya, 2000) (in Russian).
39. Quoted in A. A. Lyovin, Perebitye kryl’ya: dokumental’naya povest’ (Moscow: [no publisher], 1996), 238 (in Russian).
40. Yelena Loria, ‘Svetlana Novikova: “Ottsa nazyvali ‘letayushchim krylom Zhukova”,’ Izvestia, February 3, 2003 (in Russian).
41. Abakumov’s short cover letter addressed to Stalin, dated April 30, 1946, with Novikov’s statement from the same date. Document No. 3 in Lubyanka. Stalin i MGB SSSR. Mart 1946–mart 1953, edited by V. N. Khaustov, V. P. Naumov, and N. S. Plotnikova, 11–16 (Moscow: Materik: 2007) (in Russian).
42. Quoted in Lyovin, Perebitye kryl’ya, 235–6.
43. Gennadii Kostyrchenko, ‘Malenkov protiv Zhdanova. Igry stalinskikh favoritov,’ Rodina, No. 9 (2000), 85–92 (in Russian).
44. Quoted in Smyslov, Vasilii Stalin, 196.
45. Quoted in Lyovin, Perebitye kryl’ya, 237.
46. Pikhoya, Moskva. Kreml’. Vlast’, 54.
47. Zvyagintsev, Tribunal dlya ‘stalinskikh sokolov,’ 346–7.
48. Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993), 309.
49. Smirnov, Vplot’ do vysshei mery, 134, 136.
50. The text in Georgii Zhukov. Stenogramma oktyabr’skogo (1957 g.) plenuma TsK KPSS i drugie dokumenty, edited by V. Naumov, 16–17 (Moscow: Demokratiya, 2001) (in Russian).
51. Stavka’s Directive No. 11096, dated May 29, 1945. Document No. 268 in Russkii Arkhiv. Velikaya Otechestvennaya, 15 (4-5), 421–2.
52. Romanov, Nights Are Longest There, 153.
53. Ibid., 149.
54. Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera, Recollections of Soviet Labor Camps, 1949-1955. An Interview Conducted by Richard A. Pierce, 1971. University of California at Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office (a typed manuscript), 7.
55. Ibid., 5.
56. S. Kertesz, ‘Soviet and Western Politics in Hungary, 1944–1947,’ The Review of Politics 1, no. 1 (January 1952), 47–74.
57. Contrary to the opinion of many western historians [for instance, R. J. Crampton, Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century and After (London: Routledge, 1997), 263], Abakumov and his MGB, especially Belkin—and not the NKVD/MVD—supervised the preparation of the Rajk Trial. Biography of M. I. Belkin (1901-1980) in N. V. Petrov, Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941–1954 (Moscow: Zven’ya, 2010), 188–9 (in Russian).
58. G. M. Savenok, Venskie vstrechi (Moscow: Voenizdat, 1961), 156–66 (in Russian).
59. E. Ya. Kolman, My ne dolzhmy byli tak zhit’ (New York: Chalidze Publications, 1982), 230 (in Russian).
60. Stavka’s Directive No. 11097, dated May 29, 1945. Document No. 269 in Russkii Arkhiv. Velikaya Otechestvennaya, 15 (4–5), 422–4.
61. Beria’s letter to Stalin and Molotov dated March 1, 1945. Document No. 30 in Iz Varshavy. Moskva, tovarishchu Beria… Dokumenty NKVD SSSR o pol’skom podpol’e 1944-1945 gg., edited by A. F. Noskova, 115 (Moscow: Sibirskii khronograf, 2001) (in Russian).
62. Meshik’s biography in N. V. Petrov and K. V. Skorkin, Kto rukovodil NKVD. 1939–1941. Spravochnik (Moscow: Zven’ya, 1999), 297 (in Russian).
63. Document Nos. 66–72 and 76 in Iz Varshavy. Moskva, 230–44, 254–5.
64. Nicola Sinevirsky, SMERSH (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1950), 205.
65. Biography of S. P. Davydov (1909–1959) in Petrov, Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti, 325–6.
66. Stavka’s Directive No. 11098, dated May 29, 1945, in Russkii arkhiv: Velikaya Otechestvennaya. Stavka VKG: Dokumenty i materially 1944–1945, T. 16 (5–4) (Moscow: Terra, 1999), 243 (in Russian).
67. The structure and staff of the ACC in Bulgaria approved by the Politburo on November 13, 1944 (Decision 44/169). Document Nos. 53 and 54 in Russkii Arkhiv. Velikaya Otechestvennaya, 14 (3–2), 144–7 (in Russian).