14. Docs. 72 and 73 in T. V. Volokitina et al., eds., Sovetskii faktor v Vostochnoi Evrope, 1944–1953 (Moscow, 1999), 1:231–33; Stankova, “Das parteipolitische System in Bulgarien,” 197–98.
15. Quoted in Dimitrov, Stalin’s Cold War, 125.
16. Stankova, “Das parteipolitische System in Bulgarien,” 200.
17. FRUS, 1945, 2:822.
18. Quoted in Stankova, “Das parteipolitische System in Bulgarien,” 202; see also Dimitrov, Dnevnik, 287–88.
19. Doc. 90 in Volokitina et al., Sovetskii faktor, 1:267–69; also doc. 128, in T. V. Volokitina et al., eds., Vostochnaya Evropa v dokumentakh rossiiskikh arkhivov (Moscow, 1997–98), 1:355–61; Dimitrov, Stalin’s Cold War, 140; Stankova, “Das parteipolitische System in Bulgarien,” 204.
20. Entry for June 7, 1946, in Dimitrov, Dnevnik, 298–99.
21. Ibid., 304–6.
22. Stankova, “Das parteipolitische System in Bulgarien,” 211.
23. Doc. 121 in Volokitina et al., Sovetskii faktor, 1:348–50.
24. Valeva, “Politicheskiye protsessy v Bolgarii 1944–1948 gg.”
25. Ehrenburg, Liudi, gody, zhizn, 6:24.
26. Vladimir Solonari, Purifying the Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi-Allied Romania (Baltimore, Md., 2010), 340–41.
27. Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism for all Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (London, 2003), 87–90, 120–24; Robert Levy, Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist (London, 2001), 79–80; Dennis Deletant, Romania Under Communist Rule, rev. ed. (Portland, Ore., 1999), 30–39.
28. TASS interview with Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Jan. 10, 1945, doc. 31 in Volokitina et al., Sovetskii faktor, 1:126–30.
29. Ulrich Burger, “Die Strategie der Kommunisten in Rumänien zur Gleichschaltung des Parteiensystems zwischen 1944 und 1948,” in Creuzberger and Görtemaker, Gleichschaltung unter Stalin, 138–39; Levy, Ana Pauker, 78.
30. Doc. 40, Mar. 3, 1945, in Volokitina et al., Sovetskii faktor, 1:156–59.
31. Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons, 90–91; Deletant, Romania Under Communist Rule, 42.
32. Florian Banu, “Calamităţi ale secolului al XX-lea: foametea care a devastat Moldova în 1946–1947,” http://www.comunism.ro/images/banu.pdf.
33. Vladimir Tismăneanu et al., Comisia Prezident¸ială Pentru Analiza Dictaturii Comuniste din România: Raport Final (Bucharest, 2006), 199–200.
34. Excerpts of transcripts in Eduard Mark, “Stalin’s National-Front Strategy for Europe, 1941–1947,” CWIHP, Working Paper no. 31 (2001), 26–30. These documents have since been closed to use.
35. Tismăneanu et al., Comisia Prezident¸ială, 200; Levy, Pauker, 75.
36. Tuvia Friling, Radu Ioanid, and Mihail E. Ionescu, eds., Final Report, International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (Ias¸i, 2004), 179, 313–14.
37. Burger, “Strategie der Kommunisten,” 153–54.
38. Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons, 287–88; Burger, “Strategie der Kommunisten,” 154, 158.
39. Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons, 91–94.
40. Quoted in Stejărel Olaru and Georg Herbstritt, eds., Vademekum, Contemporary History Romania: A Guide Through Archives, Research Institutions, Libraries, Societies, Museums and Memorial Places (Berlin–Bucharest, 2004), 20.
41. Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons, 20; 85–106; Dennis Deletant, Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948–1965 (New York, 1999), 114–45, 195–224.
42. Recensământul populat¸iei concentrat¸ionare 1945–1989, www.memorialsighet.ro.
43. Alice Mocanescu, “Surviving 1956: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and the Cult of Personality in Romania,” in Balázs Apor, Jan C. Behrends, Polly Jones, and E. A. Rees, eds., The Leader Cult in Communist Dictatorships: Stalin and the Eastern Bloc (New York, 2004), 246–50.
44. Charles Gati, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc (Durham, N.C., 1988), 31.
45. Krisztián Ungváry, The Siege of Budapest: 100 Days in World War II (New Haven, Conn., 2005), 40–43.
46. Ernő Gerő’s notes, reprinted in William O. McCagg, Jr., Stalin Embattled, 1943–1948 (Detroit, 1978), 314–16. The author ignores the last sentence, as pointed out in László Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 1945–1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union (New York, 2004), 35.
47. Volokitina et al., Sovetskii faktor, 1:109–13; Gati, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc, 33–39, 67; Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 35.
48. Peter Kenez, Hungary from the Nazis to the Soviets: The Establishment of the Communist Regime in Hungary, 1944–1948 (New York, 2006), 120.
49. G. F. Krivosheev, Rossiia i SSSR v voinakh XX veka: poteri vooruzhennykh siclass="underline" statisticheskoe issledovanie (Moscow, 2001), tables in chap. 5.
50. Ungváry, Siege of Budapest, 348–63.
51. Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 66.
52. Conversations, doc. 57 in Volokitina et al., Sovetskii faktor, 1:195–204.
53. Doc. 82 in Volokitina et al., Vostochnaya Evropa, 1:242–43.
54. László Karsai, “The People’s Courts and Revolutionary Justice in Hungary, 1945–46,” in István Deák, Jan T. Gross, and Tony Judt, eds., The Politics of Retribution: World War II and Its Aftermath (Princeton, N.J., 2000), 233–51.
55. Kerenz, Hungary, 141–43.
56. Doc. 98 in Volokitina et al., Vostochnaya Evropa, 1:271–74.
57. Doc. 100, ibid., 276–77.
58. Susan Glanz, “Economic Platforms of the Various Parties in the Elections of 1945,” in Nándor Dreisziger, ed., Hungary in the Age of Total War (New York, 1998), 179.
59. Telephone message to Stalin and Molotov, doc. 81, and Nov. 11, 1945, doc. 116, in Volokitina et al., Sovetskii faktor, 1:243–45; Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 77–78.
60. Kenez, Hungary, 149–62; Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 83.
61. Csaba Békés, “Soviet Plans to Establish the Cominform in Early 1946: New Evidence from the Hungarian Archives,” CWIHP Bulletin 10 (Mar. 1998), 135–36.
62. Borhi, Hungary in the Cold War, 94–96.
63. Michael Korda, Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (New York, 2006), 71.
64. János M. Rainer, “Der Weg der ungarischen Volksdemokratie: Das Mehrparteiensystem und seine Beseitigung 1944–1949,” in Creuzberger and Görtemaker, Gleichschaltung unter Stalin, 333–42.
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