72. Gorinov et al., Moskva voennaia, pp. 111, 116–119; Mikoian, Tak bylo, pp. 419–420.
73. A. I. Shakhurin, Kryl’ia pobedy (Moscow, 1990), pp. 156–157.
74. Izvestiia TsK KPSS, no. 1 (1991): 215–216, and no. 4 (1991): 210–214; Istoricheskii arkhiv, no. 3 (1997): 92.
75. S. V. Tochenov, “Volneniia i zabastovki na tekstil’nykh predpriiatiiakh Ivanovskoi oblast osen’iu 1941 goda,” Otechestvennaia istoriia, no. 3 (2004): pp. 42–47; Istoricheskii arkhiv, no. 2 (1994): 111–136.
76. Cited in G. K. Zhukov, Vospominaniia i razmyshleniia (Moscow, 2002), vol. 2, pp. 26–27.
77. Cited in Pravda, 7 November 1941.
78. S. V. Deviatov et al., Moskovskii Kreml’ v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny (Moscow, 2010), p. 87.
79. Ibid., pp. 57–61, 64.
80. Pravda, 8 November 1941.
81. Deviatov et al., Moskovskii Kreml’, p. 61.
82. K. M. Anderson et al., comps., Kremlevskii kinoteatr. 1928–1953 (Moscow, 2005), p. 639.
83. Cited in V. A. Zolotarev, ed., Russkii arkhiv. Velikaia Otechestvennaia. Stavka VGK. 1942 g., vol. 16 (5–2) (Moscow, 1996), pp. 33–35.
84. R. V. Mazurkevich, “Plany i real’nost’,” Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal, no. 2 (1992): 24–25.
85. Vasilevskii, Delo vsei zhizni, p. 189.
86. Cited in Istochnik, no. 5 (1995): 41.
87. GARF (not yet catalogued). From the memoirs of Yakov Chadaev.
88. Zolotarev, Russkii arkhiv. Velikaia Otechestvennaia. Stavka VGK. 1942 g., vol. 16 (5–2), pp. 236–239.
89. Interview with Georgy Zhukov in Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniia, p. 366.
90. Vasilevskii, Delo vsei zhizni, pp. 195–196.
91. Krivosheev et al., Velikaia Otechestvennaia bez grifa sekretnosti, p. 179.
92. Zolotarev, Russkii arkhiv. Velikaia Otechestvennaia. Stavka VGK. 1942 g., vol. 16 (5–2), pp. 263–264.
93. After reading this letter, Stalin placed it in his personal archive. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 762, ll. 6–8.
94. K. K. Rokossovskii, Soldatskii dolg (Moscow, 2013), p. 211.
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896–1968) was a much-acclaimed marshal of the Great Patriotic War. He was arrested during the purges and spent 1937–1940 in prison. During the war he was placed in charge of armies and fronts. In 1949–1956 he served as Poland’s minister of defense before holding senior posts in the Soviet ministry. His rather candid memoirs, Soldatskii dolg (A soldier’s duty), were published in 1968 with major excisions. An uncensored edition came out in 1997.
95. Cited in Zolotarev, Russkii arkhiv. Velikaia Otechestvennaia. Stavka VGK. 1942 g., vol. 16 (5–2), pp. 276–279.
96. O. A. Rzheshevskii, Stalin i Cherchill’. Vstrechi. Besedy. Diskussii (Moscow, 2004), pp. 348–383.
97. Krivosheev et al., Velikaia Otechestvennaia bez grifa sekretnosti, pp. 60–61.
98. Rodina, no. 4 (2005): 65.
99. Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov (1896–1962) was a senior Soviet military officer who served as deputy head of the General Staff during the war years and often reported directly to Stalin.
100. Vasilevskii, Delo vsei zhizni, pp. 311.
101. A. Eremenko, Gody vozmezdiia (Moscow, 1986), pp. 36, 38; Dmitri Volkogonov, Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy (New York, 1991), p. 481; Deviatov et al., Moskovskii Kreml’, pp. 184, 186.
102. Perepiska Predsedatelia Soveta Ministrov SSSR s prezidentami SShA i prem’er-ministrami Velikobritanii vo vremia Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny 1941–1945 gg. (Moscow, 1957). Stalin’s letter to Churchill is dated 9 August 1943 (vol. 1, pp. 141–142). Stalin’s letter to Roosevelt is dated 8 August 1943 (vol. 2, p. 77).
103. Stalin’s letter to Churchill, 24 June 1943, which he sent that same day to Roosevelt for his information; Perepiska, vol. 2, pp. 72–75.
104. Cited in S. M. Shtemenko, General’nyi shtab v gody voiny (Moscow, 1989), p. 148.
105. Golovanov, Dal’niaia bombardirovochnaia, pp. 351–356.
106. RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 377, l. 61.
107. Cited in Gorinov et al., Moskva voennaia, pp. 694–695; Istochnik, no. 2 (1995): 138–139.
108. Istoricheskii arkhiv, no. 1 (1997): 66–68.
109. V. A. Zolotarev, ed., Russkii arkhiv, Velikaia Otechestvennaia. Stavka VGK. 1944–1945, vol. 16 (5–4) (Moscow, 1999), p. 12.
110. For an examination of the populations affected by mass killings in the geographic region between Germany and the Soviet Union by both Stalin and Hitler, see Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin (New York, 2010).
111. Vestnik arkhiva Preszidenta Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Voina. 1941–1945, pp. 346–348.
112. Khaustov et al., Lubianka. Stalin i NKVD-NKGB-GUKR “Smersh,” p. 405.
113. Alexander Statiev, “The Nature of Anti-Soviet Armed Resistance, 1942–1944: The North Caucasus, the Kalmyk Autonomous Republic, and Crimea,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 6, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 285–318.
114. V. A. Kozlov and S. V. Mironenko, eds., “Osobaia papka” Stalina. Iz materialov Sekretariata NKVD-MVD SSSR. 1944–1953 (Moscow, 1994).
115. GARF, f. R-9401, op. 2, d. 64, l. 167.
116. Ibid., l. 166.
117. Ibid., l. 165
118. Ibid., d. 66, ll. 9–10, 40–46.
119. Ibid., ll. 334–340.
120. Ibid., d. 67, ll. 319–324; d. 68, ll. 268–273.
121. N. M. Naimark, Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949 (Cambridge, MA, 1995).
122. Khaustov et al., Lubianka. Stalin i NKVD-NKGB-GUKR “Smersh,” pp. 502–504.
123. Cited in M. Dzhilas [Milovan Djilas], Litso totalitarizma (Moscow, 1992), p. 82.
124. Transcript of conversations between Stalin and Roosevelt; RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 235, l. 8.
125. N. V. Petrov, Po stsenariiu Stalina: Rol’ organov NKVD-MGB SSSR v sovetizatsii stran Tsentral’noi i Vostochnoi Evropy. 1945–1953 (Moscow, 2011), pp. 44–52.
126. Cited in V. A. Zolotarev, Russkii arkhiv. Velikaia Otechestvennaia. Stavka VGK. 1943 g., vol. 16 (5–3) (Moscow, 1996), p. 185.
127. RGASPI, f. 17, op. 3, d. 1045, l. 55.
128. Zolotarev, Russkii arkhiv. Velikaia Otechestvennaia. Stavka VGK. 1942, vol. 16 (5–2), p. 420.
129. Interview with Aleksandr Vasilevsky in Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniia, p. 446.
130. Vasilevskii, Delo vsei zhizni, pp. 496–497.
131. Shtemenko, General’nyi shtab v gody voiny, pp. 102–104. V. A. Zolotarev, ed., Russkii arkhiv, Velikaia Otechestvennaia. General’nyi shtab v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny. 1941, vol. 23 (12–1) (Moscow, 1997), pp. 11–12.
132. From a 2 April 1965 memorandum from Marshal Konev to the Central Committee Presidium; Shtemenko, General’nyi shtab v gody voiny, pp. 104, 192; I. S. Konev, Zapiski komanduiushchego frontom (Moscow, 2000), p. 498.