Anna Reid: Leningrad

Richard Bidlack, ‘Ideological or Political Origins of the Leningrad Affair? A Response to David Brandenberger’, The Russian Review , 64/1 (January 2005), p. 94.

Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk, Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–1953 , Oxford, 2004, p. 86.

In his memoirs Khrushchev admits that he ‘may have signed the sentencing order. In those days when a case was closed—and if Stalin thought it necessary—he would sign the sentencing order at a Politburo session and then pass it round for the rest of us to sign. We would put our signatures to it without even looking at it.’ Notes to Pages 402–414

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar , p. 540.

For a vivid description of the Yugoslav visit and Stalin’s decline, see Milovan Djilas, Conversations with Stalin , pp. 136–53.

Volkov, St Petersburg , p. 454.

B. Kostyrchenko, Tainaya politika Stalina , Moscow, 2001, p. 234. Quoted in Donald Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen , p. 245.

Reeder, Anna Akhmatova , p. 304; Elliott Mossman, ed., The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, 1910–1954 , pp. 303–4.

Sidney Monas and Jennifer Greene Krupala, eds, The Diaries of Nikolay Punin, 1904–53 , pp. 212–13, 219.

Likhachev, Reflections on the Russian Soul , p. 255.

For an analysis of the cult of the Great Patriotic War in relation to Leningrad, see Chapter 6 of Lisa Kirschenbaum, The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments .

See for example A. J. P. Taylor in the New York Review of Books , 10 April 1969.

Solomon Volkov, St Petersburg: A Cultural History , p. xvi.

For a detailed account of the debate, see ibid., pp. 542–5.

Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina, eds, Writing the Siege: Women’s Diaries, Memoirs and Documentary Prose , p. 109.

Ibid., p. 206.

Valentina Stolbova and Aelita Vostrova, interviewees nos 12 and 17, European University at St Petersburg Oral History Project, ‘Blokada v sudbakh i pamyati leningradtsev’.

Simmons and Perlina, eds, Writing the Siege , p. 109. For more on the tensions between old residents and new, see Siobhan Peeling, ‘Dirt, disease and disorder: population re-placement in postwar Leningrad and the “danger” of social contamination’, in Nick Baron and Peter Gatrell, eds, Warlands: Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in Soviet Eastern Europe, 1945–1950 .

Mariya Berggolts, commentary to Olga Berggolts, ‘Blokadniy dnevnik’, Zvezda , 3, April 1991, p. 144.