Simon Montefiore - Stalin

This is mainly based on interviews with: Vyacheslav Nikonov, Natalya Andreyeva, Joseph Minervin, Stas Namin, Martha Peshkova, Julia Khrushcheva, Sergo and Stepan Mikoyan, Nina Budyonny, Igor and Volya Malenkov, Yury Zhdanov, Leonid Redens, Vladimir Alliluyev (Redens), Kira Alliluyeva. Beria’s fall: Mikoyan’s Tak bylo , pp. 584–8 (fleas in my trousers), and the familiar account in Khrushchev Remembers . Also Amy Knight’s Beria ; for Beria’s death, towel in mouth, see Michael Parrish, The Lesser Terror , and for acid bath, see Vlast, vol. 22, 2000, pp. 46–7. Beria’s death and 1957 Plenum/ “Nuremberg”: W. Taubman, Khrushchev, Man and Era, pp. 256, 321–4. See also Svetlana Alliluyeva’s Only One Year and Twenty Letters ; Medvedev’s All Stalin’s Men ; Khrushchev, quoted as “up to elbows in blood” by Shapoval, Taubman’s Khrushchev , p. 41. Dream: quoted in Molotov Letters , p. 1.

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