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159. Ibid. , pp. 25, 27.

 

160. Ibid. , pp. 16--18.

 

161. Ibid. , p. 28--29.

 

162. Ibid. , pp. 29, 32.

 

163. Bettelheim,  op. cit. , pp. 102, 112.

 

164. Ibid. , pp. 61--65.

 

165. Ibid. , pp. 67--68.

 

166. Ibid. , pp. 76--78.

 

167. Progrиs, op. cit. , p. 142.

 

168. Bettelheim,  op. cit. , p. 74.

 

169. Ibid.

 

170. Ibid. , p. 82.

 

171. Ibid. , p. 89.

 

172. Ibid. , p. 93.

 

173. Ibid. , p. 113, n. 1.

 

174. Ibid. , p. 83, 90.

 

175. Ibid. , p. 85.

 

176. Ibid. , pp. 113--114.

 

177. Zinoviev,  op. cit. , p. 53.

 

178. Ibid. , p. 56.

 

179. Ibid. , p. 236.

 

180. Stefan Merl,  ,,Ausrottung`` der Bourgeoisie und der Kulaken in Sowjetruss land? Geschichte und Gesellschaft 13 (1987), p. 368.

 

181. Ibid. , p. 376.

 

182. Merl,  op. cit. , p. 377.

 

183. Ibid.

 

184. Robert Conquest,  The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 306. Stefan Merl,  Wie viele Opfer forderte die ,,Liquidierung der Kulaken als Klasse``? Geschichte und Gesellschaft 14 (1988), p. 534.

 

185. Ibid. , p. 535.

 

186. Ibid. , p. 537.

 

187. Nicolas Werth,  `Goulag: les vrais chiffres'. L'Histoire 169 (September 1993), pp. 38--51. More details can be found in J. Arch Getty,  Gбbor T. Rittersporn  and Viktor N. Zemskov.  Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-war Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence. The America Historical Review, October 1993, pp. 1017--1049.

 

188. Werth,  op. cit. , p. 44.

 

189. Conquest,  op. cit. , p. 306.

 

190. Time, 18 October 1993, European edition, p. 50. Translated from the French translation.

 

Chapter 5

1. Douglas Tottle,  Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler  to Harvard (Toronto: Progress Books, 1987), pp. 5--6.

 

2. The Nation 140 (36), 13 March 1935, quoted in Tottle,  op. cit. , p. 8.

 

3. Tottle,  op. cit. , p. 9.

 

4. James Casey,  Daily Worker, 21 February 1935, quoted in Tottle,  op. cit. , p. 9.

 

5. Tottle,  op. cit. , pp. 13, 15.

 

6. Ibid. , pp. 19--21.

 

7. Ibid. , pp. 23--24.

 

8. Ibid. , p. 25.

 

9. Ibid. , pp. 4--31.

 

10. Ibid. , pp. 38--44.

 

11. Ibid. , p. 41.

 

12. New York Times, quoted in Tottle,  op. cit. , p. 50.

 

13. Tottle,  op. cit. , p. 51.

 

14. Ibid. , p. 61.

 

15. Ibid.

 

16. Ibid. , pp. 69--71.

 

17. Ibid. , p. 71.

 

18. Ibid. , p. 74.

 

19. Ibid. , p. 79.

 

20. Ibid. , p. 86.

 

21. Conquest,  The Harvest of Sorrow, op. cit. , p. 334.

 

22. Tottle,  op. cit. , pp. 111-112.

 

23. Ibid. , p. 112.

 

24. Ibid. , p. 113.

 

25. Ibid.

 

26. Ibid. , p. 115.

 

27. Ibid. , p. 118.

 

28. Ibid.

 

29. Ibid. , pp. 121--122.

 

30. Ibid. , p. 122.

 

31. Ibid. , p. 128.

 

32. Ibid. , p. 129.

 

33. Ibid. , pp. 58--59.

 

34. J. Arch Getty,  Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933--1938 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 5.

 

35. Tottle,  op. cit. , pp. 93--94.

 

36. Ibid. , p. 94.

 

37. Ibid. , p. 91.

 

38. Ibid. , p. 92.

 

39. Ibid. , p. 96.

 

40. Ibid. , p. 97.

 

41. Ibid.

 

42. Ibid. , p. 100.

 

43. Ibid. , p. 99.

 

44. Ibid. , p. 101.

 

45. Ibid.

 

46. Alexei Fyodorov,  The Underground Committee Carries On (Moscow: Progress Publishers).

 

Chapter 6

1. Trotsky,  The New Course, p. 72.

 

2. Trotsky,  The New Course, p. 85.

 

3. Trotsky,  Lettres aux travailleurs d'URSS (May 1940). La lutte antibureaucratique en URSS II: La rйvolution nйcessaire 1933--1940 (Paris: Union gйnйrale d'йditions, 1975), pp. 301--302.

 

4. Lenin,  Eleventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.). Works. vol. 33, p. 283.

 

5. Stalin, Speech delivered at the Eighth Congress of the All-Union Leninist  Young Communist League. Selected Works, p. 286.

 

6. Ibid. , p. 287.

 

7. Ibid. , p. 288.

 

8. Getty,  op. cit. , p. 22.

 

9. On Deficiencies in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyites  and Other Double Dealers. McNeal,  op. cit. , p. 183.

 

10. Ibid. , p. 99.

 

11. Stalin, Address to the Graduates of the Red Army Academies. Leninism,  p. 364.

 

12. Getty,  op. cit. , p. 105.

 

13. The Preparation of Party Organizations for Elections to the USSR Supreme Soviet under the New Electoral System and the Corresponding Reorganization of Party Political Work (27 February 1937). McNeal,  p. 187.

 

14. Ibid. , p. 158.

 

15. Ibid. , p. 162.

 

16. Ibid. , p. 164.

 

Chapter 7

1. Bernard, op. cit. , pp. 50, 52--53.

2. Gabor Tamas Rittersporn, Stalinist Simplifications and Soviet Complications: Social Tensions and Political Conflict in the USSR, 1933--1953 (Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991), p. 23.

3. Ibid. , pp. 1--2.

4. Ibid. , p. 23.

5. J. V. Stalin, Report and Speech in Reply to Debate at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. (3--5 March 1937). Works (London: Red Star Press, 1976), vol. 14, p. 241.

6. Ibid. , pp. 242--243.

7. Ibid. , p. 264.

8. Boris Bajanov, Avec Staline dans le Kremlin (Paris: Les Editions de France, 1930), pp. 2--3.

9. Ibid. , p. 7.

10. Ibid. , pp. 4--5.

11. George Solomon, Parmi les maitres rouges, Serie Anticommuniste du Centre International de Lutte Active Contre le Communisme (Paris: Editions Spes, 1930), p. 19.

12. Ibid. , p 36.

13. Ibid. , p. 19.

14. Ibid. , pp. 36--37.

15. Ibid. , p. 348.

16. Ibid. , p. 351.

17. Bajanov, op. cit. , pp. 105--109.

18. G. A. Tokaev, Comrade X (London: The Harvill Press, 1956), p. 33.

19. Zinoviev, op. cit. , p. 105.

20. Ibid. , p. 104.

21. Ibid. , p. 126.

22. Ibid. , pp. 110, 118.

23. Ibid. , pp. 111, 113.

24. Ibid. , p. 115.

25. Ibid. , pp. 118, 120.

26. Ibid. , p. 122.

27. Ibid. , p. 116.

28. Edward Hallett Carr. Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926--1929, Volume 2 (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1971), pp. 7, 10--12, 20.

29. Ibid. , pp. 28--29.

30. Ibid. , p. 42.

31. Ibid. , p. 49.

32. Ibid. , p. 60.

33. Ibid. , p. 67.

34. Ibid. , p. 65.

35. Ibid. , p. 73, n. 3.

36. Getty, op. cit. , p. 94.

37. Stalin, Report to the Seventeenth Party Congress on the Work of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.). Selected Works, p. 404.

38. Stalin, Instead of a Reply to the Discussion, Works, vol. 13, p. 404.

39. Stalin, Report, op. cit. , pp. 405--406.

40. Ibid. , p. 207.

41. Ibid. , pp. 95, 111-112, 115--116.

42. Ibid. , p. 119; p. 245, n. 20.

43. Ibid. , pp. 119--120.

44. Leon Trotsky, Are There No Limits to the Fall? A Summary of the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (18 January 1934). Writings of Leon Trotsky (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1973), vol. 6, p. 210.

45. Ibid. , p. 215.

46. Leon Trotsky, Que signifie la capitulation de Rakovsky? (31 March 1934). La lutte, pp. 59--60.

47. Trotsky, Are There No Limits to the Fall?, p. 212.

48. Ibid. , p. 216.

49. Ibid. , p. 217.

50. Ibid. , p. 211.

51. Trotsky, On the Eve of the Seventeenth Congress (20 January 1934). Writings, vol. 6, pp. 223-224.

52. Trotsky, The Stalinist Bureaucracy and the Kirov Assassination: A Reply to Friends in America (28 December 1934). Writings, vol. 7, p. 116.

53. Nikita S. Khrushchev. The Crimes of the Stalin Era: Special Report to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Secret Report). The New Leader (New York), 1957, p. S32.

54. Trotsky, The Stalinist Bureaucracy and the Kirov Assassination, p. 117.

55. Ibid. , pp. 121--122.

56. Leon Trotsky, Pour sa propre sauvegarde, la bureaucratie entretient la terreur (26 September 1935). L'appareil policier du stalinisme (Paris: Union generale d'editions, 1976), pp. 85--87.

57. Getty, op. cit. , p. 123.

58. Tokaev, op. cit. , pp. 60--61.

59. Getty, op. cit. , pp. 121--122.

60. John D. Littlepage and Demaree Bess, In Search of Soviet Gold (London: George E. Harrap & Co., 1939), pp. 188-189.

61. Ibid. , pp. 89--94.

62. Ibid. , pp. 97--101.

63. Khrushchev, Secret Report, op. cit. , p. S32.

64. Littlepage and Bess, op. cit. , pp. 106--107.

65. Ibid. , p. 111.

66. Ibid. , pp. 112--114.

67. Ibid. , pp. 274--275.

68. Ibid. , pp. 95--96.

69. People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R. Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyite Centre (Moscow, 1937), pp. 21--27.

70. Littlepage and Bess, op. cit. , p. 102.

71. Scott, op. cit. , p. 184.

72. Ibid. , pp. 188--189.

73. Stalin, Report and Speech in Reply to Debate at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U., p. 241.

74. Ibid. , p. 264.

75. Khrushchev, op. cit. , p. S24.

76. Stalin, op. cit. , p. 278.

77. Ibid. , p. 280.

78. Ibid. , pp. 279--280.

79. Ibid. , p. 296.

80. Ibid. , p. 294.

81. Ibid. , pp. 292--293.

82. Ibid. , pp. 282--283.

83. Stephen F. Cohen. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888--1938 (New York: Vintage Books, 1975), p. 343.

84. Nouvelles de Moscou 21, 27 May 1990.

85. People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R. Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet ``Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites'' (Moscow, 1938), p. 390.

86. Cohen, op. cit. , p. 352.

87. Ibid. , p. 355.

88. Ibid. , p. 356.

89. Ibid. , p. 354.

90. Ibid. , p. 362.

91. Ibid. , pp. 361, 363.

92. Yannick Blanc and David Kaisergruber, L'affaire Boukharine ou Le recours de la memoire (Paris: Francois Maspero, 1979), p. 64.

93. Ibid. , p. 79.

94. Ibid. , p. 65.

95. Ibid. , p. 64.

96. Ibid. , pp. 64--65.

97. Cohen, op. cit. , p. 365.

98. Blanc and Kaisergruber, op. cit. , p. 72.

99. Ibid. , pp. 75--76.

100. Ibid. , pp. 72--73.

101. Ibid. , p. 76.

102. Tokaev, op. cit. , p. 43.

103. Ibid. , p. 61.

104. Ibid. , p. 86.

105. Court Proceedings ... ``Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites'', op. cit. , pp. 377--378.

106. Tokaev, op. cit. , p. 159.

107. Ibid. , pp. 68--69.

108. Ibid. , p. 85.

109. Ibid. , pp. 174--175.

110. Ibid. , p. 187.

111. Ibid. , p. 188.

112. Joseph E. Davies, Mission to Moscow, (New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1943), p. 163.

113. Tokaev, p. 96.

114. Ibid.

115. Ibid. , p. 98.

116. Court Proceedings ... ``Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites'', , op. cit. , p. 429.

117. Ibid. , pp. 432--433.

118. Cohen, op. cit. , p. 372.

119. Ibid. , pp. 375--376.

120. Court Proceedings ... ``Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites'', , op. cit. , pp. 380--381.

121. Ibid. , p. 381.

122. Ibid. , p. 382.

123. Ibid. , p. 386.

124. Ibid.

125. Ibid. , pp. 387--388.

126. Ibid. , p. 388.

127. Ibid. , pp. 388--389.

128. Ibid. , pp. 390--391.

129. Ibid. , p. 391.

130. Ibid. , p. 393.

131. Ibid. , p. 419.

132. Ibid. , p. 425.

133. Ibid. , p. 430.

134. Ibid. , pp. 431--432.

135. Ibid. , pp. 776--779.

136. Cohen, op. cit. , p. 381.

137. Ibid. , p. 382.

138. Ken Coates, The Case of Nikolai Bukharin (Nottingham: Spokesman, 1978).

139. Blanc and Kaisergruber, op. cit. , pp. 11, 16.

140. Cohen, op. cit. , p. 384.

141. Ibid. , p. 386.

142. Getty, op. cit. , p. 167.

143. Carr, op. cit. , p. 325.

144. Ibid. , p. 327.

145. Ibid. , p. 320.

146. Ibid. , p. 331.

147. Ibid. , p. 317.

148. Getty, op. cit. , p. 255, n. 84.

149. Alexander Werth, quoted in Harpal Brar, Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism (London: Harpal Brar, 1992), p. 161.

150. Joseph Davies, op. cit. , p. 99.

151. Ibid. , p. 103.

152. Alexander Uralov (Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov), The Reign of Stalin (Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, p. 1975), p. 50.

153. Robert Coulondre, De Staline a Hitler: Souvenirs de deux ambassades, 1936--1939 (Paris: Hachette, 1950), pp. 182--184.

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