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These are specific references, listed

by chapter, to works mentioned

in the text.

INTRODUCTION: WE WILL

BURY YOU

The reference to the king rejecting

Islam comes from Heard’s
Russian

Church and Russian Dissent
. The

statistics

on

relative

alcohol

consumption come from Eberstadt,

Russia’s Peacetime Demographic

Crisis
. The figures for the increase in

Russia’s consumption of alcoholic

drinks from 1940 to 1984 come

from White,
Russia Goes Dry
.

The ‘we will bury you’ comment

and the background to Khrushchev

saying it are from Taubman’s

biography of the Soviet leader.

The information on Sinyavsky

and Daniel comes from
On Trial
,

edited by Labedz and Hayward. The

Alexeyeva book quoted is her

excellent
Soviet Dissent
.

Transparency

International’s

corruption perceptions index is

available

on

the

organization’s

website cpi.transparency.org, and the

Levada Centre’s survey is on

www.levada.ru

along

with

a

fascinating

array

of

other

investigations.

CHAPTER 1: THEY TOOK OUR

GRANDFATHER’S LAND

The quotes from Father Dmitry are

mainly taken from his
Podarok ot

Boga
.

The eyewitness account of pre-

revolutionary village life comes from

Tian-Shanskaia’s
Village Life in Late

Tsarist Russia
. Other useful books

on peasant life include the early parts

of Figes’s
A People’s Tragedy
, plus

the early chapters of the following

books on the famine.

These

are

Conquest’s
The

Harvest of Sorrow
, Davies and

Wheatcroft’s
The Years of Hunger

and
Stalin’s Peasants
by Fitzpatrick.

Snyder’s
Bloodlands
is magnificent

for collectivization, famine and the

violence of the war, while Ioffe and

Nefedova’s
Continuity and Change

in Rural Russia
was also a major

source.

The fate of the Jews is described

in Altshuler’s
Soviet Jewry on the

Eve of the Holocaust
and Arad’s
The

Holocaust in the Soviet Union
. The

general origins and effects of anti-

Semitism

are

touched

on

in

Butterworth’s
The World that Never

Was
. Accounts of the mass rape

inflicted by Soviet soldiers when

they captured towns in World War

Two are legion. Among them are

those in Applebaum’s
Iron Curtain
.

CHAPTER 2: A DOUBLE-DYED

ANTI-SOVIET

For details on Stalin’s deal with the

Orthodox Church, see Service’s

biography of the dictator, as well as

the books by Jane Ellis. The quote

asking where all the priests have

gone is from Trofimchuk,
Akademia

u

Troitsy
,

the

Sergiev

Posad

seminary’s official history.

The details of production of food

on private plots come from Ioffe and

Nefedova’s
Continuity and Change

in

Rural

Russia
.

The

quote

expressing amazement about Hagia

Sophia is from Heard’s
The Russian

Church and Russian Dissent
. The

details about Pavlik Morozov are

from

Orlando

Figes’s
The

Whisperers
. The narrative of the

gulag

is

largely

taken

from

Applebaum’s
Gulag
.

The Lenin comment is from

Volume 35 of his collected works, as

quoted in Andrew and Mitrokhin,

The Mitrokhin Archive
, which is also

the source for the details on K G B

penetration of the Church.

CHAPTER 3: FATHER DMITRY

WAS K-956

Details on the gulag are from

A p p leb au m ’s
Gulag

and

from

Solzhenitsyn’s
Gulag Archipelago
.

CHAPTER 4: THE GENERATION

OF CHANGE

For information on the protest

against

the

invasion

of

Czechoslovakia,

see

Gorbanevskaya’s
Red Square at

Noon
. The Khrushchev secret speech

can be found in Rigby’s
The Stalin

Dictatorship
. The Leonid Plyushch

quotes come from Fireside’s
Soviet

Psychoprisons
.

Information

on

writers’ roles under Stalin can be

found in Westerman’s
Engineers of

the Soul
.