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The Memoirs of Ivanov-Razumnik R. V. Ivanov-Razumnik The Memoirs of Ivanov-Razumnik With a short Introduction by G. JANKOVSKY Translated from the Russian and annotated by P. S. SQUIRE LONDON OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK TORONTO I965 Oxford University Press, Amen House, London E.C.4. GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI LAHORE DACCA CAPETOWN SALISBURY NAIROBI IBADAN ACCRA KUALA LUMPUR HONGKONG © Oxford University Press 1965 Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome and London Contents Translator’s Preface p. vii Introduction by G. Jankovsky . xiii Author’s Foreword p. xvii Note on the subsequent fate of I-R’s manuscript p xxiii FIRST BAPTISM p. i TWENTY YEARS ON p. 13 JUBILEE p. 57 EXILE p. 156 THE MIXTURE AS BEFORE p. 203 Bibliography p. 373 Translator’s Preface T he struggle for power in the Soviet Union since the spring of 1953 has provided increasing evidence of the iniquities of the Stalin regime, but it is only lately that facts known to millions inside Russia and abroad have been publicly and officially acknowledged in that country. Such ‘revelations’ formed the basis of Khrushchev’s successful campaign against what he referred to as ‘the anti-party group’ consisting of those politicians who were prominent in Stalin’s lifetime— Molotov, Kaganovich (Khrushchev’s erstwhile ‘pro- tector’), Malenkov, Bulganin, and even Voroshilov. No more effective method of blackening their reputations could have been found than that of exposing their complicity in Stalin’s crimes and the Twenty-second Communist Party Congress held in Moscow in the autumn of 1961 devoted session after session to this task. The speech of A. N. Shelepin, the Chairman of the Committee of State Security—and hence the successor of the organizations once headed by Yezhov and Beria—was parti- cularly revealing. After giving details of the arrests sanctioned by Molotov and Malenkov at the behest of Stalin, Shelepin commented: ‘This, Comrades, is how the members of the anti- party group settled in so callous a fashion the fate of innocent people, and they continued to do so for many years until that inveterate enemy Beria was finally exposed. One sometimes wonders how these men can walk about with untroubled con- sciences, how they can sleep peacefully at night. They should be pursued by nightmares, their ears should resound with the sobs and curses of the mothers, wives and children of those comrades who perished through no fault of their own.’ 1 1 Pravda, T] October 1961.
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