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2. Baku too Persian, Nobel story, Rothschilds, wages, stories of tycoons Mantashev, etc.: Tolf, Russian Rockefellers, pp. 87–100, 139–41, 151–58, 182. Anna Alliluyeva in Alliluyev Memoirs, pp. 52–55, 84–86. Giving to Bolsheviks: Krasin in Williams, p. 59. Tiflis a marsh, Baku a centre: Stalin, Works, 2:188; second baptism of fire: Stalin, Works, 8: 174–75. Suny, “A Journeyman for the Revolution,” pp. 373–94. Assassinations, etc.: Geifman, Thou Shalt Kill, p. 414. Smoky and gloomy: Trotsky, Stalin, p. 4. Essad Bey, pp. 123–37. Mikoyan, Tak bylo, pp. 347–48. Shaumian and filth of Baku, Mikoyan, Memoirs, pp. 72–74. Kaleidoscope: Stalin, Works, 2:378. Baku irrepressible: Stalin, Works, 2:141. Oil kingdom: Stalin, Works, 2:141. On Baku, hit men and strikes: Stalin, Works, 2:81–83. Revolutionary centre: Stalin, Works, 1:189. Reiss, The Orientalist, pp. 9–15, including p. 12, “Dodge City” quotation, and Stalin connection with mother and Krasin, pp. 20–21; Essad Bey quotes, “my mother financed Stalin’s press with her diamonds,” p. 21; our city like Wild West, p. 32. Most dangerous place, rootless, physical violence, rapes, prehistoric, Gorky, life expectancy, disembowelled dogs: Baberowski, Der Feind, pp. 62–67. Nikita Dastakian, Il venait de la Ville Noire: Mauserists. Stalin expert on oil industry: Mgeladze, p. 28. For tales of Baku oil barons, Nobels, the palaces: Faud Akhundov’s series “Legacy of the Oil Barons,” parts 1–4, in Azerbaijan International Magazine, 1994. Farid Alakbarov, “Baku’s Old City: Memories of How It Used to Be,” Azerbaijan International Magazine, Autumn 2002. Also see Manaf Suleymanov’s classic Eskitdiklarim, Okhuduglarim, Gorduklarim (What I Saw, What I Read, What I Heard).