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1. Summer–Winter 1915. Visits to Monastyrskoe, Party trial, Spandarian. F. Samoilov, “Bolshevistskaya fraktsiya IV Gosudarstvennoy Dumy v yeniseiskoi ssylke pered fevralskoie revolyutsiey.” Spandarian to Lenin, 20 Aug.: Josef sends you all his warmest regards; 28 Sept.: Josef 150 versts away but… we’ll see each other: Spandarian, Statii, pisma, dokumenty, p. 284. Last meeting: RGASPI 558.4.582 and 558.4.662 V. Shveitzer. Stalin and Spandarian: RGASPI 558.4.662, B. Ivanov. G. Petrovsky—Bolshevik meeting: RGASPI 558.4.662. Also GARF 5449.1.75. Money, I thought forgotten, Kamenev wet hens: RGASPI 558.4.54. Writing big articles—Stalin to Kamenev, send this to Lenin: RGASPI 558.1.56. I’ve found out nothing: RGASPI 558.4.662. Robbery and trial, Sverdlov accused: GARF 5449.1.75. RGASPI 558.4.662. A. E. Badaev, “O Staline,” Pravda, 19 Dec. 1939. Sverdlov, Izbrannye, pp. 266–80, 321. Gorodetsky and Sharapov, Sverdlov, pp. 84–86 and 99–103. Ostrovsky, p. 408. RGASPI 558.11.1288. Spandarian ill: Ostrovsky, p. 409. Stalin inquires after Spandarian: S. Alliluyev, Pravda, 22 Dec. 1939. Vera Shveitzer: RGASPI 558.4.662. Condemnation of Kamenev: Merridale, “The Making of a Moderate Bolshevik,” pp. 31–33, including Trotsky quote. Service, Stalin, pp. 109–10. Stalin noncommittal at Kamenev trial: Robert M. Slusser, Stalin in October: The Man Who Missed the Revolution (henceforth Slusser), pp. 13–14. Merzliakov and Lidia Pereprygina: Ilizarov, pp. 300–305 and 310-11. Revolution inevitable: Stalin, Works, 1:79. Kamenev and Stalin friends: Mikoyan, Tak bylo, p. 352. Kamenev gives Stalin Machiavelli: Rayfield, Stalin and the Hangmen, p. 22. Sweet revenge: Robert Conquest, Stalin: Breaker of Nations, p. 107.