12. Dinners in old age: Charkviani, “Memoirs.” Megalomaniacs: “Provisional Revolutionary Government and Social Democracy,” Proletariatis Brdzola, 15 Aug. 1905: Stalin, Works, 1:140–61. 20–25 million deaths: A. N. Yakovlev, A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia (New Haven, 2000), p. 234.