Select Bibliography
The following books and articles were especially valuable to me during the writing of this book. The Betrayal also draws on research undertaken for The Siege (for more detail, please see the Select Bibliography for that novel). I am deeply grateful to all these sources.
BOOKS
The Cure: A Story of Cancer and Politics from the Annals of the Cold War by Nikolai Krementsov, University of Chicago Press, 2002
Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–1953 by Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk, Oxford University Press, 2004
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield, Penguin, 2004
Stalinism: New Directions (Rewriting Histories), ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick, Routledge, 2000
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Oxford University Press, 2000
Tear Off the Masks: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Princeton University Press, 2005
Revolution on my Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin by Jochen Hellbeck, Harvard University Press, 2006
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003
The Unknown Stalin by Zhores A. Medvedev and Roy A. Medvedev, trans. Ellen Dahrendorf, I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2003
Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953 by Geoffrey Roberts, Yale University Press, 2007
Stalin’s Last Crime: The Doctors’ Plot by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir Naumov, John Murray, 2003
The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security 1939–1953 by Michael Parrish, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996
Bolshevik Wives: A Study of Soviet Elite Society by James Peter Young, PhD thesis, Department of Government and International Relations, Sydney University, 2008
Till My Tale is Told: Women’s Memoirs of the Gulag, ed. Simeon Vilensky, Virago, 1999
Into the Whirlwind by Evgenia S. Ginzburg, trans. Paul Stevenson and Manya Harari, Penguin, 1968
Within the Whirlwind by Evgenia S. Ginzburg, trans. Paul Stevenson and Manya Harari, Harvill Press, 1989
Remembering the Darkness: Women in Soviet Prisons by Veronica Shapovalov, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum, Allen Lane, 2003
Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia by Catherine Merridale, Granta, 2000
The Whisperers: Private Life in Soviet Russia by Orlando Figes, Allen Lane, 2007
Kolyma Tales, by Varlam Shalamov, trans. John Glad, Penguin Classics, 1994
Red Miracle: The Story of Soviet Medicine by Edward Podolsky, Books for Libraries Press, 1972
Daily Life in the Soviet Union by Katherine Bliss Eaton, Greenwood Press, 2004
Children’s World: Growing Up in Russia 1890–1991 by Catriona Kelly, Yale University Press, 2007
Writing the Siege of Leningrad by Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002
The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1995: Myths, Memories and Monuments by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Cambridge University Press, 2006
Nursing the Surgical Patient, ed. Rosemary Pudner, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2005
ARTICLES
‘Building the Blockade: New Truths in Survival Narratives from Leningrad’ by Jennifer Dickinson, University of Michigan, in Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, Autumn 1995
‘Lifting the Siege: Women’s Voices on Leningrad, 1941–1944’ by Cynthia Simmons, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1998
Pravda, 13 January 1953
‘Above-knee Amputation’ by Paul Sugarbaker, Jacob Bickels and Martin Malawer in Musculoskeletal Cancer Surgery: Treatment of Sarcomas and Allied Diseases, ed. Martin M. Malawer and Paul H. Sugarbaker, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001
‘Survival Data for 648 Patients with Osteosarcoma Treated at One Institution’ by Henry J. Munkin, MD; Francis J. Hornicok, MD, PhD; Andrew E. Rosenberg, MD; David C. Harmon, MD; and Mark C. Gebhardt, MD, in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, No. 429
‘How to Wrap an Above-the-knee Amputation Stump’ by Denise D. Hayes in Nursing, January 2003
‘Secondary Lung Tumors’ by Rebecca Bascom, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
I am grateful to Memorial (International Historical-Enlightenment, Human Rights and Humanitarian Society Memorial) and to The Shalamov Society.
I owe a lifelong debt to the works of Anna Akhmatova, Isaak Babel, Olga Berggolts, Alexander Blok, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gumilev, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Marina Tsvetayeva, Alexander Tvardovsky, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Mikhail Zoshchenko and many more than I can name here.
No contemporary bibliography is complete without reference to the wealth of material now available on the internet. To give just a few examples, I was able to listen to a recording of Radio Moscow’s announcement of Stalin’s death; view declassified Top Secret CIA papers from 1953 that relate to the death of Stalin and to the Doctors’ Plot; and consult research into the health and fertility of women who survived starvation during the Siege of Leningrad. Such access would have seemed incredible in the late 1990s, when I was writing The Siege.