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see G. Roberts,
Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953
(London: Yale University Press, 2006), chap. 2.
    Â Â 4 The available Soviet military intelligence reports are collected in:
Voennaya Razvedka Informiruet: Dokumenty Razvedypravleniya Krasnoi Armii, 1939–1941
(Moscow: Demokratiya, 2008).
    Â Â 5 Ibid., docs. 7.13, 7.22, 7.33, 7.38, 7.47, 7.57, 7.65, 7.82.
    Â Â 6 E. Mawdsley,
Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945
(London: Hodder Arnold, 2005), pp. 33–34.
    Â Â 7
1941 God
, vol. 1, docs. 273–74, vol. 2, doc. 549. D. M. Glantz,
Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), pp. 100–101; E. Mawdsley, “Crossing the Rubicon: Soviet Plans for Offensive War in 1940–1941,”
International History Review
, December 2003; M. Mel’tukhov,
Upushchennyi Shans Stalina
(Moscow: Veche, 2000), pp. 347–48.
    Â Â 8
1941 God
, vol. 1, doc. 315. Note: the text of the March plan as published is incomplete.
    Â Â 9 Ibid., vol. 2, doc. 473.
    10 A. Werth,
Russia at War, 1941–1945
(London: Pan, 1965), p. 132.
    11 See: J. Forster and E. Mawdsley, “Hitler and Stalin in Perspective: Secret Speeches on the Eve of Barbarossa,”
War in History
, vol. 11, no. 1, 2006.
    12 Mawdsley, “Crossing the Rubicon,” p. 838.
    13
1941 God
, vol. 2, docs. 481–83; L. Rotundo, “Stalin and the Outbreak of War in 1941,”
Journal of Contemporary History
, vol. 24, 1989, p. 283.
    14 Mawdsley, “Crossing the Rubicon.”
    15
Na Priyome u Stalina
(Moscow: Novyi Khronograf, 2008), pp. 334–35.
    16
Voennaya Razvedka
, docs. 7.90, 7.91, 7.95, 7.97, 7.98, 7.104.
    17 G. Gorodetsky,
Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia
(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 287–93.
    18
Voennaya Razvedka
, doc. 7.107.
    19 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, p. 276.
    20 In relation to Stalin and June 22, 1941, see: Gorodetsky,
Grand Delusion
, and Roberts,
Stalin’s Wars
.
    21 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, p. 277.
    22 On the timing of Zhukov and Timoshenko’s meetings with Stalin on June 21/22, see
Na Priyome u Stalina
, pp. 337–38.
    23 A translation of the text of the three directives may be found in D. M. Glantz,
Barbarossa: Hitler’s Invasion of Russia, 1941
(Stroud, U.K.: Tempus, 2001), pp. 242–43.
    24 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, pp. 284–85.
    25 I. K. Bagramyan,
Tak Shli My k Pobede
(Moscow: Voenizdat, 1988), p. 65.
    26
Na Priyome u Stalina
, p. 339. In his memoirs Zhukov recalled that he arrived in Moscow late in the evening of June 26 and went directly to Stalin’s office (Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, p. 305). According to Stalin’s appointments diary he was there between four and five and again between nine and ten.
    27 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, p. 309. Stalin’s appointments diary confirms that he was absent from his own office that day.
    28 A. Mikoyan,
Tak Bylo
(Moscow: Vargrius, 1999), p. 390.
    29
The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1971), p. 268.
    30
Russkii Arkhiv: Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina, 1941–1945
, vol. 16 (1), Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941 god (Moscow: Terra, 1996), doc. 41.
    31
1941 God
, vol. 2, doc. 635.
    32
Organy Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti SSSR v Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voine
, vol. 2, book 1 (Moscow: Rus’, 2000), docs. 379, 436, 437, 438.
    33 G. Jukes, “Meretskov,” in H. Shukman (ed.),
Stalin’s Generals
(London: Phoenix, 1997).
    34 See
Organy Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti
, docs. 293, 306, 384, 413, 424, 490, 550.
    35 A number of these directives may be found in vol. 16 (1), Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941 god.
    36 Ibid., docs. 115, 117. A number of other conversations are reproduced by Zhukov in his memoirs.
    37 Stavka VGK: Dokumenty i Materialy 1941 god, doc. 101.
    38 Zhukov,
Reminiscences
, vol. 1, pp.