The cleverer ones arranged a schedule for their children in case they were arrested.'' The son of one Old Bolshevik, Mr.
During the height of the Stalinist terror, when even those closest to the dictator were in grave danger, members of the political elite lived in a state of perpetual dread, waiting each night for the groan of the elevators, the knock on the door, signaling that the secret police had arrived to make an arrest.Īs the British journalist Simon Sebag Montefiore writes in his revealing new account of life in Stalin's court: ''Parents kept bags packed for prison and Mauser and Chagan pistols under their pillows, ready to commit suicide.
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