Сталин и Мандельштам: вокруг Спецсообщения зампреда ОГПУ Агранова research-article Глеб Морев Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch. Neue Folge, Jahrgang 8 (2020), Ausgabe 1, Seite 215 - 243 Stalin and Mandelshtam: Concerning the Special Report of the Vice Chairman of the OGPU Agranov. - Yakov Agranov's report to Stalin about Osip Mandelshtam's first arrest (1934) was published for the first time in 2017. An analysis of this document allows us to make substantial correctives to the traditional account of Mandelshtam's arrest and trial. The aim of the present article is to propose a new approach to a number of mythologized episodes in Russian cultural history, such as Stalin's phone call to Pasternak, and to reconstruct the strategies behind Soviet state policy in the cultural field.