Moscow, December 25, 1991

4 Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, 439.

5 Dunlop, The Rise of Russia, 9.

6 Grachev, Final Days, 191.

7 Radio Free Europe, October 2, 2009.

8 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 27, 1991.

9 Gorbachev, Dekabr-91, 120-121.

10 Interview with Grachev, October 2009.

11 Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, 371-372; Shaposhnikov, Vybor, diary entry for December 25, 1991.

12 Interview with Loory, October 2009.

13 Ghitis, The End of Revolution, 18.

Chapter 27: December 26: The Day After

1 Interview with Chiesa, January 2010.

2 Grachev, Final Days, 194.

3 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 27, 1991.

4 Gorbachev, Dekabr-91, 124.

5 Kohan, “I Have Big Plans.”

6 Ibid.

7 Coleman, The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union, 355.

8 Remnick, “Gorbachev Tells Bush, ‘Watch Out For Russia.”’

9 Putin, with Gevorkyan, Timakova, and Kolesnikov, First Person, 95-96.

Chapter 28: December 27: Triumph of the Plunderers

1 Shakhnazarov, Tsena Svobody, 309; Chernayev, 1991, diary entry for December 28, 1991.

2 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 27, 1991.

3 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 866.

4 Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia, 124.

5 Solovyov and Klepikova, Boris Yeltsin, 270.

6 Shakhnazarov, Tsena Svobody, 309.

7 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 28, 1991.

8 Androunas, “A Letter from Moscow.”

9 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 866.

10 Muratov, “Mikhail Gorbachev.”

11 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 27, 1991.

12 Gorbacheva, I Hope, photograph.

Chapter 29: The Integrity of the Quarrel

1 Martin, “Oleg Looks for the Old Order.”

2 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 172; Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 200-201.

3 Interview with Garrison, July 2010.

4 Martin, “Fearful of the Return of a Totalitarian System.”

5 Baker with DeFrank, The Politics of Diplomacy, 617—618.

6 O’Clery, “Shevardnadze.”

7 Beschloss and Talbot, At the Highest Levels, 465-468.

8 Wines, “Summit in Washington.”

9 Yakovlev, Sumerki, 419.

10 Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev, 150nn21, 22.

11 Marlowe, “War Could Have Been Prevented, Says Shevardnadze.”

12 Branch, The Clinton Tapes, 198.

13 Brooke, “Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the Battle Between Good and Evil.”

14 Interviews with Muscovites, February 2010.

15 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 245-246.

16 Chiesa, “I Never Lied to Her, I Couldn’t Now.”

17 Steele, “Russians Say Sorry.”

18 Nemtsov, Ispoved Buntarya, 57.

19 Sandle, Gorbachev, 274.

20 Dougary, “Mikhail Gorbachev.”

21 Putin with Gevorkyan, Timakova, and Kolesnikov, First Person, 94.

22 Interview with BBC, October 28, 2010.

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