Последняя империя. Падение Советского Союза

18 Baker, James A., with Thomas М. DeFrank The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989–1992. New York, 1995. P 563.

19 Ibid., pp. 562–564; Baker Sees Opportunities and Risks as Soviet Republics Grope for Stability // New York Times, December 13, 1991; Friedman, Thomas Baker Presents Steps to Aid Transition by Soviets // New York Times, December 13, 1991; Gaddis, John Lewis George F. Kennan: An American Life. New York, 2011; Thompson, Nicholas The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan and the History of the Cold War. New York, 2009.

20 Baker The Politics of Diplomacy, p. 535.

21 Proposed agenda for meeting with the president. December 4, 1991, 1:30 p.m.; December 10, Soviet points for meeting with the president. James A. Baker Papers, box 115, folder 8.

22 Congressional Research Service CRS Report to the Congress: U. S. Assistance to the Former Soviet Union. March 1, 2007, www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32866.pdf; Tar-NOFF, KURT CRS Report to Congress. U. S. Assistance to the Former Soviet Union, 1991–2002: A History of Administration and Congressional Action. Updated, January 15, 2002, 1–7, www.policyarchive.org/handle/1020y/bitstreams/914.pdf; Haran, Olexiy Disintegration of the Soviet Union and the U. S. Position on the Independence of Ukraine. Discussion paper 95–09, Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. August 1995. http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/ 2933/disintegration_of_the_soviet_union_and_the_us_position_ on_the_independence_of_ukraine.html.

23 Friedman Baker Presents Steps to Aid Transition, p. A24.

24 Proposed agenda for meeting with the president, December 13, 1991, 11:00 a.m. James A. Baker Papers, box 115, folder 8; Baker The Politics of Diplomacy, Chapter Files, James A. Baker Papers, box 195, folder 5, ch. 31, 7–8.

25 Baker The Politics of Diplomacy, p. 564.

26 Ibid.; Bohlen, Celestine Moscow Misery: The Planes

Don't Fly and That's Not All // New York Times, December 13, 1991.

27 Beschloss and Talbott At the Highest Levels, pp. xi-xiv, 451–452; Kohan, John, and Strobe Talbott I Want to Stay the Course // Time, December 23, 1991.

28 Beschloss and Talbott At the Highest Levels, pp. 452454; Kohan and Talbott I Want to Stay the Course.

29 Beschloss and Talbott At the Highest Levels, pp. 455–456; Baker The Politics of Diplomacy, p. 565; Черняев Совместный исход, с. 1036–1037; Palazhchenko My Years, pp. ²5^2–254.

30 Telephone Conversation with President Boris Yeltsin of Russia. December 13, 1991. Bush Presidential Library, Memcons and Telcons, http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/pdfs/memcons_ telconsA991-12-13-Yeltsin.pdf; Bush and Scowcroft A World Transformed, p. 557.

31 Telephone Conversation with President Gorbachev of the FSU. December 13, 1991. Bush Presidential Library, Memcons and Telcons, http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/pdfs/memcons_ telconsA991-12-13-Gorbachev.pdf.

32 Bush and Scowcroft A World Transformed, pp. 556–558.

33 Beschloss and Talbott At the Highest Levels, pp. 455456; Baker The Politics of Diplomacy, p. 572.