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“barbaric on both sides”: novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his241/notes/geography/caucasus.html.

“It was my salary”: Hoffman, The Oligarchs, p. 117.

“He uses every person”: Chrystia Freeland, Sale of the Century (New York: Crown, 2000), p. 134.

“He was in one place”: Hoffman, The Oligarchs, p. 132.

“a Faustian bargain”: Freeland, Sale of the Century, p. 169.

“We do not need”: Hoffman, The Oligarchs, p. 308.

“Isn’t it clear”: Philip Berman, review of Leon Aron, Yeltsin, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 16, 2000.

“The world’s most powerful”: Hoffman, The Oligarchs, p. 326.

“hang from a lamppost”: Ibid., p. 328.

“the cosmopolitan elite”: Aron, Yeltsin, p. 596.

“the turncoats”: Ibid., p. 607.

“spark and charisma”: Ibid., p. 617.

“sound bites”: Ibid.

“Five years ago”: Ibid., p. 621.

“I will ensure”: Ibid., p. 622.

“circles of Bolshevik hell”: Ibid.

“I was under”: Ibid., p. 627.

“Politicians like Sobchak”: Gessen, The Man Without a Face, p. 134.

“In the end he won”: Aron, Yeltsin, p. 637.

“in charge of the legal division”: Putin, First Person, p. 128.

“I control everybody”: Ibid., p. 131.

“the very modest … He wasn’t sure”: Baker and Glasser, Kremlin Rising, p. 53.

“Do I really need”: Freeland, Sale of the Century, p. 330.

“forgiveness”: “Yeltsin Resigns,” New York Times, January 1, 2000.

Any cook”: Florence Becker, “Woman’s Place,” New International 2, no. 5 (August 1935), pp. 175–76.

CHAPTER 5: THE RUSSIA PUTIN INHERITED AND ITS SPIRITUAL ILLS

“I gave Poland”: Gorbachev press conference, July 21, 2015, AP Archive. Also “Gorbachev Denounces Putin on Rights and Corruption,” Moscow Times, March 8, 2013.

“There’s a lot”: Putin, First Person, p. 187.

“Three people won the Cold War”: Paul Johnson, Heroes (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 253.

“The single most”: Thomas Friedman, “Taking Ownership of Iraq,” New York Times, June 25, 2006.

“Russia isn’t Haiti”: Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand (New York: Random House, 2003), p. 197.

“You know, it’s bad enough”: Ibid., p. 76.

“NATO’s war”: Ibid., p. 357.

“Yugoslavization”: Putin, First Person, p. 141.

“is a continuation”: Ibid., p. 139.

“The entire Caucasus”: Ibid., p. 142.

“If we don’t”: Ibid., p. 140.

“Under Putin’s police state”: Vladimir Ryzhkov, “Guriev Is Latest Victim of Putin’s Police State,” Moscow Times, June 4, 2013.

“Russia will perish”: Interview with Vladimir Grechukhin, “Pravda dlya nas vazhnee zakonov,” Argumenty I fakty, no. 38, 2007.

“We belong”: Peter Chaadayev, Philosophical Letters (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1969), p. 38.

“realm of brute fact”: Ibid.

“Russia may well fall”: Arthur Conolly, Journey to the North of India 2 volumes, 1838. Also quoted in Philip Glazebrook, Journey to Khiva.

“all sounds”: Quoted in Avril Pyman, The Life of Alexander Blok (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979). Also quoted in Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Lourie (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), p. 12.

“The Russians have”: The hacker called “Lightwatch” quoted in Clifford Levy, “What’s Russian for Hacker?” New York Times, October 21, 2007.

“a mighty nation”: Ibn Miskawayh quoted in Richard Lourie, Predicting Russia’s Future (Whittle Direct Books, 1991), p. 8.

“Fuck the battle”: Peter Maas, Underboss (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), p. 25.

“a fundamentally good man”: Vladimir Volkoff, Vladimir the Russian Viking (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1985), p. 223.

“The Russian cannot bear”: Richard Lourie, Predicting Russia’s Future, p. 10. My translation.