“we knew not”: Volkoff, Vladimir the Russian Viking, p. 176.
“directed that”: Lourie, Predicting Russia’s Future, p. 9.
“Just as the iconostasis”: James Billington, The Icon and the Axe (New York: Vintage Books, 1970), pp. 36–37.
“the Bolsheviks”: Andrei Sinyavsky, Soviet Civilization (New York: Arcade, 1988), p. 11.
“Man will become”: Leon Trotsky, Literature and Revolution, Last lines, Leon Trotsky Internet Archive.
“the conviction that Russia”: Tim McDaniel, The Agony of the Russian Idea (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996), p. 10.
“The Russians are”: Nikolai Berdyaev, The Russian Idea (Hudson, N.Y.: Lindisfarne Press, 1992), pp. 20–21.
“We are not suited”: McDaniel, The Agony of the Russian Idea, p. 36.
“Russia should not repent”: Alexei Pankin, “Trying to Remain Moral Amid ‘Dom 2’,” Moscow Times, July 8, 2013.
“accounted for far more”: Foreword by Norman Davies in Tomasz Kizny, Gulag (Richmond Hill, Canada: Firefly, 2004), p. 9.
PART FOUR: CORE ISSUES“Without Ukraine”: Mark MacKinnon, The New Cold War (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 153.
“The empires of the future”: Winston Churchill, “The Gift of a Common Tongue” Harvard Commencement Ceremony, September 6, 1943, www.winstonchurchill.org.
CHAPTER 6: OIL: A WASTING ASSET“The key”: Thane Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2012), p. 27.
“I vow”: Section 1, Chapter 4, Article 92, Constitution of the Russian Federation, President of Russia Official Web Portal.
“From the very”: Putin, First Person, p. 186.
“ORT is the most,” “Why are you”: Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident (New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 210.
“fountain of oil” and “an unguent”: Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo (New York: Modern Library, 2001), p. 23.
“revolutionary baptism”: http://www.marxists.org/ … /stalin/ … /stalin/05.ht.
“Stalin pointed two fingers”: Obituary, “Stalin’s Oil Minister Dies at 97,” New York Times, April 2, 2008.
“collective farming”: Lourie, Russia Speaks, p. 132.
“Maybe there were”: “Nikolai Baibakov, Stalin’s oil supremo, he went on to direct the Soviet economy,” Guardian, April 16, 2008.
“The timeline of the collapse”: Egor Gaidar, “The Soviet Collapse,” American Enterprise Institute, April 2007.
“Yeltsin drunk”: Talbott, The Russia Hand, p. 185.
“Yeltzin was roaring” Ibid., p. 135.
“The gradually”: Hoffman, The Oligarchs, p. 125.
“A bank is like a waiter”: Ibid., p. 126.
“the biggest”: Marshall Goldman, Petrostate (New York: Oxford, 2008), p. 63.
“a massive scam”: Ibid., p. 64.
“Everyone knew”: Ibid.
“If the old me”: Baker and Glasser, Kremlin Rising, p. 275.
“a suave cop”: Talbott, The Russia Hand, p. 401.
“Russia will not soon become”: Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune, p. 252.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich”: Ibid., p. 293.
“What arrogance”: Goldman, Petrostate, p. 111.
“Three days”: Ibid., p. 115.
“There are worse”: Baker and Glasser, Kremlin Rising, p. 288.
“Some are gone”: Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune, p. 296.
“It was exactly”: Boris Kagarlitsky, Back in the USSR (London: Seagull Books, 2009), p. 32.
“Putin is probably not”: Baker and Glasser, Kremlin Rising, p. 340.
“excessive emphasis”: Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune, p. 251.
“humiliating dependence” and “Should a primitive”: Dimtri Medvedev, “Go Russia!” President of Russia Official Web Portal, September 10, 2009.
“ability to see”: iipdigital. Usembassy.gov.
“Nanotechnology is an activity”: Putin quoted in “Responsible Nanotechnology,” Russia and Nanotechnology, crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2007/05/russia_and_nano.html.
