Putin

“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.