The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Page 90“People had so longed to be heard”: Bella Kurkova, memoir, in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 552.

Page 91“I wish someone”: Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 91“could derail a working meeting”: Vladimir Gelman, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 471.

Page 92he opposed changing the name: Dmitry Gubin, “Interview predsedatelya Lenosveta A. A. Sobchaka,” Ogonyok, no. 28 (1990), cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 269.

Page 92honored their agreement: Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 453–54.

Page 92“We realized our mistake”: Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010; Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 453–54.

Page 93“There were officers”: Bakatin, p. 138.

Page 94“The KGB, as it existed”: Ibid., pp. 36–37.

Page 95he planned to start writing a dissertation: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 95“I remember the scene well”: Ibid.

Page 96“Putin was most certainly”: Anatoly Sobchak, interview, Literaturnaya Gazeta, February 2000, pp. 23–29, cited in Anatoly Sobchak: Kakim on byl (Moscow: Gamma-Press, 2007), p. 20.

Page 97A former colleague: Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 98“I told them, ‘I have received’”: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 98the Committee for Constitutional Oversight: Komitet Konstitutsionnogo Nadzora SSSR, 1989–91. http://www.panorama.ru/ks/iz8991.shtml. Accessed March 8, 2011.

Page 98the KGB ignored it: Bakatin, 135.

Page 98conducted round-the-clock surveillance: Ibid.

Page 98he claimed not to report to the KGB: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 99“It was a very difficult decision”: Ibid.

FIVE. A COUP AND A CRUSADE

Page 102pogroms broke out in the streets: “Playing the Communal Card: Communal Violence and Human Rights,” Human Rights Watch report. http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1995/communal/. Accessed Jan. 26, 2011.

Page 102ration cards:Leningradskaya pravda, Nov. 28, 1990, cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 299.

Page 103The city came perilously close: Vladimir Monakhov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 574.

Page 103Former dissident and political prisoner Yuli Rybakov: Yuli Rybakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 610.

Page 104sugar disappeared: Vladimir Belyakov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 425–26.

Page 105“And we get there”: Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 106Some people even claimed to know the date: Alexander Konanykhin. http://www.snob.ru/go-to-comment/305858. Accessed March 10, 2011.

Page 108promises to the people: “Obrashcheniye k sovetskomu narodu,” in Y. Kazarin and B. Yakovlev, Smert’ zagovora: Belaya kniga (Moscow: Novosti, 1992), pp. 12–16.

Page 108“taking into account the needs”: Kazarin and Yakovlev, Smert’ zagovora, p. 7.

Page 109Igor Artemyev: Igor Artemyev, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 407–8.

Page 109no state of emergency: Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 454–55.

Page 109a “military coup”: Igor Artemyev, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 408.

Page 110“We told him that we are planning to go”: Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 110the arrest did not take place: Bakatin, p. 21.

Page 110Sobchak called Leningrad: A. Golovkin and A. Chernov, interview with Anatoly Sobchak, Moskovskiye novosti, Aug. 26, 1991, quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 627.

Page 111“Why did I do so?” Sobchak, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 627.