Moscow, December 25, 1991

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10 Ibid., 346.

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11 Timofeyev, Russia’s Secret Rulers, 26.

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12 Sandle, Gorbachev, 273.

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13 Solovyov and Klepikova, Boris Yeltsin, 281.

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14 Coleman, The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire, 354.

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15 Yakovlev, Sumerki, diary entry for December 23.

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1 Gorbachev, Memoirs, xxxiii—xxxvii.

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2 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 27, 1991.

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3 Yakovlev, Sumerki, diary entry for December 23, 1991.

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4 Interview with Somov, September 2009.

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5 Interviews with Caudill and Johnson, September 2009.

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6 Interviews with Shipman and Hurst, August 2009.

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7 Interview with Liu, January 2010.

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8 Kampfner, “The KGB Interrogated My Turkey.”

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9 Interview with Gaidar, October 2009.

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10 Bush and Scowcroft, A World Transformed, 564.

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11 Ibid., 563.