Page 95 he 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 97 A former colleague: Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Dusseldorf, August 17, 2011.
Page 98 “I told them, ‘I have received’”: Gevorkyan et al.
Page 98 the Committee for Constitutional Oversight: Komitet Konstitutsionnogo Nadzora SSSR, 1989–91. http://www.panorama.ru/ks/iz8991.shtml. Accessed March 8, 2011.
Page 98 the KGB ignored it: Bakatin, 135.
Page 98 conducted round-the-clock surveillance: Ibid.
Page 98 he 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 102 pogroms 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 102 ration cards: Leningradskaya pravda, Nov. 28, 1990, cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 299.
Page 103 The city came perilously close: Vladimir Monakhov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 574.
Page 103 Former dissident and political prisoner Yuli Rybakov: Yuli Rybakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 610.
Page 104 sugar disappeared: Vladimir Belyakov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 425–26.
Page 105 “And we get there”: Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
Page 106 Some people even claimed to know the date: Alexander Konanykhin. http://www.snob.ru/go-to- comment/305858. Accessed March 10, 2011.
Page 108 promises 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 109 Igor Artemyev: Igor Artemyev, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 407–8.
Page 109 no state of emergency: Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 454–55.
Page 109 a “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 110 the arrest did not take place: Bakatin, p. 21.
Page 110 Sobchak 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.
Page 111 Moscow’s city council: Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 131.
Page 111 ordered city services: G. Popov, “Zayavleniye mera goroda Moskvy,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, pp. 68–69.
Page 111 Moscow’s deputy mayor, Yuri Luzhkov: Center Labyrinth, Luzhkov biography. http://www.anticompromat.org/luzhkov/luzhkbio.html. Accessed March 13, 2011.
Page 112 the Mariinsky Palace: Yuli Rybakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 612.
Page 112 “We call on the people of Russia”: B. Yeltsin, I. Silayev, and R. Khasbulatov, “K grazhdanam Rossii,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 42.
Page 112 He was terrified: Vyacheslav Shcherbakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 681.
Page 112 “What the hell did he do?” Ibid.; author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010; text of decree as dictated by Rutskoy and as read by Sobchak, provided by Salye.
Page 114 “the flag was on a corner”: Elena Zelinskaya, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 505.
Page 115 the coup was not what it had seemed: Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
Page 116 “I had pushed five chairs”: Shcherbakov, in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 683.
Page 117 “But I was not a KGB officer”: Gevorkyan et al.
Page 117 ”Kryuchkov simply would not”: Author interview with Arseniy Roginsky, Moscow, June 20, 2008.
Page 118 The meat was delivered: Letter from Marina Salye to Chief Comptroller of the Russian Federation Yuri Boldyrev, dated March 25, 1992, unpublished.
Page 119 Boldyrev had written a letter: Letter from Yuri Boldyrev to Petr Aven, dated March 13, 1992, document #105-177/n.
Page 119 a man with an empty office: Author interview with Irene Commeaut, Paris, June 2010.
Page 119 eager, curious, and intellectually engaged: Ilya Kolmanovsky interview with Alexander Margolis, St. Petersburg, June 2008.
Page 119 “The Putins had a dog”: Marina Yentaltseva, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.
Page 120 “I believed at the time”: Gevorkyan et al.
Page 122 a simple kickback scheme: Otchet rabochey deputatskoy gruppy Komiteta po mezhdunarodnym i vneshnim svyazyam, postoyannykh komissiy po prodovolstviyu, torgovle i sfere bytovykh uslug Sankt-Peterburgskogo gorodskogo Soveta narodnykh deputatov po voprosu kvotirovaniya i litsenzirovaniya eksporta i importa tovarov na territorii Sankt-Peterburga, with
