Moscow, December 25, 1991

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3 Interview with Gaidar, Moscow, October 2009; also Gaidar, Days of Defeat and Victory, 129.

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4 Wedel, Collision & Collusion, 127-128.

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5 Interview with Gaidar, Moscow, October 2009.

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6 Kotz and Weir, Revolution from Above, 169.

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7 Handelman, Comrade Criminal, 13.

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8 Aron, Russia’s Revolution, 191.

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1 Cited in Brzezinski and Sullivan, eds., Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, 43.

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2 Liberty Life Radio, Belarusian Service, December 8, 2006.

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3 Loginov, pp. 462-463.

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4 Sovetskaya Byelorussia, 45 People at the Table, by Lyudmila Maslyukova, December 8, 2001.

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5 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 160-164.

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6 Shakhrai’s comment is from www.vesti.ru, December 12, 2001.

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7 Interview with Grachev, autumn 2009.

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8 Shaposhnikov, Vybor, diary entry for December 8, 1991.

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9 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 848-849.

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10 Bush and Scowcroft, A World Transformed, 554-555.