Moscow, December 25, 1991

279

6 Grachev, Final Days, 191.

280

7 Radio Free Europe, October 2, 2009.

281

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

282

9 Gorbachev, Dekabr-91, 120-121.

283

10 Interview with Grachev, October 2009.

284

11 Odom, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, 371-372; Shaposhnikov, Vybor, diary entry for December 25, 1991.

285

12 Interview with Loory, October 2009.

286

13 Ghitis, The End of Revolution, 18.

287

1 Interview with Chiesa, January 2010.

288

2 Grachev, Final Days, 194.

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

290

4 Gorbachev, Dekabr-91, 124.

291

5 Kohan, “I Have Big Plans.”

292

6 Ibid.

293

7 Coleman, The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union, 355.

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8 Remnick, “Gorbachev Tells Bush, ‘Watch Out for Russia.”’