Moscow, December 25, 1991

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5 Grachev, Final Days, 87.

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1 Weather details are from www.tutiempo.net.

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2 The description of Red Square is from contemporary newspaper accounts.

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3 I visited the Church of St. Louis before this date and spoke to Sofia Peonkova.

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4 Neuffer, “In Moscow a Christmas Leap of Faith.”

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5 Gaidar, Days of defeat and Victory, 111.

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1 Murray, A Democracy of Despots, 136.

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2 Gorbachev’s dacha and the couple’s lifestyle are described in Gorbacheva, I Hope; Gorbachev, Memoirs; Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev; Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin ; and Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World.

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3 Gorbacheva, I Hope, 174.

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4 Shakhnazarov, Tsena Svobody, 493.

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5 Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia, 3.

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6 Details of Yeltsin’s home life are found in Aron, Boris Yeltsins; Colton, Yeltsins; Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin; Solovyov and Klepikova, Boris Yeltsin; Sukhanov, Tri Goda s Yeltsinym; Yeltsin, Against the Grain ; and Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia.

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7 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 170-171.

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8 Solovyov and Klepikova, Boris Yeltsin, 91.

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9 Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia, 32.