Moscow, December 25, 1991

3 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 72-73.

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4 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 68.

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5 Colton, Yeltsin, 131.

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6 Matlock, Autopsy on are Empire, 112.

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1 Solovyov and Klepikova, 276.

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2 Interview with Yegor Gaidar, Moscow, October 2009.

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3 Irish Times, December 27, 1991.

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1 Colton, Yeltsin, 125.

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2 Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev, 167.

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3 Aron, Boris Yeltsin, 191.

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4 Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev, 130.

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5 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 234.

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6 Ibid., 131.

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7 Yeltsin’s sacking and treatment by Gorbachev is detailed in Colton, Yeltsin, 138- 150; Yeltsin, Against the Grain, 144-155; Aron, Boris Yeltsin, 202-220; and Boldin, 235-236.

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8 Colton, Yeltsin, 153.

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9 Yeltsin, Agairest the Grain, 155.

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10 Colton, Yeltsin, 150.