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11 Aron, Yeltsin, 221.

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12 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 86.

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1 The account of the congress’s proceedings is from Rossiskaya Gazeta, December 26, 1991.

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2 Alexander Kichikhin quoted in Sovetskaya Rossiya, December 26, 1991.

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1 Yeltsin, Against the Grain, 156-158.

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2 Sukhanov, Tri Goda s Yeltsinym, 302.

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3 Ibid., 302-304.

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4 Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communist, 515.

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5 Interview with Vitaly Korotich, June 1988.

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6 Yeltsin, Against the Grain, 142.

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7 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 365.

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8 Yeltsin, Against the Grain, 162.

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9 Ibid., 203.

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10 Ibid., 190.

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11 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 378.

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12 Solzhenitsyn, “The Relentless Cult of Novelty and How It Wrecked the System.”