Moscow, December 25, 1991

14 Dougary, “Mikhail Gorbachev.”

135

15 Muratov, “Mikhail Gorbachev.”

136

16 Grachev, Final Days, 187.

137

1 Mickiewicz, Changing Channels, 96-97.

138

2 Shane, Dismantling Utopia, 180.

139

3 Colton, Yeltsin, 298.

140

4 Grachev, Final Days, 6.

141

5 Matlock, Autopsy on an Empire, 540-544.

142

6 Gates, From the Shadows, 504.

143

7 Matlock, Autopsy on an Empire, 545.

144

8 Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev, 346.

145

9 Ibid., 365-366.

146

10 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 55.

147

11 Palazchenko, My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze, 298.

148

12 Gaidar, Collapse of an Empire, 219.

149

13 Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive, 513.

150

14 Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev, 360; Matlock, Autopsy on an Empire, 563-564; Palazchenko, My Years with Gorbachev and