7. Vassily Aksyonov, Desiatiletie klevety (radiodnevnik pisatelia) [Decade of lies (a writer’s radio diary)] (Moscow, 2004), p. 235.
8. Ibid., p. 236.
9. Lubyanka, p. 727.
10. Ibid.
11. Solzhenitsyn, Publitsistika, vol. 2, pp. 564, 567–568.
12. Ibid., p. 567.
13. Ibid., p. 568.
14. I. I. Artamonov, Oruzhie obrechennykh (sistemnyi analiz ideologicheskoi diversii) [Weapons of the doomed (systematic analysis of ideological sabotage)] (Minsk, 1981), p. 166.
15. Valery Konovalov, Vek “Svobody” ne slykhat’. Zapiski veterana kholodnoi voiny [Haven’t heard “Liberty” in ages: notes of a Cold War veteran] (Moscow, 2003), p. 5.
16. Lubyanka, p. 728.
17. The New York Times Book Review, May 11, 1980.
18. Volkov, Dialogi s Brodskim, p. 564.
19. A. I. Solzhenitsyn, Na vozvrate dykhaniia. Izbrannaia publitsistika [Breathing again: selected articles] (Moscow, 2004), pp. 305, 315.
20. Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky), Puteshestvie na Chernuyu rechku i drugie proizvedeniia [Journey to Black River and other works] (Moscow, 1999), p. 346.
21. Joseph Brodsky in conversation with the author.
22. Solzhenitsyn, Na vozvrate dykhaniia, p. 311.
23. Simonov, Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniia, p. 116.
24. Yevgeny Yevtushenko in conversation with the author.
25. Quoted in: Novoye Russkoye Slovo, August 27, 2005.
26. Yuri i Ol’ga Trifonovy vspominaiut [Yuri and Olga Trifonov recall] (Moscow, 2003), p. 26.
27. Georgii Sviridov in conversation with the author.
28. Georgii Sviridov, Muzyka kak sud’ba [Music as destiny] (Moscow, 2002), p. 231.
29. Ibid., p. 438.
30. Ibid., p. 437–438.
31. More on this episode in: Volkov, Dialogi s Brodskim, pp. 182–188.
32. Argumenti i fakty, 2005, No. 4 (international edition).
33. Quoted in: Vladislav Kulakov, Poeziia kak fakt [Poetry as a fact] (Moscow, 1999), pp. 352–353.
34. Viktor Pivovarov, Vlublennyi agent [Agent in love] (Moscow, 2001), p. 50.
35. Valentin Vorobyov, Vrag naroda. Vospominaniia khudozhnika [Enemy of the people: reminiscences of an artist] (Moscow, 2005), p. 175.
36. Filipp Bobkov, KGB i vlast’ [The KGB and the regime] (Moscow, 2003), p. 297.
37. Ibid., p. 299.
38. Ibid., p. 298.
39. Vorobyov, Vrag naroda, p. 274.
40. Leonid Borodin, Bez vybora. Avtobiograficheskoe povestvovanie [Without a choice: an autobiographical account] (Moscow, 2003), p. 192.
41. Ibid., p. 190.
42. Novoye Russkoye Slovo, May 15–16, 2004.
43. Pavel Sudoplatov, Spetsoperatsii [Special Operations] (Moscow, 2002), p. 243.
44. Ibid., pp. 210–211.
45. Volkogonov, Lenin, vol. 2, p. 192.
46. Bobkov, KGB i vlast’, p. 300.
47. Ilya Kabakov and Boris Grois, Dialogi (1990–1994) [Dialogues (1990–1994)] (Moscow, 1999), p. 62.
48. Ilya Kabakov, 60-e–70-e…Zapiski o neofitsial’noi zhizni v Moskve [60s–70s… Notes about unofficial life in Moscow] (Vienna, 1999), p. 206.