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3.
Boris Aristov to Moscow, 18 October 1978, quoted in Andrew and Mitrokhin,
The Mitrokhin Archive,
p.
666.

4.
Described by a sociologist involved - T. Zaslavakaia, ‘Novosibirsk report’,
Survey,
28, 1 (1984), 88-108.

5.
I have described the processes of collapse before in the context of the Soviet Bloc states themselves - Longworth,
The Making of Eastern Europe,
ch. 1, especially pp. 11ff.

6.
It was reported that Soviet scientists eventually concluded that a mirror system fitted to their missiles could divert missiles sent against them. In practice it was unnecessary for all Soviet missiles to get through: the prospect of only two or three of them succeeding in destroying as many large American cities would have constituted an effective deterrent (and the fear of one reaching its target might have been enough). Meanwhile the cost of the arms race, some scholars
argue, contributed to the destabilization. For an interesting account of Soviet science and references to some useful literature on the subject, see Y. Rabkin and E. Mirskaia, ‘Science and scientists in the post-Soviet disunion’,
Social Science Information,
32, 4 (1993), 553—79.

7.
In retrospect this turned out to be the best opportunity to create a genuine democracy that was to be offered, but at that moment it was too radical even for Gorbachev, and the chance was missed - cf. Archie Brown’s lecture at the School of Slavonic Studies, London, 1 March 2004.

8.
The author’s observation. He was in Moscow and Kiev at the time.

9.
See Service,
Twentieth-Century Russia,
pp. 445—6.

10.
Quoted by David Remnick reviewing F. Chuyev’s interviews with Molotov and Ligachev’s autobiography in
New York Review,
25 March 1993, pp. 33-8.

11.
From this point on the text reflects BBC transcripts of broadcasts from the Soviet Union and the Bloc countries, SU/0472 i etc. and EE/0457 etc.

12.
Gorbachev, 28 March 1989, BBC, SU 0419 i.

13.
Gorbachev, 18 July 1989, BBC, SU/0515 C1/1-4, 22 July 1989.

14.
BBC, SU/0527 i and 0536 i.

15.
BBC, SU/0528 c1/1-6/.

16.
I have told the story before in Longworth,
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pp. 12-15.

17.
Interview of 25 February 1991 reported in the press.

18.
Private communication confirmed by another eyewitness.

19.
See A. Stent,
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(Princeton, 1999), esp. pp. 11ff.

20.
The point is suggested by M. Malia, ‘The August revolution’,
NewYork Review,
26 September 1991, pp. 22—6. The account of the coup which follows also draws on this source, though the interpretation of events is mine,.

21.
Service,
Twentieth-Century Russia,
p. 495. Service provides an account of the last days of the old regime which is sympathetic to Gorbachev.

22.
For a useful summary of the economic decline and the political collapse consequent upon it, see the
Quarterly Reports
issued by The Economist’s Intelligence Research Unit for 1990 and 1991.

23.
Tuminez,
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pp. 239, 241.

24.
See A. Brown,
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(Oxford, 1996).

1.
Stent,
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p. 211.

2.
J. Stiglitz,
Globalization and its Discontents
(London, 2002), p. 56. Generally on the reforms see R. Service,
Russia: Experiment with a People
(London, 2002), ch. 9.

3.
The Times,
18 July 2001, p. 20.

4.
Stiglitz,
Globalization and its Discontents,
p. 139.

5.
S. Cohen,
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(New York, 2000), p. 150.

6.
P. Klebnikov,
Godfather of the Kremlin
(New York, 2000), is informative on the subject, particularly the links with the ‘Chechen mob’. The author was subsequently murdered.

7.
J. Nell and K. Stewart,
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UNICEF Occasional Papers: Economic Policy Series, no. 45 (Florence, 1994), pp. 36, table 22, pp. 20, v, 12-13.

8.
B. Kagarlitsky,
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trans. R. Clarke (London, 1995), p. 24.

9.
R. Medvedev,
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(New York, 2000).

10.
Service,
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p. 107.

11.
See Klebnikov,
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pp. 200-210
passim.

12.
Ibid., pp. 135, 325.

13.
Personal observation.

14.
Service,
Russia: Experiment with a People,
p. 156 and
passim.
On the connections with organized crime, its abetters among Russian officials, and with Boris Berezovskii see also Klebnikov,
Godfather of the Kremlin,
pp. 40—2.

15.
For an account of the war see A. Lieven,
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(New Haven, 1998).

16.
Rossiia v tsifrakh
(Moscow, 1997), p. 262;
Financial Times,
18 December 1996 and 22 and 24 January 1997.

17.
G. Smith, ed.,
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(New York, 1995), pp. 217-25.

18.
See G. Derluguian, ‘Che Guevaras in turbans’,
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237 (September/October 1999), 3-27.

19.
Klebnikov,
Godfather of the Kremlin,
p. 265.

20.
For a full account of the election and the means by which it was won based on the researches of an able journalist, see ibid., ch. 8.

21.
The lower estimate is cited by Service,
Russia: Experiment with a People,
p. 156, the higher by Klebnikov,
Godfather of the Kremlin.

22.
For reports on the Latvian issue, see Reuters reports, 9 March 1998. More generally, see J. Taylor in
Atlantic Monthly,
February 2002, pp. 69ff.

23.
Stiglitz,
Globalization and its Discontents,
p. 145 et seq.

24.
Kagarlitsky,
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p. 58.

25.
The Swiss government was to issue a warrant for Borodin’s arrest on charges of money-laundering late the following year.

26.
Cohen,
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pp. 136, 141.

27.
B. Yeltsin,
Midnight Diaries
(London, 2000), p. 266.

28.
Derluguian, ‘Che Guevaras in turbans’.

29.
V. Putin, ‘Russia at the Turn of the Millennium’, has been translated as an appendix (pp. 209—19) to N. Gevorkian, N. Timakova, A. Kolesnikov [and V.
Putin],
First Person,
trans. G. Fitzpatrick (London, 2000); see also L. Shvetsova,
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(New York, 2003), and Tuminez,
Russian Nationalism since 1836,
pp. 297-8.

30.
B. Lo,
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31.
O. Skrypnyk on the Senkus web site. Most other unreferenced sources in this chapter are from the press, particularly the
Financial Times.

32.
See the World Bank’s report
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33.
See S. Kotkin,
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6 March 2004, p. 19.

34.
For an interesting, not unsympathetic, article on Khodorkovskii see C. Freeland in
Financial Times Magazine,
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Private Eye,
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35.
For an example, see Freeland,
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36.
Lo,
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Presniakov,
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2.
Against undertakings given by Washington and Bonn at the time, and against the advice of George Kennan, Paul Nitze and others — see Stent,
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3.
Russian census statistics posted on UN website, 9 June 2004, p. 3.

4.
As reported by J. Page in
The Times,
27 May 2004, p. 50.

5.
M. Walker in
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6.
I. Prizel,
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7.
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