The Last Empire (91 page)

Wisent.
See
Zubr

Woerner, Manfred,
209

Wofford, Harris,
260

Wolfowitz, Paul,
262
,
407

World War II,
55
,
66–67
,
233

A World Transformed
(Bush, G. H. W. and Scowcroft),
391

Yakovlev, Aleksandr,
84
,
87
,
95
,
139
,
272
,
285
,
336
,
343

    
Gorbachev's resignation and,
367
,
370
,
374
,
375
,
377
,
386

    
on Yeltsin,
370

Yakovlev, Yegor,
272
,
371–372
,
377

Yalta Conference,
192
,
193
,
232
,
393
,
400

Yanaev, Gennadii,
9
,
52
,
68
,
74
,
77

    
coup d'état and,
83
,
85
,
86
,
88
,
90–91
,
97–100
,
105
,
112
,
116–117
,
120
,
149

Yavlinsky, Grigorii,
148
,
221
,
223
,
330

Yavorivsky, Volodymyr,
165

Yazov, Dmitrii,
14
,
16
,
24–25
,
38
,
74

    
coup d'état and,
81
,
83
,
86
,
88
,
89–90
,
97
,
99–100
,
102–103
,
114
,
116–117
,
120
,
121
,
124
,
125–126
,
130
,
145
,
160

Yazova, Emma,
99–100
,
125

Yeltsin, Boris,
xv
,
xxi
,
76

    
Almaty summit and,
83
,
362–363
,
364

    
“Appeal to the People of Russia” and,
229–230

    
behavior of,
24–28
,
41
,
43
,
45
,
101
,
144
,
213–214
,
247–248
,
302
,
315
,
376–377
,
383–386

    
Belavezha Agreement and,
298–299
,
302–303
,
305
,
307–310
,
313–314
,
319
,
321

    
biography,
27–30

    
Bolshevik influence on,
42

    
Bush, George H. W., and,
10
,
14
,
26–27
,
42–46
,
104
,
106–108
,
113–114
,
123–124
,
125
,
145–146
,
198–199
,
212–213
,
225–226
,
229
,
295–296
,
313–314
,
323
,
335–336
,
370–371
,
378
,
382
,
404

    
Chechnia and,
242–248

    
Cherniaev on,
213
,
225
,
241
,
243
,
247
,
248
,
258
,
384
,
385

    
CIS and,
358

    
with countercoup,
137–138
,
143–144

    
coup d'état of August 1991 and,
93–104
,
106–119
,
121–125
,
128
,
134
,
147
,
161
,
398

    
economic reform and,
218–220
,
225–226
,
227–230
,
238–239
,
241
,
284

    
Gorbachev and,
25–26
,
27–31
,
35–38
,
40–41
,
44–45
,
83–84
,
88–89
,
92
,
106
,
113
,
134–138
,
140
,
141–145
,
147
,
176
,
183–184
,
186–188
,
202–204
,
207
,
211
,
214
,
219–220
,
222
,
225–226
,
228–229
,
233–234
,
241–243
,
246
,
247–250
,
257–258
,
270–273
,
294
,
296–297
,
303
,
304–305
,
308
,
309–311
,
313–315
,
319
,
321–322
,
323–326
,
334–336
,
339
,
341
,
342
,
344
,
365–387
,
395
,
396–397
,
399–400

    
Korzhakov on,
302
,
311
,
319
,
369
,
386–387

    
leadership of,
101
,
122
,
146
,
227

    
legacy,
397–398
,
405

    
memoirs,
386

    
with new union treaty,
41
,
136–137
,
144
,
219
,
250–251
,
256–258
,
295–296
,
303
,
304–305

    
nuclear briefcases and,
340
,
368
,
376
,
377

    
political standing,
146
,
162–164
,
172–173
,
200
,
212
,
214–215
,
217
,
230
,
233–234
,
241

    
with Russian sovereignty,
34
,
35
,
37
,
40
,
41
,
136–137
,
143–144

    
Scowcroft and,
26
,
27
,
42–43
,
45
,
106–107

    
secret documents and,
369

    
Soviet Union's collapse and prevention by,
175–188
,
216
,
295

    
split from Communist Party,
30–31
,
32
,
33

    
state funds and,
270–271

    
Ukrainian sovereignty and,
49–50
,
175
,
269
,
295–297
,
303–304

    
union-to-commonwealth transfer and,
344
,
365–387

    
on U.S.,
42–43

Yeltsin, Tatiana,
93
,
94
,
100–101

Yeltsina, Naina,
26
,
95
,
100
,
387

Yevtushenko, Yevgenii,
103

Yugoslavia,
200
,
237–238
,
269
,
272–273
,
404

    
“with nukes,”
360

Yukhnovsky, Ihor,
165

Yushchenko, Viktor,
407

Zhelezniakov, Anatolii,
186

Zlenko, Anatolii,
283

Zubr
(wisent),
301–302