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Ibid., p. 17.

Andrew Jack, Inside Putin’s Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 52.

Inna Lazareva, “Remembering Vladimir Putin as a boy,” New Statesman , Jan. 15, 2015.

Daniel Triesman, “For Vladimir Putin What’s at Stake in Metrojet Investigation,” CNN, November 6, 2015.

Ben Judah, “Behind the Scenes in Putin’s Court,” Newsweek , July 23, 2014.

Putin, First Person , p. 22.

The poem “Restoration of Order” by Stanislaw Baranczak in my translation from Polish was published in Dissent , Winter 1984.

Putin, First Person, p. 23.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid., p. 4.

Judah, Fragile Empire, p. 10.

Putin, First Person, pp. 41–42.

Lourie, Russia Speaks, p. 312.

Putin, First Person, p. 52.

Gary Weir and Walter Boybe, Rising Tide (New York: New American Library, 2003), p. 41.

Jacques Margeret, The Russian Empire and Grand Duchy of Moscow (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983), p. 26.

my translation. Appears as “wasn’t too exceptional” in Putin, First Person, p. 48.

Earley, Comrade J, pp. 49 and 50 respectively.

Yuri Shvets, Washington Station (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994), p. 15.

Early, Comrade J, p. 38.

attributed to Sakharov; Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007), p. 258.

Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield (New York: Basic Books, 1999), p. 5.

“Soviet Cold War Tapping of the US Embassy in Moscow. A Post-Mortem,” September 15, 2012. See also Sharon Maneki, “Learning from the Enemy: The Gunman Project,” National Security Agency, 2012.

www.agentura.ru/english/dossier/fsb/academy/

Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield , p. 7.

Gregory Freeze et al., ed., The KGB Files on Andrei Sakharov (Waltham Mass.: Andrei Sakharov Archives, Brandeis University / Yale University Press, 2005), pp. 25–26.

Ibid., p. 37.

Ibid., p. 58.

Putin, First Person , p. 50.

Vladimir Usoltsev, Sosluzhivets (Moscow: Eksmo, 2004), p. 186, my translation.

Dmitri Volkogonov, Autopsy of an Empire (New York: Free Press, 1998), p. 382.

Putin, First Person , p. 62.

Ibid., p. 54.

Ibid., p. 44.

Ibid., p. 53.

Ibid.

Jack, Inside Putin’s Russia , p. 58.

Putin, First Person, p. 40.

Earley, Comrade J , p. 54.

Vladimir Kuzichkin, Inside the KGB (New York: Pantheon, 1990), p. 63.

Putin, First Person, p. 55.

Ibid., p. 37.

Putin, First Person , p. 75.

Markus Wolf, Man Without a Face (New York: Public Affairs, 1999), p. 121.

Kurt Vonnegurt, Slaughterhouse Five (New York: Dial, 1969), p. 1.

John Koehler, Stasi : The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999), p. 73.

Wolf, Man Without a Face , p. 110.

Usoltsev, Sosluzhivets , p. 62.

Putin, First Person , p. 77.

Koehler, Stasi , p. 8.

Ibid., p. 9.

Ibid., p. 27.

Kuzichkin, Inside the KGB , p. 82.

Putin, First Person, p. 69.

Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield , pp. 8–9.

Kuzichkin, Inside the KGB , pp. 86–87.

Thom Shanker, “A Secret Warrior Leaves the Pentagon as Quietly as He Entered,” New York Times , May 1, 2015.

Mark Franchetti, “Agent Reveals Young Putin’s Spy Disaster,” Sunday Times , London March 19, 2000.

Shvets, Washington Station , p. 27.

Usoltsev, Sosluzhivets , p. 24.

Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face (New York: Riverhead, 2012), p. 66.

Earley, Comrade J , p. 330.

Putin, First Person , p. 67.

Ibid., p. 74.

Ibid., p. 72.

Shvets, Washington Station , p. 25.

Putin, First Person , p. 61.

This and other Lyudmila Putin quotes are in my translation from Oleg Blotsky, Vladimir Putin: Istoriya zhizni (Moscow: Izdatelstvo Mezhdunarodniye otnosheniya, 2002). No page numbers because the section was from an online post. Apparently the book was published in English that same year as Vladimir Putin: The Road to Power .

Usoltsev, Sosluzhivets , p. 53.

Ibid., p. 185.

Ibid., p. 166.

Ibid., p. 201.

Putin, First Person , p. 76.

Ibid., p. 78.

Ibid., p. 79.

Ibid.

Baltasar Gracián , The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence , quoted in Lapham’s Quarterly 9, no. 3 (Summer 2016), p. 171.

Jakub Korejba, “Democracy? No Thanks!”; New Eastern Europe , January–March 2013.

Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, The New Nobility (New York: Public Affairs, 2010), p. 28.

Putin, First Person , pp. 86–87.