McDaniel, The Agony of the Russian Idea , p. 36.
Alexei Pankin, “Trying to Remain Moral Amid ‘Dom 2’,” Moscow Times , July 8, 2013.
Foreword by Norman Davies in Tomasz Kizny, Gulag (Richmond Hill, Canada: Firefly, 2004), p. 9.
Mark MacKinnon, The New Cold War (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 153.
Winston Churchill, “The Gift of a Common Tongue” Harvard Commencement Ceremony, September 6, 1943, www.winstonchurchill.org.
Thane Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2012), p. 27.
Section 1, Chapter 4, Article 92, Constitution of the Russian Federation, President of Russia Official Web Portal.
Putin, First Person , p. 186.
Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident (New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 210.
Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo (New York: Modern Library, 2001), p. 23.
http://www.marxists.org/ … /stalin/ … /stalin/05.ht.
Obituary, “Stalin’s Oil Minister Dies at 97,” New York Times , April 2, 2008.
Lourie, Russia Speaks , p. 132.
“Nikolai Baibakov, Stalin’s oil supremo, he went on to direct the Soviet economy,” Guardian , April 16, 2008.
Egor Gaidar, “The Soviet Collapse,” American Enterprise Institute, April 2007.
Talbott, The Russia Hand , p. 185.
Ibid., p. 135.
Hoffman, The Oligarchs , p. 125.
Ibid., p. 126.
Marshall Goldman, Petrostate (New York: Oxford, 2008), p. 63.
Ibid., p. 64.
Ibid.
Baker and Glasser, Kremlin Rising , p. 275.
Talbott, The Russia Hand , p. 401.
Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune , p. 252.
Ibid., p. 293.
Goldman, Petrostate , p. 111.
Ibid., p. 115.
Baker and Glasser, Kremlin Rising , p. 288.
Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune , p. 296.
Boris Kagarlitsky, Back in the USSR (London: Seagull Books, 2009), p. 32.
Baker and Glasser, Kremlin Rising , p. 340.
Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune , p. 251.
Dimtri Medvedev, “Go Russia!” President of Russia Official Web Portal, September 10, 2009.
iipdigital. Usembassy.gov.
Putin quoted in “Responsible Nanotechnology,” Russia and Nanotechnology, crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2007/05/russia_and_nano.html.
Ibid.
Alexander and Zaitchik, “Russia Pours Billions in Oil Profits into Nanotech Race,” Wired.com, November 1, 2007.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Nadia Popova, “Chubais Predicts Big Growth in Nano Jobs,” Moscow Times , September 3, 2009.
archive.government.ru/eng/multimedia/photo/2009/?page=95.
“Viktor Chernomyrdin, a Russian prime minister, died on November 3rd, aged 72,” Economist , November 4, 2010. There are several translations of this brilliant formulation. None quite work.
Robert Kaplan, “Old World Order,” Time , March 20, 2014.
“Putin Hints at Splitting Up Ukraine,” Moscow Times , April 8, 2008. I have here modified the translation of “ gosudarstvo ,” which could also be rendered as “state” or “nation-state.”
Ivan Nechepurenko, “Gorbachev on Russia and Ukraine,” Moscow Times , November 21, 2014.
quoted in Volkoff, Vladimir the Russian Viking , p. 39.
“Putin Says Crimea Sacred, Attacks US, EU over Ukraine,” Bloomberg Business, December 3, 2014.
Volkoff, Vladimir the Russian Viking , p. 234.
Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004), p. 7.
Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (New York: Fred de Fau, 1906), vol. 7, p. 4.
Simon Seabag Montefiore, Potemkin (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), p. 362.
Anna Reid, Borderland (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000), p. 31.
Ibid., p. 29.
Ibid., p. 30.
My translation.
Reid, Borderland , p. 64.
Ibid., p. 79.
Ibid., pp. 81–82.
Ibid., p. 82.
Quoted in Paul Taylor, “Frictions Created in Civil Service in Reagan Era,” Washington Post , January 19, 1983.
Reid, Borderlands , p. 83.
My translation.
Remark by Menshevik Nikolai Sukhanov quoted in a review by Ian Cumming of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power by Stephen Kotkin, Sydney Morning Herald , March 2, 2015.
Reid, Borderland , p. 158.
John Thor Dahlburg, “Ukraine Votes to Quit Soviet Union,” Los Angeles Times , December 3, 1991.
John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal (London: Penguin, 1994), pp. 53–54.
“NATO’s Eastward Expansion,” Der Spiegel Online International , November 26, 2009.
Tim Weiner and Barbra Crossette, “George F. Kennan Dies at 101,” New York Times , March 18, 2005.
Like nearly all great quotes, unless by Churchill, this one may have been misattributed.
Adrian Blomfield and Mike Smith, “Gorbachev: US Could Start New Cold War,” Telegraph (London), May 6, 2008.
Ivan Nechepurenko, “Gorbachev on Russia and Ukraine,” Moscow Times , November 21, 2014.
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