Page 90 the first meeting of the first democratically elected:Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , online version only, pp. 568–69.
Page 90 “It was fantastical”:Viktor Voronkov, interview, 2008, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 463.
Page 90 “an acute sense of democracy”:Nikolai Girenko, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 473.
Page 90 “The Mariinsky took on the look”:Viktor Veniaminov, memoir, Avtobiografiya Peterburgskogo gorsoveta , p. 620, cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 449.
Page 90 “People had so longed to be heard”:Bella Kurkova, memoir, in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 552.
Page 91 “I wish someone”:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
Page 91 “could derail a working meeting”:Vladimir Gelman, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 471.
Page 92 he opposed changing the name:Dmitry Gubin, “Interview predsedatelya Lenosveta A. A. Sobchaka,” Ogonyok , no. 28 (1990), cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 269.
Page 92 honored their agreement:Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 453–54.
Page 92 “We realized our mistake”:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010; Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 453–54.
Page 93 “There were officers”:Bakatin, p. 138.
Page 94 “The KGB, as it existed”:Ibid., pp. 36–37.
Page 95 he planned to start writing a dissertation:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 95 “I remember the scene well”:Ibid.
Page 96 “Putin was most certainly”:Anatoly Sobchak, interview, Literaturnaya Gazeta , February 2000, pp. 23–29, cited in Anatoly Sobchak: Kakim on byl (Moscow: Gamma-Press, 2007), p. 20.
Page 97 A former colleague:Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.
Page 98 “I told them, ‘I have received’”:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 98 the Committee for Constitutional Oversight:Komitet Konstitutsionnogo Nadzora SSSR, 1989–91. http://www.panorama.ru/ks/iz8991.shtml. Accessed March 8, 2011.
Page 98 the KGB ignored it:Bakatin, 135.
Page 98 conducted round-the-clock surveillance:Ibid.
Page 98 he claimed not to report to the KGB:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 99 “It was a very difficult decision”:Ibid.
FIVE. A COUP AND A CRUSADE
Page 102 pogroms broke out in the streets:“Playing the Communal Card: Communal Violence and Human Rights,” Human Rights Watch report. http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1995/communal/. Accessed Jan. 26, 2011.
Page 102 ration cards: Leningradskaya pravda , Nov. 28, 1990, cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 299.
Page 103 The city came perilously close:Vladimir Monakhov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 574.
Page 103 Former dissident and political prisoner Yuli Rybakov:Yuli Rybakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 610.
Page 104 sugar disappeared:Vladimir Belyakov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 425–26.
Page 105 “And we get there”:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
Page 106 Some people even claimed to know the date:Alexander Konanykhin. http://www.snob.ru/go-to-comment/305858. Accessed March 10, 2011.
Page 108 promises to the people:“Obrashcheniye k sovetskomu narodu,” in Y. Kazarin and B. Yakovlev, Smert’ zagovora: Belaya kniga (Moscow: Novosti, 1992), pp. 12–16.
Page 108 “taking into account the needs”:Kazarin and Yakovlev, Smert’ zagovora, p. 7.
Page 109 Igor Artemyev:Igor Artemyev, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 407–8.
Page 109 no state of emergency:Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 454–55.
Page 109 a “military coup”:Igor Artemyev, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 408.
Page 110 “We told him that we are planning to go”:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
Page 110 the arrest did not take place:Bakatin, p. 21.
Page 110 Sobchak called Leningrad:A. Golovkin and A. Chernov, interview with Anatoly Sobchak, Moskovskiye novosti , Aug. 26, 1991, quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 627.
Page 111 “Why did I do so?”Sobchak, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 627.
Page 111 Moscow’s city council:Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 131.
Page 111 ordered city services:G. Popov, “Zayavleniye mera goroda Moskvy,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, pp. 68–69.
Page 111 Moscow’s deputy mayor, Yuri Luzhkov:Center Labyrinth, Luzhkov biography. http://www.anticompromat.org/luzhkov/luzhkbio.html. Accessed March 13, 2011.
Page 112 the Mariinsky Palace:Yuli Rybakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 612.
Page 112 “We call on the people of Russia”:B. Yeltsin, I. Silayev, and R. Khasbulatov, “K grazhdanam Rossii,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 42.
Page 112 He was terrified:Vyacheslav Shcherbakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 681.
Page 112 “What the hell did he do?”Ibid.; author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010; text of decree as dictated by Rutskoy and as read by Sobchak, provided by Salye.
Page 114 “the flag was on a corner”:Elena Zelinskaya, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 505.
Page 115 the coup was not what it had seemed:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.
Page 116 “I had pushed five chairs”:Shcherbakov, in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 683.
Page 117 “But I was not a KGB officer”:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 117 ”Kryuchkov simply would not”:Author interview with Arseniy Roginsky, Moscow, June 20, 2008.
Page 118 The meat was delivered:Letter from Marina Salye to Chief Comptroller of the Russian Federation Yuri Boldyrev, dated March 25, 1992, unpublished.
Page 119 Boldyrev had written a letter:Letter from Yuri Boldyrev to Petr Aven, dated March 13, 1992, document #105-177/n.
Page 119 a man with an empty office:Author interview with Irene Commeaut, Paris, June 2010.
Page 119 eager, curious, and intellectually engaged:Ilya Kolmanovsky interview with Alexander Margolis, St. Petersburg, June 2008.
Page 119 “The Putins had a dog”:Marina Yentaltseva, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.
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