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Andrew C. Kuchins and Igor A. Zevelev, “Russian Foreign Policy: Continuity in Change,” Washington Quarterly , Winter 2012, 151; Nicholas V. Riasanovsky and Mark D. Steinberg, A History of Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 672.

Jack F. Matlock, Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (New York: Random House, 2004), 318–319.

Elihu Root, “The Real Monroe Doctrine,” Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at Its Annual Meeting (1907–1917), vol. 8, 428.

MacMillan, Paris 1919 , 9; Root, “The Real Monroe Doctrine,” 427.

Strobe Talbott, The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (New York: Random House, 2003), 80; Kissinger, “To Settle the Ukraine Crisis.”

Richard Sakwa, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands (London: I. B. Tauris, 2015), ix–x.

Giulio Andreotti quoted in Pavel Palazchenko, My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), 158–159; James A. Baker III, “Work Hard, Study… And Keep Out of Politics!”: Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006), 291.

Bill Bradley, “A Diplomatic Mystery,” Foreign Policy , August 22, 2009; Talbott, The Russia Hand , 441; Jack F. Matlock, “NATO Expansion: Was There a Promise?” JackMatlock.com, April 3, 2014, http://jackmatlock.com/2014/04/nato-expansion-was-there-a-promise(retrieved August 13, 2015).

Kohl quoted in Talbott, The Russia Hand , 226–227.

Madeleine Albright, “Enlarging NATO: Why Bigger Is Better,” The Economist , February 14, 1997.

Talbott, The Russia Hand , 225.

Ibid., 97–98, 225.

George F. Kennan, “A Fateful Error,” New York Times , February 5, 1997.

Thomas L. Friedman, “Foreign Affairs; Now a Word from X,” New York Times , May 2, 1998.

Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations , 158, 161.

Timothy J. Colton, Yeltsin: A Life (New York: Basic, 2008), 264–269.

Friedman, “Foreign Affairs; Now a Word from X.”

Misha Glenny, The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–2011 (New York: Penguin, 2012), 652–662.

Talbott, The Russia Hand , 301.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “Who Needs NATO?” New York Times , June 15, 2011.

Glenny, The Balkans , 670.

Timothy Garton Ash, “The Kosovo Precedent,” Los Angeles Times , February 21, 2008.

“Russia Resurgent,” The Economist , August 14, 2008.

Wheatcroft, “Who Needs NATO?”

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Beissinger, “Promoting Democracy,” 23.

“A Plea for Caution from Russia: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria,” New York Times , September 11, 2013; Kagan, “Superpowers Don’t Get to Retire.”

“A Plea for Caution from Russia: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria”; Kagan, “Superpowers Don’t Get to Retire.”

“Senator John McCain: Russians Deserve Better than Putin,” Pravda.ru, September 19, 2013, http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/19-09-2013/125705-McCain_for_pravda_ru-0(retrieved February 20, 2015).

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Talbott, The Russia Hand , 76.

Ronald Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 4.

“The Tale of Bygone Years” quoted in Medieval Russia’s Epics, Chronicles, and Tales , ed. Serge A. Zenkovsky (New York: Meridian, 1974), 65–71.

Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000), 38; “The Battle on the River Kalka” quoted in Medieval Russia’s Epics , ed. Zenkovsky, 193.

Subtelny, Ukraine , 70.

Ibid., 3, 23.

Samoil Velichko, Letopis’ sobytii v yugo-zapadnoi Rossii v XVII-m veke (Kiev: Vremennaya komissiya dlya razbora drevnikh aktov, 1848), 44–45; Subtelny, Ukraine , 105, 133.

Y. V. Mann, “Skvoz’ vidnyi miru smekh…”: Zhizn N. V. Gogolya, 1809–1835 gg . (Moscow: MIROS, 1994), 23–26; Subtelny, Ukraine , 231.

Paul Bushkovitch, A Concise History of Russia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 122.

Subtelny, Ukraine , 231.

Ibid., 307.

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 2006), 4; Serhiy Bilenky, Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012), 7; Bushkovitch, Concise History of Russia , 326; Serhii Plokhy, The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 5; Taras Shevchenko, “Katerina,” “Tarasova noch,” (“Taras’s Night”), “Ivan Pidkova” in Kobzar (Kyiv: Dnipro, 1985), 29, 44, 61–62; Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus’ (Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1997–2014).

Letopis’ samovidtsa (Kiev: Kievskaya vremennaya kommissiya dlya razbora drevnikh aktov, 1878), 95; Lesya Ukrainka, “Negoda” (“Storm”) in Na krylakh pisen (Lviv, 1893), 58–59. For detailed discussion of “mental maps” of Ukraine, see Bilenky, Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe , 71–100.

Subtelny, Ukraine , 359; Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008); J. A. E. Curtis, Manuscripts Don’t Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov, a Life in Letters and Diaries (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook, 1992), 6.

MacMillan, Paris 1919 , 71; Subtelny, Ukraine , 371.

Robert Service, Lenin: A Biography (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press, 2000), 455, 468–469; Suny, The Soviet Experiment , 308.