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Notes for Introduction

 

1. **Anthony D’Agostino**, *Gorbachev’s Revolution* (New York: New York University Press, 1998), 9. [1]

2. **Alexander Dallin**, “The Causes of the Collapse of the Soviet Union,” *Post-Soviet Affairs*, Vol. 8, No. 4 (1992), 279. [1]

3. **Fidel Castro** quoted by **Andrew Murray**, *Flashpoint: World War III* (London: Pluto Press, 1996), 38. [1]

4. **Victor and Ellen Perlo**, *Dynamic Stability: The Soviet Economy Today* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980), passim; *USSR: 100 Questions and Answers* (Moscow: Novosti, 1977), 60, 63; **Albert Szymanski**, *Class Structure: A Critical Perspective* (New York: Praeger, 1983), 590. [1]

5. **Perlo**, 144; *USSR: 100 Questions and Answers*, 65-66, 71. [1]

6. **Szymanski**, 586-592. [1]

7. **Karl Marx**, “The Civil War in France” and **Frederick Engels**, “Introduction,” in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels *Selected Works in Two Volumes* (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962), 473-545. [2]

8. **Edward Boorstein**, *Allende’s Chile* (New York: International Publishers, 1977). [2]

9. **Edward Hallett Carr**, *What Is History?* (New York: Vintage Books, 1967), 125-127. [2]

10. **Eric Hobsbawm**, *On History* (New York: The New Press, 1997), 243-249. [2]

11. **Omar Noman**, ed. *Poverty in Transition* (New York: United Nations Development Program, 1998), 6. [2]

12. **Stephen Cohen**, *Failed Crusade* (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2000), 40-42. [2]

13. **Marx and Engels**, 485, 542. [2]

 

### **Notes for Chapter 2**

14. **Dmitri Volkogonov**, *Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy* (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1988), 80. [2]

15. **Albert Resis**, ed., *Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics* (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993), 360. [2]

16. **Resis**, 408. [2]

17. “Socialism in the Soviet Union: Lesson and Perspectives, From the Program of the Fourth Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation 20 April 1997,” *Nature, Society, and Thought* (May 2, 2000), 421. [2]

18. *Lenin Collected Works*, ed. Yuri Sdobnikov, vol. 32 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), 165-240. [2]

19. *Lenin Collected Works*, vol. 33, 63. [2]

20. *Lenin Collected Works*, vol. 32, 218. [2]

21. *Vladimir I. Lenin: A Political Biography* (New York: International Publishers, 1943), 242-259. [2]

22. **Barrington Moore, Jr.**, *Soviet Politics–The Dilemma of Power* (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951), 98-102. [2]

23. **Moore**, 102-108. [2]

24. **Anatoly Chernyaev**, *My Six Years with Gorbachev* (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), 138-139. [3]

25. **Kenneth Cameron**, *Stalin: Man of Contradiction* (Toronto: New Canada Publications, 1987), 30. [3]

26. **Moore**, 108-113. [3]

27. **E. H. Carr**, *Studies in Revolution* (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964), 214-215. [4]

28. **Joseph Stalin**, “The Right Deviation in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,” in Joseph Stalin, *Leninism: Selected Writings* (New York: International Publishers, 1942), 98-101. [4]

29. **George Katkov**, *The Trial of Bukharin* (New York: Stein and Day, 1969), 55-60. [4]

30. **V. Y. Zevin**, “Lenin on the National and Colonial Questions,” in *Lenin the Great Theoretician* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970), 307-308. [4]

31. **V. Zotov**, *Lenin’s Doctrine of National Liberation Revolutions and the Modern World* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983), 15, 21. [4]

32. **Joseph Stalin**, *Marxism and the National and Colonial Question* (New York: International Publishers, 1934). [4]

33. **Albert Nenarokov** and **Alexander Proskurin**, *How the Soviet Union Solved the Nationalities Question* (Moscow: Novosti Press, 1983), 11. [4]

34. **Stephen Cohen**, *Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution* (New York: Knopf, 1973), 35-38. [4]

35. **Stalin**, 185, 177, 168-170. [4]

36. **Yitzhak M. Brudny**, *Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991* (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1998), 42. [5]

37. **Bahman Azad**, *Heroic Struggle Bitter Defeat* (New York: International Publishers, 2000), 92-95. [5]

38. **Leonard Shapiro**, *The Communist Party of the Soviet Union* (New York: Vintage Books, 1971), 515. [5]

39. **Werner G. Hahn**, *Postwar Soviet Politics: The Fall of Zhdanov and the Defeat of Moderation, 1946-1953* (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982), 12-13, 19-27. [5]

40. **Hahn**, 32-33, 45-57, 182-184. [5]

41. **William Taubman**, *Khrushchev: The Man and His Era* (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2003), 250-255. [6]

42. **Roy A. Medvedev** and **Zhores Medvedev**, *Khrushchev: The Years in Power* (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978), 67-71. [6]

43. **Medvedev and Medvedev**, 71. [6]

44. **Taubman**, 324. [6]

45. **Carl Linden**, *Khrushchev and the Soviet Leadership* (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), 224. [6]

46. **Hahn**, 47. [6]

47. **Roy Medvedev**, *Khrushchev* (London and New York: Blackwell and Doubleday, 1982), 32. [7]

48. **Medvedev and Medvedev**, 35, 58-60. [7]

49. **Maurice Dobb**, *Soviet Economic Development Since 1917* (New York: New World Paperbacks, 1965), 317, 332. [7]

50. **Joseph Stalin**, *Economic Problems of the U.S.S.R.* (New York: International Publishers, 1952), 21-22. [7]

51. **Hans Heinz Holz**, “The Downfall and Future of Socialism,” *Nature, Society, and Thought*, 5, no. 3 (1992), passim. [7]

52. **Holz**, 105. [8]

53. **Holz**, 105. [8]

54. **Resis**, 391. [8]

55. **Giuseppe Boffa**, *Inside the Khrushchev Era* (New York: Marzani and Munsell, 1959), 108. [8]

56. **Boffa**, 110. [8]

57. **Medvedev and Medvedev**, 75. [8]

58. **Alexei Adzhubei** quoted by **Linden**, 225. [8]

59. **Roger Pethybridge**, *A Key to Soviet Politics: The Crisis of the ‘Anti-Party’ Group* (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962), 93-98. [8]

60. **Resis**, 345-347; **Molotov** and **Malenkov** quoted by **Pethybridge**, 98-99. [8]

61. **Pethybridge**, 95, 103-109; **Shapiro**, 569. [8]

62. **Taubman**, xix. [8]

63. **Cameron**, 130. [8]

64. **Michael Parenti**, *Blackshirts & Reds* (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997), 76-80. [8]

65. “Secret Speech of Khrushchev Concerning the ‘Cult of the Individual,’” in *The Anti-Stalin Campaign and International Communism* (New York: Columbia University Press, 1956), 2-89; **Cameron**, 121-137, 170. [8]

66. **Yegor Ligachev**, *Inside Gorbachev’s Kremlin* (New York, Pantheon, 1993), 284. [9]

67. **Cameron**, 123. [9]

68. **Gerald Meyer**, “The Virgin Lands Project, 1953-1963: Khrushchev’s Panacea for the Soviet Union’s Agricultural Crisis,” (M.A. thesis, City College of the City University of New York, 1969). [9]

69. **Meyer**, 35-37. [9]

70. **Stalin**, 16-17. [9]

71. **Medvedev and Medvedev**, 85-88. [9]

72. **Dobb**, 372-377. [9]

73. **Alex Nove**, *An Economic History of the USSR* (New York: Viking Penguin, 1984), 358. [9]

74. **Medvedev and Medvedev**, 106-107. [9]

75. **Dobb**, 321, 324. [9]

76. **Dobb**, 329-330. [9]

77. **J. P. Nettl**, *The Soviet Achievement* (Norwich, England: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967), 236. [10]

78. **Brudny**, 42-43. [10]

79. **Medvedev and Medvedev**, 73, 148. [10]

80. **Medvedev and Medvedev**, 43. [10]

81. *A Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement* (Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1963), 5-36. [11]

82. **Joseph Stalin**, *For Peaceful Coexistence: Postwar Interviews* (New York: International Publishers, 1951). [11]

83. **O.B. Borisov** and **B. T. Koloskov**, *Sino-Soviet Relations* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), 173. [11]

84. **Taubman**, 336-337, 450-451, 609-610; **Kirby** quoted by **Taubman**, 337. [11]

85. **Shapiro**, 575. [11]

86. **Linden**, 224. [11]

87. **Azad**, 128-131. [11]

88. **George Breslauer**, “Khrushchev Reconsidered,” in Stephen F. Cohen et al., eds., *The Soviet Union Since Stalin* (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), 56, 59. [11]

89. **Medvedev and Medvedev**, 151, 153. [11]

90. **John Gooding**, *Socialism in Russia: Lenin and his Legacy, 1890-1991* (New York: Palgrave, 2002), 187-209. [11]

91. **Dmitri Volkogonov**, *Autopsy for an Empire* (New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore: The Free Press, 1998), 262, 264, 302, 320, 324; **Peter Kenez**, *A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End* (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 215, 217; **Roy Medvedev**, “Brezhnev: a Political Sketch-Portrait,” in *Leonid Brezhnev: The Period of Stagnation* (Moscow: Novosti Press, 1989), 6, 9. [11]

92. *Pravda* quoted by **Breslauer**, 64. [12]

93. **Fedor Burlatsky**, “Brezhnev and the End of the Thaw,” in *Leonid Brezhnev: The Period of Stagnation*, 38. [12]

94. **Stephen F. Cohen** and **Katrina vanden Heuvel**, *Voices of Glasnost* (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), 20. [12]

95. **Victor and Ellen Perlo**, *Dynamic Stability: The Soviet Economy Today* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980), 331. [12]

96. **Abel Aganbegyan**, *The Economic Challenge of Perestroika* (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988), 45, 52-53, 90. [12]

97. **Victor and Ellen Perlo**, 275. [12]

98. **Victor Perlo**, *Super Profits and Crises: Modern U.S. Capitalism* (New York: International Publishers, 1988), 491. [12]

99. **Aganbegyan**, *The Economic Challenge of Perestroika*, 3, 23, 67, 71. [12]

100. **Leonid Brezhnev**, *We Are Optimists: Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to the 26th Congress of the CPSU* (New York: International Publishers, 1981), 57. [12]

101. **Ligachev**, 211-212, 219. [12]

102. **Brudny**, 15-17. [13]

103. **Victor and Ellen Perlo**, 284. [13]

104. **Moshe Lewin**, *Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates* (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1975), xiii. [13]

105. **Anders Aslund**, *Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform* (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989), ix, 4. [13]

106. **Perlo**, 260-280. [13]

107. **Perlo**, 260-280. [13]

108. **Perlo**, 282, 284. [13]

109. **Zhores Medvedev**, *Andropov* (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1983), 17-54; **Martin Ebon**, *The Andropov File* (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1983), 272-273. [14]

110. **Ebon**, 17-22, 70-71, 86-92, 109. [14]

111. **Ebon**, 64-74; **Zhores Medvedev**, 32-40; **Herbert Aptheker**, *The Truth About Hungary* (New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1957), 184-246. [14]

112. **Ebon**, 64-74; **Zhores Medvedev**, 32-40. [14]

113. **Ebon**, 70-71, 32, 24, 104; **Zhores Medvedev**, 32-40, 64-65. [14]

114. **Ebon**, 22, 24, 27, 29, 65. [14]

115. Quoted by **Zhores Medvedev**, 87. [14]

116. **Ligachev**, 27. [14]

117. **Zhores Medvedev**, 146; **Ebon**, 119. [14]

118. **Yuri Andropov**, “The Better We Work, the Better We Will Live” (November 22, 1982) in **Ebon**, 239-249; **Y. V. Andropov**, *Sixtieth Anniversary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics*, (December 21, 1982), (Moscow: Novosti, 1983); **Yuri Andropov**, *Analysis of the Existing Situation and Landmarks for the Future*, (June 15, 1983), (Moscow: Novosti, 1983); **Yuri Andropov**, “Karl Marx’s Teaching and Some of the Problems in the Building of Socialism in the USSR,” (1983) in *A Reader on Social Sciences* (Moscow: Progress, 1985), 395-419. [14]

119. **Martin Ebon**, *The Andropov File: The Life and Ideas of Yuri Andropov General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR* (New York, et al: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983), 239-249. [15]

120. **Andropov**, *Analysis*, 12. [15]

121. **Andropov**, *Analysis*, 17. [15]

122. **Andropov** in **Ebon**, 241. [15]

123. **Andropov** in **Ebon**, 241. [15]

124. **Andropov** in **Ebon**, 241. [15]

125. **Ebon**, 136-137. [15]

126. **Zhores Medvedev**, 134. [15]

127. **Medvedev**, 131-133. [15]

128. **Andropov**, “Karl Marx’s Teaching,” 407. [15]

129. **Ebon**, 186. [16]

130. **Ebon**, 173, 174, 193, 205, 208. [16]

131. **Andropov** in **Ebon**, 246. [16]

132. **Ebon**, 238. [16]

133. **Andrei Gromyko**, *Memoirs* (New York, et al.: Doubleday, 1989), 247. [16]

134. **Anatoly Dobrynin**, *In Confidence* (New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1995), 444. [16]

135. **Jonathan Harris**, *The Public Politics of Aleksandr Nikolaevich Yakovlev, 1983-1989*, The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, No. 901 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1990), 12. [16]

136. **Andropov** quoted by **Dobrynin**, 512. [16]

137. **Ebon**, 234. [16]

138. **Dobrynin**, 478. [16]

139. **Ligachev**, 148. [16]

140. **Ebon**, 118. [16]

141. **Andropov**, *Analysis*, 18. [16]

142. **Ligachev**, 28. [16]

143. **Andropov**, *Analysis*. [16]

144. **Ebon**, 26. [16]

145. **Ebon**, 152, 201, 166, 168, 199. [16]

146. **Ebon**, 192, 203, 219, 230. [16]

147. **Andropov**, “Karl Marx’s Teaching,” 400-401. [16]

148. **Andropov**, *Sixtieth Anniversary*, 11-21. [16]

149. **Andropov**, *Sixtieth Anniversary*, 18. [16]

150. **Andropov**, *Sixtieth Anniversary*, 18-19. [16]

151. **Volkogonov**, 332, 370, 387. [16]

 

### **Notes for Chapter 3**

152. **Gregory Grossman**, “Subverted Sovereignty: Historical Role of the Soviet Underground,” in Stephen S. Cohen, et al., eds. *The Tunnel at the End of the Light* (Berkeley: University of California, 1988), 24-25. [17]

153. **Vladimir G. Treml** and **Michael Alexeev**, “The Growth of the Second Economy in the Soviet Union and Its Impact on the System,” in Robert W. Campbell, ed., *The Postcommunist Economic Transformation* (Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1994), 222. [17]

154. Quoted by **Treml and Alexeev**, 238. [18]

155. **Moshe Lewin**, *Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates, from Bukharin to the Modern Reformers* (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), 254. [18]

156. **Gregory Grossman**, “The ‘Second Economy’ of the USSR,” *Problems of Communism* (September-October, 1977), 25. [18]

157. **Maurice Dobb**, *Soviet Economic Development Since 1917* (New York: International Publishers, 1966). [18]

158. **Anders Aslund**, *Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform* (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989), 5. [18]

159. **G. A. Kozlov**, ed., *Political Economy: Socialism* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977); **L. Leontyev**, *Political Economy: A Condensed Course* (New York: International, 1974); **P. I. Nikitin**, *The Fundamentals of Political Economy* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983); **G. S. Sarkisyants**, ed., *Soviet Economy: Results and Prospects* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977); and **Yuri Popov**, *Essays in Political Economy* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985). [18]

160. **Joseph Stalin**, “Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR,” in Bruce Franklin, *The Essential Stalin* (New York: Anchor Books, 1972), 445-481. [18]

161. **Victor Perlo**, *How the Soviet Economy Works* (New York: International, 1961), 34. [19]

162. **Victor and Ellen Perlo**, *Dynamic Stability: The Soviet Economy Today* (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980). [19]

163. “List of Berkeley-Duke Occasional Papers in the Second Economy in the USSR with Abstracts and Notes,” http://econ.duke.edu/Papers/Treml.BDOP.html. [19]

164. **Gregory Grossman**, “The Second Economy in the USSR and Eastern Europe: A Bibliography,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Papers on the Second Economy of the USSR*, July 1990). [20]

165. **Grossman**, “The ‘Second Economy’ of the USSR,” 25-27. [20]

166. **Grossman**, “The ‘Second Economy’ of the USSR,” 26-27. [20]

167. **Grossman**, “The ‘Second Economy’ of the USSR,” 35. [20]

168. **Grossman**, “The ‘Second Economy’ of the USSR,” 29-30. [20]

169. **Grossman**, “The ‘Second Economy’ of the USSR,” 30. [20]

170. **Grossman**, “The ‘Second Economy’ of the USSR,” 31. [20]

171. **Konstantin Simis**, *USSR: The Corrupt Society: The Secret World of Soviet Capitalism* (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), 145-147. [20]

172. **Vladimir G. Treml**, “Purchase of Food from Private Sources in Soviet Urban Areas,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Paper*, September 1985). [21]

173. **Gregory Grossman**, “A Tonsorial View of the Soviet Second Economy,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Paper*, December 1985). [21]

174. **Vladimir G. Treml**, “Alcohol in the Soviet Underground Economy,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Paper*, December 1985). [21]

175. **Michael V. Alexeev**, “The Underground Market for Gasoline in the USSR,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Paper*, (April 1987). [21]

176. **Michael V. Alexeev**, “Expenditures on Privately Rented Housing and Imputed Rents in the USSR,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Paper*, November 1991). [21]

177. **Kimberly C. Neuhauser**, “The Second Economy in Funeral Services,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Paper*, February 1992). [21]

178. **Clifford G. Gaddy**, “The Size of the Prostitution Market in the USSR,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Paper*,” November 1989) and **Kimberly C. Neuhauser**, “The Market for Illegal Drugs in the Soviet Union in the Late 1980s,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Paper*, November 1990). [22]

179. **Marina Kurkchiyan**, “The Transformation of the Second Economy in the Informal Economy,” in Alena V. Ledeneva and Marina Kurkchiyan, eds., *Economic Crime in Russia* (The Hague, London, and Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2000), 86-87. [22]

180. **Treml and Alexeev**, 221,235. [22]

181. **Byung-Yeon Kim**, “Informal Economy Activities of Soviet Households: Size and Dynamics,” (PERSA Working Paper No. 26, University of Warwick, 29 January 2003), 9. [23]

182. **Tatiana Koriagina**, “The Shadow Economy of the USSR,” *Izd-vo Pravda 3* (1990): 113. [23]

183. **Gregory Grossman**, “Subverted Sovereignty: Historic Role of the Soviet Underground,” in Stephen S. Cohen et al., *The Tunnel at the End of the Light* (Berkeley: University of California, 1998), 36. [23]

184. **Treml and Alexeev**, 224-225, 239. [23]

185. **Gregory Grossman**, “Sub-Rosa Privatization and Marketization in the USSR,” *Annals*, ASPSS (January, 1990), 49. [24]

186. **Gregory Grossman**, “Sub-Rosa Privatization,” 49. [24]

187. **Byung-Yeon Kim**, 6, 9. [24]

188. Estimates developed by **Gregory Grossman**, in “The Second Economy: Boon or Bane for the Reform of the First Economy?” in *Economic Reforms in the Socialist World*, Stanislaw Gomulka et al., eds., (London: Macmillan, 1989), 94. [24]

189. **Simis**, 153; **Grossman**, “Subverted Sovereignty,” 39-40. [25]

190. **Kim**, 12, 23. [25]

191. **Brezhnev** quoted by **David Pryce-Jones**, *The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire* (New York: Henry Holt, 1995), 53. [25]

192. **Gregory Grossman**, “Inflationary, Political, and Social Implications of the Current Economic Slowdown,” in Hans-Hermann Hoehmann, Alex Nove, and Heinrich Vogel, *Economics and Politics in the USSR* (Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1986), 192. [25]

193. **Michael Alexeev**, “The Russian Underground Economy in Transition,” in Michael Walker, ed. *The Underground Economy: Global Evidence of its Size and Impact* (Vancouver, Canada: Fraser Institute, 1997), 259. [26]

194. **Treml and Alexeev**, 225; **Valery M. Rutgaizer**, “The Shadow Economy in the USSR,” (*Berkeley-Duke Occasional Papers on the Second Economy in the USSR*, No. 34, February 1992), 41. [26]

195. **Grossman**, “Subverted Sovereignty,” 31. [26]

196. **Rutgaizer**, 6. [27]

197. **Grossman**, “Subverted Sovereignty,” 31. [27]

198. **Alexeev**, 255-256. [27]

199. **Treml and Alexeev**, 238. [27]

200. **Alexeev**, 260. [27]

201. **Alexeev**, 261. [27]

202. **Simis**, 179. [27]

203. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, *Soviet Economy in a Time of Change*, report entitled “Notes on the Illegal Private Economy and Corruption” by **Gregory Grossman**, 96th Cong., 1st sess., 1979, Committee Print, pp. 840-841. [27]

204. **Grossman**, “Subverted Sovereignty,” 32. [27]

205. **Pryce-Jones**, 51-55, 377-83. [27]

206. **Simis**, 47-48. [28]

207. **Grossman**, “Subverted Sovereignty,” quoting **Andrei Grachev**, 34. [28]

208. **Stephen Handelman**, *Comrade Criminal: Russia’s New Mafiya* (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 56. [28]

209. **Kozlov** quoted by **John and Margrit Pittman**, *Peaceful Coexistence: Its Theory and Practice in the Soviet Union* (New York: International Publishers, 1964), 69. [28]

210. **Alexeev**, 261. [28]

211. **Alena V. Ledeneva**, *Russia’s Economy of Favours* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). [28]

212. **Gregory Grossman**, “The Second Economy of the USSR,” *Problems of Communism* Vol. XXVI, No. 5 (September-October, 1977): 25-40. [28]

213. **Georgy Shakhnazarov**, *The Destiny of the World* (Moscow: Progress, 1978), 121-122. [29]

214. **S. Frederic Starr**, “A Usable Past,” in Alexander Dallin and Gail W. Lapidus, eds., *The Soviet System from Crisis to Collapse* (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), 14-15. [29]

215. **Rutgaizer**, 19-22. [29]

216. **Rutgaizer**, 7, 10-13. [29]

217. **Rutgaizer**, 7-10. [29]

218. **John Gooding**, *Socialism in Russia: Lenin and his Legacy, 1890-1991* (New York: Palgrave, 2002), 208. [29]

219. **Victor Trushkov**, “The Place of the Restoration of Capitalism in the Historic Process,” *International Correspondence* (English language edition), 2(2000), 33-34. [29]

 

### **Notes for Chapter 4**

220. **Mike Davidow**, *Perestroika* (New York: International Publishers, 1993), 8. [30]

221. **Albert Resis**, ed., *Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics* (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993), 373. [30]

222. **Yegor Ligachev**, *Inside Gorbachev’s Kremlin* (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993), 44. [30]

223. **Oleg Kalugin**, *The First Directorate* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), 292-293. [30]

224. **Michael Ellman** and **Vladimir Kontorovich**, *The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System* (Armonk, New York, and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 12, 30, 31, 35, 38. [31]

225. **Yegor Ligachev**, *Inside Gorbachev’s Kremlin* (New York: Pantheon Books, 1993), 16. [31]

226. **Gennady Zyuganov**, *My Russia* (Armonk, New York, and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1997), 54. [31]

227. **Abel Aganbegyan**, *The Economic Challenge of Perestroika* (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988), 68. [31]

228. **Aganbegyan**, 23. [31]

229. **Fred Halliday**, “A Singular Collapse: The Soviet Union, Market Pressure and Inter-State Competition,” *Contention Magazine* (1992), 324. [31]

230. **Peter Kenez**, *A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 217. [31]

231. **Mikhail Gorbachev**, *Memoirs*, (New York: Doubleday, 1995), 10-11. [31]

232. **Sean Gervasi**, “A Full Court Press: The Destabilization of the Soviet Union,” *Covert Action*, Fall 1990, 21-26. [31]

233. **Peter Schweizer**, *Victory: The Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union* (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994), xviii-xix. [31]

234. **Schweizer**, 76, 86-87, 88-89, 150, 153, 188, 193-194, 215. [31]

235. **Schweizer**, 93-94, 140-141, 154, 195, 242-243. [32]

236. **Schweizer**, 72, 109, 125-126, 139, 188. [32]

237. **Arch Puddington**, *Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty* (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 223, 288; **Gene Sosin**, *Sparks of Liberty: An Insider’s Memoir of Radio Liberty* (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), 196, 198, 203, 205. [32]

238. **Gervasi**, 22, fn. 15. [32]

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254. **Kotz and Weir**, 78. [34]

255. **Anders Aslund**, *Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform* (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989), 70-71. [35]

256. **Novikov and Bascio**, 35. [35]

257. **Aslund**, 81-82. [35]

258. **Gorbachev**, *For the Forthcoming XXVIIth CPSU Congress*, 23-24. [35]

259. **Vladimir Kryuchov** memoirs referred to by **Jerry Hough**, *Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-91* (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1997), 193. [35]

260. **Fitzgerald**, 286, 302. [35]

261. **Fitzgerald**, 307. [35]

262. **D’Agostino**, 86-87; **Gill**, 19-24; **Novikov and Bascio**, 35. [36]

263. **Gorbachev**, *Political Report*, 106. [36]

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266. **Volkogonov**, 450. [36]

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268. **Davidow**, 8. [36]

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271. **Aslund**, 26-27. [37]

272. **Ellman and Kontorovich**, 14. [37]

273. **Aslund**, 25. [37]

274. **Novikov and Bascio**, 42. [37]

275. **Dunlop**, 6-7. [37]

276. **Ellman and Kontorovich**, 10, 178. [37]

277. **Aslund**, 35. [37]

278. **Kotz and Weir**, 75-78. [37]

279. **Aganbegyan**, 32-33. [37]

280. **Aganbegyan**, 190-191. [37]

281. **Kotz and Weir**, 78, 82. [37]

282. **Volkogonov**, 464-465. [37]

283. **Ellman and Kontorovich**, 22. [37]

284. **Aslund**, 37-47, 55. [37]

285. **Aslund**, 48-54. [37]

286. **Aslund**, 88-100. [37]

287. **Aslund**, 108. [37]

288. **Mikhail Gorbachev**, *Political Report of the CPSU Central Committee to the 27th Party Congress* (Moscow: Novosti, 1986), 4-5, 26, 29, 40-46, 49, 86. [38]

289. **Neil Robinson**, *Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet System* (Aldershot, England and Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 1995), 107-111. [38]

290. **Gibbs**, 23, 28-29, 33. [38]

291. **Gorbachev**, *Memoirs*, 210. [38]

292. **Gorbachev**, *Political Report*, 111. [38]

293. **Gibbs**, 37. [38]

294. **John and Carol Garrard**, *Inside the Soviet Writers’ Union* (New York: Free Press, 1990), 205. [38]

295. **Gibbs**, 5-6, 8. [38]

296. **Alexander Yakovlev**, *The Fate of Marxism* (New Haven and London: Yale Unversity Press, 1993), x. [38]

297. **Jonathan Harris**, *The Public Politics of Aleksandr Nikolaevich Yakovlev, 1983-1989* (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1990), 8. [38]

298. **Yitzhak Brudny**, *Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991* (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1998), 94-100. [38]

299. **Robert Kaiser**, *Why Gorbachev Happened* (New York, London, et al.: Simon & Schuster, 1991), 111. [38]

300. **Garrard**, 198-199; **Brudny**, 197; **Harris**, 20. [38]

301. **Garrard**, 202, 207. [39]

302. **Gibbs**, 39; **Brudny**, 197-198. [39]

303. **Garrard**, 201. [39]

304. **Garrard**, 199. [39]

305. **Roy Medvedev** and **Giulietto Chiesa**, *Time of Change: An Insider’s View of Russia’s Transformation* (New York: Pantheon, 1989), 27-28. [39]

306. **Medvedev and Chiesa**, 29-32. [39]

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308. **Gibbs**, 44. [39]

309. **Garrard**, 202; **Medvedev and Chiesa**, 32. [39]

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335. **D’Encausse**, 10-12. [42]

336. **D’Encausse**, 4, 9, 23-27, 31-33, 40-41. [43]

337. **D’Agostino**, 174. [43]

 

Notes for Chapter 6

 

452. **Graeme Gill**, *The Collapse of a Single-party System* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 78. [1]

453. **Stanislav Menshikov**, *Catastrophe or Catharsis? The Soviet Economy Today* (London: Inter-Verso, 1990), 41. [1]

454. **Roy Medvedev**, *Post-Soviet Russia* (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 47. [1]

455. **Carl A. Linden**, *Khrushchev and the Soviet Leadership: With an Epilogue on Gorbachev* (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1990), 235. [1]

456. **Seumus Milne**, “Catastroika has not only been a disaster for Russia: a decade on, enthusiasm for the Soviet collapse looks misplaced.” *The Guardian* (London), 16 August 2001. [1, 2]

457. **John B. Dunlop**, *The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire* (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 94. [2]

458. **Archie Brown**, *The Gorbachev Factor* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 193. [2]

459. **Jerry Hough**, *Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-91* (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1997), 502. [2]

460. **Anatoly Chernyaev**, *My Six Years with Gorbachev* (University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2000), 135. [2]

461. **Chernyaev**, 299. [2]

462. **Vadim Volkov**, *Violent Entrepreneurs: the Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism* (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002), 24. [3]

463. **Hough**, 503. [3]

464. **Hough**, 260. [4]

465. **Robert Kaiser**, *Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and His Failure* (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991), 409. [4]

466. **Hough**, 249. [4]

467. **William E. Odom**, *The Collapse of the Soviet Military* (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 439. [4]

468. **Chernyaev**, 255. [4]

469. **Frances Fitzgerald**, *Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War* (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 475. [4]

470. **Peter Schweizer**, *Victory! The Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union* (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994), 14. [4]

471. **Odom**, 474. [4]

472. **Hough**, 432. [5]

473. **Hough**, 502. [5]

474. **Pekka Sutela**, *Economic Thought and Economic Reform in the Soviet Union* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 5. [5, 6]

475. **Chernyaev**, 257. [6]

476. **Gill**, 95. [6]

477. **Marshall I. Goldman**, *What Went Wrong with Perestroika?* (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 193. [6]

478. **Brown**, 184. [6]

479. **Gill**, 68. [7]

480. **Chernyaev**, 173. [7]

481. **Gill**, 74. [7]

482. **Chernyaev**, 175. [7]

483. **Chernyaev**, 179. [7]

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485. **Vitali I. Vorotnikov**, *Mi Verdad: Notas y Reflexiones del Diario de Trabajo de un Miembro del Buro Politico del PCUS* (Havana: Casa Editorial Abril, 1995), 486. [7]

486. **Gill**, 78. [7]

487. **Gill**, 79. [7]

488. **Gill**, 79. [7]

489. **Dunlop**, 79. [7]

490. **David M. Kotz and Fred Weir**, *Revolution from Above* (New York: Routledge, 1997), 102. [7]

491. **Dunlop**, 81. [7, 8]

492. **Dunlop**, 79-81. [8]

493. **Dunlop**, 106-7. [8]

494. **Kotz and Weir**, 139. [8]

495. **Ligachev**, 347. [8]

496. **Dunlop**, 82. [8]

497. **Dunlop**, 51. [8]

498. **Gill**, 94-95. [8]

499. **Gill**, 104. [8, 9]

500. **Gill**, 104. [9]

501. **Ligachev**, 89. [9]

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503. **Gill**, 115. [9]

504. **Gill**, 115. [9]

505. **Gill**, 117. [9]

506. **Gill**, 135. [9]

507. **Ligachev**, 368. [9]

508. **Ligachev**, 177-179. [9]

509. **Gill**, 144. [9]

510. **Vorotnikov**, 486. [9]

511. **Chernyaev**, 189. [9]

512. **Chernyaev**, 189. [9]

513. **Ligachev**, xxiii. [9]

514. **Chernyaev**, 270. [9]

515. **Ligachev**, 44. [9]

516. **Valery Boldin**, *Ten Years That Shook the World: The Gorbachev Era as Witnessed by His Chief of Staff* (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 258. [9]

517. **Boldin**, 282. [9]

518. **Stephen Handelman**, *Comrade Criminal: Russia’s New Mafiya* (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 311. [9]

519. **Stephen Kotkin**, *Armageddon Averted: the Soviet Collapse 1970-2000* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), ix. [9]

520. **Medvedev**, 47. [9]

521. **Alexander Dallin and Gail W. Lapidus, eds.**, *The Soviet System: From Crisis to Collapse* (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995), 75. [9]

522. **Dunlop**, 72. [9, 10]

523. **Dunlop**, 80. [10]

524. **Kaiser**, 378. [10]

525. **Hough**, 416. [10]

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527. **Boris Kargarlitsky**, *Restoration in Russia: Why Capitalism Failed* (London: Verso, 1995), 83. [10]

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529. **Hough**, 208. [11]

530. **Ligachev**, 339. [11]

531. **Kotz and Weir**, 80. [11]

532. **Hough**, 343. [11]

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535. **Moskoff**, 59. [11]

536. **Michael Ellman and Vladimir Kontorovich**, *The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System* (Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 22. [11]

537. **Hough**, 359. [11]

538. **Kaiser**, 378. [11]

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543. **Handelman**, 56. [12]

544. **Handelman**, 71. [12]

545. **Hough**, 130. [12]

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547. **Hough**, 134. [12]

548. **Hough**, 139. [12]

549. **Hough**, 360. [12]

550. **Hough**, 363. [12]

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554. **Ligachev**, 152. [13]

555. **Hough**, 374. [13]

556. **Arch Puddington**, *Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe* (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000), 291. [13]

557. **Dunlop**, 90. [13]

558. **Dunlop**, 90. [13]

559. **Dunlop**, 91. [13]

560. **V. I. Lenin**, *Selected Works, 1*, (New York: International Publishers, 1967), 625. [13]

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562. **Kaiser**, 315. [14]

563. **Brown**, 280-282. [14]

564. **Hosking**, 473. [14]

565. **Dunlop**, 55. [14]

566. **Hough**, 388. [14]

567. **Odom**, 351. [14]

568. **Hough**, 406. [14]

569. **Kotz and Weir**, 266. [14]

570. **Mikhail Gorbachev**, *Memoirs* (New York: Doubleday, 1995), 501. [14]

571. **Chernyaev**, 148. [14]

572. **Fred Coleman**, *The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Forty Years that Shook the World from Stalin to Yeltsin* (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 312. [14]

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578. **Hough**, 428. [15]

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580. **Hough**, 455. [15]

581. **Hough**, 429. [15]

582. **Dunlop**, 196-197. [15]

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585. **Dunlop**, 217. [15]

586. **Dunlop**, 253. [15]

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588. **Dunlop**, 253. [15]

589. **Hough**, 431. [15]

590. **Knight**, 18. [15, 16]

591. **Hough**, 432. [16]

592. **Dunlop**, 199. [16]

593. **Dunlop**, 201. [16]

594. **Dunlop**, 198. [16]

595. **Odom**, 342. [16]

596. **Knight**, 18. [16]

597. **Hough**, 433. [16]

598. **Hough**, 432. [16]

599. **Odom**, 353,354. [16]

600. **Odom**, 355. [16]

601. **Hough**, 436. [16]

602. **Dunlop**, 186. [16]

603. **Dunlop**, 195. [16]

604. **Odom**, 341. [16]

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### **Notes for Chapter 7**

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652. **Ian Fisher**, “As Poland Endures Hard Times, Capitalism Comes under Attack,” *New York Times* 12 June 2002. [24, 25]

653. **G. A. Kozlov, ed.**, *Political Economy: Socialism* (Moscow: Progress, 1977), 80-81. [25]

654. “**Mr. X” George Kennan**, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” *Foreign Affairs* (July 1947): 566-82, quoted in Gregory Grossman. [25]

655. **Azad**, 179. [25]

656. **Kenneth Neill Cameron**, *Stalin: Man of Contradiction* (Toronto: NC Press Ltd., 1987), 7. [25]

657. **Mikhail Gorbachev**, *October and Perestroika: The Revolution Continues* (Moscow: Novosti, 1987), 26. [25, 26]

658. **Hans Heinz Holz**, “The Downfall and Future of Socialism,” *Nature, Society, and Thought* 5, no. 3, (1992): 121. [26]

659. **Herbert Aptheker**, “The Soviet Collapse and the Surrounding Capitalist World,” *Science and Society*, 62, no. 2, (summer 1998): 284. [26]

660. **Michael Parenti**, *Blackshirts and Reds* (San Francisco: City Lights, 1997), 77. [26]

661. **Parenti**, 76-86. [26]

662. **Aileen Kelly**, “In the Promised Land,” *The New York Review of Books* 68, no. 19, (November 29, 2001): 45. [26]

663. **Stephane Courtois et al., eds.**, *The Black Book of Communism, Crimes, Terror, Repression* (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999). [26, 27]

664. **Yuri Krasin**, *The Dialectics of Revolutionary Process* (Moscow: Novosti, 1973), 7. [27]

665. **Anthony Coughlan**, “Social Democracy and National Independence,” (unpublished article, May 1993), 4. [27]

 

Notes for Epilogue

 

666. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Selected Correspondence

(Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1965), 264. [1]

667. **“Social Dimensions of Globalization,”** ICFTU submission to the first meeting of the ILO World Commission on Globalization (25-26 March 2002) International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Brussels, 2002, 1. [1]

668. **Fred Halliday**, “A Singular Collapse: The Soviet Union, Market Pressure, and Interstate Competition,” *Contention Magazine* (1992). [1]

669. We have adapted and supplemented the explanations identified by **David Kotz and Fred Weir**, *Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System* (New York and London: Routledge, 1997), 3-5. [2]

670. **Jack Matlock**, *Autopsy on an Empire* (New York: Random House, 1995), 648. [2]

671. See the summaries and critiques of Malia and Pipes in **Walter Laqueur**, *The Dream That Failed* (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), passim and **Alexander Dallin**, “Causes of the Collapse of the USSR,” *Post-Soviet Affairs* 8(1992): 279-282. [2]

672. **Dmitri Volkogonov**, *Autopsy for an Empire* (New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore: The Free Press, 1998). [2]

673. **Roy Medvedev and Giulietto Chiesa**, *Time of Change: An Insider’s View of Russia’s Transformation* (New York: Pantheon, 1989). [2]

674. **Elizabeth Teague**, “The Fate of the Working Class,” in Robert Daniels, ed., *Soviet Communism from Reform to Collapse* (Lexington, Mass.: Heath and Company, 1995), 352-365. [2]

675. **Stephen White**, “The Minorities’ Struggle for Sovereignty,” in Daniels, 216-229; **Yitzhak Brudny**, *Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991* (Cambridge, Mass., and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1998), and **Helene d’Encausse**, *The End of the Soviet Empire: The Triumph of Nations* (New York: A New Republic Books, Basic Books, A Division of Harper Collins, 1994). [3]

676. **Anders Aslund**, *Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform* (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989), 4-5. [3]

677. **Michael Ellman and Vladimir Kontorovich**, *The Destruction of the Soviet System: An Insider’s History* (Armonk, New York, and London, England: M. E. Sharpe, 1998), 17. [3]

678. **Ellman and Kontorovich**, 30-40. [3]

679. **Anthony D’Agostino**, *Gorbachev’s Revolution* (New York: New York University Press, 1998), 272-273, 285, 296. [4]

680. ***New York Times*** (February 26, 2001). [4]

681. **Andre Gunder Frank**, “What Went Wrong in the ‘Social’ East?” *Humboldt Journal of Socialist Relations* 24, no. 1 and 2: 179-184. [4]

682. **Manuel Castells and Emma Kiselova**, *The Collapse of Soviet Communism: A View From the Information Society* (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 3. [4]

683. **Laqueur**, 58-59. [4]

684. **Peter Schweizer**, *Victory: The Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy that Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union* (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994); **Sean Gervasi**, “A Full Court Press: the Destabilization of the Soviet Union,” *Covert Action* 35(Fall, 1990): 21-26. [4]

685. **Peter Schweizer**, *Reagan’s War* [Bound galley copy] (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 3-4. [4]

686. **Frances Fitzgerald**, *Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War* (New York et al.: Simon & Schuster, 2000). [4]

687. **Fitzgerald**, 474. [4]

688. **Ellman and Kontorovich**, 57. [5]

689. **Ellman and Kontorovich**, 59. [5]

690. **Leon Trotsky**, *The Revolution Betrayed* (New York: Merit Publishers, 1965), 252-254. [5]

691. **David Kotz and Fred Weir**, *Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System* (New York and London: Routledge, 1997). [5]

692. **Jerry F. Hough**, *Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-1991* (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1997). [5]

693. **Steven L. Solnick**, *Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions* (Cambridge, Mass. and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1998). [5]

694. **Bahman Azad**, *Heroic Struggle Bitter Defeat: Factors Contributing to the Dismantling of the Socialist State in the USSR* (New York: International Publishers, 2000). [5]

695. **Ellman and Kontorovich**, 27. [5]

696. **Solnick**, passim. [6]

697. **Azad**, 115-118, 120, 129-134. [6]

698. **Azad**, 162. [6]

699. See the **“Conclusion”** for a full discussion of these positions. [6]

700. **Karl Marx and Frederick Engels**, “Manifesto of the Communist Party,” in *Selected Works* (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962), 53. [6]

701. **C. B. Macpherson**, *The Real World of Democracy* (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972), passim. [6]

702. **E. Ambartsumov, F. Burlatsky, Y. Krasin, and E. Pletnyov**, *Real Socialism…for a working class estimate* (reprint from *New Times*) (New York: New Outlook Publishers, ), 10. [6]

703. For a good summary of studies of Soviet political institutions, see **Albert Szymanski**, “The Class Basis of Political Processes in the Soviet Union,” *Science & Society* (Winter, 1978-79): 426-457. [6]

704. **Stephen Cohen**, *Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia* (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2000), 41. [7]

705. **Archie Brown**, *The Gorbachev Factor* (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996). [7]

706. **Robert V. Daniel**, “Was Communism Reformable?” *The Nation*, 3 January 2000, 26. [7]

707. **Euvgeny Novikov and Patrick Bascio**, *Gorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Communist Party* (New York: Peter Lang, 1994), 39-44. [7]

708. **Anthony D’Agostino**, *Gorbachev’s Revolution* (New York: New York University Press, 1998), passim. [8]

709. **“1992 Castro Interviewed on Soviet Collapse, Stalin,”** *El Nuevo Diario* [Managua] (3 June 1992). [8]

 

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