Senate Building today with new Russian flag flying above Gorbachev’s former Kremlin office, now ceremonial residence of President Medvedev. Author<p>NOTES</p><p>Introduction </p>1 Palazchenko, My Years with Gorbachev and Sbevardreadze, 361.
2 Woolf, Nuclear Weapons in the Former Soviet Union.
3 Baker with DeFrank, The Politics of Diplomacy, 583.
4 Bush and Scowcroft, A World Transformed, 555.
5 Grachev, Final Days, 87.
<p>Chapter 1: December 25: Before the Dawn </p>1 Weather details are from www.tutiempo.net.
2 The description of Red Square is from contemporary newspaper accounts.
3 I visited the Church of St. Louis before this date and spoke to Sofia Peonkova.
4 Neuffer, “In Moscow a Christmas Leap of Faith.”
5 Gaidar, Days of defeat and Victory, 111.
<p>Chapter 2: December 25: Sunrise</p>1 Murray, A Democracy of Despots, 136.
2 Gorbachev’s dacha and the couple’s lifestyle are described in Gorbacheva, I Hope; Gorbachev, Memoirs; Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev; Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin ; and Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World.
3 Gorbacheva, I Hope, 174.
4 Shakhnazarov, Tsena Svobody, 493.
5 Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia, 3.
6 Details of Yeltsin’s home life are found in Aron, Boris Yeltsins; Colton, Yeltsins; Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin ; Solovyov and Klepikova, Boris Yeltsin ; Sukhanov, Tri Goda s Yeltsinym; Yeltsin, Against the Grain ; and Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia.
7 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 170-171.
8 Solovyov and Klepikova, Boris Yeltsin, 91.
9 Yeltsin, The Struggle for Russia, 32.
10 Colton, Yeltsin, 296.
11 Zenkovich, Malchishki v Rozovykh Shtanishkakh, 388.
12 Sukhanov, Tri Goda s Yeltsinym, 233.
<p>Chapter 3: Hiring the Bulldozer </p>1 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 279.
2 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 78-79.
3 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 235.
4 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 66.
5 Gorbachev, Memoirs, 235.
<p>Chapter 4: December 25: Morning </p>1 Interviews with Koppel, September 2009, and Kaplan, November 2009, cited here and elsewhere in the chapter.
2 ABC Television, unedited footage, December 25, 1991.
3 Gorbachev and Mlynář, Conversations with Gorbachev, 92.
4 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 15, 1991.
5 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 225.
6 Chernyaev, 1991, diary entry for December 20, 1991.
<p>Chapter 5: The Storming of Moscow </p>1 Shulgan, The Soviet Ambassador, 265-267.
2 Dobrynin, In Confidence, 621-622.
3 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 72-73.
4 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 68.
5 Colton, Yeltsin, 131.
6 Matlock, Autopsy on are Empire, 112.
<p>Chapter 6: December 25: Midmorning </p>1 Solovyov and Klepikova, 276.
2 Interview with Yegor Gaidar, Moscow, October 2009.
3 Irish Times, December 27, 1991.
<p>Chapter 7: A Bucketful of Filth </p>1 Colton, Yeltsin, 125.
2 Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev, 167.
3 Aron, Boris Yeltsin, 191.
4 Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev, 130.
5 Boldin, Ten Years That Shook the World, 234.
6 Ibid., 131.
7 Yeltsin’s sacking and treatment by Gorbachev is detailed in Colton, Yeltsin, 138-150; Yeltsin, Against the Grain, 144-155; Aron, Boris Yeltsin, 202-220; and Boldin, 235-236.
8 Colton, Yeltsin, 153.
9 Yeltsin, Agairest the Grain, 155.
10 Colton, Yeltsin, 150.
11 Aron, Yeltsin, 221.
12 Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin, 86.
<p>Chapter 8: December 25: Late Morning </p>1 The account of the congress’s proceedings is from Rossiskaya Gazeta, December 26, 1991.
2 Alexander Kichikhin quoted in Sovetskaya Rossiya, December 26, 1991.
<p>Chapter 9: Back from the Dead </p>1 Yeltsin, Against the Grain, 156-158.
2 Sukhanov, Tri Goda s Yeltsinym, 302.
3 Ibid., 302-304.
