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Предисловие

1 Bush, George Н. W. Address to the Nation on the Commonwealth of Independent States. December 25, 1991. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, Archives, Public Papers, http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers. php?id=379i&year=1991&month=i2;Bush, George H. W.State of the Union Address. January 28, 1992. C-SPAN. http://www.c-spanv1deo.org/program/23999-1.

2 Statement on the Resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev as President of the Soviet Union. December 25, 1991. Bush Presidential Library, Public Papers, http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_ papers.php?id=3790&year= 199&month = 12.

3 Bush, George, and Brent Scowcroft A World Transformed. New York, 1998. Pp. 563–564; Gates, Robert M. From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War. New York, 1996. P 552–575.

4 Schrecker, Ellen Cold War Triumphalism and the Real Cold War / In: Schrecker, Ellen, ed. Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism. New York, 2006. Pp. 1-26; Cumings, Bruce Time of Illusion: Post-Cold War Visions of the World / In: SCHRECKER, Ellen, ED. Cold War Triumphalism, pp. 71-102; Тайны мира с Анной Чапман, № 79. Гибель империи. 13 февраля 2013 г., www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tizr8FriNbs; Секретный сценарий развала СССР и России в планах ЦРУ. 31 января 2013 г., www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfeiGv 6IkQc.

5 О Советском Союзе как о многонациональном государстве см.: Pipes, Richard The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917–1923. Cambridge, MA, 1997; Martin, Terry The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939. Ithaca, NY, 2001; Hirsch, Francine Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca, NY, 2005.

6 Об СССР как о империи и роли политического национализма в его гибели см.: Szporluk, Roman Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union. Stanford, CA, 2000; Lieven, Dominic Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals. New Haven, CT, 2002. Ch. 9; Beissinger, Mark R. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge, 2002. P 4; Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper Empires in World History: Power and Politics of Difference. Princeton, NJ, 2010. Ch. 13.

7 Дэвид Ремник, удостоенный Пулитцеровской премии за книгу об СССР (Remnick, David Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. New York, 1994), посвящает финальной главе истории холодной войны лишь две с половиной страницы, Майкл Доббс (Dobbs, Michael Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York, 1997) – шесть страниц, а Стивен Коткин (Kotkin, Stephen Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 19702000. Oxford, 2001) – пять.

8 Kotkin Armageddon Averted. Introduction and ch. 4; Kotkin, Stephen Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment. New York, 2009. Preface; Lake, David A. The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Russian Empire: A Theoretical Interpretation / In: Dawisha, Karen, and

Bruce Parrott, eds. The End of Empire? The Transformation of the USSR in Comparative Perspective. Armonk, NY, 1997. Pp. 30–62; Colton, Timothy J. Yeltsin: A Life. New York, 2008. Chs. 8 and 9.