Viimane impeerium. Nõukogude liidu lõpp. Sergi Plohhi
Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism (New York, 2006), 1–26; Bruce Cumings, „Time of Illusion: Post-Cold War Visions of the World”, teoses Ellen Schrecker, toim., Cold War Triumphalism, 71–102; „Tainõ mira s Annoi Tšapman, nr. 79. Gibel imperii”, Youtube’i video, üles laadinud ChannelProXima, 13. veebruar 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tizr8FriNbs; „Sekretnõi stsenarii razvala SSSR i Rossii v planahh TsRU”, Youtube’i video, üles laadinud AndreyFLKZ, 31. jaanuar 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfeiGv6IkQc.
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Nõukogude Liidu kui paljurahvuselise riigi kohta vt Richard Pipes, The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917–23 (Cambridge, MA, 1997); Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Ithaca, NY, 2001); Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Ithaca, NY, 2005).
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Tõlgendust Nõukogude Liidu lagunemisest kui ühe impeeriumi hukust ja poliitilise rahvusluse osast selles vt Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Stanford, CA, 2000); Dominic Lieven, Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals (New Haven, CT, 2002), 9. ptk.; Mark R. Beissinger, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge, 2002), 4; Jane Burbank ja Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and Politics of Difference (Princeton, NJ, 2010), 13. ptk.
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David Remnick, kes on kirjutanud Pulitzeri auhinnaga pärjatud teose Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New York, 1994), pühendab sellele külma sõja ajaloo tähtsale lõpupeatükile ainult kaks ja pool lehekülge; Michael Dobbs, kelle sulest on ilmunud laialdast tunnustust pälvinud Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (New York, 1997), kuus lehekülge; Stephen Kotkin oma mõtlemapanevas raamatus Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000 (Oxford, 2001), viis lehekülge.
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Kotkin, Armageddon Averted, sissejuhatus ja 4. peatükk; Stephen Kotkin, Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (New York, 2009), eessõna; David A. Lake, „The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Russian Empire: A Theoretical Interpretation”, teoses Karen Dawisha ja Bruce Parrott, toim., The End of Empire? The Transformation of the USSR in Comparative Perspective (Armonk, NY, 1997), 30–62; Timothy J. Colton, Yeltsin: A Life (New York, 2008), 8. ja 9. ptk.
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Freedom of Information Act.
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Tippkohtumine.
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David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century (New York, 2007), 1–102.
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„U.S. – Soviet Relations and the Moscow Summit”, 26. juuli 1991, C-SPAN, www.c-spanvideo.org/prograrn/19799-1; Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, 31. juuli 1991. USA Riigidepartemang, http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/starthtm/start/start1.html.
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Mutual Assured Destruction.
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John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (New York, 2006); Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York, 1996), 423–732; Vladislav M. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Chapel Hill, NC, 2007), 1–226.
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Scott Shane, „Cold Wars Riskiest Moment”, Baltimore Sun, 31. august 2003.
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„Atomic War Film Spurs Nationwide Discussion”, New York Times, 22. november 1983; Ronald Reagan, An American Life (New York, 1990), 585–586; Beth A. Fisher, The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War (Columbia, MO, 2000); Ronald Reagan, „Address to the Nation and Other Countries on United States-Soviet Relations, January 16, 1984”, http://www. reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/i984/n684a.html.
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Peetakse silmas Jaapani õhurünnakut USA mereväebaasile Pearl Harboris 7. detsembril 1941. See sundis Ameerika Ühendriike astuma Teise maailmasõtta.
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Barbara Bush, A Memoir (New York, 1994); George Bush, All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings (New York, 2000); Webster Griffin Tarpley ja Anton Chaitkin, George Bush: An Unauthorized Biography (Joshua Tree, CA, 2004).
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„Remarks at the Arrival Ceremony in Moscow, July 30, 1991” ja „Remarks by President Gorbachev and President Bush at the Signing Ceremony for the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks Treaty in Moscow, July 31, 1991”, Bush Presidential Library, Public Papers, http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/ public_papers.php?id=3256&year-1991&month=7.
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Michael R. Beschloss ja Strobe Talbott, At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War (Boston, 1993), 411; George Bush ja Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed (New York, 1998), 510–511.
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„Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev”, Trip of President Bush to Moscow and Kiev, July 30 – August 1, 1991, Bush Presidential Library, Presidential Records, Office of the First Lady, Scheduling, Ann Brock Series: Moscow Summit, Monday 7/29/91 to Thursday 8/1/91–Moscow and Kiev, nr. 4.
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Archie Brown, The Gorbachev Factor (Oxford, 1997); Andrei Grachev, Gorbachev’s Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War (Cambridge, 2008); Raymond L. Garthoff, The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War (Washington, D.C., 1994); Don Oberdorfer, From the End of the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1991 (Baltimore, 1998).
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Walter Goodman, „Summit Image: Hardly a Mikhail and George Show”, New York Times, 1. august 1991; Gene Gibbons, „Pre Advance Pool Report, Moscow Summit, July 29 – August 1, 1991, July 25, 1991”, Bush Presidential Library, Presidential Records, White House Office of Media Affairs, Media Guide to the Presidents Trip to the USSR – Summer 1991.
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Goodman, „Summit Image”; Bush ja Scowcroft, A World Transformed, 511; Beschloss ja Talbott, At the Highest Levels, 415.
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Beschloss ja Talbott, At the Highest Levels, 411–412; „Memorandum of Conversation. Extended Bilateral Meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev of the USSR, July 30, 1991”, Bush Presidential Library, Memcons and Telcons, http://bushlibrary. tamu.edu/research/pdfs/memcons_telcons/1991-07-30 – Gorbachev%2o[1].pdf.
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Strobe Talbott, „Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush: The Summit Goodfellas”, Time, 5. august 1991.
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Beschloss ja Talbott, At the Highest Levels, 405–406.
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Jane’s Strategic Weapons Systems,nr.