The Post-Soviet System of States

1. Edgar Anderson , 'How Narva, Petseri, and Abrene Came to Be in the RSFSR', Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 19, no. 3, Fall 1988, p. 197.

2. Andrus Park , 'From Perestroika to Cold Civil War: Reflections on the Soviet Disintegration Crisis', Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Vol. 22, no. 3, 1991, p. 263.

3. Heller Mikhail Nekrich Aleksandr , Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present (New York: Summit Books, 1986), p. 35.

4. Ibid., pp. 35–36.

5. Cf. Andrus Park , 'From Perestroika to Cold Civil War: Reflections on the Soviet Disintegration Crisis', pp. 260–261.

6. The popularity of B. Yeltsin, A. Sobchak, A. V. Rutskoy and other 'heroes of August' rose rapidly in the aftermath of the failed coup and made it easier for them to consoliate political power. Cf. for example the results of the poll conducted in September 1991 in Russia (Rossiiskaya Gazeta, 28 September 1991, p. 2).

7. FBIS-SOV-91–204 , 22 October 1991, p. 27.

8. Cf. my 'Global Security and Soviet Nationalities', The Washington Quarterly , spring 1990, pp. 37–38.

9. As I am writing these lines (in October 1991) all the former USSR republics, except the RSFSR and Kazakhstan, have declared their independence.

10. Rahva Haal , 10 August 1991, p. 1.

11. Eesti Ekspress , 11 October 1991, p. 11.

12. The Washington Post , 28 October 1991, p. A17.

13. FBIS-SOV-91–201 , 17 October 1991, p. 32.

14. Andrus Park , 'From Perestroika to Cold Civil War: Reflections on the Soviet Disintegration Crisis', p. 262.

15. RFE/RL Daily Report , No. 205, 28 October 1991.

16. FBIS-SOV-91–202 , 18 October 1991, p. 43.