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Пояснення краху СРСР як розпаду імперії та ролі політичного націоналізму в цьому процесі див.: 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), ch. 9; Mark R. Beissinger, Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (Cambridge, 2002), 4; Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and Politics of Difference (Princeton, NJ, 2010), ch. 13.
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David Remnick, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New York, 1994); автор цієї праці, Пулітцерівській лауреат, присвячує важливій темі закінчення холодної війни лише дві з половиною сторінки, Майкл Доббс, автор широко відомої розвідки (Michael Dobbs, Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (New York, 1997)) – шість, а Стівен Коткін у ґрунтовному дослідженні (Stephen Kotkin, Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970—2000 (Oxford, 2001)) – п’ять сторінок.
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Kotkin, Armageddon Averted, introduction and ch. 4; Stephen Kotkin, Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (New York, 2009), preface; David A. Lake, “The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Russian Empire: A Theoretical Interpretation,” in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, eds., 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), chs. 8 and 9.
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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,” July 26, 1991, C-SPAN, www.c-spanvideo.org/program/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, July 31, 1991. US Department of State, http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/starthtm/start/start1.html.
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John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
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Gates, From the Shadows, 521—522; Minutes of the Deputies Committee Meeting, August 19, 1991, Bush Presidential Library, Presidential Records, National Security Council, Deputies Committee Files, NSC/DC 300, 301; Beschloss and Talbott, At the Highest Levels, 432.