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См. соответственно: Anders Aslund. How Russia Became A Market Economy. — Washington, 1995. P. 31 and Chap. 2 passim; M. Steven Fish. Democracy From Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution. — Princeton, 1995. P. 3; Michael Dobbs // Washington Post. 15 December 1991; Beryl Williams II Russian Review 56. No.l. January 1997. P. 143; и David Saunders // Europe-Asia Studies 48. No. 5. July 1996. P. 868. См. также: Martin Malia. The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991. — New York, 1994; Fred Coleman. The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Forty Years that Shook the World, from Stalin to Yeltsin. — New York, 1996, p.xii, xv, xvi; Alec Nove. The Soviet System in Retrospect: An Obituary Notice. — New York, 1993. P. 7; Richard Pipes. Communism: A History. — London, 1994. P. 39; Wis la Suras ka. How the Soviet Union Disappeared. — Durham, 1998; Valerie Bunce. Subversive Institutions. — New York, 1999. P. 37; Fritz W. Ermarth // National Interest. Spring 1999. P. 5; Stephen Коtkin. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000. — New York, 2001. P. 181; и MarkR. Beissinger. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. — New York, 2002. P. 390. В качестве примечательных исключений см.: Alexander Dallin // Dallin and Lapidus, eds. Soviet System. Chap. 58; David M. Kotz and Fred Weir. Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System. — New York, 1997; Ronald Grigor Suny. The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. — Stanford, 1993; Archie Brown. The Gorbachev Factor. — New York, 1997; Jerry F. Hough. Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985-1991. — Washington, 1997; и Peter Reddaway, Dmitri Glinski. The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy. — Washington, 2001. Несколько иной подход к проблеме можно встретить в более ранней работе Даллина: Alexander Dallin // Robert О. Crummey, ed. Reform in Russia and the USSR: Past and Prospects. — Urbana, 1989. P. 243-256. Интересный взгляд на проблему изнутри политической культуры коммунистической системы см.: Zdenek Mlynar. Can Gorbachev Change the Soviet Union? The International Dimensions of Political Reform. — Boulder, 1990.