1. See J. F. Hough, Russia and the West: Gorbachev and the Politics of Reform (New York and London: Simon and Schuster, 1988), pp. 44–8, for an interesting discussion of Lenin’s ‘Slavophile’ influences.
2. L. Kochan, The Making of Modern Russia (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971), p. 282.
3. M. MccGwire, Perestroika and Soviet National Security (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1991), Chapter 2.
4. T. Garton Ash, In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (London: Vintage, 1994), p. 91.
5. V. Bunce, ‘The Empire Strikes Back: the Evolution of the Eastern Bloc from a Soviet Asset to a Soviet Liability’, International Organization, Vol. 39, No. 1, 1985, p. 20.