1. Mikhail Gorbachëv, Memoirs (New York: Doubleday, 1996), p. 175.
2. The best work to date on Russia’s elections is Stephen White, Richard Rose & Ian McAllister, How Russia Votes (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1997), especially Chapter II.
3. Robert V. Barylski, The Soldier in Russian Politics: 1985–1996 (Rutgers, NJ: Transaction, 1997).
4. Lt. General (Ret.) Aleksandr Lebed, Za derzhavu obidno (Moscow: Moskover-suskaya Pravda, 1995), p. 215–217.
5. Robert V. Barylski, “The Soviet Military before and after the August Coup: Departization and Decentralization,” in The Armed Forces and Society, vol. 19, no. 1 (1992): p. 27–45.