1. According to Winston Churchill, after the October Revolution of 1917 Russia had changed her identity. ‘We saw a state without nation, an army without a country, a religion without a God. The Government… had denounced the faith in treaties; it had made a separate peace; it had released a million Germans fro the final onslaught in the West.... It had repudiated alike all that Russia owed and all that was owing to her. Just when the worst was over, when victory was in sight, when the fruits of measureless sacrifice were at hand, the old Russia had been dragged dawn, and in her place there ruled “the nameless beast” so long foretold in Russian legend. Thus the Russian people were deprived of Victory, Honor, Freedom, Peace and Bread’: Winston S. Churchill. ‘The Nameless Beast’, in Robert A. Goldwin and Marvin Zetterbaum (eds). Readings in Russian Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1959), vol. 1, pp. 93–4.
2. James Sperling and Emil Kirchner, ‘Economic security and the problem of cooperation in post-Cold War Europe’, Review of International Studies, 24/2, (1998), p. 226.
3. Samuel P. Huntington, Who are we? America’s Great Debate (New York: Free Press, 2004), p. 263.
4. See Dmitry Trenin and Bobo Lo, The Landscape of Russian Foreign Policy Decision-Making. Moscow, 2005, p. 14, at <
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> For a historical account on Russian national interests see Ivo J. Lederer (ed.), Russian Foreign Policy. Essays in Historical Perspective (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1962)
5. Alvin Z. Rubinstein. Soviet Foreign Policy Since World War II. Imperial and Global (New York: Scott, Foresman, 1989)