Notes
The author would like to thank Professor Alexander Motyl, Timothy Frye, Marcus Michelli, Gregg Robins, Karmit Zysman and especially Noriko Okunuki for their useful comments and encouragement. Deserving of special thanks are the Munich and Washington, DC offices of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, and especially Arkhiv Samizdata, for the rendering of exceptionally generous assistance in helping the author obtain several valuable documents. Responsibility for the content of this essay, is of course, exclusively that of the author.