The State Committee on the State of Emergency: Thoughts and Assessments 25 Years Later

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The State Committee on the State of Emergency

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English translation © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2016 “Neprikosnovennyi zapas.” “GKChP v otsenkakh i mneniiakh 25 let spustia,” Neprikosnovennyi zapas, 2016, no. 5(109), pp. 39–48.

Aleksei Vladimirovich Makarkin is a first vice president at the Center for Political Technologies.

Translated by Lucy Gunderson. Translation reprinted from Russian Politics and Law, vol. 55, no. 1. DOI: 10.1080/10611940.2017.1349387.

1. See “Avgustovskii putch i GKChP” (www.levada.ru/2016/08/15/avgustovskij-putch-i-gkchp).

2. See “Godovshchina putcha: Na chei storone byli simpatii rossiian v avguste 1991-go” (fom.ru/Proshloe/12814).

3. See “Memoriia: Vladimir Kryuchkov” (polit.ru/news/2016/02/29/kryuchkov).

4. See V. I. Varennikov, Nepovtorimoe (Moscow: Sovetskii pisatel’, 2002), pp. 553–622.

5. Quoted from www.russkiymir.ru/news/12994. [At the time of translation, the link in the author’s original citation was no longer functional.]

6. See V. I. Varennikov, op. cit., vol. 6, p. 251.

7. Ibid., pp. 79–83.

8. Ibid., pp. 242–245.

9. See A. Afanas’eva, “Tula stala gorodom-geroem blagodaria Iunaku” (myslo.ru/news/arhiv/article-4085).

10. See A. M. Makashov, Tragediia SSSR: Kto otvetit za razval (Moscow: Algoritm, 2012), pp. 81–86.

11. E. Yakovleva, “Narodnyi front 1991-go,” Rossiiskaia gazeta, August 19, 2011 (www.rg.ru/2011/08/19/putch.html).

12. “Viacheslav Dadonov: ‘Professiia—sluzhit’ Rodine.’ Interv’iu,” Moskovskii komsomolets, March 29, 2011 (www.mk.ru/editions/daily/2011/03/29/576651-professiya-sluzhit-rodine.html).

13. For more details, see A. Makarkin, “Nasledie raspada: kak Rossiia vosproizvodit opyt gibridnoi voiny,” RBK, February 9, 2016 (www.rbc.ru/opinions/politics/09/02/2016/56b9c69f9a794774fe7bb874?from=ty…).