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“... was soon to choose as its leader provide interesting reading. According to Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova, Chernenko is noted for his ‘simple-mindedness ... and lack of cleverness in intrigues’. They attributed to Georgi Arbatov, a leading Politburo adviser on world affairs, the statement that ‘as a Soviet leader, Chernenko was impossible ...”

“... to the second, the second building on possibilities created by the first. Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova fall right into this trap: for them, Yeltsin liberated the Russians from centuries of slavery, where Gorbachev had merely attempted to mitigate the servitude. Quoting the Marquis de Custine’s famous description of Russia as the ‘military ...”