“gatherer and protector”: “Tseremoniia Otkrytiia pamiatnika kniaziu Vladimiru,” Prezident Rossii, November 4, 2016, http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53211.
“a political principle which holds”: Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, 2d ed. (Ithaca, NY, 2009), 1.
“Britain had an empire”: Geoffrey Hosking, “The Freudian Frontier,” Times Literary Supplement, March 10, 1995, 27.
“Batu placed battering rams”: Ipat’evskaia letopis’ (St. Petersburg, 1908), col. 785.
“Meanwhile, people ran”: Ibid.
“From antiquity you”: Serhii Plokhy, The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Cambridge, 2006), 137.
“The towns and lands”: V. T. Pashuto, B. N. Floria, and A. L. Khoroshkevich, Drevnerusskoe nasledie i istoricheskie sud’by vostochnogo slavianstva (Moscow, 1982), 172.
“Your father, Sire”: Mikhail Krom, Mezh Rus’iu i Litvoi: Pogranichnye zemli v sisteme russko-litovskikh otnoshenii kontsa XV–pervoi treti XVI veka (Moscow, 2010), 100.
“the tsar’s name”: Mikhail Zazykin, Tsarskaia vlast’ v Rossii (Moscow, 2004), 57.
“a new Tsar Constantine”: Iakov Lur’e, Ideologicheskaia bor’ba v russkoi piublitsistike (Leningrad, 1960), 378.
“All Christian kingdoms”: Pavel Miliukov, Ocherki po istorii russkoi kul’tury (Moscow, 1995), 31.
“In the place where they held”: Makarii (Metropolitan), Istoriia russkoi tserkvi (Moscow, 1996), vol. 6, 34.
“For the old Rome fell”: Donald Ostrowski, Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304–1589 (Cambridge, 2002), 239.
“I turn to you”: Makarii (Metropolitan), Istoriia russkoi tserkvi, vol. 6, 98.
“We would wish”: Serhii Plokhy, The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (Oxford, 2001), 306.
“accept their Roman faith”: Ibid., 312.
“of the same worship”: Ibid., 319.
“The only pious tsar”: Makarii (Metropolitan), Istoriia russkoi tserkvi, vol. 6, 357.
“Live long-awaited solace”: Simeon Polotskii, Virshi, eds. V. K. Bylinin and L. U. Zvonareva (Minsk, 1990), 27–33.
“After all, you are a Russian”: Pavel Miliukov, Ocherki po istorii russkoi kul’tury (Moscow, 1995), 53.
“Oh, poor Rus’”: Vasilii Kliuchevskii, Russkaia istoriia (Moscow, 2013), 184.
“Muscovy, that is”: Serhii Plokhy, The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Cambridge, 2006), 337.
“starting from our Dnieper”: Ibid., 272.
“One must labor”: Elena Pogosian, Petr I—Arkhitektor rossiiskoi istorii (St. Petersburg, 2001), 226.
“Why should we”: Vasilli Trediakovskii, Izdrannye proizvedeniia (Moscow, 1963), 523.
“The sage Theofan”: A. P. Sumarokov, Izbrannye proizvedeniia (Moscow, 2015), 27.
“Unevenness of style”: Boris Uspenskii, Izbrannye trudy (Moscow, 1994), vol. 2, 294.
“the majesty of Spanish”: Mikhail Lomonosov, Ob obrazovanii i vospitanii (Moscow, 2014), 168.
“It was clearly apparent”: Evgenii Gusliarov, Ekaterina II v zhizni (Moscow, 2004), 151.
“In the true glory”: Rossiiskoe zakonodatel’stvo X–XIX vekov (Moscow, 1987), vol. 5, 23.
“Little Russia, Livonia, and Finland”: Andreas Kappeler, The Russian Empire: A Multi-Ethnic History (Harlow, UK, 2001), 107.
“Among Your Imperial Majesty’s subject peoples”: Sergei Solov’ev, Sochineniia v vosemnadtsati knigakh (Moscow, 1994), vol. 13, 123.
“Finding myself”: V. Sheremetevskii, “Georgii,” in Rosiiskii biograficheskii slovar’ A. Polovtsova, vol. 4, s.cv.
“Her Royal Majesty the All-Russian Empress”: “Peterburgskaia konventsiia mezhdu Rossiiei i Prussiei,” Pod stiagom Rossii (Moscow, 1992), 132.
“Her Royal Highness the Imperial Queen”: Ibid.
“In time, we should obtain Galicia”: Vsevolod Solov’ev, Istoriia padeniia Pol’shi (Moscow, 2015), 219.
“to deliver the lands and towns”: Sbornik Russkogo istoricheskogo obshchestva (St. Petersburg, 1885), vol. 47, 473.
“The experience of the past”: Ibid.
“Her Imperial Majesty has restored”: K. V. Ratnikov, “Istoricheskie formy otrazheniia pravitel’stvennoi politiki v obshchestvennom soznanii,” Al’manakh sovremennoi nauki i obrazovaniia (Tambov, 2016), no. 6, 157.
“Having trampled on the sacred rights”: Andrei Zorin, Kormia dvuglavogo orla: Literatura i gosudarstvennaia ideologiia v Rossii v poslednei treti XVIII–pervoi treti XIX veka (Moscow, 2001), 155.
“during the troubled times of Russia”: Barbara Skinner, The Western Front of the Eastern Church: Uniate and Orthodox Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia (DeKalb, IL, 2009), 204.
“the most suitable eradication”: Ibid., 203–204.
“One Pole is a charmer”: Norman Davies, God’s Playground: A History of Poland (Oxford, 2005), vol. 1, 386.
“I love your nation”: V. I. Picheta, “Pol’skaia konfederatsiia v 1812 godu,” in Otechestvennaia voina i russkoe obshchestvo (St. Petersburg, 1812), vol. 3, 159.
“We are restoring Poland”: Ibid., 157.
“Let Lithuania, Samogitia”: Ibid., 159.
“In every noble, let him encounter”: Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda: Sbornik dokumentov i materialov, eds. Evegneii Tarle and Anatolii Predtechenskii (Moscow, 2015), 30.
“We hope… that this philoprogenitive”: Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi imperii (St. Petersburg, 1830), vol. 32, 481–482.
“Will they say that she”: Nikolai Karamzin, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1998), vol. 18, 11.
“Warsaw is at Your Majesty’s feet”: Boris Tarasov, Nikolai I: Rytsar’ samoderzhaviia (Moscow, 2006), 355.
“Whose will Volhynia be?”: Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (New York, 2015), 153.
“How to establish popular education”: Reka vremen (kniga istorii i kul’tury) (Moscow, 1995), vol. 1, 70.
“Why not translate”: P. A. Viazemskii, Estetika i iteraturnaia kritika (Moscow, 1984), 23.
“For some time we have been”: Aleksandr Pushkin, Sobranie sochinenii v desiati tomakh (Moscow, 1959–1962), vol. 7, 267.
“one and the other”: Aleksandr Andreev, Istoriia gosudarstvennoi vlasti v Rossii (Moscow, 1999), 160.
“God, Sovereign, and Fatherland”: Reka vremen, vol. 1, 72.
“As long as I live”: Russkii biograficheskii slovar’, vol. 11, part 1, 45.
“Nicholas, Tsar of Poland”: Dmitrii Oleinikov, Nikolai I (Moscow, 2012), 254.
“Finland, Estland, Livland”: Konstitutsionnye proekty Rossii: 1799–1825 (Munich, 2007), 139.
“All illustrious rulers”: Aleksei Miller, “Triada grafa Uvarova i natsionalizm,” Istoricheskie zapiski, no. 11 (2008): 191.
“belonged to Russia in ancient times”: Konstitutsionnye proekty Rossii, 156.
“The major fact in the history”: Stephen Velychenko, National History as a Cultural Process (Edmonton, 1992), 98.
“precious to all Russia”: Kievskii universitet: Dokumenty i materialy, 1834–1984, eds. M. Belyi and V. Zamlinskii (Kyiv, 1984), 14.
“to smooth over as much as possible”: Sergei Uvarov, Gosudarstvennye osnovy (Moscow, 2014), 51.
“Immeasurable Russia”: Aleksei Chaplin, “Russkoe imia i russkaia vera Ukrainy,” in Moskva 10 (2016): 231.
“how to turn Uniates”: Zapiski Iosifa mitropolita Litovskogo (St. Petersburg, 1883), vol. 2, 14–15.
“In order to warm the hearts”: Ibid., 18.
“With Lithuania’s detachment”: Ibid., 83–84.
“the reconsolidation”: Ibid., 91.
“Brothers! A great hour is upon us”: A. V. Smirnov, “Stranitsy zhizni i tvorchestva istorika,” in Nikolai Kostomarov, Russkaia istoriia v opisanii ee glavneishikh deiatelei (Moscow, 2004), 18.
“It seems to us”: Taras Shevchenko v krytytsi, ed. Hryhorii Hrabovych (Kyiv, 2012), vol. 1, 4.
“We would advise him”: Ibid., 6.
“For Russian readers”: Olga Andriewsky, “The Russian-Ukrainian Discourse and the Failure of the ‘Little Russian Solution,’ 1782–1917,” in Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, 1600–1945, eds. Andreas Kappeler, Zenon E. Kohut, Frank E. Sysyn, and Mark von Hagen (Edmonton, 2003), 191.
“The Great Russians live side by side”: Ibid.
“The uncovering of a Slavic”: Kyrylo-Mefodiivs’ke tovarystvo: U triоkh tomakh, eds. H. I. Marakhov and V. H. Sarbei (Kyiv, 1990), vol. 1, 62.
“The political evil”: Ibid., 64.
“Ukraine will become”: Ibid., 169.
“Along with favorite poems”: Ibid., 67.
“so that all may know the fate”: Ibid., 68.
“Obviously the work”: Aleksei Miller, Ukrainskii vopros v politike vlastei i russkom obshchestvennom mnenii (vtoraia polovina XIX veka) (St. Petersburg, 2000), 56.
“Harsh measures will make”: Kyrylo-Mefodiivs’ke tovarystvo, vol. 1, 308.
“Through the minister of popular education”: Ibid., 293.
“writers should be most careful”: Miller, Ukrainskii vopros, 58.
“In the south, in Kyiv”: Petr Zaionchkovskii, Kirillo-mefodievskoe obshchestyvo (Moscow, 1959), 138.
“Shevchenko was sent to the Caucasus”: Vissarion Belinskii, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1956), vol. 12, 441.
“Oh, those topknots”: Ibid.
“turned out to be”: Kyrylo-Mefodiivs’ke tovarystvo, vol. 1, 63.
“some kind of murky”: Ibid., 294.
“The Little Russians were eventually affected”: Alexei Miller, The Ukrainian Question: The Russian Empire and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (New York, 2003), 60.
“I read Konysky”: Serhii Plokhy, The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires (Cambridge, 2012), 318.
“The fact that I love Kyiv”: Mikhail Maksimovich, “Otvetnye pis’ma M. P. Pogodinu,” Russkaia beseda 2 (1857): 85.
“The supposed Little Russians”: Mikhail Pogodin, Drevniia russkaia istoriia do mongol’skogo iga (Moscow, 1871).
“Language—that is the true boundary”: Mikhail Pogodin, Izbrannye trudy (Moscow, 2010), 341.
“he was carried out”: Memoir of E. F. Iunge, in Kievskaia starina 28, no. 1 (1890): 23.
“No law, no institution”: David Saunders, “Mykola Kostomarov (1817–1885) and the Creation of the Ukrainian Ethnic Identity,” Slavonica 7, no. 1 (2001): 15.
“I have always been of the opinion”: Quotation supplied by Nathaniel Knight.
“Well, and what if”: Aleksandr Gertsen, “Rosiia i Pol’sha: Pis’mo vtoroe,” Kolokol, 1859.
“You have expressed an opinion”: Mykola Kostomarov, Pys’mo do vydavtsia “Kolokola” (Lviv, 1902), 15.
“Besides the Rus’ nationality”: Nikolai Kostomarov, “Dve russkie narodnosti,” Osnova, no. 3 (1861): 34.
“If the South Russian nation”: Ibid., 78.
“Russian or, better, Belarusian”: Mikhail Dolbilov, Russkii krai, chuzhaia vera: Ėtnokonfessional’naia politika imperii v Litve i Belorussii pri Aleksandre II (Moscow, 2010), 199.
“strong in numbers, popular education”: Ibid., 220.
“The children of the old Krivichians”: Ibid., 221.
“to restrain all foolish Great Russian passions”: Ibid., 212.
“Russia is now saving Belarus”: Ibid., 221.
“They write to us”: Ibid., 222.
“That phenomenon is all the more deplorable”: Aleksei Miller, Ukrainskii vopros v politike vlastei i russkom obshchestvennom mnenii (vtoraia polovina XIX veka) (St. Petersburg, 2000), 241.
“In our time, the question”: Ibid., 79.
“Teaching the Little Russian people”: Ibid., 82–83.
“Debate continues in the literature”: Ibid., 100.
“Ukraine has never had its own history”: Mikhail Katkov, Imperskoe slovo (Moscow, 2002), 146.
“Outrageous and ridiculous sophistry!”: Ibid., 144.
“You, Messrs. Ukrainophiles”: [Nikolai Rigel’man,] “Sovremennoe ukrainofil’stvo,” in Ukrainskii vopros v russkoi patrioticheskoi mysli, comp. A. Iu. Minakov (Moscow, 2016), 179, 184.
“put a stop to the activity”: Miller, Ukrainskii vopros, 241.
“to support the newspaper Slovo”: Ibid., 243.
“Austria’s attention to the Ruthenians”: Ibid., 201.
“Our Ruthenian people”: Proekt politicheskoi programy dlia Rusi avstriiskoi (Lviv, 1871), 9–10.
“The Ukrainian question, presented”: Ibid., 12–13.
“We working men of St. Petersburg”: Khrestomatiia po istorii SSSR, ed. Yurii Korablev (Moscow, 1988), 42.
“The very credit of our priests”: Theodore Weeks, Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia: Nationalism and Russification on the Western Frontier (DeKalb, IL, 1996), 180.
“had already made”: Zaborona ukraïns’koho slova v Rossiï, introduction by Mykhailo Hrushevs’kyi (Scranton, PA, 1916), 33, 43.
“The Belarusians, too, are following”: D. Kotsiubinskii, Russkii natsionalizm v nachale XX veka: Rozhdenie i gibel’ ideologii Vserosiiskogo natsional’nogo soiuza (Moscow, 2001), 310.
“The representatives of the nation”: Primary Sources in Russian History 1801–1917, ed. John Etty (Corby, UK, 2009), 77.
“I am profoundly convinced”: Petr Struve, “Obscherusskaia kul’tura i ukrainskii partikuliarizm: Otvet ukraintsu,” Russkaya mysl’, no. 1 (1912): 66.
“We are not guided by aspirations”: S. Breiar, “Partiia kadetov i ukrainskii vopros, 1905–1917,” in Issledovaniia po istorii Ukrainy i Belorussii, vyp. 1 (Moscow, 1995), 89–110.
“the good of the motherland lies”: Rossiia, 1900–1917: Dokumenty, materialy, kommentarii, ed. I. K. Kir’ianov (Perm, Russia, 1991), 130.
“The members are local”: I. V. Omelianchuk, “Chislennost’ Soiuza russkogo naroda v 1907–1914 godakh v pravoberezhnykh ukrainskikh guberniiakh,” in Belorussiia i Ukraina (Moscow, 2006), 156.
“sowing enmity”: Ibid., 159.
“The Black Hundred political organization”: Politburo TsK RKP(b)—VKP(b) i Kommintern, 1919–1943 (Moscow, 2004), 64.
“I am a little Russian”: Kotsiubinskii, Russkii natsionalizm, 303–304.
“The Mazepists are well aware”: Ibid., 305.
“A great historical fact”: Petereburgskii listok, August 19, 1914.
“True to its historical precepts”: Viacheslav Shatsillo, Pervaia mirovaia voina, 1914–1918: Fakty, dokumenty (Moscow, 2003), 89.
“Brothers!… The judgment of God is upon us!”: M. K. Lemke, 250 dnei v tsarskoi stavke, ed. L. M. Suris (Moscow, 2015), vol. 1, 31.
“I shall establish the Russian language”: P. S. Romanov, Rus’ (Moscow, 2015), vol. 2, 314.
“Let the borders that cut”: Lemke, 250 dnei v tsarskoi sravke, 30.
“an end to the anti-state system”: S. Breіar, “Partiia kadetov i ukrainskii vopros, 1905–1917,” in Issledovaniia po istorii Ukrainy i Belorussii, vyp. 1 (Moscow, 1995), 89–110.
“The farther we traveled”: Perepiska Nikolaia i Aleksandry Romanovykh, 1914–1915 gg. (Moscow, 1923), 164.
“Your Imperial Highness”: Put’ moei zhizni: Vospominaniia mitropolita Evlogiia (Georgievskogo) (Moscow, 1994), 248.
“Let there be one mighty”: Sergei Sergeev-Tsenskii, Preobrazhenie Rossii (Moscow, 1956), 282.
“For the last time I felt”: Ol’ga Aleksandrovna: Memuary (Moscow, 2003), 159.
“to the whole people”: Pavel Miliukov, Istoriia vtoroi russkoi revoliutsii (Moscow, 2014), 49.
“Recognizing the independence”: E. Ketola, “Revoliutsiia 1917 goda i obretenie Finliandiei nezavisimosti: Dva vzgliada na problemu,” Otechestvennaia istoriia 6 (1993): 29.
“Broad autonomy for Ukraine”: Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Na porozi novoi Ukrainy: Statti i dzherel’ni materialy (New York, 1992), 146.
“The Socialist Revolutionaries”: Vladimir Lenin, Polnoe sovranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1969), vol. 32, 350.
“the Ukrainian People’s Republic and its right”: Ibid., vol. 35, 144.
“mercilessly to destroy all officers”: Nikolai Azovtsev, Direktivy komandovaniia frontov Krasnoi armii, 1917–1922 (Moscow, 1971), 45.
“order has been reestablished”: Viktor Savchenko, Avantiuristy Grazhdanskoi voiny (Moscow, 2000), 53.
“If Ukraine remains indifferent”: Anna Procyk, Russian Nationalism and Ukraine: The Nationality Policy of the Volunteer Army During the Civil War (Edmonton, 1995), 73.
“The former vigor”: Ibid., 74.
“off this disoriented group”: Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906–1931 (Pittsburgh, 2015), 73.
“the earliest stages”: Ibid., 74.
“Today we, the Rada”: Nicholas P. Vakar, Belorussia: The Making of a Nation. A Case Study (Cambridge, MA, 1956), 103.
“The first important question”: Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 90.
“Measures should be taken”: Vladimir Lenin, Polnoe sovranie sochinenii (Moscow, 1969), vol. 39, 335.
“Soviet institutions must have”: Ibid.
“Among Bolsheviks”: Ibid., vol. 40, 45.
“as a party that violates”: Ibid., vol. 39, 251.
“It is important that we not”: Ibid., vol. 45, 212.
“Comrade Kamenev”: Ibid., vol. 45, 214.
“The Georgian who takes”: Ibid., vol. 45, 360.
“It is a question of the bond”: Dvenadtsatyi s’ezd Rossiiskoi kommunisticheskoi partii (Moscow, 1923), 529.
“the Great Russian proletariat”: Ibid., 596.
“We cannot take the viewpoint of neutrality”: Ibid., 604.
“It is only on condition of a struggle”: Ibid., 598.
“In departing from us, comrade Lenin”: Propagandist, no. 21 (1939): 22.
“that Russia has not died”: Vasilii Shulgin, Tri stolitsy: Puteshestvie v krasnuiu Rossiiu (Moscow, 1991), 417.
“But that time, too, has passed”: Ibid., 100.
“What do you want?”: Ibid., 204.
“We must not force”: Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Ithaca, NY, 2001), 214, 216.
“I have a note saying”: Desiatyi s’ezd Rossiiskoi kommunisticheskoi partii (Moscow, 1921), 213.
“This is a blow”: Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism, 1906–1931 (Pittsburgh, 2015), 140.
“I said that division into small”: Shulgin, Tri stolitsy, 207.
“With the active assistance”: “Edinaia sem’ia narodov,” Pravda, January 30, 1936.
“The nation that has given the world”: Ibid.
“The attempt to apply the epithets”: Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917–1953, eds. Katerina Clark, Evgeny Dobrenko, Andrei Artizov, and Oleg V. Naumov (New Haven, CT, 2007), 69.
“libel against our people”: Benedikt Sarnov, Stalin i pisateli (Moscow, 2008), 495.
“the main danger is represented”: Iosif Stalin, Stat’i i rechi ob Ukraine (Moscow, 1936), 223.
“In the past, the Russian people”: David Brandenberger, National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931–1956 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), 34.
“Whoever raises his hand”: “Za rodinu,” Pravda, June 9, 1934.
“That tsarist rule in Russia”: Iosif Stalin, “O stat’e Ėngelsa ‘Vneshniaia politika russkogo tsarizma,’” Bol’shevik, no. 9 (May 1931): 1–5.
“love of work, culture”: Aleksandr Vdovin, Russkie v XX veke: Fakty, sobytiia, liudi (Moscow, 2004), 78.
“Once I said to Lenin”: Ibid., 103.
“I well understand”: Ibid., 89.
“an attempt to exalt the robbers”: Viktor Danilov, Vlast’ i formirovanie istoricheskogo soznaniia sovetskogo obshchestva (Moscow, 2005), 116.
“The history of the great Russian people”: Vlast’ i khudozhestvennaia intelligentsia, eds. Oleg Naumov, Andrei Artizov (Moscow, 1999), 337.
“The Russian tsars”: Vdovin, Russkie v XX veke, 407.
“Last night, as I walked home”: Brandenberger, National Bolshevism, 106.
“First among these equals”: Ibid., 43.
“The great Russian people leads”: Boris Volin, “Velikii russkii narod,” Bol’shevik 9 (1938): 34.
“The Soviet government”: Serhii Plokhy, “The Call of Blood: Government Propaganda and Public Response to the Soviet Entry into World War II,” Cahiers du monde russe 52, nos. 2–3 (2011): 303–304.
“to declare that Poland”: Ibid., 295.
“The authors do not see”: Serhy Yekelchyk, Stalin’s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (Toronto, 2004), 15–26.
“Not for the first time”: “Vystuplenie po radio V. M. Molotva 22 iiunia 1941 g.,” Khrestomatiia po istorii Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, comp. V. E. Lebedinskaia (Moscow, 2015), 37.
“to reestablish the rule”: Iosif Stalin, O Velikoi Otechestvennoi voine Sovetskogo naroda (Moscow, 1948), 13.
“The war that you are waging”: Ibid., 40.
“Partisans, partisans”: Ianka Kupala, Izbrannye proizvedeniia (Moscow, 1953), vol. 2, 222.
“two leading peoples”: David Brandenberger, National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931–1956 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), 158.
“The book is anti-Russian”: Ibid., 125.
“The solution of one”: “Rech’ tovarishcha G. V. Malenkova,” Kommunist, no. 3 (1953): 12.
“By linking their destiny”: “Theses on the Three-Hundredth Anniversary of the Reunion of Ukraine and Russia,” in Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine, eds. Ralph Lindheim and George S. N. Luckyj (Toronto, 1996), 303–304.
“The party triumphantly”: Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Moscow, 1962).
“A new historical community”: XXII s’ezd KPSS—Steniograficheskii orchet (Moscow, 1962), vol. 1, 153.
“The process now taking place”: Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
“The sooner we all speak Russian”: Mamasharif Nishanov, Obnovlenie dukhovnoi zhizni natsii (Tashkent, 1992), 30.
“The Soviet people have one set”: S. T. Kaltakhchian, “Sovetskii narod,” in Bol’shaia sovetskaia ėntsiklopediia (Moscow, 1970), s.v.
“We profoundly respect”: Osyp Zinkevych, Ukrains’kyi pravozakhysnyi rukh (Toronto, 1978), 22.
“In the Kyivan period we constituted”: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Arkhipelag Gulag (Moscow, 2000), books 5–7, 47.
“It will be extraordinarily painful”: Ibid., 49.
“The ill-considered collectivization”: Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Stanford, CA, 2001), 194.
“For Russia today, the center”: Serhii Plokhy, The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (New York, 2014), 37.
“Listen, there are tanks there”: Ibid., 95.
“As it seemed to me”: Iegor Gaidar, Dni porazhenii—i pobed (Moscow, 1996), 81.
“It is my profound conviction”: Anatolii Chubais, “Missiia Rossii v XXI veke,” Nezavisimaia gazeta, October 1, 2003.
“Have you read Denikin’s diaries?”: Larisa Kaftan, “Pochemu Putin liubit Denikina,” Komsomol’skaia pravda, June 25, 2009.
“No Russia, reactionary or democratic”: Anton Denikin, Kto spas Sovetskuiu vlast’ ot gibeli? (Moscow, 1991), 10.
“Russia will not perish”: Ivan Il’in, Chto sulit miru raschlenenie Rossii? (Moscow, 1992), 15.
“The Russian World”: Marlene Laruelle, The “Russian World”: Russia’s Soft Power and Geopolitical Imagination (Washington, DC, 2015), 13.
“trans-state and transcontinental association”: V. A. Tishkov, “Russkii iazyk i russkoiazychnoe naselenie v stranakh SNG i Baltiki,” in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk 77, no. 5 (2008): 416.
“My opinion”: Ibid.
“The Russian World is more than present-day Russia”: Ibid.
“We understand today’s realities”: “Pravoslavno-slavianskie tsenoosti—osnova tsivilizatsionnogo vybora Ukrainy,” Prezident Rossii, July 27, 2013, http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/18961.
“The big country was gone”: “Address of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin,” Prezident Rossii, March 18, 2014, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/20603.
“We are one people”: Vladimir Putin, interview with Channel One of Russian TV and the Associated Press, Prezident Rossii, September 4, 2013, http://kremlin.ru/news/19143.
“I start with the conviction”: Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, “Modeling Culture in the Empire: Ukrainian Modernism and the Death of the All-Russian Idea,” in Culture, Nation, and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600–1945), eds. Andreas Kappeler, Zenon E. Kohut, Frank E. Sysyn, and Mark von Hagen (Edmonton, 2003), 308.
“Ninety-five percent of the people”: “Address of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin,” March 18, 2014.
“I want you to hear me”: Ibid.
“The Russian church has blessed”: “Russkaia tserkov’ blagoslovila DNR na voinu,” Vzgliad, June 12, 2014.
“And if there are any here”: “Lukashenko: Schitaiushchie, chto Belorussiia—chast’ russkogo mira—zabud’te,” Regnum, January 29, 2015.
“Without Ukraine, Russia ceases”: Zbigniew Brzezinski, “The Premature Partnership,” Foreign Affairs 73 (March–April 1994): 72.