Chapter 5
1 Epigraph: Gogol, p. 226.
2 “Each Siberian would be confronted”: Izvestia, Science section, June
8, 2004, http://www.inauka.ru/english/article47379.html.
3 “Maybe it’s near Iran”: Personal communication, July 12, 2008.
4 “You came here alone?”: Irina Peshkova, March 21, 2007.
5 “absorb no less than one-third”: R. Craig Nation, Black Earth, Red
Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917–1991 (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1992), p. 267, quoted in Goldstein.