Chapter 7
1 Epigraph: From “The Book of Rites”; translation by Josh Stenberg,
2008.
2 Party slogans like “Rob the Robbers!”: Valery G. Yankovsky.
3 “It is precisely now”: Pipes, The Unknown Lenin, pp. 152–54.
4 In 2008, nineteen of the world’s one hundred richest people were
Russians: Luisa Kroll, ed., “The World’s Billionaires,” Forbes, March
5, 2008.
5 “There’s no government here”: Personal communication, March 21,
2007.
6 “People don’t live in Sobolonye, they survive”: Vasily Dunkai’s
daughter, Olga, personal communication, March 17, 2007.
7 “The truth of Necessity, therefore, is Freedom”: G. W. F. Hegel,
Logic, The Encyclopœdia of the Philosophical Sciences, Part 1.
Translated by William Wallace. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1975, p. 220.
