Evgenii Primakov: Contender by chance

Problems of Post-Communism

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 27-36

  Daniels, Robert V ^a  

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EID: 0033196214     PISSN: 10758216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10758216.1999.11655849     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Roy A. Medvedev, "Yeltsin and Primakov," Rossiiskaia gazeta (January 28, 1999): 3.
2. The very next day after Primakov's confirmation on September 11, the Public Opinion Sociological Forum found him in first place at 32 percent, while 67 percent approved his nomination to be prime minister (Moskovskii komsomolets [September 17, 1998]).
3. Public Opinion Foundation, interview with Interfax (November 5, 1998).
4. See Robert V. Daniels, "Prospects for Democracy in Russia," in Russia and Eastern Europe after Communism: The Search for New Political, Economic, and Security Systems, ed. Michael Kraus and Ronald D. Liebowitz (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 51-64.
5. See Natalia Timakova, "Kremlin Adversaries," Kommersant-daily (September 11, 1998): 1.
6. Sergei Chuvaev, "Three Claimants to the Hot Seat," Izvestiia (September 9, 1998): 1.
7. Marek Halter, "Primakov: NATO Is Mistaken: It Does Not Know How to Play Chess," Carriere della sera (April 29, 1999); Konstantin Eggert, "A Master of Delicate Missions," Izvestiia (September 11, 1998): 1.
8. Marek Halter, "Primakov: NATO Is Mistaken: It Does Not Know How to Play Chess," Carriere della sera (April 29, 1999); Konstantin Eggert, "A Master of Delicate Missions," Izvestiia (September 11, 1998): 1.
9. Dimitri K. Simes, After the Collapse: Russia Seeks Its Place as a Great Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), pp. 205-6. Simes was Primakov's deputy at IMEMO.
10. Ibid., pp. 27, 40.
11. Quoted in IREX Frontline (winter 1998-99), p. 12.
12. Jack Matlock, Autopsy on an Empire (New York: Random House, 1995), p. 353.
13. David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb (New York: Random House, 1993), pp. 285-86, 441.
14. Evgenii M. Primakov, "The New Philosophy of Foreign Policy," Pravda (July 10, 1987): 4, excerpted in Andrei Melville and Gail W. Lapidus, The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990), pp. 272-73.
15. Evgenii M. Primakov, "The New Philosophy of Foreign Policy," Pravda (July 10, 1987): 4, excerpted in Andrei Melville and Gail W. Lapidus, The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990), pp. 272-73.
16. Speech of June 28, 1988, quoted in Sylvia Woodly, Gorbachev and the Decline of Ideology in Soviet Foreign Policy (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989), p. 48.
17. Quoted in Matlock, Autopsy on an Empire, pp. 69-70 and n. 144.
18. Ibid., pp. 545-46.
19. Ibid., p. 592; John Miller, Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), p. 181.
20. Ibid., p. 592; John Miller, Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), p. 181.
21. Mikhail Gorbachev, Zhizn' i reformy [Life and reforms] (Moscow: Novosti, 1995), vol. 1, pp. 572-73.
22. Medvedev, "Yeltsin and Primakov," p. 3.
23. Komsomolskaia pravda (September 12, 1998), quoted in Simes, After the Collapse, p. 202.
24. Komsomolskaia pravda (September 12, 1998), quoted in Simes, After the Collapse, p. 202.
25. Press conference of January 12, 1996; interview with Obshchaia gazeta (January 18-24, 1996): 1.
26. Aleksei Pushkov, "Who Wants Primakov Out?" Nezavisimaia gazeta (March 20, 1998), quoted in Simes, After the Collapse, p. 243.
27. Aleksei Pushkov, "Who Wants Primakov Out?" Nezavisimaia gazeta (March 20, 1998), quoted in Simes, After the Collapse, p. 243.
28. Konstantin Eggert and Maksim Yusin, "About Evgenii Primakov," Izvestiia (January 11, 1996): 3.
29. Vladimir Kuznechevskii and Aleksandr Krasulin, "Evgenii Primakov Does Not Evade Tough Questions," Rossiiskaia gazeta (January 16, 1996): 7.
30. See Leonid Gankin, "Volleys on the Reserve Front," Moskovskie novosti (June 23, 1996): 10.
31. Quoted in Medvedev, "Yeltsin and Primakov," p. 3.
32. Ivan Rodin, "The Communists Are Wary," Nezavisimaia gazeta (September 16, 1998): 3.
33. Interview with TV-6 (April 26, 1999).
34. Svetlana Babaeva and Andrei Kolesnikov, "An Unpredictable Cabinet," Izvestiia (September 29, 1998): 1.
35. In December the Public Opinion Foundation found Primakov leading the pack as Russia's most popular politician, with 19 percent of respondents; Yeltsin got 2 percent (Moscow Interfax, December 24, 1998).
36. Quoted in Medvedev, "Yeltsin and Primakov," p. 3.
37. Georgii Bovt, "Yesterday's Brezhnev Was Better Than Today's," Segodnia (January 30, 1999): 2.
38. Viktor Chernomyrdin, speech to the Council of the Federation (September 4, 1998).
39. Konstantin Levin, "Zadornov Kills Masliukov Program," Kommersantdaily (October 2, 1998): 1.
40. Interview with Izvestiia (November 19, 1998).
41. Quoted in Natalia Samoilova, "There Will Be Neither Nationalization Nor Privatization in Russia," Kommersant (February 3, 1999): 7.
42. Interview in Segodnia (February 23, 1999): 2.
43. Lilia Shevtsova, "Primakov Could Take Charge of the Game," Obshchaia gazeta (October 15-21, 1998): 7.
44. Igor Semenenko, "The State Won a Deficit Victory without Neglecting Wages," Moscow Times (April 27, 1999); Aleksandr Pochinok, press conference, ITAR-TASS (May 7, 1999).
45. Igor Semenenko, "The State Won a Deficit Victory without Neglecting Wages," Moscow Times (April 27, 1999); Aleksandr Pochinok, press conference, ITAR-TASS (May 7, 1999).
46. Oleg Sysuev, interview in Financial Times (October 26, 1998).
47. Reuters (November 12, 1998); quoted in New York Times (November 27, 1998).
48. Quoted by the Associated Press (October 28, 1998).
49. Interview on TV-6 (April 25, 1999).
50. Andrei Kamakin and Sergei Minin, "Boris Yeltsin Effectively Dismantles His Staff's Entire Leadership Structure," Nezavisimaia gazeta (December 8, 1998): 1.
51. See, e.g., Maria Dementeva, "Kremlin Relies on Men in Blue," Novyeizvestiia (December 19, 1998): 2; Tatiana Malkina and Vera Kuznetsova, "Bear Hunt," Vremia MN (March 11, 1999): 2.
52. See, e.g., Maria Dementeva, "Kremlin Relies on Men in Blue," Novyeizvestiia (December 19, 1998): 2; Tatiana Malkina and Vera Kuznetsova, "Bear Hunt," Vremia MN (March 11, 1999): 2.
53. Mikhail Berger, "Is Yeltsin No Longer the Top Man?" Segodnia (January 26, 1999): 1.
54. Leonid Krutakov, "Dollar's Impeachment Course," Moskovskii komsomolets (April 23, 1999).
55. Denis Babichenko, "Curing Ulcer with a Coup d'Etat," Segodnia (January 28, 1999): 1.
56. Liudmila Telen, "I Just Don't Like You," Moskovskie novosti (January 31, 1999): 6.
57. Otto Latsis, "I Do Not Want Our Descendants to Compare Yeltsin and Primakov to Hindenburg and von Papen," Novye izvestiia (February 2, 1999): 2.
58. See, e.g., Moskovskii komsomolets (April 23, 1999).
59. See Kommersant (April 23, 1999): 1.
60. Reported by presidential press secretary Dimitri Yakushkin, according to Segodnia (March 1, 1999): 1.
61. Halter, "Primakov: NATO Is Mistaken."
62. Boris Yeltsin at a meeting of CIS heads of state, April 9, 1999, quoted in Sergei Vasiltsov and Sergei Obukhov, "Useful - Not Useful," Sovetskaia Rossiia (April 15, 1999): 2.
63. Kommersant (April 23, 1999), reporting alleged remarks of Chief of Staff Aleksandr Voloshin; Jonas Bernstein, "Party Lines," Moscow Times (April 30, 1999).
64. Kommersant (April 23, 1999), reporting alleged remarks of Chief of Staff Aleksandr Voloshin; Jonas Bernstein, "Party Lines," Moscow Times (April 30, 1999).
65. Oleg Sysuev, interview in Vlast, quoted by John Thornhill, "Russia: Primakov's Future at Stake," Financial Times (May 7, 1999).
66. Oleg Sysuev, interview in Vlast, quoted by John Thornhill, "Russia: Primakov's Future at Stake," Financial Times (May 7, 1999).
67. Interview on TV-6 (April 25, 1999).
68. Inara Filatova, "Governomania: Fatherland Seeks Friends," Moskovskii komsomolets (April 27, 1999).
69. Moscow Interfax (May 20, 1999) ; Moscow NTV (June 20, 1999).
70. Moscow Interfax (May 20, 1999) ; Moscow NTV (June 20, 1999).
71. RFEE/RL Newsline (June 24, 1999).
72. ITAR-TASS (June 11, 1999).
73. Sergei Karaganov, Moskovskie novosti (June 25-31, 1999).