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- ↑ thinktank bio PBS bio Accessed Dec 15, 2007
- ↑ Misinterpreting the Cold War: The Hardliners Were Right, Richard Pipes, Foreign Affairs, January/February 1995. Pipes' attempt to rebut Garthoff's book. Accessed Aug. 19, 2017
