1 Dmitrii Shepilov, "Vospominaniya" 8 : 11-12, 1998
2 "Visszaemlékezések, Vol.2: 1940-1956" Napvilág Kiadó 860-866, 1997
3 Kenneth Waltz, "Theory of International Politics" McGraw-Hill 71-73, 1979
4 Edward Ochab, "Teresa Torańska" Aneks 46-47, 1985
5 C. Cristescu, "Strict Secret de importanţă deosebită–Ianuarie 1951: Stalin decide înarmarea Romăniei" 1995
6 Robert Conquest, "Power and Policy in the USSR" St. Martin's Press 29-, 1962
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8 "Pokhorony Iosifa Vissarionovicha Stalina: Traurnyi miting na Krasnoi ploshchadi 9marta 1953 goda"
9 A. I. Pozharov, "Novyi kurs’ L. P. Berii 1953 g" 4 : 132-164, 1996
10 Sergei Kruglov, "Neizvestnaya Rosssiya: XX vek,Vol. 2" Istoricheskoe nasledie 253-258, 1992
1 Dmitrii Shepilov, "Vospominaniya" 8 : 11-12, 1998
2 "Visszaemlékezések, Vol.2: 1940-1956" Napvilág Kiadó 860-866, 1997
3 Kenneth Waltz, "Theory of International Politics" McGraw-Hill 71-73, 1979
4 Edward Ochab, "Teresa Torańska" Aneks 46-47, 1985
5 C. Cristescu, "Strict Secret de importanţă deosebită–Ianuarie 1951: Stalin decide înarmarea Romăniei" 1995
6 Robert Conquest, "Power and Policy in the USSR" St. Martin's Press 29-, 1962
7 A. V. Pyzhikov, "Poslednie mesyatsy diktatora (1952-1953 gody)" 2 : 152-158, 2002
8 "Pokhorony Iosifa Vissarionovicha Stalina: Traurnyi miting na Krasnoi ploshchadi 9marta 1953 goda"
9 A. I. Pozharov, "Novyi kurs’ L. P. Berii 1953 g" 4 : 132-164, 1996
10 Sergei Kruglov, "Neizvestnaya Rosssiya: XX vek,Vol. 2" Istoricheskoe nasledie 253-258, 1992
11 V. P. Kozlov, "Istoriya stalinskogo Gulaga: Konets 1920kh-pervaya polovina 1950kh godov — Sobranie dokumentov, vol. 6" ROSSPEN 2004
12 "Interview with Soviet Foreign Ministry’s Far East first directorate Mikhail Zaitsev(17 July 1997)"
13 Waltz, "International Politics Is Not Foreign Policy" 6 (6): 54-57, 1996
14 Colin Elman, "Horses for Courses: Why Not Neo-Realist Theories of Foreign Policy?" 6 (6): 7-51, 1996
15 Konstantin Simonov, "Glazami cheloveka moego pokoleniya" Novosti 1989
16 Karel Kaplan, "Dans les archives du Comité Central" Ed. Albin Michel 164-166, 1978
17 Yoram Gorlizki, "Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953" Oxford University Press 2004
18 Elman, "Cause, Effect, and Consistency: A Response to Kenneth Waltz" 6 (6): 58-61, 1996
19 "CIA’s website"
20 Kathryn Weathersby, "Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963" Woodrow Wilson Center Press 107-132, 1998