A Just Russia (political party) 224
Abkhazia 16
abortion 130, 146, 147
Abuladze, Tengiz 184–5
Adamovich, Ales 234
adoption
adoption rights for gays 137
law forbidding foreign adoptions ix, x, 13, 81–2, 121, 155, 163, 167
advertising
condoms 128, 129, 130
foreign words in 109
Afghanistan 14, 78, 93, 144, 179, 180, 181, 236
Agamben, Giorgio 105, 135–6
agriculture 7
AIDS 120, 128, 132, 144
Akhmatova, Anna 239
Aksyonov, Vasily 64
al-Baghdadi, Abū Bakr 20
Al-Qaeda 20
Alaska 180, 181
Aleppo 89
Alexander I, Emperor 246
Alexander II, Emperor 246
Alexievich, Svetlana 144, 233–7
Boys in Zinc 234, 236
on trauma and pain in Russia 234–7
Andropov, Yury 66, 126
Antarctic Agreement (1959) 11
Antarctica 12
anti-globalism 23
antisemitism 135, 137
Antonov, Alexander 22
Apple 132
Arab Spring 87
Arab states 49
Aral Sea 35
the ‘Arbat Hamlet’ 161
Arbatov, Georgy 108
Arctic 9–12
Northern Sea Route 11–12
oil exploration 9–10, 56
sovereignty 10–12
Aristotle 191
armed forces 76, 108
violence against junior soldiers (dedovshchina) 142
Armenia 230
Ashurkov, Vladimir 27
Assad, Bashir 89, 91, 173
Astafiev, Viktor 200
authoritarianism, and the information society 51–2
autocracy, return to Russian tradition of viii–ix, 246, 248
avatars 112–16
Babiy Yar (poem, Yevtushenko) 200
Bakhtin, Mikhail 211
Baklanov, Grigory 200
Balabanov, Alexei 15, 22
Balibar, Étienne 227
Baltic States 35, 84, 228
Bandera, Stepan 218
Banishment, The (film) 161
Barber, Benjamin, Jihad vs. McWorld 23
Barnes, Julian, The Noise of Time 215
Bataille, Georges 156
Batomunkuev, Dorzhi 78
Baudrillard, Jean
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place 40
The Violence of the Global 42
beauty contests 138–40
Beck, Ulrich 87–8, 90
Belarus 230
Belkovsky, Stanislav 188
Belorussian Station, The (film) 200
Belovezha Accords 37, 181
Belsky, Vladimir 150
Benjamin, Walter 105
Berdiev, Ismail 146, 243
Beria, Lavrentiy 184, 199, 215
Berlin Olympics (1936) 94, 97–8, 121
Berlin Wall 14, 17, 23, 105
Berlusconi, Silvio 13, 92, 126
Bernasconi, Boris 244
Bernes, Mark 198
Beslan tragedy (2004) 55, 87, 106, 113–14, 116, 224
Beust, Ole von 133
bin Laden, Osama 23
biopolitics x, 120–2
and disability 167
and the female body 149
Biryulyovo, ‘Russian March’ in 27, 28–9
Bismarck, Count Otto von 74
Blok, Alexander 8
Blokhin, Vasily 239
body, cult of the 121
body of the sovereign 123–7
Boko Haram 20, 21, 23
Bolivia 22
Bolotnaya Affair 106
borders of Russia, and sovereignty 95–6
Boris Godunov (Pushkin) 163, 164
Borodai, Alexander 20, 25
Boston Marathon, terrorist bomb (2013) 86, 115
Brazil 109
Brexit 93
Brezhnev, Leonid 51, 66, 186–7, 188, 189, 224–5
and victims of Stalin’s terror 239
and Victory Day 200–1
Brimson, Dougie 104
Britain
Brexit vote viii
Iraq war 40
post-imperial feelings 219
and Russian resentment 221
Salisbury poisoning viii, 172, 173
Brodsky, Joseph 209, 219, 234
Brother 2 (film) 15
Bryl, Yanka 234
Brzezinski, Zbigniew 30, 172
Bulatov, Alexander 251
Bulatov, Erik 247
Bunin, Ivan 233
Bush, George Jr 20, 199, 224
Bykov, Vasil 200, 234
cars
in central Moscow 63
and the culture of violence 143
GLONASS satellite tracking system for 48
pathological fetishism about 150–3
traffic in Moscow’s Kutuzovsky Prospekt 65–8
cartography 45
Castells, Manuel 175
Cat Stomping Law 13
Catherine II, Empress 246, 248
Caucasian war 95
CCAMLR (Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) 11
Central Asia
invasion by Russia 35
and Russian nationalism 29
Chaadaev, Pyotr 99
‘Philosophical Letters’ 183–4
Chaplin, Archpriest Vsevolod 146
Chaplin, Charlie 215
Charles I, King of England 124
Charlie Hebdo (journal)
cartoons 112–13
terrorist attack on offices 114, 115
Chechnya 24, 78, 143, 236, 237, 246
cheese, Russian state’s war on 154, 156, 157–60
Chekists 85, 171, 196, 204–7, 210, 238, 242
Chernenko, Konstantin 123, 126
Chernobyl disaster 38, 144, 234, 236
children
abandoned 161–4
car drivers and aggressive behaviour towards 150–2, 153
education in use of weapons 152–3
see also adoption
Children of Iron Gods (film) 22
children’s crusade 161
children’s ombudsman 146–7, 148
Chilingarov, Artur 95
China 32, 109
Beijing Olympics 98
Beijing’s Forbidden City 63
Chinese community in San Francisco 131
Chubais, Anatoly 222
Chudakova, Marietta 212
Churchill, Winston 86, 216
citizenship 45, 46
Civil War in Russia (1918-21) 22, 114, 209
class in Russia 71
and Elite Road theory 67–8
Clinton, Hilary 55
Cold War 30, 33, 39, 91, 92, 185
Colombia 22, 25
colonialism 34–7, 45
‘colour revolutions’ 79, 87, 230, 232
Come and See (film) 198
complexity management 132–4
condoms 120, 122, 128–30
conspiracy theories 86–7, 170, 221
Constitution Day 251, 252–5
Constitution of the Russian Federation 193, 202, 253
consumption, and European cheese 158
contraception 128–30
corporal punishment 142
corruption 69–70
Cossacks 21, 22, 37, 103
Council of Europe 13
The Cranes are Flying (film) 200
crime, organized crime and modern wars 23–4
Crimea
annexation vii, viii, ix, 14, 17–18, 22, 32, 37, 38, 40, 143, 162, 242
and imaginary threats 84
EU ban on technology exports to 53
and feelings of resentment 219
and football thugs 103
and historical revisionism 179, 180–1
and the hybrid war 102
‘little green men’/‘the polite people’/Russian spetsnaz soldiers vii, 38, 40, 78, 102, 103, 175
rebuilding of 84
and Russian sovereignty 54, 55
Siemens turbines scandal 53, 57, 172
and the Sochi Olympics vii, 169
and the Soviet Union 179, 180–1
state of emergency in 37–8, 107
as a territory of the subconscious 13–16
as a toxic asset 172, 173, 180
and Victory Day 202
Crimean War 251
cruise missiles 41, 42
Customs Union of Post-Soviet Countries 48
cyber warfare 78, 92
Czech Republic 103
Czechoslovakia, Soviet invasion of Prague 77, 231
Dadin, Ildar 242
Danilevsky, Nikolai 14
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (film) 200
The Death of Stalin (film) 214–16
Decembrists 246, 249–55
Degtyarev, Yury 34
Delanöe, Bertrand 133
demographic policy 119, 120
Dima Yakolev Law see adoption
disabled children 155, 166, 167
disabled people
and the Eurovision Song Contest 166, 167–8
lack of rights 166
and the Paralympics 166–7
Do the Russians Want War? (song) 200
Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) 225
Dombrovsky, Yury 239
domestic violence 142, 152, 163, 240
Donbass 22, 24, 37, 38, 39, 41, 55, 84, 163, 165, 173, 237
and Victory Day 202, 203
see also Crimea
Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) 20, 21–5, 172, 196, 227
Donne, John 116
doping in sport 91
and the Paralympics 166–7
Sochi Olympics 169–71, 173
Dosteovsky, Fyodor 14, 19, 55, 113
The Brothers Karamazov 190, 220
The Demons 221
Notes from Underground 8, 220, 221
Dovgan, Irina 21
DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) 20, 21–5
drones 40
dubbing of films 109–10
Dubin, Boris 219
Dugin, Alexander 14, 20
Dulles Doctrine 86
Durov, Pavel 49
Dyushes (doping cocktail) 171
Dzerzhinsky, Felix 196, 213
Ecuador 22
EF (English First) 109
Eidelman, Natan 252
Elena (film) 161
Eliot, T.S. 195
English football fans 101–2
English language 108–11
English Revolution 124
Epstein, Mikhail 8
Erlikh, Sergei 252
Estemirova, Natalia 231
Etkind, Alexander, Warped Mourning 209–13
EU (European Union) 15, 32, 53, 73, 93, 152, 223
exports of foodstuffs from 154
Russian hackers’ interference in elections viii
and Ukraine 84, 227
Euclid 45
eugenics 119
European Football Championship (2016) 101–2
European Parliament, and ‘the Dadin list’ 241–2
Eurovision Song Contest 165–6, 167–8
Facebook 48, 49, 70
avatars 112, 113, 115
and the destruction of sanctioned food 154
and the US presidential elections 173
fake news 172
families, violence in 142, 240
family policy in Russia 128–9, 136
FARC guerrillas 22, 23
fascism
homophobic 136, 137
imaginary 212
myth of Ukrainian 226–8
fear, and Russia’s hybrid war 90–3
female genital mutilation 146
feminism, and beauty contests 138–9
festivals, and military-patriotic hysteria 76–7
films, dubbing of 109–10
Finland 34, 36
English language in 110–11
fires, grass burning 6–8, 183
First World War 77, 148, 213
Flaubert, Gustave 234
flower memorials 229–32
flower revolutions 230
Fogel, Brian 170
food
destruction of sanctioned foodstuffs 143, 154–6
Russian state’s war on cheese 154, 156, 157–60
sanctions 81, 83
football
Heysel Stadium tragedy 101
Russian football fans 92
thugs 101–4
World Cup 5, 71, 101, 170
Forbes magazine 20
Foreign Affairs 30
foreign languages 108–11
foreign policy
and fear 89–93
and Russian sovereignty 53–7
Foreign Policy (journal), list of ‘Agitators’ 20, 23, 24
forests
fires 6
and roads 4, 5
fortress towns 62–3
Foucault, Michel x, 120, 124, 137
France 196–7
Charlie Hebdo 112–13, 114
football hooligans in Marseilles 101–2, 104
foreign films in 109–10
‘hard’ memory 210–11
migrants 26
National Front 172
Palace of Versailles 124
post-imperial feelings 219
seventeenth-century 67
Franco-Prussian War 74
Frangulyan, Georgy 245
French Revolution 86, 124, 129
Freud, S. 55, 212, 213
Friedländer, Saul 210
Fry, Stephen 136, 216
FSB (Federal Security Service) 49, 83, 91, 171
FSO (Federal Protection Service) 63
Fujimori, Alberto 52
Fukuyama, Francis 23
Furtwängler, Wilhelm 97
future of Russia, crisis of belief in 96
Fyodorov, Yevgeny 114
G8 group of countries vii, 13, 109
Gaaze, Konstantin 83
Gagarin, Yury 47, 74
Gaidar, Yegor 222
Galich, Alexander, Petersburg Romances 252
Game of Thrones (TV series) 46
Gandhi, Indira 187
Gaulle, Charles de 159, 160
gays see homosexuality
Gazprom 9
Gelman, Vladimir 69–70
Genghis Khan 182
geopolitics 17, 30–3, 39, 42, 90, 91
Georgia 55, 74, 230
South Ossetia 196
German, Alexei 216
Germany
Berlin Olympics (1936) 94, 97–8
foreign films in 110
Nazi (Third Reich) 97, 105, 136, 148
biopolitics 120–1
concentration camps 208
de-Nazification 183, 185, 209, 210–11
and Ukrainian fascism 226–7
populism in 172
postwar 19
Weimar Republic 105, 113, 220
‘stab in the back’ theory 226, 228
Giddens, Anthony 90
Ginzburg, Yevgenia 211
glasnost 201
global cities, creative class in 132–3
global community, Russia as part of 115
global warming, and the Arctic 10
globalization
and geopolitics 32
and Moscow 28
rejection of 23, 25
and Russian sovereignty 54, 56
GLONASS satellite tracking system 48, 84
Gobineau, Count de 27
Goebbels, Josef 94, 97
Goering, Hermann 97
Goethe, Johann von 149
Golden Horde 28
Goncharov, Ivan, Oblomov 187–8
Google 79, 84, 173
Maps 45, 46
Gorbachev, Mikhail 92, 125, 186, 187–9, 239, 246
failed coup against (1991) 74, 79, 188–9, 190, 191, 193–7, 246
Nobel Peace Prize award 233
Goryunov, Maxim 7
Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 152, 153
Granin, Daniil 200
grass burning 6–8, 183
Grass, Günter, The Tin Drum 18, 19
The Great Dictator (film) 215
Greece 230
Greenpeace 6
‘and the Arctic 11, 12
Russian seizure of the Arctic Sunrise 9, 10
Grossman, Vasily 211, 212
Grushin bard song festival 76
Grybauskaitė, Dalia 20
Gudkov, Dmitry 108, 109, 232
Guevara, Che 23
GULAGS 208, 210, 211, 213, 235
guns, education in the use of 152–3
Guriyev, Sergei 52
Gurtskaya, Diana 167
Habermas, Jürgen 105
hackers 91
Hegel, G.W.F. xi
Herzen, Alexander 252
Himmler, Heinrich 136
historical revisionism 179–82
Hitler, Adolf 97, 220
Hobbes, Thomas 91
Holocaust 137, 210, 242
homophobia 133
anti-gay laws ix, x, 13, 82, 121–2, 135, 144
test for 135–7
homosexuality
and complexity management 132–3
same-sex marriages 136, 137, 214, 216–17
human rights 13
and migrants 26
Human Rights Commissioner 148
Hungary 52
Soviet invasion of 77
Huntington, Samuel 16
hybrid war ix, 89–90, 173
and football thugs 102–4
special operations 171–5
in Syria 90, 91, 92, 104
in Ukraine 21–5, 104
hygiene policy 119–22
Iampolski, Mikhail 222, 227
Iannucci, Armando 215, 216, 217
Icarus (film) 170
Ilyin, Ivan 14
‘I’m not afraid to speak out’ (yaNyeboyusSkazat) flash mob 141–2, 147, 148, 163, 240
immigration, anti-immigration mood in Russia 133–4
imperialism ix, 28–9
India 74, 109
industrialization 35, 36
infantilism of Russian consciousness 17–19
information ‘bombs’ 155
Ingham, Bernard 88
innovation culture 50–1
International Memorial 47
International Space Station (ISS) 94
Internet 45, 49, 50, 52, 79
cyberattacks 92
digital hygiene 120
hackers 91
and imaginary threats 83, 84
League for a Safe Internet 82–3
and Russian sovereignty 56
and Russian special operations 173
trolls 91
war of the avatars 112–16
‘invader’s syndrome’ 37
‘Invader’ video 34–5
Iran 16, 41, 93
and Russian sovereignty 55
Iraq 21, 23, 25, 39, 40
ISIS (Islamic State) 20, 21, 23, 24, 33, 41, 42, 46
and humanitarian aid 156
and IT 50, 52
Islamists 20, 21, 23, 49
IT (information technology) 48–52
innovation culture 50–1
military planning 78
network neutrality 49–50
Silicon Valley 131–2
and the Soviet Union 174–5
Ivan the Terrible viii–ix, 56, 62, 71, 212, 221, 245–6
Ivan’s Childhood (film) 200
Japan 98
Jerusalem 64
Jews 86, 121, 137, 185, 221
antisemitism 135, 137
the Holocaust 242
‘Jihadi John’ 20, 24
A Just Russia (political party) 25
Kabaeva, Alina 123, 125
Kachalov, Vasily 71–2
Kadyrov, Ramzan 24, 70
Kakhovsky, Pyotr 251
Kalatozov, Mikhail 200
Kaldor, Mary 23, 24
Kalinin, Mikhail 204
Kant, Immanuel 91
Kantorowicz, Ernst, The King’s Two Bodies 124
Karachinsky, Antoly 48
Karaganov, Sergei 222–3
Karagodin, Denis 238, 240, 241, 242
Karagodin, Stepan Ivanovich 238
Karajan, Herbert von 97
Karamzin, Nikolai 246
Kaspersky, Eugene 48, 51
Kaspersky Lab 48, 49
Kaspersky, Natalya 48
Kazakhstan 64
Kennedy, John F. 86
Kennedy, Paul 36
Khakassia, fire in 6
khalyava 187
Khinshtein, Alexander 241
Khlebnikov, Paul 231
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail 55, 188, 252
Kholmanskikh, Igor 78
Kholodov, Dmitry 231
Khrushchev, Nikita 51, 180–1, 215, 223, 246
de-Stalinization programme 210, 239
memorial to 191
and Victory Day 200
Khrustalyov, My Car! (film) 216
Khvat, Alexander 239
Kiev, Maidan Square demonstrations 84, 87, 195–6, 224, 226
Kildyushov, Oleg 106
King, Stephen 44
Kipling, Rudyard 27, 35, 36–7
Kirill, Patriarch 70
Kiselyov, Dmitry 8, 14, 90, 155, 163
Kjellén, Rudolf 30
Klimov, Elem 198
Klintsevich, Franz 44
Klyuchevsky, Vasily 246
Kolesnik, Vladimir 234
Komsomol 19
Kordonsky, Simon 82
Korolev, Sergei 74
Kosovo war 39, 40, 42, 223
Kozintsev, Grigory 211
Krasner, Stephen 54, 56, 57
Kremlin, the 56, 61–4
Krichman, Mikhail 162
Kuivashev, Yevgeny 243
Kukly (television series) 216
Kurile Islands 95
Kurilenko, Olga 214
Kursk, Battle of (1943) 77
Kuszyńska, Monika 167
Kuznetsova, Anna 146–7, 148
Kyrgyzstan 230
language wars 108–11
Latin America 22–3, 37
Latynina, Yulia 27
Le Pen, Marine 92
Lebedev, Igor 102
Lenin, V.I. 216, 234
Mausoleum 61, 62, 74, 96
Leningrad, siege of 236
Leshchenko, Pyotr 204
Leviathan (film) 161, 163, 164
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 18, 25, 224
Libya 89, 93
Likhachev, Dmitry 211
linguistic nationalism 108–11
Listyev, Vladislav 231
Lithuania 20
Little Zaches: The Story of Putin from Beginning to End 216
Litvinenko, Alexander 231
Livanov, Dmitry 148
Lockerbie bombing 89
Lotman, Yuri, Culture and Explosion 99
Loveless (film) 161–4
Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) 21–5, 172, 196, 227
Lutsik, Pyotr 22
Lutsky, Alexander Nikolaevich 249–51, 252–5
McCain, John 32
McKenzie, Scott 132
McLaren Report 170, 173
Magnitsky, Sergie 231, 239
Makhachov, Gaji 65
Makhno, Nestor 22
Maksakov, Vladimir 21–2
Malaya Zemlya 201
Malenkov, Georgy 199, 215
Malofeev, Konstantin 50, 82
Mamardashvili, Merab 18–19
Mamleyev, Yury 211
Mandelstam, Nadezhda 211
Mandelstam, Osip 61–2
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 69, 124
Markin, Vladimir 102
Martynov, Kirill 246
Massachusetts Institute of Technology see MIT
Mayakovsky, Vladimir 8
Mearsheimer, John 30
media, Russian media and the war in Syria 41
Medinsky, Vladimir 44, 243, 245
Medvedev, Dmitry 63, 133, 186, 243
men, and the culture of power and violence 142–4, 145
Merkel, Angela 82
MeToo movement 141
Mexico 98
MH17 (Malaysian airliner), shooting down of viii, xi, 24, 89, 90, 91, 114, 115, 163, 171, 172, 174, 242
Middle Ages, and the body of the sovereign 124, 126
migrants 26–9, 91, 92
migration crisis 91
Mikhalkov, Nikita 243, 245, 248
Mikoyan, Anastas 158
military-industrial complex 50, 51
and missile parades 75
military-patriotic hysteria 76–7
Milk, Harvey 132
Milonov, Vitaly 13, 15, 136, 164
Minchenko, Yevgeny 71
The Mirage of Enchanting Happiness (film) 251–2
Miss Universe contest 139
missile parades in Moscow 57, 73–5, 149
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 132
Mizulina, Elena 13, 136, 164
Molotov, Vyacheslav 215
Mongol Empire 182
Montenegro viii
Moore, Michael 199
Morozov, Alexander 15
Moscow
Architectural Institute 64
Biryulyovo pogroms 134
Bolotnaya Square protests (2011-12) 13, 48, 87, 106, 115, 158, 212, 226, 252
Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge memorial 229–32
Bolshoi Theatre 63, 198
coup of 1991 74, 79, 190, 193–4
‘Know your Moscow’ app 46–7
Kutuzovsky Prospekt 65–8
Lubyanka Square memorial 115
memorial plaques 186
missile parades 57, 73–5, 149
multicultural heritage 28
Pokémon in 43, 46–7
Presidential Administration headquarters 25
Red Square 61–2, 74
School No. 57 scandal 146, 147, 148, 240, 241
and separatist fighters in Ukraine 24–5
and the Sochi Olympics Torch Relay 94, 96
‘The Topography of Terror’ 47
University 63, 79
Victory Day in 198
Victory Memorial 201
‘wedding cake’ buildings 61
White House 79
see also Kremlin, the
Moskalkova, Tatyana 148
mourning in Russia 208–13
Mozgovoi, Alexei 21, 25
Mukharsky, Anton 165
multiculturalism 28, 132
Murray, Glen 133
Musk, Elon 79
Mussorgsky, Modest 5
Mutko, Vitaly 98
My Duck’s Vision (recording studio) 34–5
mysticism 148
Nabokov, Vladimir 216
The Gift 31
Invitation to a Beheading 194
Napoleon 51, 200
Nashestvie rock festival 76
Nashi movement 34
nation states 45
National Unity Day (4 November) 113, 114, 199
nationalism 25–9
NATO 32, 39, 46, 77–8, 84, 147, 223, 227–8
Navalny, Alexei 69, 161
Nazarov, Dan 113
Neizvestny, Ernst 191
Neklyaev, Vladimir 234
Nemtsov, Boris 115, 123, 143
murder of 229–30, 231–2
Netherlands 109
Nevsky, Alexander 245
new wars 23–4
Newton, Isaac 45
Nietzsche, Friedrich 227
On the Genealogy of Morality 219–20
Nigeria 21, 23, 25
Nikiforov, Nikolai 50
Nobel Peace Prizes 233
Nobel Prize for Literature 233, 237
Nora, Pierre 231
North American Indians, Potlatch festivals 156
North Caucasus 146
and the Olympic Torch Relay 95
terrorism in 114
North Korea 55, 74, 93
North Pole 94, 95
Novgorod Veche 245, 248
nuclear threats 8, 14, 90, 155
nuclear war 77–8
training sessions for 81
nuclear weapons, and Stalin 185
Nuremberg Trials 97
Obama, Barack 20, 49, 55, 82, 92, 114, 131
Occupy movement 46
oil exploration 9–10
Olympia (film) 97, 98
Olympic Games
Berlin Olympics (1936) 94, 97–8, 121
Paralympics 166–7
see also Sochi Winter Olympics
OMON riot police 149
Onishchenko, Gennady 119
‘orange threat’ myth 82
Orbán, Victor 52
The Order of the Russian Knights (film) 251
orphans, prohibition on foreign adoptions ix, x, 13, 81–2, 121, 155
‘Orthodox bikers’ 103
Orthodox Church 16, 18, 23
as an offended group 225
on corporal punishment 142
hygiene policy 120, 122
Old Believers 146
and the Olympic Torch Relay 94
and the politics of the female body 146, 147–8
and Putin 125
and suffering 237
Osipova, Natalya 241
Ossetia 16
Outskirts, The (film) 22
Pakistan 74
Paneyakh, Ella 147
Paralympics 166–7
Pasternak, Boris 233
‘Patriot’ military park 76
patriotism, and armoured tanks 76–7, 78
Pavlov, Arseny 23
Pelevin, Viktor xi, 8, 40, 211, 237
‘people’s diplomacy’ 91
perestroika 69–70, 195, 198, 201, 246
Peru 22, 52
Peskov, Dmitry 231
Peter the Great 114, 158, 221
Petranovskaya, Ludmila 142
Petrov, Nikita 239
Pioneer Cinema (Moscow) 214, 216
Pioneer Dawn (radio programme) 17, 18
Pokémon 32–7
Pokrov charity foundation 147
Poland 18
police, and the culture of violence 143
political correctness 132–3, 144
Politika talk show 18
Politkovskaya, Anna 231
populist politics
and Russian special operations 172–3
in the West 92
Poroshenko, Petro 31, 82, 218
Portnova, Martha 250
Portugal 230
post-industrial society 32
complexity management 132–4
postcolonialism 36–7
postmodern wars 39–42
Potlatch festivals 156
power
and the culture of violence 142–4
excess and the legitimization of 70
and the politics of the female body 148–9
state power and the Kremlin 62–4
Pozhigaylo, Pavel 108, 109
Prague Spring (1968) 189
presidential elections (2018) 148
Primakov, Yevgeny 108
prisons, women’s beauty contests in 138–40
Prokhanov, Alexander 14, 15
Prokhorovka, Battle of (1943) 78
Pugachev, Yemelyan 22, 252
punitive hygiene policy 119–22
Pushkin, Alexander 7, 46–7, 99, 234
Boris Godunov 163, 164
‘Eugene Onegin’ 221
statue of 253
To the Slanderers of Russia 219
Pussy Riot 9, 13, 106, 138, 148, 149, 180, 225
Putin, Vladimir 13, 41, 229
as ‘Agitator’ 20
and battle tanks 78
body of 123, 125–7
and Brezhnev 188
and Chechnya 24
and civil memory 115–16
and the collapse of the Soviet Union 37, 95, 191, 193–4, 222
and conspiracy theories 87
and contraceptives 128, 130
and Crimea 180
disappearances of 123, 126
and football thugs 10
foreign policy thinking 223–4
and geopolitics 31, 32–3
and Gorbachev 189
and homophobia 136
and IT 51–2
and Kukly 216
and the ‘Magnitsky list’ 241
and missile parades 74
Munich speech (2007) 55
and the Orthodox Church 147–8
and punitive hygiene policy 119, 120
Putinism as ‘warped mourning’ 212–13
re-election (2018) vii–viii
resentment as state policy 221–4
and the return of autocracy viii–ix
and Russian history x–xi
and Russian sovereignty 54–6
and Russia’s hybrid war 91
and Schmitt’s theory of ‘the state of emergency’ 106–7
and the Sochi Olympics vii, 98, 169, 171
and special operations 174
and Stalin 78, 93
and Syria 92
third presidential term ix
and Ukrainian fascism 226, 227
upbringing in St Petersburg 104, 107
and Victory Day 201–3
and Yeltsin 243–4, 248
PyeongChang Winter Olympics (2018) 169, 172
Qaddafi, Colonel 89
racism 27–8, 36–7, 135
Ralph Appelbaum Associates 247
Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel 113
Rasputin, Grigory 147, 148
Ratzel, Friedrich 30
Razin, Stepan 22
Reagan, Ronald 98
refugees 91, 113
remembrance 115
Repentance (film) 184–5
resentment 218–28
myth of Ukrainian fascism 226–8
the offended and the insulted 224–5
Putin’s resentment 221–4
and the slave revolt 219–21
and Ukrainian independence 218–19
The Return (film) 161
Riefenstahl, Leni 97, 98, 121
risk society 87–8, 90, 174
roads 3–5
Elite Road theory 66–8
and military parades 75
road tariff protests 114
Rodchenkov, Grigory 170, 171
Rogozin, Dmitry 5, 14, 53, 95, 119
Romania 53, 54
Romanov dynasty 56
Rosneft 31
Rotenburg brothers 75
Royzman, Yevgeny 243, 245
Rozanov, Vasily 221
The Apocalypse of Our Time 194–5
Russia Day (12 June) 76, 103
Russia Today (RT) 91, 92, 173
Russian Empire 28–9, 36, 148
fall of 194–5
Russian Revolution (1917) 8, 71, 86, 114, 209
Russian Sea companies 83
‘Russian spring’ 23
Said, Edward, Orientalism 36
St Petersburg 57
Sakharov, Andrei 233
Salisbury poisoning viii, 172, 173
Samaranch, Antonio 98
same-sex marriages 136, 137, 214, 216–17
Samoilova, Yulia 165–6, 167, 168
Samoyardov, Alexei 22
San Francisco
Chinatown 131
gay quarter 131, 132, 134
sanctions against Russia 53–4, 56, 174
destruction of Western sanctioned goods 55–6, 81
Scheler, Max 220
Schlöndorff, Volker 18
Schmitt, Carl x, 97, 105–6, 107, 114
Schroeder, Gerhard 13, 92
scientific knowledge, crisis in 148
scientific research 51
Sechin, Igor 31
Second World War 18, 99, 226
and battle tanks 77–8
the ‘Lieutenants’ prose’ 200
missiles 74
and Victory Day 198–203
as a war of memory 209
Segalovich, Ilya 48
separatists 84, 95
Ukraine 8, 20, 23, 81, 89, 92
SERB 232
sex education 129, 130
sexual violence 141–2, 147, 240–1
and homophobia 135
sexuality
Russian views on 129–30
see also homophobia
Shakespeare, William 161, 211, 215
Shalamov, Varlam 210, 212, 235–6
Sharov, Vladimir 211
Shchegolyov, Vanya 150
Shchekochikhin, Yury 231
Shcherbak, Andrei 133
Shekau, Abubakar 20
Shevchenko, Maxim 86
Shoigu, Sergei 79
Sholokhov, Mikhail 233
Shostakovich, Dmitry 215
Shulzhenko, Klavdiya 198
Shuvalov, Igor 69–72
Siberia 35
Siemens turbines scandal 53, 57, 172
Silicon Valley 131–2
siloviki (power ministries) 9, 44
as an offended group 225
and the doping scandal 171
as purveyors of threats 83–5
and Soviet computer technology 174–5
Sinyavsky, Andrei 138, 211
Skidelsky, Lord 228
Skolkovo 51, 134
Skripal, Sergei and Julia viii, 172
Sobchak, Anatoly 243
Sochi Winter Olympics vii, 5, 13, 14, 15, 71, 92
and the Berlin Olympics 97
doping scandal 169–71, 173
‘Operation Sochi’ 169–71
Torch Relay 94–6
social Darwinism 26
social media 49
and domestic violence 240
and Gorbachev 186
‘groups of death’ 161
politics of the female body 141–2, 148–9
trolling on 172
see also Facebook
Sokolov, Maxim 26
Sokolov, Nikita 200–1
Sokurov, Alexander, Taurus 216
Soldatov, Andrei 50–1
Solovetsky Monastery 208, 213
Solzenitsyn, Alexander 212, 233
Somali extremists 156
Somme, Battle of the (1916) 77
SORM (Operational Search Systems) 49
Sorokin, Vladimir 51–2, 211
Day of the Oprichnik 157, 160
South Korea 98
South Ossetia 74
sovereigns, bodies of 123–7
sovereignty x, 45, 46
and the Arctic 10–12
and biopolitics 120
and the destruction of sanctioned foodstuffs 154
and the failed coup of 1991 193
and fear of the future 96
loss of 4–5, 53–7
and missile parades 73
and the Olympic Torch Relay 95–6
punishment for thoughtcrime against 95
and Russian territorial expansion 20
Schmitt’s theory of ‘the state of emergency’ 105–7
and Victory Day 202
Soviet Union
Afghanistan war 14, 78, 93, 144, 179, 180, 181, 236
biopolitics 121
‘closed towns’ 51
collapse vii, 14, 17, 37, 79, 86, 93, 95, 191, 193–7, 199, 209, 222
Comintern 102
computer technology 174–5
and Crimea 179, 180–1
and the Decembrists 251
and the English language 108
foreign policy 93
labour camps 206
and military-patriotic hysteria 77
return of Soviet speech practices 225
stagnation era 123
territorial expansion 17, 18, 36
and Victory Day 199–201
see also Stalin, Josef
Sovok 195
space of flows 45
Spain 230
special operations 171–5
Speer, Albert 97
Speransky, Mikhail 246, 248
Spitting Image (TV programme) 216
Spivak, Gayatri 36
spontaneous memorials 229–32
sport
Paralympics 166–7
see also Olympic Games
sports journalists, and football hooligans 101–4
Stalin, Josef 16, 74, 78, 93, 163, 246
anniversary of the death of (5 March 1953) 123, 183–5
and biopolitics 121
and conspiracy theories 87
de-Stalinization programme 210, 213
death of 123, 126, 215
The Death of Stalin (film) 214–16
and the ‘Doctors’ Plot’ 185
and historical revisionism 180
and Hitler 220
and innovation culture 51
and the Kremlin 62
memory of the terror 208–13
and nuclear weapons 185
rehabilitation of x
and the Second World War 99
trauma of Stalin’s repressions 144
victims of terror 238–40, 241
Victory Banquet 199, 237
and Victory Day 199–200, 203
Stalker (film) 35, 162
Starovoitova, Galina 231
the state
return of viii, ix
state power and the Kremlin 62–4, 98–9
threats in the state system 81–5
Stockholm Syndrome 184
Stotsko, Pavel 214
Strategy-31 opposition movement 230–1
Streltsy 62
Stubbendorf, Ludwig 97
surrogate motherhood 146
Suslov, Mikhail 69, 201
Suvorov, Viktor 201
Sverdlov, Yakov 245
Sveshnikov, Boris 211
Syria viii, ix, 5, 8, 21, 23, 40–1, 89, 143, 173
and Russia’s hybrid war 90, 91, 92, 104
tanks 76–80
and the coup of 1991 79, 188–9, 190
and missile parades 74
Tarkovsky, Andrei 35, 162, 200
Tatars 56, 180, 210
Taurus (film) 216
technical sovereignty, loss of 56
telegony 146, 148
television
and military-patriotic hysteria 77
Russian television on the war in Syria 41, 42
terrorism 20, 23, 42
avatars of sympathy for 112–13, 115, 116
Beslan school seizure (2004) 55, 87, 106, 113–14, 116, 224
Boston Marathon (2013) 86, 115
in Chechnya 24
global war against 116
Kenya 113
the Lockerbie bombing 89
Moscow theatre seizure 113
in Norway 115
in Paris 112, 114, 115
and Russia’s hybrid war 91
Sinai aircraft explosion 112–13, 114, 116
in the United States 42, 86, 91, 115, 224
Thatcher, Margaret 88, 187
threats, purveyors of 81–5
Tikhon, Bishop 147–8
Timchenko, Gennady 75, 83
Timoshenko, Yulia 218
Tin Drum, The (Grass) 18, 19
Toffler, Alvin 78
tolerance
and complexity management 132–3
of sexual minorities 137
Tolokonnikova, Nadezhda 138, 139–40
Tomsk, mass graves of terror victims 209
Trans-Dniester 16
Treisman, Daniel 32, 52
trolling of the West 155
Trubetskoi, Prince Sergei 251
Trump, Donald viii, 49, 53–4, 55, 92, 139, 172, 173, 241
Tsarist Russia see Russian Empire
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin 74
Tsoi, Viktor 47
Twitter 173
Tyrants Destroyed (Nabokov) 216
Ukraine
Association Agreement with the EU 84
and biopolitics 121
Eurovision Song Contest in 165–6, 167
geopolitics 31, 32
Holodomor 210, 236
hybrid war in 21–5, 104
the Maidan 84, 87, 195–6, 224, 226
myth of Ukrainian fascism 226–8
revolutions 37, 82, 119, 158, 224, 230
Russian fixation with 218–19
Russian plan to divide up 18
and Russian sovereignty 53, 55
Russian view of 37
and Russia’s hybrid war 90
separatists 8, 20, 23, 81, 89, 92
and the ‘state of emergency’ theory 107
and Victory Day 202
war in ix, xi, 8, 14, 32, 84, 172, 227
and military-patriotic hysteria 77
see also Crimea; MH17 (Malaysian airliner)
United Nations
Security Council 13
and sovereignty 54
United Russia party 114
United States
California 131–2
CIA 86
Democratic Party 92
and foreign languages 110
and the Kosovo war 42
and Latin America 37
and nuclear blackmail 90
and Pokémon in Russia 44
presidential elections 46, 55, 172, 173
and Russian conspiracy theories 86
Russian hackers interference in elections viii, 92
and Russian hybrid warfare 92
and Russian resentment 221, 224
and Russian sovereignty 54–5
sanctions against Russia 53–7
and Soviet computer technology 174–5
terrorist attacks 42, 86, 91, 115, 224
and the war on terror 222
Urals separatism 245
Uralvagonzavod Tank Factory 78
USSR see Soviet Union
Uzbekistan 35, 230
vaccinations for children 146
Valls, Manuel 26
Valuyev, Nikolai 119
Vancouver Winter Olympics 171
Vavilov, Nikolai 239
Vayno, Anton 148
Verkhovensky, Pyotr 221
Versailles, Palace of 124
veterans, as an offended group 225
Victory Day (9 May) 6, 113, 135, 198–203
falsification of 203
military parades for 74, 76, 78
and Putin 201–3
St George ribbon 198–9, 203
and Stalin 199–200, 203
villages
abandoned 4
grass fires 6–8
violence
against women 141–5
car drivers and aggressive behaviour 150–2, 153
domestic violence 142, 152, 163, 240
education in weapons use 152–3
Russian culture of 240–2
sexual violence 135, 141–2, 147, 240–1
victims of Stalinism 238–9
virtual wars 39–40
Vizbor, Yuri 74
Voitsekhovsky, Yevgeny 214
Volodin, Vyacheslav 126
Volozh, Arkady 48
Voronenkov, Denis 44
Vysotsky, Vladimir 86
WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) 91, 170, 174
‘The Waltz of the Urals Chekists’ (song) 204
warped mourning 208–13
Weber, Max 54
Welke, Hans 97
Westphalian sovereignty 54, 56
White Protest Movement 252
Wikileaks 125, 174
Wilson, Woodrow 105
Winter Olympics see Sochi Winter Olympics
women
and beauty contests 138–40
in the Lugansk People’s Republic 21
politics of the female body 146–9
violence against 141–3
World Anti-Doping Agency see WADA
Wowereit, Klaus 133
WTO (World Trade Organization) 109, 222
Wurst, Conchita 167
Yakovlev Law 167
Yakubovich, Alexander 251
Yakunin, Vladimir 94
Yalta Conference (1945) 15
Yanayev, Gennady 194
Yanukovych, Viktor 84
Yarovaya, Irina 50
Yastrzhembsky, Sergei 125
Yegorov, Dmitry 101
Yekaterinburg
Church of the Blood 247
Yeltsin Centre 243–8
film clip of Russian history 243, 245–6
Yeltsin, Boris 69, 181, 189, 190–2, 212, 222
body of 125
election as President 246
and the failed coup of 1991 79, 190, 191–2, 193
and Putin 243–4, 248
‘The Yeltsin Test’ 191
Yeltsin Centre in Yekaterinburg 243–8
Yeltsina, Naina 243, 244
Yemelyanenko, Fyodor 119
Yesenin, Sergei 71–2
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny 200, 202
Yezhov, Nikolai 240
Yugoslavia 79, 188, 222
Yurchak, Alexei 93
Yurgens, Igor 224
Yushenkov, Sergei 231
Zaldostanov, Alexander ‘the Surgeon’ 15
Zemsky Sobor 56
Zhemchuzhina, Polina 215
Zhirinovsky, Vladimir 18, 224
Zhirkov, Yury 139
Zhirkova, Inna 139
Zhukov, Marshal 200, 212, 215, 252
Žižek, Slavoj 105
Zorin, Valentin 108
Zubov, Valery 232
Zvyagintsev, Andrei 161–4