Russia. A History

University Statute 210, 546

Uralic language family 34

Urals 5, 32–5, 39, 113, 129, 156, 242, 347, 352, 383–4, 386–7, 544

Urbanization 352, 452, 430, 443

uskorenie 454

Ustiug Velikii 19, 21, 25

utopianism 281, 292, 301, 304, 339

Uvarov, S. 186–7

Uzbek, Khan 17

Uzbekistan 372, 444, 448, 515, 519, 555, 558

Valdai Hills 1, 3

Valuev, P.A. 229

Van Geldern, J. 361

Van Huyssen, H. 108

Van Leeuwenhoek, A. 106

Van Thessing, J. 107

Varangians 2, 539

Vareikis, I.M. 351

Vasilevskii, A.M. 387

Vasilevkii Island 120

Vasilii (Shuiskii) 69–72; see also Shuiskii, V.

Vasilii I 21–2, 24–5, 28, 540

Vasilii II 25, 27–9, 39, 41, 540

Vasilii III 32, 38, 41, 61, 98, 540

Vatutin, N.F. 387

Vedomosti 117, 543

Vekhi (Signposts) 266, 548

Velikie Luki 48, 57

Venetia 98, 106

Venetsianov, A. 190

Venice 103–4, 107

Vereia 22

Versailles, Treaty of, 320

vertikal 496

Veselovskii, S.B. 33

Vesenkha xxii

Viatichi 3

Viatka 34, 540

Viazma 48

Vienna 49, 98, 107, 179, 264

Vietnam War 445

Vilna (Vilnius) 86, 173, 204, 382, 554

Virgin Lands 411–12, 424, 431, 552

Vitovt 28–9

Vladimir 7–8, 12–14, 16–18, 25–7, 29, 36, 46, 57–8, 70, 208, 539–40

Vladimir Monomakh 11, 539

voevoda xxii, 67, 72, 86, 93

Voguly 34

Volga 1–2, 4, 9, 12, 15, 21, 23, 28–9, 32, 36, 41–2, 51, 53, 54, 70, 72, 84–5, 109, 114, 156–7, 223, 239, 297–8, 349, 367, 380, 419

Volga Bulgars 4, 9, 12, 42

Volga Germans 419

Volhynia 5, 12, 14–16, 18

Volkhov 1, 3, 6

Volkov, D.V. 147

Vologda 35–6, 38, 57, 72

Volok 38, 97

volost xxii, 35, 50, 206, 262, 272, 278

volosteli 50

Volunteer Army 296–7

Volynskii, A. 128

Vonifatev, S. 88

Voprosy istorii 420

Voronezh 104, 108, 110, 298, 381

Voroshilov, K. 367, 387, 413, 426

Voroshilovgrad 411

Vorotynskie princes 39

votchina xxii, 42, 46, 96

votchinniki 48

vozhd’ 362, 406, 433–4

Voznesenskii, N.A. 404

Vsevolod Iaroslavich, Prince 10

Vyborg 116

Vyborg 111

Vychegda 25, 34

Vyg 161

Vyshnegradskii, I. 237, 244

vyt xxii, 54

wages 251, 282, 303, 328, 332, 359, 442, 444, 472, 474, 481, 523

War and Peace 546

War Communism 291, 293, 300–3

War Industries Committees 272, 273, 293

War of the League of Augsburg 106

War of the Polish Succession 129, 544

Warsaw 115, 174

Warsaw Pact 436–7, 449, 518

Warsaw University 224

Washington 398, 450, 457–8, 485, 499, 516–9, 521; see also United States

Washington Consensus 496, 499

Wesel 121

West German 400, 418

West Prussia 136

Westernizers 191–2, 197

Westphalia, Peace of, 77

What Is To Be Done? 225, 249, 546–7

white army 298

White House (Moscow) 554

‘white places’ 39

White Sea 33, 35, 53, 57, 77, 89, 140, 389

whites 298–300, 302

Wildman, A. 242

William of Orange 106

Wilson, W. 297, 300

Winius, a. 78

Winter Palace 133, 251, 291

Witte, S.Iu. 237, 241–4, 246, 248, 253, 259, 547

Władysław 70, 72, 75

Woe from Wit 357

women 45, 94, 118, 137, 162, 173, 174, 183–4, 214, 222–3, 242, 252, 263, 273–4, 305, 330–3, 337, 350, 358–9, 385–6, 390, 396, 482

workers 222, 233, 235–6, 240, 242, 245–7, 250–5, 257, 262–4, 275, 278, 281–6, 288–9, 291–5, 298, 303–4, 307–8, 310, 312, 314, 316, 318, 323–4, 328, 334–6, 338–9, 342–3, 350, 352–4, 356–7, 359, 363, 367, 369, 371, 380–7, 421, 432, 436–7, 442, 444, 474, 547–8, 550

Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate (Rabkrin) 295, 356

workers’ control 281, 284, 295, 308

Workers Opposition 295

World Bank 474–5, 478, 496, 499–500, 511–12

World Health Organization (WHO), 483, 512

World Press Freedom Index 505

World War I 269–70, 274, 322–3, 328, 548

World War II 366, 380, 382, 388, 399, 401, 417, 475, 516; see also Great

Fatherland War

Wrangel, P.N. 297–9

Wreckers 417

Writers’ Union 359, 429; see also Union of Soviet Writers

Xinjiang 486–7

Yalta Conference 551

Yeltsin, B.N. 451, 459, 461, 464–71, 473–5, 478, 484–95, 498, 501–2, 504, 507, 513, 554–58

Young Russia 226

Yuganskneftegaz 560

Yugoslavia 399, 401, 408, 410–11, 484, 551

Yukos Oil 473, 504, 560

Zamoskov’e 36

Zaslavskaia, T. 453

Zealots of Piety 88

zemshchina 50

zemskii sobor: see Council of the Realm

Zemskov, V. 368

Zemstvo xxiii, 209–11, 213, 218, 220–1, 226, 228–30, 232, 235, 237, 239–41, 248–9, 254–5, 261–2, 272, 276–8, 283, 293, 546–7

Zhdanov, A.A. 366, 396–8, 404, 414, 551

Zhdanovshchina 396–7, 551

Zhenotdel (Women’s Section) xxiii, 305, 330, 358

Zhirinovskii, V. 502, 553

Zhukov, G.K. 380, 382–3, 387–8, 422–3, 552

Zhukovskii, V. 192

Zhurovskii, F. 119

Zinoviev 290, 311–15, 318, 320–21, 324, 362, 364–5, 549–50

Zionism 446

Ziuganov, G. 493, 556

Zoshchenko, M. 339, 396–7

Żtkiewski, S. 71

Zubatov, S. 242–3, 250

zubatovshchina 251

Zubov, P. 166

Zygmunt III 67, 70–1

Zymlinanskii 214

Zyriane 25, 34

Zyrianskii sudebnik 52