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INDEX
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A Just Russia political party, 330, 334 Abkhazia, 279-80 abortion, 42
"abortive modernization" process, 381-82, 390-91 adoption bans for Americans, 380 for same-sex couples, 408 age, and effect on personal beliefs, 65 Akhmatova, Anna, 181-82, 199 alcoholism, 121, 265 Alekseeva, Ludmila, 317-18 Alfa-Bank, 484
All-Union Public Opinion Research Center, 58-59 Amalrik, Andrei, 16-17 Andreas-Salome, Lou, 24 anti-American sentiment, 232-34 Anti-Orange Rally, 388-90.
Stalin's "anti-cosmopolitan campaign," 147-48 and student admissions, 12 Arendt, Hannah, 98-99, 291-92, 295, 434 Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, 79-81 authoritarian vs. totalitarian regimes, 295, 298, 385
Baku, Azerbaijan, 81
Baltic republics, 81-82, 95
banned books, 380-81
Berkut (Ukrainian special forces), 423-24
Bikbov, Alexandre, 267-68, 345-46 Bogdanov, Andrei, 287-88
Bolotnaya Square protest, 342-47, 364-74, 390-91, 448-49, 453, 478 bribes, 251-52
Bronze Soldier monument (Tallinn), 277-78 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 83, 97, 292-93
Cameron, Paul, 271-72 Carlson, Allan, 264, 266 censorship of books for young people, 380-81 of history, 153-54
questioning Siege of Leningrad, 424-26 war on knowledge, 17-18 Chauprade, Aymeric, 407 Chechnya, 164, 173-74, 201-2, 480 Chernomyrdin, Viktor, 110 Chirkunov, Oleg, 260-61, 399 Chukovskaya, Lidiya, 144-45 "circular guarantee"
collapse of Soviet Union, 95, 96-99, 275, 382 Commonwealth of Independent States, 95 Communist Party criticism of, 86-88 Little Octobrists, 70-71 monopoly on power, 82 in 1950s, 36
"post-communist mafia state," Magyar on, 386-88 proposal to split, 37 retention of affiliation despite ban, 106 Yeltsin's fight against, 106,162-63 Young Pioneers, 70-71, 145 conservative ideology, 272-73
control, civic and personal, lack of, 467-69 corruption, 110-11, 287-89 coup attempt (1991), 89-93, 103-4 Crimea history of, 428
joining Russian Federation, 428 Nemtsov social media post about, 449-50 Putin speech about, 429-35 as symbol of summer and youth, 429 cultural revolution in Perm, 261-63, 399 cyberwarfare attack in Estonia, 278
cycles of oppression and liberalization in Soviet Union, 168-69
Day of Agreement and Reconciliation, 162 democracy and liberalism, 235, 383-84 Democratic Russia political movement, 82-83
Democratic Union (Demokraticheskiy Soyuz) political party, 50-51, 100
demographics, 264-67
deviant groups, reactions to, 63, 165
divorce and family relationships, 57, 99
Dobrenkov, Vladimir, 269-70, 273
documentation about mass terror, public availability of, 146-49 Donetsk, Ukraine, 443 "doublethink," 61, 63-66, 168, 297 drug crimes, 327, 468 Dubin, Boris, 203-6 Dugin, Alexander Anti-Orange Rally, 388-90 on capital punishment for pedophiles, 329 Center for Conservative Studies project, 272-73 Eurasianism, 235-37, 244-45 fascination with Hitler, 116-17 international influence, 445, 482 National Bolshevik Party, 184-86 and Pamyat, 52-54
predictions about Russia's role in world, 434-36 Russo-Georgian War, 280-81 self-education, 20-21, 49 Dzerzhinsky, Felix, statue removal, 103
Eastern Bloc, 75-76 Eberstadt, Nicholas, 264-65, 470 economy, Russia economic growth, 227, 243, 250-51 economic ruin, 105-8, 173-74,193, 195-96, 201, 444-47
elections, 111-15, 187, 203-6, 223, 225, 238-40, 247-48, 287-89
electoral manipulation, 334-35, 348, 375-76, 384-85
envy and jealousy, 130-32
Estonia, 277-78
ethnic cleansing of Crimea, 428-30
ethnicities, in Soviet Union, 77-78
ethnogenesis, 182-84
Etkind, Alexander, 142-43
Eurasianism, 236-37, 244-45
European Union, proposed partnership with Ukraine, 421
"Execution of the White House" (1993), 112-15