Orange Revolution of 2004
Orthodox Church
Ost, Andrei
Ostrovsky, Alexander
Ottoman Turks
Oyunsky, Platon
Pacific fleet
Paikidze, Nazí
Palatka
Palin, Sarah
passports
Pasternak, Boris
pastries
patriotism
Pecheny, Vladimir
Perestroika
Perm
Perm-36 labor camp
Peter the Great
Petrograd
Petropavlovsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Petrov, Sergei
Petrov, Yevgeny
picture taking
Pionersky
plokhiye dorogi i duraki (bad roads and morons)
poisoning of enemies
Poles
police
political centralization
Ponomarev, Ilya
population transfer
Poroshenko, Petro
Porphyrogenita, Anna
“postponed life”
Potemkin, Prince Grigory
Potemkin villages
Pray, Eleanor Lord
presidential elections, Russian
of 2012
of 2018
priests
Primorsky Krai Maritime Region
Pristavkin, Anatoly
privatization
Prokofiev, Sergei
prostitutes, Japanese
Prussia
Pugachev, Yemelyan
purges
Pushkin, Alexander
Pushnin, Dmitry
Putin, Vladimir
achievements of
building projects
centralization of power
Chechen war
and China
displayed images of
election successes
elegant dressing
on European culture
fourth inauguration
on heroes
KGB past of
myth of Putinism
New Year’s Eve televised addresses (2001, 2017)
and Nicholas II’s remains
people’s feelings about
power ceded to by Yeltsin (1999)
power image of
praise for
regime
and Russian Orthodox Church
and Sakha
travels in Russia
Radchenko, Yevgeny
Rasputin, Grigory
Razin, Stepan
reformers
re-Germanization, feared
regime (Soviet use of word)
regions, autonomy of
reindeer farms
religion
persecution of
Repin, Ilya
restricted access
rezhim raboty (work regime)
rights
river travel
roads
rock bands
Roizman, Yevgeny
Roman Catholicism
Rozhdestvensky, Robert
Rudnikov, Igor
rule of law
ruling elite
Ruriks
Russia
ambitions
civilization of
cultural jingoism
dichotomy of European enlightenment vs. ignorance
discontent
economy
eighty-nine regions of
eleven time zones of
four leaders of
gross domestic product
history of
homogenous but diverse
isolation of
literature of
military expenditure
problems of
split personality
strategic zones of
superpower status
traveling in
uniqueness of, believed
Western, European aspiration
Russian Civil War (1918–1920)
Russian Empire
expansion of
three pillars of
Russian Far East
population
settlers
Russian language
Russian Orthodox Church
attending a service of
criticism of
in czarist era
helping Putin
history of
new churches
number of believers
present-day status of
revived by Stalin
Russian Railways
Russians
Christians
patriots
“superior race”
in Ukraine
“Russian soul”
Saint George ribbons
Saint Michael’s Monastery
Saint Petersburg
Sakha (Yakutia) Republic
Sakha (Yakuts)
independence movement
literature
Sakhalin
salmon
Samara
Kuibyshev Square
sanctions, U.S.
San Francisco
Santa Maria Novella, Moscow store
SBU (Ukraine’s Security Service)
Schism of 1054
Schlumberger company
science
Sekirnaya (Flagellation) Hill
Selenga River
Semipalatinsk
Serbia
Sevostlag (Northeastern Labor Camp)
sexist bias
shamanism
Shamanka
shamans
Shamina, Natalia
Shevchenko, Taras
shoes worn by camp inmates
Shoigu, Sergei
shops and shopping
Siberia
Siberian Cat Park
Siberian Throughway
Sibselmash (Siberian Agricultural Machinery)
sidewalks
Simbirsk
Skolkovo Innovation Center
Skripal, Sergei
Skuratov café
Slavic brotherhood
Slavophiles vs. Westernizers
Slavs, eastern
Sobolev, Sergei
Sobyanin, Irina Bordyur
Sobyanin, Sergei
social conservatism
Social Realism
soldiers
demobilized
Solovetsky Islands (Solovki)
Solovetsky Monastery
Solovetsky Stone
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Soviet mind-set
jargon
survival of
Soviet Union
centralization of power
collapse of (1991)
ethnic minorities in
fondness for
promise of
symbolism of
space program
Spas (Salvation), television station
Spassky Tower
Specialized Solovetsky Camp (SLON)
split personality disorder
Sputnik satellite
Stalin
bust
crimes denounced
family
monuments
rehabilitation of
statues
Stalin Bunker
Stalinskie vysotki (Stalin’s high-rises)
standard of living
Stoleshnikov Lane
subways
Supreme Soviet, shelling of (1993)
Suvorov, Alexander
Sverdlov, Yakov
Sverdlovsk
Svetlogorsk
Syria
Syzran
Tatar-Mongolians
Technopark
Telen, Lyudmila
television
Tenka Trassa
Third Rome
Thon, Konstantin
ticket ladies
time zones
tin
Tion
Tobolsk
toilet paper
Tolstoy, Leo
Tolyatti
Tomsk
Torgsin stores
totalitarianism, glorified
tourism
tours
traders
traffic jams
train stations
train travel
trans-Russia journey
planning of
rarely done by Russians
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Traveler’s Coffee
Travnikov, Andrei
Treasury of Sakha
Treaty of Aigun (1858)
Tregubovich, Yury
Trubitsyn, Dmitry
truck drivers
Trump, Donald
Tugulov, Gennady
The Twelve Chairs (novel by Ilf and Petrov)
Tymoshenko, Yulia
Tyumen
Tyumen Oblast
UAZ four-wheel drive
Uda River
Ukraine
break with Russia (2014)
history
may join NATO
population
relations with Russia
rivalry with Russia
title to Crimea
westward-looking
Ukrainians
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic