East Germany and
husband’s finances and
married life of
Qaddafi, Muammar
Reagan, Ronald
rebirth, myth of
Rebuilding Russia (Solzhenitsyn)
Red Banner Institute
Red Notice (Browder)
“Reflections” (Sakharov)
Repin, Vladimir
“Restoration of Order, The” (Baranczak)
Revenge of Geography, The (Kaplan)
Rice, Condoleezza
Rising Tide (Weir and Boybe)
Rockefeller, John D.
Rogozin, Dmitri
Roldugin, Sergei
Rolling Stones, The
Romania
Rosneft
Rusnano
Russia Hand, The (Talbott)
Russian Empire
China and
collapse of
developmental dynamic lacked by
Gogol and
iconoclasm and
militarism of
national poet of
oil and
Ukraine and
Russian Federation:
ambitions of
Arctic and
authoritarianism lite of
centralization of
Chechen wars with
China and
collapse of
comparisons between Soviet Union and
comparisons between U.S. and
Constitution of
creation of
Crimea annexed by
defectors from
demographobia of
drunkenness in
economy of
expansionism of
Family rule of
French relations with
future of
gas and
gold holdings of
holidays of
humiliations of
hybrid warfare of
iconoclasm and
internal enemies of
international sanctions against
Internet and
Japanese relations with
Kazakhstan and
military equipment industry of
national flag and anthem of
oil and
organized crime in
paranoia of
political assassinations of
population of
presidential elections in
without Putin
Putin’s failures and
regular army of
resurgence of
rule of law in
sciences and education in
Syrian incursion of
Tajikistan and
as threat to West
trade of
transition from Soviet Union to
Ukraine and
U.S. military ships and aircraft buzzed by
U.S. relations with
violence and demonstrations in
and vulnerability of Kaliningrad
Russian Idea
Russian Idea, The (Berdyaev)
Russian Revolution
Russians:
carelessness of
as iconoclasts
messianic consciousness of
in myth and history
polarization of
survival of
Ukraine and
Russians in the Arctic, The (Armstrong)
“Russia on the Threshold” (Putin)
Russo-Japanese War
Ryzhkov, Vladimir
St. Andrew Hall
St. Basil’s Cathedral
St. Petersburg, see Leningrad
Sakharov, Andrei
arrest and internal exile of
and collapse of Soviet Union
dissidence of
electoral office of
KGB and
Putin on
Salye, Marina
Sambo
samizdat
Sanders, Bernie
Saudi Arabia
Schultz, Debbie Wasserman
Sea of Okhotsk
secret service, Russian
Serbs, Serbia
Sevastopol
Shadkhan, Igor
Shamil, Imam
Shevchenko, Arkady
Shevchenko, Taras
Shevtsova, Lilia
shock therapy
Shoigu, Sergei
Shvets, Yuri
Siberia
China and
oil and
and Russia without Putin
World War II and
Silk Road
Sinyavsky, Andrei
Skuratov, Yury
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
Slovenia
Small, Andrew
Smolny
Snowden, Edward
Sobchak, Anatoly
Chubais’s relationship with
and coup against Gorbachev
mayoralty of
Putin’s KGB connections and
Putin’s relationship with
socialism
Prague Spring and
scientific
and transition from Soviet Union to Russian Federation
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
attempt on life of
and collapse of Soviet Union
dissidence and
Kazakhstan and
Putin’s esteem for
Soviet economy and
Ukraine and
Sophia
Soros, George
Southern, Terry
Soviet Civilization (Sinyavsky)
Soviet Union, see Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Spiegel, Der
Stalin, Joseph
achievements of
Arctic and
collective agriculture and
comparisons between Hitler and
comparisons between Putin and
demise of
genetics and
iconoclasm and
Kazakhstan and
KGB and
Khrushchev’s denunciation of
oil and
Putin’s family connections with
Soviet national anthem and
statues of
Tatars and
Ukraine and
World War II and
Star Wars missile defense program
Stasi
Dresden and
and Green Beret bases in West Germany
Nazi criminals and
Putin’s bronze medal and
Stasi (Koehler)
Statoil
Steinbeck, John
Sweden
Sword and the Shield, The (Andrew and Mitrokhnin)
Sword and the Shield, The (miniseries)
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Talbott, Strobe
Taliban
Tamm, Igor
Tatars
Tatiana Café
Telegram
terrorists, terrorism
Chechnya and
China and
France and
Internet and
Kazakhstan and
and Law of the Sea Treaty
Mongols and
National Guard and
U.S. and
“Testament” (Shevchenko)
Thatcher, Margaret
Three Days of the Condor
Tiananmen Square
Tibet
Time Machine
Time of Troubles
Titanic
To Build a Castle (Bukovsky)
Tolstoy, Count Leo
Tretyakov, Sergei:
and capabilities of secret service
KGB and
Putin’s relationship with
U.S. defection of
Trotsky, Leon
Trump, Donald
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
Turkmenistan
Turks, Turkey
Uighurs
Ukraine
agriculture in
and collapse of Soviet Union
economy of
independence declared by
Kazakhstan and
language of
in myth and history
national anthem of
national liberation sought by
national poet of
nuclear weapons and
peasants of
Poland and
presidential elections in
as real country
revolution in
Russia and
split between east and west of
starvation in
World War II and
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Afghani war of
Andropov’s leadership in
and Arctic
and China
civil war in
collapse of
collective agriculture in
comparisons between East Germany and