collapse 6,17, 49, 58-60, 89, 93,
121-2,125 collective farms 43, 94,117 colonization 6, 38, 49,110-11, 122,125 internal colonization, 6, 22, 26,129
commoners 10, 42, 44, 57, 76-7, 81,137
conspiracy theories 10,15,
49-51, 67, 76,126 constitution 57,122,126,
130-3
Coronil, Fernando 24 corruption 5, 9-11,13,17, 22, 38, 42, 47-9, 52, 56, 61-4, 73, 78-84, 95; see also capital flight; elite; Navalny Covid-1911,14, 61, 74-7, 83, 89,
91-2, 94, 97 Creutzig, Felix 39 Crimean War 102,124-5
decarbonization 11,16-7,109 dedovschina, the grandfather
rule 100-1 defederation 121-3,127,130-4, 136-40
degeneration 38, 93-7,118-20 deindustrialization 17, 31
democracy 5, 35, 63-5,105, 127
demodernization 7-8, 40, 50 dependency by proxy 109 Donbas 51, 67,119,128-9 Dugin, Alexander 79
education 10-21, 29, 38-9, 46, 58, 62, 72-4, 87, 92,110; see also universities elections 46, 64, 70, 96 elite 7,10,15,18, 28-31, 37, 40, 49-52, 55-65, 73, 77-84, 103,136-7 emissions 6, 9-18, 20-1, 32, 39, 75
emotions 9, 77-80, 92,100; see also fetishism boredom 102,137 despair 2, 40, 78, 83, 94-6,
100-2,137 fear 71, 79, 87,121 happiness 20, 29, 96 jealousy 60, 84 mourning 2, 79 energy transition 4,10,12-18, 33,106
environment 11, 24, 48,131-2, estates (sosloviya) 57 ethnicity 5,102,112-13, H9> 122,
124,128-32,139 Evtushenkov, Vladimir 43 experts 5,10,12,19, 42,104-8 extraction 20, 25-8, 41, 45, 51, 58, 86,133
false news 2, 67, 70, 76,107 family 44, 61, 87-102 and domestic violence 97 and fatherlessness 92-3 nuclear 87-9
post-socialist 90, 92, 98-9 and social services 98-9 three-generational 99-101 see also abortions, babushka, Maternal Capital Program far right movements 7, 22, 26, 53, 80,131; see also Putinism Fat Years 36, 59, 97,103 Federal Security Service (FSB)
14, 43, 45, 47, 50 federative premium 122 Ferguson, Niall 106-7 Finland 25, 89, 96,107-9,123,
125,127-8,135,157 Finlandization 108-10 flaring 12, 20
fossil fuel 5, 8,13-22, 25, 31, 36, 51, 65, 80,105,136 its role in the Russian budget 17-18, 25, 36, 38, 86,129 Freud, Sigmund 113,115,136
Gaia 4-5
Gaidar, Egor 49-50 Gazprom 43, 45-8, 51-2, 66 gender 1, 7, 85-93; see also
inequality generation 2, 58, 72, 79, 92, 98-104,114,124,131,136
genocide 6,110-20; genocidal
tropes 117-19 Germany 21, 34-6, 48, 51, 53,
105,108-10,128,134 Gessen, Masha 8, 48 Giddens, Anthony 7-8, 64 gold reserves 7, 38, 41 Goldman, Marshall 26 grain 30, 36, 43, 80, 95.107, 139
growth 4,15. 20, 26-9, 37-9, 44, 49, 60, 63-5, 91,105, 130
Gustafson, Thane 105
hazing 100-1,155-6 health 19-21, 40, 58, 61, 74-7,
89, 94-8 hidden transcripts vs. public
displays 10, 50 Hirschman, Albert O. 96 Holodomor 80,110 homophobia 12, 67, 87,100 House, Edward 134 housing 41, 88-9, 98 Huevel, Katrina vanden 105 hydropower 33
ideology 11-13, 37,117,123; see
also Putinism Illarionov, Andrei 14-15, 63, 95
imperialism 6,12-13, 64-5, 68,
115-16,123-5,127-9 indigenous rights 129,132-4
inequality 1-3, 31» 4i> 44, 46, 56-8, 60, 63-4, 86, 98 and Russian regions 56; see also gender international rankings 19-21, 33, 72, 96
international trade 7,13,16, 25-6, 29-31, 36-8, 45, 51. 60-2, 86, 95,108-10,139 internet 69-71, 99 Iran 25, 33, 64, 95
Kant, Immanuel 2,108,141 katechon 77-81 Keynes, John Maynard 1, 63 Khanty 56,129,133 Khodorkovsky, Mikhail 45-6, 52
Koch brothers 14-15, 58 Konigsberg/Kaliningrad 2,128 Kouprianov, Alexei 75 Krugman, Paul 29 Kudrin, Aleksey 38-9, 74 Kuznets, Simon 87
labor 18, 22, 25-30, 37, 40, 57-8,
64, 86,105,136 labor theory of value 22, 25, 40 Latour, Bruno 3-5, 28,142 Lemkin, Raphael 110,114,157 Lenin, Vladimir 125,133,135-6 libertarianism 11-12,15-16, 22,
41, 56; see also taxation Lindner, Christian 105 Luhmann, Niklas 9
Marx, Karl 22, 63,115,124, Maternal Capital Program 91, 96
Mearsheimer, John 107 media 14, 66-9, 71, 76,116 paper media 66-71, 76 social media 70-1 television 46, 50, 52, 66-71 Medvedev, Dmitry 14-17, 39,
52, 82 Melnyk, Andrij 105 mercantilism 22, 26, 37-8 meritocracy 59, 63 methane 11-12, 20 middle class 30, 41, 44, 57-8, migration 20, 37, 60, 62, 83, 91,
97-8,131 military expenditure 27, 39 Mitchell, Timothy 28, 35,145 Mitscherlich, Alexander 92 mobilization 60, 62, 91, 97,128, 133
modernity 1, 3-8, 75, 96, 99-102,110,124 gaiamodernity 4-7, 9,10, 25,
32, 64,109,115 paleomodernity 3-6, 9,11, 25, 31-3, 64, 88 modernization theory 63-5 monopoly 27-9, 45, 47, 69 muckraking journalists 42, 46, 84
nationalism 37, 69 NATO 107,118
natural gas 7,12-18, 20-1, 25-39. 43-8, 51, 57. 86, 105-10,129,132-3 and long-term contracts 45, 48,109
and planned economy 45,109 natural resources 4-6,17, 20, 22, 25-9, 37. 41, 45, 57, 60, 64, 80,122,134 and the resource-bound state 25, 28-30, 85,109 Navalny, Alexei 46-7, 52, 81-4, 121
nemesis 2,12, 27, 48, 80,102,
107,122 Nemtsov, Boris 36 neoliberalism 16,19, 27, 35 nooscope 51
normalization (in scholarship)
19-22, 64,106-7 Norway 25-6, 33, 38-9, 61,128, 132
novels 67, 78,134
nuclear weapons 65,106,137-8
oil 7.11-8, 20-40, 43-8, 56-62, 64-6, 73, 81, 86-7, 95, 105-8,126-3,136-9 and geography, 129-30 and the Russian budget 18, 25,
36-8, 86,129 and labor, 86-7 oil prices 27-33, 36, 50-1, 59,
108-9 see also petrostate
oligarchs/oiligarchs 7, 30, 43, 47, 49, 52-3, 54-5, 62, 81-6, 103 OPEC 26-7
Orthodox Christianity 37, 63, 78-9
palaces 47, 52, 82 Paris Peace Conference 134-5, 139
pensions 17, 21, 38, 88, 90, 99 permafrost 11-12, 31 petromacho 86-7; see also gender
petrostate 24-31, 37-9, 51, 64, 87, 95,122 and deindustrialization 17,
31-4 and magic 24, 50 and monopoly 27-8 and oil export 26-9 Piketty, Thomas 56,147-8 pipelines 6,11, 35-6, 45, 48, 52,
59, 86,107,109,116,132 plagiarism 73-4, 77 Poland 70,123,128,141 Polanyi, Karl 1 political realism 107,137 pollution 4, 9-12, 75 Pomory 132 postwar 2, 35, 92 poverty 58, 98; see also
inequality predictions 106-8 Prigozhin, Evgeny 48
privatization 41-7, 58-9 of apartments, 41 loan-for-shares scheme 42, 69 vouchers 41-2 progress 3-4, 6, 29, 33, 40,109 Przeworski, Adam 64 public sphere 6,10, 25, 29, 58, 60, 62-84, 96,101,105,109 public goods vs. public bads 6, 30-1
Putin, Vladimir 3-4,11-14,18, 22, 30, 33-4, 41-3, 46-8, 51, 53, 58, 68, 70, 77-85, 95-6, 102-7,114,117-19,124-30, 136
Putinism 12-13,16, 45, 78, 100-2,127
Qatar 21, 25, 27, 57
race 6,110-11,113-14, Rand, Ayn 15, 63 Rawls, John 31 reflexivity 5,10,13-14 renewable energy 6, 33-4,110 revanchism 13,115-16,123, 125-7
revolution 5, 9,14,19, 32, 35, 62, 71, 80, 87, 94,123,125-6, 134
risk society 5,141 Rosneft 47, 50-1, 60 Ross, Michael 28-9, 86-7,
145-6 ruble 35-8, 95-7,108
Russian Empire 35, 57, 59, 78-9,
106,121-7,130,133 Russian Federation 39, 56, 59,
74,121-2,127-40 Russo-Ukrainian War 1, 3-4, 8-14,18-23, З2-4, 43, 51-З, 60-2, 71, 77-80, 85, 91-2, 97,102-8,114-20,124, 128-34,137-40
sanctions 12, 32, 39, 52, 61, 71, 95
Saudi Arabia 17, 20-1, 25-6, 64 Schmitt, Carl 8, 49, 63, 79, 86, 152
Scott, James 10 Sechin, Igor 43» 47, 51, 53, 60 self-fulfilling prophecies 10, 71 Sharov, Vladimir 78 Shldovsky, Victor 111 Shleifer, Andrei 42-3, 64 Siberia 11-13, 20, 26, 31, 34-7, 46-7, 50, 57, 75, 80-3, 95, 97,100,110-11,123,126, 128-9,133-6,139 Smash and Vengerov (pop
group) 82 Sorokin, Vladimir 78 Soros, George 46, 69, 74 Soviet Union 3,11-15, 26, 31-6, 41-6, 49-50, 55, 58-60, 66, 73, 76, 78, 88-9, 93-8,100, 103,108,121-7,130,133 Stalin, Josef 35, 42, 55, 78, 80, 103,112,117