Schulmann, Yekaterina, 176
Sevastopol, 165
Sechin, Igor, 15, 29, 48, 53
Seleznev, Gennady, 152
Sessions, Jeff, 142
Shamalov, Kirill, 30
Shamalov, Nikolai, 30, 55
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 176
Shevchuk, Yuri, 99
siloviki, 48–50
Sinyavsky, Andrei, 73
Skripal, Sergei, 173–74
The Slynx (Tolstaya), 59–60
Smolensky, Aleksandr, 33, 25, 37, 40, 45
Sobchak, Anatoly, 13–16
Sobchak, Ksenia, 100
Sochi, 30, 103
Soldatov, Andrei, 49
Solidarity (party), 99
Sorokin, Vladimir, 49, 160
South Ossetia, 131, 167
Soviet Union
collapse of, 12–13, 35, 115–16, 167
nationalism in, 150–51, 154–55
Spiral Motion (Furman), 176–77
Stalin, Josef, 44, 60, 81, 85
‘state capitalism’, 31–32
Stepashin, Sergei, 15, 18, 49
Stolypin, Pyotr, 153
strikes, 75, 93
Surkov, Vladislav, 30, 83
Syria, 2, 90, 113, 132, 138–41, 143, 144, 158
Talbott, Strobe, 124
Taylor, Brian, 166
Tillerson, Rex, 142
Timchenko, Gennady, 15, 30, 55
Togliatti (city), 95
Tolstaya, Tatyana, 59–60
Tompson, William, 48
trade unions, 76, 93–94
Trenin, Dmitri, 55
Trotsky, Leon, 61
Trubetskoi, Nikolai, 150
Trump, Donald (Sr), 2, 132, 141–43
Trump, Donald (Jr), 142
Tunisia, 139
Tuva, 66
Udaltsov, Sergei, 101
Ukraine, 131–32, 155
annexation of Crimea, 137–38
in Commonwealth of Independent States, 119
crisis in (2013–14), 8, 133–34, 136–37
European Union and, 135–36
Maidan protests in, 12, 135–136, 139, 154n
Orange Revolution in, 128–29
Ulitskaia, Liudmila, 99
unemployment, 21, 64, 68–69, 94
Union of Right Forces (party), 92, 127
United Kingdom (UK)
attempted murder of Russian spy in, 173–74
sanctions against Russia by, 29
United Nations (UN)
on Libya, 139
on Syria, 139
United Russia party
dominance of Duma by, 21, 22
and middle class, 83
personal wealth of children of officials in, 54
protests against, 95, 96
United States
hegemony of, 157, 158
middle class in, 83–84
NATO expansion and, 121–26
Post–Cold War power of, 120–21
sanctions against Russia by, 29
Urusov, Valentin, 93
Ustinov, Vladimir, 53
Vernadsky, George, 150
Vishnevsky, Anatoly, 164
Vladivostok, 94, 95, 130
voucher privatization, 36
Vsevolozhsk, 93–94
Warnig, Matthias, 15
Warsaw Pact, 118, 121, 132
White, Stephen, 49, 50
Woerner, Manfred, 121n
women
pay gap for, 78
poverty and, 70–71
in Soviet labour force, 62
Women of Russia (political party), 70–71
working class, 68–70
Yabloko (party), 92, 99, 104
Yakunin, Vladimir, 15
Yanukovych, Viktor, 128, 133–36, 154n
Yavlinsky, Grigory, 127
Yeltsin, Boris, 18, 26
foreign policy under, 118–21, 123–24
and NATO membership, 125
Parliament attacked by, 27, 73
poverty under, 64
privatizations under, 35–38, 40–42
Putin continuing the policies of, 4–5, 21–22, 27–28
support among intelligentsia for, 73
war in Chechnya under, 166
Yukos (firm), 23, 24, 31, 37, 41, 43, 46–47
Yushchenko, Viktor, 128
Zakharov, Andrei, 170
Zinoviev, Aleksandr, 57
Zvyagintsev, Andrei, 55–56
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