Hard to Be a God (Strugatsky and Strugatsky), 205-6
health care, 251-52, 265
Heidegger, Martin, 21
Hitler, Adolf, 116-17, 302, 433
Homo Sovieticus, 59-66, 97, 168, 202
negotiation with state, 64-65 homosexuality acceptance in Ukraine, 273-74 and adoption ban, 408
anti-gay initiatives and rhetoric, 266-67, 270-72, 357, 361, 396, 397-99 Association of Sexual Minorities, 51 equated with pedophilia, 328, 395-96 government's weak response to, 101-2, 257 and hate crimes, 405-6, 411-13, 480 LGBT rights protests, 352, 403, 406 "propaganda of," ban on, 395-98, 403-4 public opinion about, 63, 202, 403-4 same-sex marriage, legislation against, 407-9 tolerance of, 99 hopelessness, 266 Hoper-Invest, 128.130
Horvath, Robert, 241, 245. See also "preventive counter-revolution" "hybrid regime," post-Soviet Russia as, 383, 385-86
ideology conservative, 272-73 of Putin regime, 388, 433-34
totalitarian, 98-99, 291-92, 294 "illiberal democracy," 383-84, 386 individuality, 302-3
Institute for Concrete Social Studies, 30-31 intellectual climate in early 1980s, 20-21 Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Freud), 25
jealousy and envy, 130-32 Jews. See antisemitism judicial system
Bolotnaya Square protest, 342-47, 364-74, 390-91, 448-49, 453, 478
case of Kuznetsov, 329
case of Magnitsky, 333
case of Makarov, 325-27, 332-34
case of Pastukhov, 328
citizen activists hunting for pedophiles, 331-32 disproportionately harsh sentences, 420 Kremlin crackdown (2012), 379-80 overprotection from state, 327-28, 395 "Red Wheel," 326-27, 333
sex crimes against children, bill on penalties for, 329-31 unpredictability of, 467-69 See also state terror A Just Russia political party, 330, 334
Kara-Murza, Vladimir, 460, 462-63, 486
Kasparov, Garry, 242, 391, 485
KGB
dismantling of, 104 NKVD mass executions, 143-44 power of, 249 Khakamada, Irina, 437
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 224-25, 420-21, 441-42, 477 Khrushchev, Nikita condemnation of Stalin, 36 and Crimea, 428-29 kickbacks, 251-52 Kiev, 238-40, 421, 435 Kirov, Sergei, 71-72 Kiselev, Dmitry, 398-99 Kommunist, 100-101 Komsomolskaya Pravda, 232 Konkov, Fyodor, 151-52 Korzhavin, Naum, 155-56, 158-59 Kosovo, 196-99, 280, 431-32 Kotkin, Stephen, 97, 98 Kremlin
crackdown on NGOs and foreign organizations, 243 funding of supportive organizations, 243-44 Nemtsov's idea of nationalization of, 190-91, 222 and social-program spending, 243 Kryuchkov, Vladimir, 74, 87, 90-91, 93 Kursk submarine disaster, 212, 223 Kuznetsov, Alexander, 329 Kyiv. See Kiev
labor force, value of, 39
law enforcement. See judicial system; legislation Lectures on Sociology (Levada), 32 left-right dichotomy, 51-52 legislation
ban on "propaganda of homosexuality," 395-98 censorship of books for young people, 380-81 criminal code changes, 112 Kremlin crackdown (2012), 379-80 Law on Public Gatherings, 379 overprotection from state, 327-28, 395 regulations and restrictions, 327-28 Russian statehood, 106 against same-sex marriage, 407-9 sex crimes against children, bill on penalties for, 329-31 Lenin, Vladimir contempt for Bukharin's work, 30 Marxist-Leninist philosophy, 22-23 storybook portrayal of, 71 on wealth distribution, 39 Leontiev, Alexei Nikolaevich, 26 Letov, Yegor, 185
Levada, Yuri, 29, 31-32, 58-66, 97, 165, 168, 223-24, 381-82
Levchenko, Anna, 331-32
LGBT concerns. See homosexuality
liberalism and democracy, 235, 383-84
Libertarian Party. See Russian Libertarian Party
life expectancy, 264-66
Lifton, Robert Jay, 151-52, 469-70
Limonov, Eduard, 185
Lindy, Jacob D., 152
Linz, Juan Jose, 295, 385
Luria, Alexander, 27
Luzhkov: An Accounting (Nemtsov), 316
mafia state, 38Z-88, 390, 430 Magnitsky, Sergei, 333 Magyar, Balint, 385-88
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) protest (Kiev), 422-24, 427, 45Q
Makarov, Vladimir, 325-27, 332-34, 484-85
Manezhnaya Square protest, 450
March of Millions protest, 358-62
Marches of the Dissenters, 242-44
Marxism, 23-24
Marxist-Leninist philosophy, 22-23 mass executions, 143-49 Matthews, Mervyn, 39
media, 48, 114, 169-71, 191-92, 222-23, 337, 344, 355, 405-6, 424-26, 468, 478
medical care, 251-52, 265
Medvedev, Dmitry, 259-60, 325, 348-49, 375-76
militocracy, under Putin, 220
Milonov, Vitaly, 395-96
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), 55-56
Mizulina, Yelena, 355, 396-97, 406
MMM company, 127-28, 130
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 81-82
money. See finance; wealth distribution
Montenegro, 486
Moscow, changing urban environment, 473, 482 Moscow State University anti-intellectual censorship, 268 Center for Conservative Studies, 272-73 journalism department, 29 psychology department, 22-24, 56 sociology department, 264, 267-73 See also education Moscow theater hostage crisis (2002), 221, 223 Movement for Democratic Reform, 86-88 movies as propaganda, 169-71,179, 200 Mussolini, Benito, 289, 291-92
Mysteries of the Century, The: The Mysticism of the Third Reich (film), 116-17
Nagorny Karabakh dispute, 79-81 Name of Russia (greatest Russian) contest, 303-4, 306 Nash sovremennk ("Our Contemporary"), 175, 181 National Bolshevik Party, 185-86, 242 national identity ideas of, 167-68
and sovereignty, Putin on, 408-9 national penitence, 174-79 nationalist movements, 47-48 NATO
acceptance of new members, 275-77 bombing of Serbia, 196-99, 280, 431-32 Germany's membership in, 276-77
Russian hostilities with, 279-80 Navalny, Alexei, 335-36, 347-48, 361-62, 391, 393-94, 458, 478-79, 485 Nazi Germany, similarities with Soviet regime, 293, 302-3, 307 Nazism, 299, 433 "near abroad" countries, 238 Nemtsov, Boris academic achievements, 13
activism and publications, 315-20, 342, 346-47, 457-59 appointment to Nizhny Novgorod region, 94, 105, 118-21 arrest and sentencing for Article 31 protest, 318-20 assassination of, 459-62, 479 concern about Russian debt crisis, 195-96 disapproval of, 191-92 egotism of, 188-89 ethnicity, 12-13 hiding in Israel, 454-56 infidelity and separation from wife, 312-13 peace march against invasion of Ukraine, 452-53 political aspirations for daughter, 245-48 return to politics (2013), 448-49 role in Romanov family reburial, 178-79 as successor to Yeltsin, 172-74, 188-92 Ukraine war report, 457 Nevsky, Alexander, 303-4 New Man concept, 24-25, 59 Nicholas II, Czar, 175-79, 303, 483 9/11 attacks, 231-32 1984 (Orwell), 61
Nizhny Novgorod (city), 94, 105, 118-21 NKVD. See KGB nostalgia, 171, 174, 202-3 Novodvorskaya, Valeria, 49-51 nuclear power plants, 15-16
Occupy Pedophilia movement, 411-13
Occupy Wall Street movement, .34.3
Old Songs About the Most Important Things (film), 169-71
oligarchs, 190-91
Olympic Games (Sochi, 2014), 375, 420, 426-27
Orange Revolution, 244, 249, 270, 274-75. See also Anti-Orange Rally