142-44 Crimean annexation by,
145-49,153,168,177 Donetsk and, 194, 198-99, 210-11 history falsification and, 35
media outlets of, 180-82, 211 military strategy of, 151 monument unveiling
at, 245-46 political 'matrix of, 32 Putin's 2012 return to, 107 rhetoric/talking points of,
13, 221-23 Russian nationalists
and, 219-20 Strelkov and, 218 Ukraine and, 125-26 victory narrative of, 31, 236 Yeltsin's handover of, 12 krokodil (synthetic opioid), 15 Kuchma, Leonid, 118,123 Kuropatkov, Evgeny, 40 Kursk submarine disaster, 31
kurultay (Tatar parliament),
i55> 159 Kutayev, Ruslan, 61 Kuzmin, Leonid, 170—76
Labour Day, 21. See also
Victory Day Lenin, monuments to Bandera monuments
and, 117-18 'decommunization'
and, 235-3 6 in The Demons fort, 212 Maidan movement and, 112 in Slavyansk, 215 Soviet collapse and, 7 on Victory Day, 30 Lenin, Vladimir bust of, 143 corpse of, 18,188 policy of, 155 as symbol, 128 village named for, 203 Livadia summit, 124—26 looting, 1, 2, 69, 218 Lubyanka (KGB
headquarters), 18,19, 67 Lukashenko, Alexander, 17,108
Mackevicius, Ernest, 180 Magadan. See Gulag system/
labour camps Maidan Nezalezhnosti
(Independence Square), 111-12,125,127-31 Malaysian flight MH 17, downing of, 210—11, 226, 231 Malofeyev, Konstantin, 218 Mamchur, Yuli, 140-42 Mask of Sorrow, 68, 76 May 9 (holiday). See 9 May
(holiday) Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 187 Medinsky, Vladimir, 250 Medvedev, Dmitry, 65,106-7 mejlis (Tatar parliamentary body), 145,159,163-64 Memorial (organization),
67, 76, 84 Mendoza-Wilson, Jock, 191 Menendez, Enrique, 198
Mironenko, Sergei, 250 Mogilev, Anatoly, 162 Molotov, Vyacheslav, 26 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact,
33-34, 78 The Most Powerful Man in the
World (documentary), 247 Muggeridge, Malcolm, 115 Muslim regions, 20, 43,155. See also Islam/Islamism
Nachtigall (Nazi-organized
battalion), 120 Narochnitskaya, Natalia, 35 Nashi (Kremlin-sponsored
youth group), 31 national identity/identities,
17-18,156 nationalist movement, in
Ukraine, 115-18,120-22, 128-29,131 national narratives, 17,122 NATO, 17,106,131,148,
154, 227 Nayyem, Mustafa, 111 Nazis/Nazism. See also Holocaust Chechens and, 44, 63 in Crimean history, 135, 141-42,156-57, 161-62, 208 defeat of, 3, 20 German's path to
remembrance, 95-96 importance of victory over,
34» 36, 39> 65, 249 invasion of Soviet Union,
22, 222 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
and, 24 occupation by, 27-29, 69,
134,187, 203 Stalin and, 23 support for/alliance with,
25,116 Ukrainian nationalists
and, 120 in war film Come and See, 24 in war narrative, 207 Nechiporenko, Petr,
80-83, 89, 93 Neizvestny, Ernst, 68 Nekrich, Alexander, 22
Nemtsov, Boris, 55 Nikolaichuk, Igor, 178-79 9 May (holiday), 22, 30, 32, 38, 41, 81, 91, 236, 250. See aho Victory Day NKVD (secret police). See aho KGB deportations by, 27-28, 44, 60 estimates of Crimean Tatar
deaths, 156 FSB and, 80 headquarters of, 67 Khodakovsky on, 241 men of, 93 prisons of, 67, 91 reports on writers/ intellectuals by, 23 поп de guerre use, 2 nostalgia, for Soviet Union/ Soviet past in Donetsk People's Republic, 240-41 exploitation of, 243 Khodakovsky on, 242 Putin's approach to, 19 'restorative nostalgia,' 8 by "The Romanian,' 4 sense of purpose in, 187 Strelkov on, 217 Viatrovych on, 239
Obama, Barack, 107,
179, 206 Ochirov, Boris, 26, 27, 29 Okudzhava, Bulat, 75 Oleg (author's driver/guide),
85, 89, 92, 96-99 oligarchs/oligarchy
Akhmetov as, 191,194,197 analysis of, 226 comparison of Putin to, 106 Donetsk separatist
movement and, 201 Maidan movement and,
129, 235 in officially sanctioned
history, 104 reputation laundering
of, 124 after Ukrainian
independence, 118 in Yanukovych era, 123
Olympic games
international perception
of, 108-9 opening ceremonies
of, 103-5 preparation for, 107-8 as proof of Russia's
reliability, 106 Russian authority and, 140 Operation Barbarossa, 22 Operation Lentil, 44, 60 Orange Revolution, 118,
122,194 Orthodox Church, 19-20, 245 OUN (Ukrainian nationalist organization), 69, 116-17,120, 237
Pact of Forgetting {Pacto del
Obido), 9 6 Panfilov's 28 (war film), 250 Panikarov, Ivan, 84—92,
94, 96, 99 patriotism
in Chechnya, 64 Khodakovsky on, 193-94 perestroika and, 25 Putin and, 245, 252-53 for Russia's Olympians, 108 in school, 251 in schools, 251—52 support for Putin and, 252 in Ukraine, 121,128 Pavlovsky, Gleb, 12 perestroika
alternative voices in, 22 Bandera cult and, 117 film/documentary/writing
on, 24-25, 41, 93 Gorbachev and, 92 history and, 34,104, 217 lifted taboos and, 87 pain of, 136
prison perspective of, 159 rebellion of, 44 repressions and, 75 personality cult, of Kadyrov, 53-55 Petrov, Nikta, 93-94 Pilger, John, 220-23, 227 Pinchuk, Viktor, 124,126 police. See NKVD (secret police)
Politkovskaya, Anna, 56 Polonsky, Dmitry, 165 Pomerantsev, Peter, 32 Poroshenko, Petro, 126,
226, 235-36 Potemkin, Grigory, 154 poverty, 12-13, 66, 93,190,
224, M7 pozyvnoi use (пот de guerre), 2 prostitutes/prostitution, 13,125 public/mass executions, 1,
2, 4, 24 purges
acknowledgement of,
75-76, 99 of army leadership, 22 chronicle of, 89 of Crimean Tatar leadership, 155 documents on, 80, 84 height of, 54
of political/social elite, 80 school curriculum on, 79 of specialists, 95 Putin, Vladimir
background/rise of, 10-11 common destiny creation
and, 16-17 Crimean annexation
and, 142-46 Dresden experience of, 9—11 on health of Russian
state, 15-16 ideology of victory and, 20 media coverage and, 179 The Most Powerful Man in the World (documentary), 247 nation-building task
of, 19, 43 Olympic games and, 103,
105,106 patriotism and support
for, 252-53 pro-Putin youth groups, 32 reunification of Russia
and, 9, 43 on Russian defence
capability, 33 Soviet war/victory legend creation, 21, 30, 33-34, 39-40
2012 return to Kremlin, 107 2014 interventions
and, 245-46 on war as 'test of statehood,' 30-31 Putin's Russia. See also Olympic games appearance of due
process in, 80 corruption/prestige in, 4 elites in, 38
international law and, 150 as nationalist idea, 137 special battalions in, 59 2014 as celebratory date in, 152
Raizman, Sergei, 67, 84 Red Army
children in uniform of, 38 Kalmyk soldiers in, 29 march on Berlin of, 35 Panfilovs 28 (film) and, 250 patriotic spirit of, 63 Stalin's tactics and, 23-25 in Ukraine, 69,112 Red Army Day, 60 Renan, Ernest, 17 repressions, 3, 35, 67-68, 75-76,
94,154, 242 'restorative nostalgia,' 8 Revolution Day, 21. See also
Victory Day revolyutsiya gidnosti (revolution
of dignity), 112 Right Sector, 129,196, 213 Road of Bones, 66, 84, 86, 88 "The Romanian' (retired Russian military officer), 1-4 Rondeli, Alexander, 123 Roosevelt, Franklin, 124,126 Rozhdestvensky, Robert, 41 Rozovskiy, Igor, 221—22 Russia
economy of, 247-48 new national identity of, 18 US elections and, 181, 247 Russian Army in Chechnya, 11 Crimean annexation and, 181 extracurricular class on, 251
on parade, 40 in Ukraine, 138-42 Russian Civil War, 217 Russian Crimea