political demonstration/
trials in, 170-76 present-day reality
in, 177-78 realities of Russian
rule, 167-70 Western press/foreign media in, 178-82 Russian Federation, 12, 43,175 Russia Today (RT), 180-82
Saakashvili, Mikheil, 106 "sacred war." See Soviet war
narrative Sacred War (Russian war
march), 39 Sadoviy, Andriy, 120,129 Sadulayeva, Zarema, 48-49 Saveliev, Oleg, 177-78 SBU (Ukrainian security services), 2,185,194, 195-96, 213 schools, patriotism in, 251—52 Schutzmannschafi
Battalion, 120 Second World War. See also Soviet war narrative Chechens in, 44 comparison of, 206, 221 in Crimea, 135,137 deportations and, 44,144 display/exhibit of, 60, 78 exploitation of, 252 falsification of history
and, 35-36 in family legend, 241 Holodomor and, 114,122 at Olympics, 104,108 painful points of, 99 pride in, 20, 65,107 as propaganda, 236 Putin on, 30 questioning of, 250 role of war victory, 20 symbolism of, 3, 236 as trope, 222, 226 in Ukraine, 112 Ukrainian soldiers and, 141
on Victory Day, 40, 60 youth perspective of, 249 secret police. See NKVD
(secret police) Semprun, Jorge, 96 Shaimiyev, Mintimer, 145 Shalamov, Varlam, 73 Shevchenko, Taras, 114,
170-72, 216 Shoigu, Sergei, 38,169, 250 shortages, 13,115 Shostakovich, Dmitry, 54 Shukhevych, Roman, 120,
122, 237-39 Shuster, Simon, 201 siege of Leningrad, 21, 35 Simonyan, Margarita, 180 Smirnov, Zaur, 164—66 Sochi. See Olympic games Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 44 Soviet Union, collapse of. See abo nostalgia, for Soviet Union/Soviet past coup failure and, 189 Crimea after, 143 exploitation of, 252 as 'geopolitical tragedy,' 19 integrated economy
collapse, 188 isolated towns following,
66-67, 86 loss of identity/effects
of, 7-11 monument removal, 235 public opinion on, 14 rebel movement and, 197 Russian diaspora after, 150 Russia's status after, 17 sense of belonging after, 231 trials of Soviet bosses, 93 Ukraine after, 113-14,134,
148,193, 202, 239-40 unifying national-historical
narratives after, 18 'unipolar' world order after, 106,150 Soviet war narrative
anniversary celebrations/
parade, 37-40 darker pages/moments
of, 33-37 deportations in, 25-30
new historiography, 21—25 rewriting of history in, 34 victory celebrations/ rhetoric, 30-33 Spain, Russia's comparison
with, 96 sprit (chemical ethanol), 15 stabilnost (economic
prosperity), 14,107, 246 Stakhanov, Alexei, 188 Stalin, Joseph, 3 Stalin/Stalinist era Dalstroi enterprise
and, 66-68 death of, 157
Gulag/camp system of, 65,
73, 85-87, 92 informers in, 81-82, 93-94 Kalmyk deportation and,
26, 28, 30 purges of, 54, 84 repressions of, 3, 67, 75-76,
94, 241-42 school curriculum on, 79 Ukraine and, 69 war narrative and,
21-23, 65, 99 Yalta Conference and, 124 Strelkov, Igor, 199,
217-19, 243 Surkov, Vladislav, 32,149
Taruta, Sergei, 201-2 Tatars. See Crimean Tatars Thatcher, Margaret, 168 torture
of Akhmed Umarov, 51—52 in Chechnya, 48-50, 61 confession extraction
and, 81-82 conscience as, 176 of Crimean Tatars, 162 of gay men, 55 in the Gulag, 89 Trans-Siberian train, 13-14, 66 Trump, Donald, 8,181,
199, 247 Turchenyuk, Igor, 139-40 Turchynov, Oleksandr, 130
Ubushayev, Vladimir, 25-26, 29
Ukraine. See also war, in Donbass EU membership and, 111—12,
123,125-27,129 foreign policy/relations
in, 123-24 Holodomor (famine) in, 114—15,
119,122 independence of, 116-18 Jewish history/anti-Semitism in, 69-70,116-17,119-21, 207, 2637213, 2637218 nationalist movement in, 115-18,120-22, 128-29,131 new national identity of, 18 protest in, 111-12 as separate entity, 113-14 Soviet/Nazi occupations of, 69
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), 116,120,122,128, 135, 237-38 Ukrainian nationalist
organization (OUN), 69, 116-17,120, 237 Ukrainian security services (SBU), 2,185,194, 195-96, 213 Umarov, Doku, 50-51 Umerov, Ilmi, 162 UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army), 116,120,122,128, 135, 237-38 Urzhumova, Natalia, 173
veterans, 22, 30-31, 33, 36, 39,
63, 203, 220, 237, 250 Viatrovych, Volodymyr,
239-40 Victory Day, 30, 31, 33, 40, 63, 203, 205, 208, 209,
236, 249. See also 9 May (holiday) victory narrative, 31, 32, 34 Vladimir the Great, 113,153, 245 Volkogonov, Dmitry, 25 Voloshin, Alexander, 11 Vysotsky, Vladimir, 212
war, in Donbass. See also Bezler, Igor (The Demon); Budik, Vasil; Donetsk People's Republic; Strelkov, Igor fascism rhetoric
and, 207-9 Ilyicha villagers/
resistance, 203-5 joining armed uprising (Igor/Yekterina's story), 224-26 Kremlin's use of
nationalists, 219 Malaysian flight MH 17,
210-11, 226, 231 as mobilizing force for
Putin, 245-46 Odessa violence and, 205-6,
209, 223 post-war break with Soviet
past, 235-40 reality of conflict, 227-32 separatist leaders in, 211-16 single-mindedness/ intransigence of locals, 220-24 Soviet nostalgia in, 241-45 symbolism of poppies, 237 television's role in, 226—27 volunteer battalions in, 209-10 war narrative. See also Soviet war narrative
Holocaust in, 35,117,121, 207 new historiography
of, 21-25 in Stalinist era, 65, 99 Western press/media, 177-18 White armies, 217 World War II. See Second World War
Yalta Conference, 124 Yanukovych, Viktor Akhmetov and, 191,197 Crimean annexation and,
149,151,181 election of, 122 EU deal and, 111,127 flight of, 130,143 Maidan movement and,
127,129,194-96 at Olympic opening
ceremony, 109 Orange Revolution
and, 118 Ukraine's economy and, 123 Yatsenyuk, Arseny, 125 Yeltsin/Yeltsin era Chechnya and, 45 Crimea/Crimean Tatars
and, 134,145 farewell address of, 12 hardliners and, 189 historiography/historical
enquiry of, 25, 68 Putin and, 11 Ukraine and, 118 Victory Day and, 30 Yushchenko, Viktor, 118-20, 122,131
Zhukov, Georgy, 21—22 zikr, catharsis of, 62 Zubkov, Oleg, 167