White House – In Soviet times, the White House was the seat of the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). It was at the heart of the opposition to the failed coup against the Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, in August 1991; and then the scene of the stand-off against the Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, in October 1993, which ended when Yeltsin ordered tanks to fire on the building. It is now the seat of the Russian government.
INDEX
A Just Russia (political party) 224
Abkhazia 16
abortion 130, 146, 147
Abuladze, Tengiz 184–5
Adamovich, Ales 234
adoption
adoption rights for gays 137
law forbidding foreign adoptions ix, x, 13, 81–2, 121, 155, 163, 167
advertising
condoms 128, 129, 130
foreign words in 109
Afghanistan 14, 78, 93, 144, 179, 180, 181, 236
Agamben, Giorgio 105, 135–6
agriculture 7
AIDS 120, 128, 132, 144
Akhmatova, Anna 239
Aksyonov, Vasily 64
al-Baghdadi, Abū Bakr 20
Al-Qaeda 20
Alaska 180, 181
Aleppo 89
Alexander I, Emperor 246
Alexander II, Emperor 246
Alexievich, Svetlana 144, 233–7
Boys in Zinc 234, 236
on trauma and pain in Russia 234–7
Andropov, Yury 66, 126
Antarctic Agreement (1959) 11
Antarctica 12
anti-globalism 23
antisemitism 135, 137
Antonov, Alexander 22
Apple 132
Arab Spring 87
Arab states 49
Aral Sea 35
the ‘Arbat Hamlet’ 161
Arbatov, Georgy 108
Arctic 9–12
Northern Sea Route 11–12
oil exploration 9–10, 56
sovereignty 10–12
Aristotle 191
armed forces 76, 108
violence against junior soldiers (dedovshchina) 142
Armenia 230
Ashurkov, Vladimir 27
Assad, Bashir 89, 91, 173
Astafiev, Viktor 200
authoritarianism, and the information society 51–2
autocracy, return to Russian tradition of viii–ix, 246, 248
avatars 112–16
Babiy Yar (poem, Yevtushenko) 200
Bakhtin, Mikhail 211
Baklanov, Grigory 200
Balabanov, Alexei 15, 22
Balibar, Étienne 227
Baltic States 35, 84, 228
Bandera, Stepan 218
Banishment, The (film) 161
Barber, Benjamin, Jihad vs. McWorld 23
Barnes, Julian, The Noise of Time 215
Bataille, Georges 156
Batomunkuev, Dorzhi 78
Baudrillard, Jean
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place 40
The Violence of the Global 42
beauty contests 138–40
Beck, Ulrich 87–8, 90
Belarus 230
Belkovsky, Stanislav 188
Belorussian Station, The (film) 200
Belovezha Accords 37, 181
Belsky, Vladimir 150
Benjamin, Walter 105
Berdiev, Ismail 146, 243
Beria, Lavrentiy 184, 199, 215
Berlin Olympics (1936) 94, 97–8, 121
Berlin Wall 14, 17, 23, 105
Berlusconi, Silvio 13, 92, 126
Bernasconi, Boris 244
Bernes, Mark 198
Beslan tragedy (2004) 55, 87, 106, 113–14, 116, 224
Beust, Ole von 133
bin Laden, Osama 23
biopolitics x, 120–2
and disability 167
and the female body 149
Biryulyovo, ‘Russian March’ in 27, 28–9
Bismarck, Count Otto von 74
Blok, Alexander 8
Blokhin, Vasily 239
body, cult of the 121
body of the sovereign 123–7
Boko Haram 20, 21, 23
Bolivia 22
Bolotnaya Affair 106
borders of Russia, and sovereignty 95–6
Boris Godunov (Pushkin) 163, 164
Borodai, Alexander 20, 25
Boston Marathon, terrorist bomb (2013) 86, 115
Brazil 109
Brexit 93
Brezhnev, Leonid 51, 66, 186–7, 188, 189, 224–5
and victims of Stalin’s terror 239
and Victory Day 200–1
Brimson, Dougie 104
Britain
Brexit vote viii
Iraq war 40
post-imperial feelings 219
and Russian resentment 221
Salisbury poisoning viii, 172, 173
Brodsky, Joseph 209, 219, 234
Brother 2 (film) 15
Bryl, Yanka 234
Brzezinski, Zbigniew 30, 172
Bulatov, Alexander 251
Bulatov, Erik 247
Bunin, Ivan 233
Bush, George Jr 20, 199, 224
Bykov, Vasil 200, 234
cars
in central Moscow 63
and the culture of violence 143
GLONASS satellite tracking system for 48
pathological fetishism about 150–3
traffic in Moscow’s Kutuzovsky Prospekt 65–8
cartography 45
Castells, Manuel 175
Cat Stomping Law 13
Catherine II, Empress 246, 248
Caucasian war 95
CCAMLR (Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) 11
Central Asia
invasion by Russia 35
and Russian nationalism 29
Chaadaev, Pyotr 99
‘Philosophical Letters’ 183–4
Chaplin, Archpriest Vsevolod 146
Chaplin, Charlie 215
Charles I, King of England 124
Charlie Hebdo (journal)
cartoons 112–13
terrorist attack on offices 114, 115
Chechnya 24, 78, 143, 236, 237, 246
cheese, Russian state’s war on 154, 156, 157–60
Chekists 85, 171, 196, 204–7, 210, 238, 242
Chernenko, Konstantin 123, 126
Chernobyl disaster 38, 144, 234, 236
children
abandoned 161–4
car drivers and aggressive behaviour towards 150–2, 153
education in use of weapons 152–3
see also adoption
Children of Iron Gods (film) 22
children’s crusade 161
children’s ombudsman 146–7, 148
Chilingarov, Artur 95
China 32, 109
Beijing Olympics 98
Beijing’s Forbidden City 63
Chinese community in San Francisco 131
Chubais, Anatoly 222
Chudakova, Marietta 212
Churchill, Winston 86, 216
citizenship 45, 46
Civil War in Russia (1918-21) 22, 114, 209
class in Russia 71
and Elite Road theory 67–8
Clinton, Hilary 55
Cold War 30, 33, 39, 91, 92, 185
Colombia 22, 25
colonialism 34–7, 45
‘colour revolutions’ 79, 87, 230, 232
Come and See (film) 198
complexity management 132–4
condoms 120, 122, 128–30
conspiracy theories 86–7, 170, 221
Constitution Day 251, 252–5
Constitution of the Russian Federation 193, 202, 253
consumption, and European cheese 158
contraception 128–30
corporal punishment 142
corruption 69–70
Cossacks 21, 22, 37, 103
Council of Europe 13
The Cranes are Flying (film) 200
crime, organized crime and modern wars 23–4
Crimea
annexation vii, viii, ix, 14, 17–18, 22, 32, 37, 38, 40, 143, 162, 242
and imaginary threats 84
EU ban on technology exports to 53
and feelings of resentment 219
and football thugs 103
and historical revisionism 179, 180–1