missile parades in Moscow 57, 73–5, 149
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 132
Mizulina, Elena 13, 136, 164
Molotov, Vyacheslav 215
Mongol Empire 182
Montenegro viii
Moore, Michael 199
Morozov, Alexander 15
Moscow
Architectural Institute 64
Biryulyovo pogroms 134
Bolotnaya Square protests (2011-12) 13, 48, 87, 106, 115, 158, 212, 226, 252
Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge memorial 229–32
Bolshoi Theatre 63, 198
coup of 1991 74, 79, 190, 193–4
‘Know your Moscow’ app 46–7
Kutuzovsky Prospekt 65–8
Lubyanka Square memorial 115
memorial plaques 186
missile parades 57, 73–5, 149
multicultural heritage 28
Pokémon in 43, 46–7
Presidential Administration headquarters 25
Red Square 61–2, 74
School No. 57 scandal 146, 147, 148, 240, 241
and separatist fighters in Ukraine 24–5
and the Sochi Olympics Torch Relay 94, 96
‘The Topography of Terror’ 47
University 63, 79
Victory Day in 198
Victory Memorial 201
‘wedding cake’ buildings 61
White House 79
see also Kremlin, the
Moskalkova, Tatyana 148
mourning in Russia 208–13
Mozgovoi, Alexei 21, 25
Mukharsky, Anton 165
multiculturalism 28, 132
Murray, Glen 133
Musk, Elon 79
Mussorgsky, Modest 5
Mutko, Vitaly 98
My Duck’s Vision (recording studio) 34–5
mysticism 148
Nabokov, Vladimir 216
The Gift 31
Invitation to a Beheading 194
Napoleon 51, 200
Nashestvie rock festival 76
Nashi movement 34
nation states 45
National Unity Day (4 November) 113, 114, 199
nationalism 25–9
NATO 32, 39, 46, 77–8, 84, 147, 223, 227–8
Navalny, Alexei 69, 161
Nazarov, Dan 113
Neizvestny, Ernst 191
Neklyaev, Vladimir 234
Nemtsov, Boris 115, 123, 143
murder of 229–30, 231–2
Netherlands 109
Nevsky, Alexander 245
new wars 23–4
Newton, Isaac 45
Nietzsche, Friedrich 227
On the Genealogy of Morality 219–20
Nigeria 21, 23, 25
Nikiforov, Nikolai 50
Nobel Peace Prizes 233
Nobel Prize for Literature 233, 237
Nora, Pierre 231
North American Indians, Potlatch festivals 156
North Caucasus 146
and the Olympic Torch Relay 95
terrorism in 114
North Korea 55, 74, 93
North Pole 94, 95
Novgorod Veche 245, 248
nuclear threats 8, 14, 90, 155
nuclear war 77–8
training sessions for 81
nuclear weapons, and Stalin 185
Nuremberg Trials 97
Obama, Barack 20, 49, 55, 82, 92, 114, 131
Occupy movement 46
oil exploration 9–10
Olympia (film) 97, 98
Olympic Games
Berlin Olympics (1936) 94, 97–8, 121
Paralympics 166–7
see also Sochi Winter Olympics
OMON riot police 149
Onishchenko, Gennady 119
‘orange threat’ myth 82
Orbán, Victor 52
The Order of the Russian Knights (film) 251
orphans, prohibition on foreign adoptions ix, x, 13, 81–2, 121, 155
‘Orthodox bikers’ 103
Orthodox Church 16, 18, 23
as an offended group 225
on corporal punishment 142
hygiene policy 120, 122
Old Believers 146
and the Olympic Torch Relay 94
and the politics of the female body 146, 147–8
and Putin 125
and suffering 237
Osipova, Natalya 241
Ossetia 16
Outskirts, The (film) 22
Pakistan 74
Paneyakh, Ella 147
Paralympics 166–7
Pasternak, Boris 233
‘Patriot’ military park 76
patriotism, and armoured tanks 76–7, 78
Pavlov, Arseny 23
Pelevin, Viktor xi, 8, 40, 211, 237
‘people’s diplomacy’ 91
perestroika 69–70, 195, 198, 201, 246
Peru 22, 52
Peskov, Dmitry 231
Peter the Great 114, 158, 221
Petranovskaya, Ludmila 142
Petrov, Nikita 239
Pioneer Cinema (Moscow) 214, 216
Pioneer Dawn (radio programme) 17, 18
Pokémon 32–7
Pokrov charity foundation 147
Poland 18
police, and the culture of violence 143
political correctness 132–3, 144
Politika talk show 18
Politkovskaya, Anna 231
populist politics
and Russian special operations 172–3
in the West 92
Poroshenko, Petro 31, 82, 218
Portnova, Martha 250
Portugal 230
post-industrial society 32
complexity management 132–4
postcolonialism 36–7
postmodern wars 39–42
Potlatch festivals 156
power
and the culture of violence 142–4
excess and the legitimization of 70
and the politics of the female body 148–9
state power and the Kremlin 62–4
Pozhigaylo, Pavel 108, 109
Prague Spring (1968) 189
presidential elections (2018) 148
Primakov, Yevgeny 108
prisons, women’s beauty contests in 138–40
Prokhanov, Alexander 14, 15
Prokhorovka, Battle of (1943) 78
Pugachev, Yemelyan 22, 252
punitive hygiene policy 119–22
Pushkin, Alexander 7, 46–7, 99, 234
Boris Godunov 163, 164
‘Eugene Onegin’ 221
statue of 253
To the Slanderers of Russia 219
Pussy Riot 9, 13, 106, 138, 148, 149, 180, 225
Putin, Vladimir 13, 41, 229
as ‘Agitator’ 20
and battle tanks 78
body of 123, 125–7
and Brezhnev 188
and Chechnya 24
and civil memory 115–16
and the collapse of the Soviet Union 37, 95, 191, 193–4, 222
and conspiracy theories 87
and contraceptives 128, 130
and Crimea 180
disappearances of 123, 126
and football thugs 10
foreign policy thinking 223–4
and geopolitics 31, 32–3
and Gorbachev 189
and homophobia 136
and IT 51–2
and Kukly 216
and the ‘Magnitsky list’ 241
and missile parades 74
Munich speech (2007) 55
and the Orthodox Church 147–8
and punitive hygiene policy 119, 120
Putinism as ‘warped mourning’ 212–13
re-election (2018) vii–viii
resentment as state policy 221–4
and the return of autocracy viii–ix
and Russian history x–xi
and Russian sovereignty 54–6
and Russia’s hybrid war 91
and Schmitt’s theory of ‘the state of emergency’ 106–7
and the Sochi Olympics vii, 98, 169, 171
and special operations 174
and Stalin 78, 93
and Syria 92
third presidential term ix
and Ukrainian fascism 226, 227
upbringing in St Petersburg 104, 107
and Victory Day 201–3
and Yeltsin 243–4, 248
PyeongChang Winter Olympics (2018) 169, 172
Qaddafi, Colonel 89