racism 27–8, 36–7, 135
Ralph Appelbaum Associates 247
Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel 113
Rasputin, Grigory 147, 148
Ratzel, Friedrich 30
Razin, Stepan 22
Reagan, Ronald 98
refugees 91, 113
remembrance 115
Repentance (film) 184–5
resentment 218–28
myth of Ukrainian fascism 226–8
the offended and the insulted 224–5
Putin’s resentment 221–4
and the slave revolt 219–21
and Ukrainian independence 218–19
The Return (film) 161
Riefenstahl, Leni 97, 98, 121
risk society 87–8, 90, 174
roads 3–5
Elite Road theory 66–8
and military parades 75
road tariff protests 114
Rodchenkov, Grigory 170, 171
Rogozin, Dmitry 5, 14, 53, 95, 119
Romania 53, 54
Romanov dynasty 56
Rosneft 31
Rotenburg brothers 75
Royzman, Yevgeny 243, 245
Rozanov, Vasily 221
The Apocalypse of Our Time 194–5
Russia Day (12 June) 76, 103
Russia Today (RT) 91, 92, 173
Russian Empire 28–9, 36, 148
fall of 194–5
Russian Revolution (1917) 8, 71, 86, 114, 209
Russian Sea companies 83
‘Russian spring’ 23
Said, Edward, Orientalism 36
St Petersburg 57
Sakharov, Andrei 233
Salisbury poisoning viii, 172, 173
Samaranch, Antonio 98
same-sex marriages 136, 137, 214, 216–17
Samoilova, Yulia 165–6, 167, 168
Samoyardov, Alexei 22
San Francisco
Chinatown 131
gay quarter 131, 132, 134
sanctions against Russia 53–4, 56, 174
destruction of Western sanctioned goods 55–6, 81
Scheler, Max 220
Schlöndorff, Volker 18
Schmitt, Carl x, 97, 105–6, 107, 114
Schroeder, Gerhard 13, 92
scientific knowledge, crisis in 148
scientific research 51
Sechin, Igor 31
Second World War 18, 99, 226
and battle tanks 77–8
the ‘Lieutenants’ prose’ 200
missiles 74
and Victory Day 198–203
as a war of memory 209
Segalovich, Ilya 48
separatists 84, 95
Ukraine 8, 20, 23, 81, 89, 92
SERB 232
sex education 129, 130
sexual violence 141–2, 147, 240–1
and homophobia 135
sexuality
Russian views on 129–30
see also homophobia
Shakespeare, William 161, 211, 215
Shalamov, Varlam 210, 212, 235–6
Sharov, Vladimir 211
Shchegolyov, Vanya 150
Shchekochikhin, Yury 231
Shcherbak, Andrei 133
Shekau, Abubakar 20
Shevchenko, Maxim 86
Shoigu, Sergei 79
Sholokhov, Mikhail 233
Shostakovich, Dmitry 215
Shulzhenko, Klavdiya 198
Shuvalov, Igor 69–72
Siberia 35
Siemens turbines scandal 53, 57, 172
Silicon Valley 131–2
siloviki (power ministries) 9, 44
as an offended group 225
and the doping scandal 171
as purveyors of threats 83–5
and Soviet computer technology 174–5
Sinyavsky, Andrei 138, 211
Skidelsky, Lord 228
Skolkovo 51, 134
Skripal, Sergei and Julia viii, 172
Sobchak, Anatoly 243
Sochi Winter Olympics vii, 5, 13, 14, 15, 71, 92
and the Berlin Olympics 97
doping scandal 169–71, 173
‘Operation Sochi’ 169–71
Torch Relay 94–6
social Darwinism 26
social media 49
and domestic violence 240
and Gorbachev 186
‘groups of death’ 161
politics of the female body 141–2, 148–9
trolling on 172
see also Facebook
Sokolov, Maxim 26
Sokolov, Nikita 200–1
Sokurov, Alexander, Taurus 216
Soldatov, Andrei 50–1
Solovetsky Monastery 208, 213
Solzenitsyn, Alexander 212, 233
Somali extremists 156
Somme, Battle of the (1916) 77
SORM (Operational Search Systems) 49
Sorokin, Vladimir 51–2, 211
Day of the Oprichnik 157, 160
South Korea 98
South Ossetia 74
sovereigns, bodies of 123–7
sovereignty x, 45, 46
and the Arctic 10–12
and biopolitics 120
and the destruction of sanctioned foodstuffs 154
and the failed coup of 1991 193
and fear of the future 96
loss of 4–5, 53–7
and missile parades 73
and the Olympic Torch Relay 95–6
punishment for thoughtcrime against 95
and Russian territorial expansion 20
Schmitt’s theory of ‘the state of emergency’ 105–7
and Victory Day 202
Soviet Union
Afghanistan war 14, 78, 93, 144, 179, 180, 181, 236
biopolitics 121
‘closed towns’ 51
collapse vii, 14, 17, 37, 79, 86, 93, 95, 191, 193–7, 199, 209, 222
Comintern 102
computer technology 174–5
and Crimea 179, 180–1
and the Decembrists 251
and the English language 108
foreign policy 93
labour camps 206
and military-patriotic hysteria 77
return of Soviet speech practices 225
stagnation era 123
territorial expansion 17, 18, 36
and Victory Day 199–201
see also Stalin, Josef
Sovok 195
space of flows 45
Spain 230
special operations 171–5
Speer, Albert 97
Speransky, Mikhail 246, 248
Spitting Image (TV programme) 216
Spivak, Gayatri 36
spontaneous memorials 229–32
sport
Paralympics 166–7
see also Olympic Games
sports journalists, and football hooligans 101–4
Stalin, Josef 16, 74, 78, 93, 163, 246
anniversary of the death of (5 March 1953) 123, 183–5
and biopolitics 121
and conspiracy theories 87
de-Stalinization programme 210, 213
death of 123, 126, 215
The Death of Stalin (film) 214–16
and the ‘Doctors’ Plot’ 185
and historical revisionism 180
and Hitler 220
and innovation culture 51
and the Kremlin 62
memory of the terror 208–13
and nuclear weapons 185
rehabilitation of x
and the Second World War 99
trauma of Stalin’s repressions 144
victims of terror 238–40, 241
Victory Banquet 199, 237
and Victory Day 199–200, 203
Stalker (film) 35, 162
Starovoitova, Galina 231
the state
return of viii, ix
state power and the Kremlin 62–4, 98–9
threats in the state system 81–5
Stockholm Syndrome 184
Stotsko, Pavel 214
Strategy-31 opposition movement 230–1
Streltsy 62
Stubbendorf, Ludwig 97
surrogate motherhood 146
Suslov, Mikhail 69, 201
Suvorov, Viktor 201
Sverdlov, Yakov 245
Sveshnikov, Boris 211
Syria viii, ix, 5, 8, 21, 23, 40–1, 89, 143, 173
and Russia’s hybrid war 90, 91, 92, 104
tanks 76–80
and the coup of 1991 79, 188–9, 190
and missile parades 74
Tarkovsky, Andrei 35, 162, 200
Tatars 56, 180, 210