perestroika (restructuring)
Perm city and province
Peter I (Aleksei Tolstoy)
Peter the Great
Yeltsin compared with
Yeltsin’s admiration for
Petrov, Vasilii
Petrov, Yurii
in Sverdlovsk
as Yeltsin’s chief of staff
Petrova, Nina
Petrova, Yelizaveta
Pickering, Thomas
Pikhoya, Lyudmila
Pikhoya, Rudol’f
Poland, Russian relations with
Polevanov, Vladimir
Politburo
decisions of
and promotions of Yeltsin
Yeltsin as candidate member of
and Yeltsin-Gorbachev conflict
and Yeltsin as threat to stability
Polozkov, Ivan
Poltoranin, Mikhail
fabricated version of Yeltsin secret speech
and Yeltsin’s conflict with Ligachëv
Poluzadov, Yurii
Ponomarëv, Leonid
Ponomarëv, Lev
Popov, Gavriil
and eradication of KGB
and seating of Yeltsin in Supreme Soviet
and Yeltsin as reform leader
and Yeltsin’s role in Interregional Deputies Group
against Yeltsin as USSR president
Poptsov, Oleg
on Yeltsin’s mutinous tendencies
on Yeltsin’s political arrhythmia
Potanin, Vladimir
Powers, Francis Gary
Pravda
reduced coverage of Yeltsin
reports on removal of Yeltsin from Moscow Communist Party position
Presidential Business Directorate
Presidential Club
Presidential Commission for Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression
Presidential Council
Presidential Executive Office
Presidential Marathon (Yeltsin)
on political actors and events
writing and publication of
on Yeltsin’s personality and views
Presidential Regiment
Presidential Security Service
Primakov, Yevgenii
as prime minister
on Yeltsin and Chechnya
Prisekin, Sergei
privatization
initiation of
resistance to
Yeltsin on mistakes made in
Prokof ’ev, Yurii
Promyslov, Vladimir
Protopopov, Vladimir
Prusak, Mikhail
Ptushko, Aleksandr
Public Committee for State of Emergency. See GKChP
Public Opinion Foundation
Pugachëv, Yemel’yan
Pulikovskii, Konstantin
Pushkin School (Berezniki)
Pushkin, Alexander
Putin, Vladimir
and death of Yeltsin
policies of
and reputation of Yeltsin
Yeltsin’s relationship with after retirement
Quayle, Dan
Raikhel’gauz, Iosif
Railway School No. 95 (Berezniki)
Rasputin, Grigorii
Razin, Stenka
Razumov, Yevgenii
Razumovskii, Georgii
Reagan, Ronald
red directors
Red Square
proposed reconstruction of
Reddaway, Peter
Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms
Reed, John
referendums
on confidence in Yeltsin (1993)
on constitution (1993)
1996 election as
on retention of USSR and Russian presidency (1991)
Yeltsin’s support of
Remnick, David
Repin, Il’ya
Reynolds, Albert
Rice, Condoleezza
Rodionov, Igor
Rogitskii, Stanislav
Romanovs. See Nicholas II
Roosevelt, Franklin
Rossel, Eduard
Rossiiskaya gazeta
Rostov
Rostropovich, Mstislav
RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
renamed Russian Federation, or Russia
Russian nationalist sentiment in elite of
sovereignty declaration of
status within Soviet Union
RTR
RTS (Russian Trading System) index
Russia’s Choice
Russian Communist Party (1990–91)
Russian Congress of People’s Deputies
attempted impeachment of Yeltsin by
and constitutional conflict of 1992–93
dissolution of
opposition to Yeltsin reforms of
Yeltsin selected as chairman of
Russian émigrés
Russian national anthem
Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Supreme Soviet
and constitutional conflict of 1992–93
Rutskoi installed as acting president by
Yeltsin’s humiliation of Gorbachev at meeting of
Russkii telegraf
Rutskoi, Aleksandr
and Chechnya
and constitutional conflict of 1992–93, 259, 273–79 passim
generosity of
as Kursk governor
and position of presidential chief of staff
profanity of
punctuality of
and shock therapy
as Yeltsin’s running mate
Ryabov, Yakov
criticisms of Yeltsin
demotion of
as patron of Yeltsin
and Yeltsin’s ambition to leave Sverdlovsk
Ryazanov, El’dar
Rybkin, Ivan
Rykov, Aleksei
Ryurikov, Dmitrii
Ryzhkov, Nikolai
on danger of dissolution of Soviet Union
in 1991 presidential election
opposed to promotion of Yeltsin
in post-Soviet politics
and Yeltsin secret speech
Ryzhov, Yurii
Saikin, Valerii
in Yeltsin’s Moscow kitchen cabinet
and Yeltsin secret speech
Sakha
Sakharov, Andrei
assessment of Yeltsin
Salii, Aleksandr
Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail
Samson Agonistes (Milton)
Samsonov, Viktor
Sanders, Jonathan
Satarov, Georgii
and formation of presidential party
and 1996 election campaign
and project on Russian national idea
Savel’ëva (lecturer)
Sawyer, Diane
School No. 9 (Sverdlovsk)
Scowcroft, Brent
Secondary School No. 1 (Berezniki). See Pushkin School
Security Council
Berezovskii in
and first Chechnya war
Lebed in
Segodnya
Seleznëv, Gennadii
Semenchenko, Valerii
Sergeyev, Igor
Serov
Sevast’yanov, Vitalii
Sevuraltyazhstroi
Shaimiyev, Mintimer
Shakhnazarov, Georgii
Shakhnovskii, Vasilii
Shakhrai, Sergei
and dissolution of Soviet Union
electoral activities of
Shakkum, Martin
Shalayev, Stepan
Shaposhnikov, Yevgenii
Shapovalenko, Vladislav
Shatalin, Stanislav
Sheinis, Viktor
Shenderovich, Viktor
Shevardnadze, Eduard
Shevchenko, Vladimir
Shmelëv, Nikolai
shock therapy
consequences of
recovery from
shock worker
Shuiskaya Chupa
Shumeiko, Vladimir
Shushkevich, Stanislav
Sibneft
Sidanco
Sikorsky, Igor
Silayev, Ivan
and 1991 coup
Simonov, Pavel
Simpson, John
Sitnikov, Nikolai
Sklyarov, Yurii
Skokov, Yurii
Skuratov, Yurii
Smolenskii, Aleksandr
Sobchak, Anatolii
Sochi
Yeltsin decisions on reforms taken at
Sokolov, Ivan
Sokolov, Maksim
Solana, Javier
Solomentsev, Mikhail
Solov’ëv, Sergei
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Soros, George
Soskovets, Oleg
as ally of Korzhakov
dismissal of
and 1996 election campaign
as possible successor to Yeltsin
sovkhoz (state farm)
St. Petersburg
Yeltsin visits to
Yeltsin library to be built in
Stakhanovite
Stalin, Joseph
death of
demolition and defacement of landmarks by
personality cult of
policies of
proposed monument to victims of
purges and terror of
and RSFSR
Yeltsin compared with
Yeltsin’s views of
Stankevich, Sergei
and State Council
on Yeltsin’s historical role
Starovoitova, Galina
Starygin, Vasilii (maternal grandfather of BNYe)
self-reliance of
Starygina, Afanasiya (maternal grandmother of BNYe)
Starygina, Klavdiya. See Yeltsina, Klavdiya
State Council
of Russia
of USSR
State Duma
elections to
impeachment debate in
no-confidence motions by
Yeltsin compromises with
Stepashin, Sergei
as prime minister
on Yeltsin’s final say in second term
Strauss, Robert S.
Stroganov mines
Stroyev, Yegor
Struggle for Russia. See Notes of a President
SU-13 (Construction Directorate
No. 13)
Sudakov, Gurii
Sukhanov, Lev
and 1989 visit of Yeltsin to United States
on Yeltsin’s disillusionment with communism
and Yeltsin remarks at Higher Komsomol School
Suslov, Mikhail
Sverdlov Hall. See Kremlin, Catherine’s Hall
Sverdlov, Yakov
Sverdlovsk city and province
anthrax outbreak in
development of
dissent in
Sverdlovsk diaspora
Sverdlovsk House-Building Combine
Sverdlovsk Youth Palace
Sverdlovsk
Sverdlovsk
Svyazinvest
Sylvenets, Ivashka