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Lost Kingdom

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by Serhii Plokhy

“The party triumphantly”: Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Moscow, 1962).

  “A new historical community”: XXII s’ezd KPSS—Steniograficheskii orchet (Moscow, 1962), vol. 1, 153.

  “The process now taking place”: Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

  “The sooner we all speak Russian”: Mamasharif Nishanov, Obnovlenie dukhovnoi zhizni natsii (Tashkent, 1992), 30.

  “The Soviet people have one set”: S. T. Kaltakhchian, “Sovetskii narod,” in Bol’shaia sovetskaia ėntsiklopediia (Moscow, 1970), s.v.

  CHAPTER 18: RED FLAG DOWN

  “We profoundly respect”: Osyp Zinkevych, Ukrains’kyi pravozakhysnyi rukh (Toronto, 1978), 22.

  “In the Kyivan period we constituted”: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Arkhipelag Gulag (Moscow, 2000), books 5–7, 47.

  “It will be extraordinarily painful”: Ibid., 49.

  “The ill-considered collectivization”: Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Stanford, CA, 2001), 194.

  “For Russia today, the center”: Serhii Plokhy, The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (New York, 2014), 37.

  “Listen, there are tanks there”: Ibid., 95.

  “As it seemed to me”: Iegor Gaidar, Dni porazhenii—i pobed (Moscow, 1996), 81.

  CHAPTER 19: THE RUSSIAN WORLD

  “It is my profound conviction”: Anatolii Chubais, “Missiia Rossii v XXI veke,” Nezavisimaia gazeta, October 1, 2003.

  “Have you read Denikin’s diaries?”: Larisa Kaftan, “Pochemu Putin liubit Denikina,” Komsomol’skaia pravda, June 25, 2009.

  “No Russia, reactionary or democratic”: Anton Denikin, Kto spas Sovetskuiu vlast’ ot gibeli? (Moscow, 1991), 10.

  “Russia will not perish”: Ivan Il’in, Chto sulit miru raschlenenie Rossii? (Moscow, 1992), 15.

  “The Russian World”: Marlene Laruelle, The “Russian World”: Russia’s Soft Power and Geopolitical Imagination (Washington, DC, 2015), 13.

  “trans-state and transcontinental association”: V. A. Tishkov, “Russkii iazyk i russkoiazychnoe naselenie v stranakh SNG i Baltiki,” in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii nauk 77, no. 5 (2008): 416.

  “My opinion”: Ibid.

  “The Russian World is more than present-day Russia”: Ibid.

  “We understand today’s realities”: “Pravoslavno-slavianskie tsenoosti—osnova tsivilizatsionnogo vybora Ukrainy,” Prezident Rossii, July 27, 2013, http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/18961.

  CHAPTER 20: THE RUSSIAN WAR

  “The big country was gone”: “Address of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin,” Prezident Rossii, March 18, 2014, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/20603.

  “We are one people”: Vladimir Putin, interview with Channel One of Russian TV and the Associated Press, Prezident Rossii, September 4, 2013, http://kremlin.ru/news/19143.

  “I start with the conviction”: Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, “Modeling Culture in the Empire: Ukrainian Modernism and the Death of the All-Russian Idea,” in Culture, Nation, and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600–1945), eds. Andreas Kappeler, Zenon E. Kohut, Frank E. Sysyn, and Mark von Hagen (Edmonton, 2003), 308.

  “Ninety-five percent of the people”: “Address of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin,” March 18, 2014.

  “I want you to hear me”: Ibid.

  “The Russian church has blessed”: “Russkaia tserkov’ blagoslovila DNR na voinu,” Vzgliad, June 12, 2014.

  “And if there are any here”: “Lukashenko: Schitaiushchie, chto Belorussiia—chast’ russkogo mira—zabud’te,” Regnum, January 29, 2015.

  EPILOGUE

  “Without Ukraine, Russia ceases”: Zbigniew Brzezinski, “The Premature Partnership,” Foreign Affairs 73 (March–April 1994): 72.

  INDEX

  Adamovich, Aliaksandr, 241

  Aeneid (Virgil), 108

  affirmative action, 237

  Afghanistan, 300

  Ahmed (Khan of the Great Horde), 10–11, 13

  Aksakov, Konstantin, 134

  Alaska, 122

  Aleksandrov, Aleksandr, 269, 271

  Aleksandrov, Georgii, 273–274, 279

  Alekseev, Mikhail, 186, 188, 199, 206

  Aleksei Mikhailovich (Tsar), 30, 33, 38–39

  Aleksei (Tsarevich), 187–188

  Alexander (Grand Duke of Lithuania), 13

  Alexander I (Tsar), 75–77

  Alexander II (Tsar), 94, 105, 109, 119–120, 123

  assassination of, 152

  with language censorship, 140, 145–146

  Alexander III (Tsar), 152

  Aleksandr Nevsky (film), 254

  Andropov, Yurii, 299

  Andruzky, Heorhii, 113

  Anna Ioannovna, (Empress), 45

  Annenkov, Nikolai, 140–141

  annexation

  of Belarus and Ukraine, 263

  of Crimea, viii, 335, 337–341, 349–350

  “The Anniversary of Borodino” (Pushkin), 79

  Anti-Comintern Pact (1936), 246, 257

  anti-patriotism, 256–258

  anti-Semitism, 170, 278, 291

  Antonovych, Volodymyr (Włodzimierz Antonowicz), 123

  Archeographic Commission, 95

  ARCOS, 239

  Arsenii (Metropolitan) (Moskvin), 139

  assassinations, 152, 240, 257

  Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, Sophie Friederike. See Catherine II

  Augustus (Roman Emperor), 14, 15, 16

  Austria, 63–65, 176–180

  Austria-Hungary, 200

  Avvakum (Archpriest), 41–42

  Balitski, Anton, 241

  Baltic Slavic dialect, 125, 126

  Bantysh-Kamensky, Dmitrii, 110

  Barszczewski, Jan, 131

  Báthory, Stephen (King of Poland), 17

  Battle of Borodino (1812), 75, 79

  Battle of Orsha (1514), 12, 13

  Battle of Poltava (1709), 61

  Battle of the Kulikovo Field (1380), 292

  Batu Khan (Mongol ruler), 5–6

  Bedny, Demian, 248, 252, 253

  Belarus, 6, 67, 88, 124, 134, 206, 219

  annexation of, 263

  attitudes toward, 66, 129

  dual citizenship and, 319

  economy, 294, 323

  education, 203

  folk culture in, 130

  indigenization campaign and, 236–237, 241, 242–243

  Jews in, 203, 237

  language and, 130–132, 289–290

  nationality, 234–235

  nationhood and, 202–205

  natural gas and, 323

  Rada and, 203–205

  Roman Catholic Church in, 130–131

  takeover of eastern, 60–61

  Belarusian Communist Party, 234, 237

  Belarusization, 229, 236–237, 241, 289

  Belinsky, Vissarion, 115–116

  Belov, Vasilii, 306

  Berezovsky, Boris, 318, 322–323, 324

  Beria, Lavrentii, 278–279, 281, 284

  Bezborodko, Oleksandr, 59, 66, 90

  Bibikov, Dmitrii, 106, 231

  Biblioteka dlia chteniia (Library for Reading), 110

  Biren, Ernst Johann von, 46

  Black Hundreds, 171

  “Bloody Sunday,” 158

  Bobrinsky, Aleksei, 231

  Bobrinsky, Georgii, 179, 180

  Bobrinsky, Vladimir, 179

  Bode, Aleksandr, 269

  Bodiansky, Osyp, 111, 116, 126

  Bogatyri (Heroes) (opera), 252–253

  Bogoliubsky, Andrei, 117, 119

  Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Korniichuk), 265, 275, 280

  Bolshevik Party, 196–197, 200, 218, 271

  First All-Union Congress of Soviets and, 211–213, 221, 225

  Russian Revolution and, 192–193, 198–199

  Twelfth Party Congress and, 223–224, 229, 230

  Ukraine and, 214–217

  Bolshoi Theater, 2
11

  Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon I

  Book of Royal Degrees, 15

  Boretskaia, Marfa, 8, 10

  Boretsky, Dmitrii, 9

  Borotbists, 216

  Brezhnev, Leonid, 243, 283–284, 290, 293–294, 299, 303

  Brief Compendium of Teachings on the Articles of Faith, 31

  Briullov, Kirill, 109

  Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, 107, 108, 111–112, 114, 116, 120, 133, 139, 146

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 349

  Budilovich, Anton, 171

  Bukharin, Nikolai, 251–252, 287

  Bulgakov, Mikhail, 253

  Buriat-Mongolia, 245–247, 257

  Bush, George W., 336

  Bykaŭ, Vasil, 294–295

  Byzantine Empire, 3

  Carew, Richard, 50

  Casimir IV (King of Poland), 8, 10–11, 12, 13

  Catherine II “the Great” (Empress), 58, 71, 81

  expansion and, 60–66

  with intellectual elite, 59–60

  legacy, 69–70, 100

  Orthodox Church and, 66–69

  rise to power, 55–57

  censorship

  culture, 252–253

  in language, 130–131, 137–146, 150, 162–163, 173, 179–180, 207–208

  of literature, 115

  Central Intelligence Agency. See CIA

  Chaadaev, Petr, 107, 125

  Charlemagne (King of Franks, Holy Roman Emperor), xii

  Charles X (King of France), 81

  Charles XII (King of Sweden), 42–43, 172

  chauvinism, 224, 248, 250

  Chechens, 314–315

  Chechnia, 320

  Chernenko, Konstantin, 299

  Chernyshev, Zakhar, 60, 63–64

  Chersonesus, viii

  Chicherin, Georgii, 217–218

  Chizhov, Fedor, 116

  chronicle writing, 5

  Chubais, Anatolii, 322

  Chubar, Vlas, 232

  Chubynsky, Pavlo, 146

  Church of the Dormition (Kyiv), 5–6

  Church of Dormition (Moscow), 20, 27

  Church Slavonic language, 48–51, 89, 118

  Churchill, Winston, 270, 273

  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 299

  citizenship, 56, 164, 201, 315, 319

  dual, 315, 319

  Russian, 290, 314–315, 319, 349

  Cold War, 300, 327

  collectivization, 239, 241, 243, 246, 269, 291

  Columbus, Christopher, 23

  Committee on the Western Provinces (Western Committee), 86–87

  common citizenship, 290

  Commonwealth of Independent States, 313, 318–319, 336

  communism, 249, 306

  Khrushchev and, 285, 295, 300

  nationalism and, 308–309

  The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), 249

  Communist Party, 243

  See also Russian Communist Party; Bolshevik Party

  Congress of Vienna (1814–1815), 76

  Constantine (Grand Duke), 78

  Constantine IX Monomachos (Byzantine emperor), 5, 14

  Constantine XI Palaiologos (Byzantine emperor), 3, 22

  Constitutional Democratic Party, 166–168, 173, 182, 190, 194

  A Conversation Between Great Russia and Little Russia (Divovych), 57–58

  conversion, religious, 66–69, 96–97, 160, 180

  Cossacks, 32–34, 38, 39, 110

  Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, 321–322

  Council of Brest (1596), 29

  Council of Florence (1431–1449), 21

  Council of Trent (1545–1563), 31

  coups

  Brezhnev and, 290

  Catherine II and, 55–56

  Kornilov and, 199–200

  Lenin and, 193–194

  Nicholas II and, 187–190

  Yeltsin, B., and, 310–311

  Crimea

  annexation of, viii, 335, 337–341, 349–350

  Ukraine and, 283, 284, 319

  Crimean War of 1853–1856, 121–122

  culture, 6, 91–92, 130, 207, 288, 347–348

  attacks on, 279–281

  censorship, 252–253

  Edict of Ems influencing, 145–146, 151–152, 161, 167

  with history as inspiration, 271–272

  indigenization campaign and, 229, 231–232, 234, 236–237, 241

  language and, 165–167, 229, 231–232, 234, 236–237, 241, 287, 307, 340–341

  revival, 254–255, 263, 265–266

  Russification and, 87, 290

  Ukrainization and, 233, 265

  Cyrillic, 131

  Cyrillo-Methodian Brotherhood. See Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius

  Czacki, Tadeusz, 93

  Czartoryski, Adam Jerzy, 92, 93, 96

  Czechoslovakia, 262

  Danylo of Halych (Prince), 271–272, 274

  Darius the Great of Persia, 75

  Decembrist Uprising (1825), 87

  Denikin, Anton, 206–207, 216, 326–327

  dialects, 124–127, 132, 135

  Didytsky, Bohdan, 148–149

  Divovych, Semen, 57–58

  Dmitrii (Prince), 26

  Dmowski, Roman, 159

  Dobriansky, Adolf, 148–149

  Dolgoruky, Yurii (Prince), vii, 117, 118

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 328

  Dovzhenko, Oleksandr, 272, 280, 293

  Drach, Ivan, 293

  Drahomanov, Mykhailo, 143–144, 146, 150, 167

  Dugin, Aleksandr, 336

  Duma

  elections, 159, 163, 167–168, 171, 187, 189

  First (1906), 163, 164, 165, 168

  Fourth (1912–1917), 165, 167–168, 171

  Second (February–June 1907), 165, 168, 187

  Third (1907–1912), 165

  Dunin-Marcinkiewicz, Wincenty, 131

  Dzerzhinsky, Feliks, 221

  Easter (Orthodox), 184, 185

  economy

  Belarus, 294, 323

  oligarchs, 322–323, 335

  Olympic Games and, 334

  with sanctions, 346

  Soviet Union, 299–300, 301

  Ukraine, 287, 323

  US, 300

  Ecumenical Council, 20, 24

  Edict of Ems (1876), 145–146, 151–152, 161, 167

  education, 81, 106, 203, 266

  affirmative action and, 237

  “historiography crisis” and, 47–48

  with history, revival, 249–250, 252–253, 265

  language and, 159, 165, 173, 179, 230, 233, 234, 288–289

  Poland, 92–94, 96, 159

  Eisenstein, Sergei, 254, 279–280

  elections, 27, 29, 200, 330

  Duma, 159, 163, 167–168, 171, 187, 189

  poisonings in, 324

  Putin and, 320–321, 323–324

  reform, 301–302, 308, 314

  stolen, 324, 337

  Yeltsin, B., and, 309–310

  elite

  intellectual, 47, 59–60, 242, 292, 306

  oligarchs, 322–323, 335

  in Poland, 72, 86–87

  purge of, 288

  Elizabeth (Empress), 46

  Eneïda (Kotliarevsky), 108, 126, 131, 148

  Engels, Friedrich, 249–250

  Enlightenment, 56

  Epistle on the Excellencies of the English Tongue (Carew), 50

  Estonia, 306, 307, 320

  ethnicity

  identity and, 319–320

  marriage and, 303

  patriotism and, 256

  EU. See European Union

  Eurasian Economic Community, 323

  Eurasian Union, 335–337, 338

  European Union (EU), 325, 336

  Evlogii (Archbishop (Georgievsky) 161, 179, 180, 184–185

  Exposition of the Easter Cycle, 23

  famine, 186, 241–242, 269

  fatherland (otechestvo), 268

  Federal Security Service, 317


  Fedor Ivanovich, (Tsar), 17, 19–20, 24, 26

  Filaret (Patriarch of Moscow). See Romanov, Fedor

  Filofei (monk), 24, 26, 34

  Finland, 200, 267

  First All-Union Congress of Soviets, 211–213, 221, 225

  First Congress of Compatriots Living Abroad, 327–328

  flags, 259, 319, 338

  Florinsky, Timofei, 171

  folk culture, Belarus, 130

  forced-labor camps (Gulag), 241, 256, 293–294, 305–306, 334

  Foreign Affairs (Brzezinksi), 349

  foreign policy, 250, 267, 321–322, 329

  “The Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom” (Engels), 250

  Four-Year Diet, 62

  France, x, 325

  Franko, Ivan, 266

  Frederick II (King of Prussia), 61

  Frunze, Mikhail, 218

  Fund for Historical Perspective, 330

  Gagarin, Yurii, 286

  Gaidar, Yegor, 311, 312

  Galician-Volhynian princes, 6

  Gapon, Grigorii, 158

  Gazprom, 323, 335

  Gellner, Ernest, x

  Genghis Khan (Mongol ruler), 5, 10

  genocide, 242, 342

  Georgia, 325, 326

  Georgian language, 303

  Germany, 200, 201, 246, 257, 351

  with Belarus and nationhood, 202–204

  Treaty of Rapallo, 217–218

  Girkin, Igor, 342

  glasnost, 301

  Glinka, Mikhail, 321

  Glinka, Nikolai, 253

  Godunov, Boris, 26–27, 29

  Gogol, Nikolai (Hohol’, Mykola), 94, 110, 148

  Gogotsky, Sylvestr, 123–124

  Golden Gate, in Kyiv, 94

  Golden Horde, 7, 9, 11, 14–15

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  economy and, 301

  legacy, 313

  perestroika and, 301, 302

  as president, 301–302

  rise of, 299–300, 310

  role of, 292, 309

  Yeltsin, B., and, 310, 311–312

  Gorchakov, Aleksandr, 147

  GPU (Soviet secret police), 228, 238, 241, 242, 253, 256

  Grand Army, 74–76

  Great Britain, x, 239, 270–271

  Great Horde, 9, 10

  Great Northern War (1700–1721), 42, 44

  German-Soviet War (1941–1945) (“Great Patriotic War of the Soviet People”)

  influence, 268–269, 274–275

  Stalin and, 269–273

  “Great Rus’,” 38, 58, 117, 271, 281, 326–327

  Great Russia

  dialect, 125, 126

  tribe, xi, 88, 124, 129, 135

  Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 290

  Great Terror (1937–1938), 256–257

  Great Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor), 241–242

  Great War (1914–1918), 174, 175–176, 183–186

  Gubarev, Pavel, 343, 344–345

 

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