Derzhava (Fatherland) sculpture
de-Stalinization
Diaghilev, Sergei
diamonds
Dnieper River
documents, personal
Dolgorukiy, Yury
Donetsk People’s Republic
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
double-headed eagle coat of arms
Dudayev, Dzhokhar
Dzerzhinsky, Felix
Dzhugashvili, Joseph
earthquakes
Eastern Economic Forum
eastward migration, incentivizing of
economy, Russian
Ekibastuz
elections
presidential
snap
Elgen camp
emigration to the West
empires
encirclement, fear of
English language, speaking it, in Russia
“Ensk,” the city of N
environmentalist movement
Estonia
ethnic minorities
Eurasia, Russia’s place in
Euromaidan revolt of 2013
Europe
eastern extent of
Russia compared to
European culture
in advertising
and Russian culture
European Union
Evenks
Evens
Fadina, Oksana
Far-Eastern Hectare project
Far Eastern University
fashion
FIFA World Cup soccer tournament (2018)
Finland
fish
fishing industry
Florensky, Pavel
flowers
foreigners
curiosity about
fear of association with
forests
frontier settlement
FSB (Federal Security Service)
fur
Gagarin, Yury
Galich, Alexander
Garin-Mikhailovsky, Nikolai
Garst, Roswell
“gay propaganda” law
Gazprom Bank
Gelman, Marat
gender-awareness
Genghis Khan
genocide
Georgia
Germanization, threat of
Germans, ethnic
expelled from Kaliningrad
Volga region
Germany
history with Russia
Nazi
relations with
Ginzburg, Yevgenia
GlaxoSmithKline
Glinka, Mikhail
Glinka, Sergei
God
Gogol, Nikolai
gold
mining
prospectors
Golden Bridge
Goncharov, Ivan
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Great Patriotic War. See World War II
Great Terror (Stalin’s)
Gribanova, Inna
Grishin, Andrei
grocery coop
Grozny
Gudok (The Whistle)
Gulag
Chief Administration of Labor Camps
condoning of
labor camps
museum of the
prisoners
Gulag Archipelago
Gulf of Amur
GUM department store
guns
hammer and sickle
Heihe
Heilongjiang province
Hermitage
Hermitage Museum
high school students
history
“great man” theory of
obliteration of
Hitler, Adolf
HIV testing
Hoffmann, E. T. A.
holidays
Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C
Holodomor (Great Famine of 1932–1933)
hotels
housing
human rights
humor
Hungary
hunters and outdoorsmen
hydrocarbon industry
hydrofoils
ice cream
icons
Ilf, Ilya
industrialization
infrastructure
Innokenty the Innocent, Saint
innovation
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
intelligentsia
Ipatiev House
Irkutsk
iron hand
Irtysh River
Iskander missiles
Islam
Islamists
Ivan-chai (fireweeds)
Ivan IV (the Terrible)
statue
Ivolginsky Datsan
Japan
Jews
jobless index
jokes, Russian
journalists
Judaism
Just Russia party
Kadyrov, Ramzan
Kalashnikov, Mikhail
Kalinin, Mikhail
Kaliningrad
Free Economic Zone
history
House of Soviets
rebuilding of
Kaliningrad Oblast
Kama River
Kamchatka Penin
Kant, Immanuel
Kant museum
Karamzin, Nikolai
karatelnye organy (punitive organs)
Kazan
Kemerovo
Kerch Strait
bridge
Kerensky, Alexander
KGB
Khan, Genghis
Khan-Khute-Baabay, deity
Khanty-Mansiysk
Khristianovich, Sergei
Khrushchev, Nikita
de-Stalinization
family
Secret Speech
Thaw
Khrushchev, Rada
Khrushchev, Sergei
Khrushcheva, Julia
khrushchevki (five-story apartment complexes)
Khuzhir
Kiev
Kievan Rus
Kim Jong-Il
king crab
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirill, Patriarch
Klemeshev, Andrei
Kolchak, Alexander
Kolyma Krai
Kolyma Trassa (Route)
Königsberg
renamed Kaliningrad
See also Kaliningrad
Königsberg Cathedral
Koryaksky Volcano
Krasnoyarsk
Krasny Prospect, Novosibirsk
Kreshcheniye Rusi (the Baptism of Rus)
Krupskaya, Nadezhda
Krym nash (Crimea is ours)
Kuibyshev, Valerian
Kukly (Puppets), television show
kukly oberegi (straw guardian dolls)
labor camps. See also Gulag
Lake Baikal
land, offered to settlers in Far East
language studies
Latin letters
lavatories, public
Lavrentyev, Mikhail
Lavrov, Sergei
Lebedev, Artemy
Lena River
Lenin
house museum
quoted, on Kant
statues of
Leningrad. See also Saint Petersburg
Lenin Squares, in Soviet cities
Lenskie Stolby (Lena Pillars)
Levin, Leonid
Lokot, Anatoly
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Lubyanka
Luhansk People’s Republic
Lutheran
Magadan
Magadan Oblast
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square)
Maidan of Foreign Affairs
Malorossiya
mammoths
Manezh art exhibition
March for the Federalization of Siberia and in Defense of the Constitution
Marx, Karl
Mask of Sorrow
mat gorodov rus
skikh (mother of all Russian cities)
May 9 Victory Day Parade
Medinsky, Vladimir
Medvedev, Dmitry
Memorial human rights organization
Merkushkin, Nikolai
Mikhailov Square, Kiev
Mikhalkov, Nikita
mineral resources
missile defense systems, U. S.
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
moments of silence
monarchists
monasteries
Mongols
invaders
Morozov, Sergei
Moscow
architecture
gentrification of
Oruzheiny high-rise
the “Third Rome”
traffic
Moscow Standard Time (MSK)
Moscow University
mosquitos
Müller, Heiko
museums
MusicAeterna
Muslims
names
of people, politics of
of places, changes of
Native Americans
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
nature, submission of, to man
Nautilus Pompilius
Navalny, Alexey
Nazi Germany
Neizvestny, Ernst
Nemtsov, Boris
neoliberalism
New Soviet City
New York City
Nicholas I
Nicholas II
execution of
Nicholas the Miracle Worker, Saint
Nikolaev, Mikhail
Nizhny Novgorod
NKVD
Nonbelievers
non-Russians
North America
North Korea
Nosov, Nikolai
Nosov, Sergei
Novonikolayevsk
Novorossiya Confederate Republic
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk Oblast
Novye Kolesa (New Wheels)
Obama, Barack
Ob River
October Revolution
officialese
oil industry
oil prices
Old Russian language
oligarchs
Olkhon Island
Olonkho oral epic
Omsk
dust in
as third capital
Omsk Bird
opposition, Russian, as exiles in Ukraine
Orange Revolution of 2004
Orthodox Church
Ost, Andrei
Ostrovsky, Alexander
Ottoman Turks
Oyunsky, Platon
Pacific fleet
Paikidze, Nazí
Palatka
Palin, Sarah
passports
Pasternak, Boris
pastries
patriotism
Pecheny, Vladimir
Perestroika
Perm
Perm-36 labor camp
Peter the Great
Petrograd
Petropavlovsk
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Petrov, Sergei
Petrov, Yevgeny
picture taking
Pionersky
plokhiye dorogi i duraki (bad roads and morons)
poisoning of enemies
Poles
police
political centralization
Ponomarev, Ilya
population transfer
Poroshenko, Petro
Porphyrogenita, Anna
“postponed life”
Potemkin, Prince Grigory
Potemkin villages
Pray, Eleanor Lord
presidential elections, Russian
of 2012
of 2018
priests
Primorsky Krai Maritime Region
Pristavkin, Anatoly
privatization
Prokofiev, Sergei
prostitutes, Japanese
Prussia
Pugachev, Yemelyan
purges
Pushkin, Alexander
Pushnin, Dmitry
Putin, Vladimir
achievements of
building projects
centralization of power
Chechen war
and China
displayed images of
election successes
elegant dressing
on European culture
fourth inauguration
on heroes
KGB past of
myth of Putinism
New Year’s Eve televised addresses (2001, 2017)
and Nicholas II’s remains
people’s feelings about
power ceded to by Yeltsin (1999)
power image of
praise for
regime
and Russian Orthodox Church
and Sakha
travels in Russia
Radchenko, Yevgeny
Rasputin, Grigory
Razin, Stepan
reformers
re-Germanization, feared
regime (Soviet use of word)
regions, autonomy of
reindeer farms
religion
persecution of
Repin, Ilya
restricted access
rezhim raboty (work regime)
rights
river travel
roads
rock bands
Roizman, Yevgeny
Roman Catholicism
Rozhdestvensky, Robert
Rudnikov, Igor
rule of law
ruling elite
Ruriks
Russia
ambitions
civilization of
cultural jingoism
dichotomy of European enlightenment vs. ignorance
discontent
economy
eighty-nine regions of
eleven time zones of
four leaders of
gross domestic product
history of
homogenous but diverse
isolation of
literature of
military expenditure
problems of
split personality
strategic zones of
superpower status
traveling in
uniqueness of, believed
Western, European aspiration
Russian Civil War (1918–1920)
Russian Empire
expansion of
three pillars of
Russian Far East
population
settlers
Russian language
Russian Orthodox Church
attending a service of
criticism of
in czarist era
helping Putin
history of
new churches
number of believers
present-day status of
revived by Stalin
Russian Railways
Russians
Christians
patriots
“superior race”
in Ukraine
“Russian soul”
Saint George ribbons
Saint Michael’s Monastery
Saint Petersburg
Sakha (Yakutia) Republic
Sakha (Yakuts)
independence movement
literature
Sakhalin
salmon
Samara
Kuibyshev Square
sanctions, U.S.
San Francisco
Santa Maria Novella, Moscow store
SBU (Ukraine’s Security Service)
Schism of 1054
Schlumberger company
science
Sekirnaya (Flagellation) Hill
Selenga River
Semipalatinsk
Serbia
Sevostlag (Northeastern
Labor Camp)
sexist bias
shamanism
Shamanka
shamans
Shamina, Natalia
Shevchenko, Taras
shoes worn by camp inmates
Shoigu, Sergei
shops and shopping
Siberia
Siberian Cat Park
Siberian Throughway
Sibselmash (Siberian Agricultural Machinery)
sidewalks
Simbirsk
Skolkovo Innovation Center
Skripal, Sergei
Skuratov café
Slavic brotherhood
Slavophiles vs. Westernizers
Slavs, eastern
Sobolev, Sergei
Sobyanin, Irina Bordyur
Sobyanin, Sergei
social conservatism
Social Realism
soldiers
demobilized
Solovetsky Islands (Solovki)
Solovetsky Monastery
Solovetsky Stone
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Soviet mind-set
jargon
survival of
Soviet Union
centralization of power
collapse of (1991)
ethnic minorities in
fondness for
promise of
symbolism of
space program
Spas (Salvation), television station
Spassky Tower
Specialized Solovetsky Camp (SLON)
split personality disorder
Sputnik satellite
Stalin
bust
crimes denounced
family
monuments
rehabilitation of
statues
Stalin Bunker
Stalinskie vysotki (Stalin’s high-rises)
standard of living
Stoleshnikov Lane
subways
Supreme Soviet, shelling of (1993)
Suvorov, Alexander
Sverdlov, Yakov
Sverdlovsk
Svetlogorsk
Syria
Syzran
Tatar-Mongolians
Technopark
Telen, Lyudmila
television
Tenka Trassa
Third Rome
Thon, Konstantin
ticket ladies
time zones
tin
Tion
Tobolsk
toilet paper
Tolstoy, Leo
Tolyatti
Tomsk
Torgsin stores
totalitarianism, glorified
tourism
tours
traders
traffic jams
train stations
train travel
trans-Russia journey
planning of
rarely done by Russians
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Traveler’s Coffee
Travnikov, Andrei
Treasury of Sakha
Treaty of Aigun (1858)
Tregubovich, Yury
Trubitsyn, Dmitry
truck drivers
Trump, Donald
Tugulov, Gennady
The Twelve Chairs (novel by Ilf and Petrov)
Tymoshenko, Yulia
Tyumen
Tyumen Oblast
UAZ four-wheel drive
Uda River
Ukraine
break with Russia (2014)
history
may join NATO
population
relations with Russia
rivalry with Russia
title to Crimea
westward-looking
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