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In Putin's Footsteps

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by Nina Khrushcheva


  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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