Ukrainians
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ulan-Ude
Ulyanov, Vladimir (Lenin). See also Lenin
Ulyanov family
Ulyanovsk
United Russia party (Yedinaya Rossiya)
United States
missile defense systems
presidential elections (2016)
University of Königsberg
Urals
uranium mining
urban renewal
Ust-Omchug
Ust-Tuskan camp
Vampilov, Alexander
vertikal vlasti (power vertical)
Veseliye Rusi piti est (drinking is the joy of Rus)
victory parades
Vinokurov, Nikolai
Vitus Bering
Vladimir’s Hill
Vladimir the Great, Prince
monument, in Moscow
statue of, in Kiev
Vladivostok
Fort Number Seven
volcanoes
Volga River and region
Vrubel, Mikhail
Vysotsky, Vladimir
wars
heroism in
memories of
West
fear of assault from
joining the
as model
relations with
westernization program (of Peter the Great)
Western lifestyle
West Siberian Plain
White Capital (Omsk)
Whites (1920s)
White Sea
White Sea–Baltic Canal
women
bias against
employed
World War II
memorial
parades honoring
Xi Jinping
Yakunin, Gleb
Yakuts. See Sakha
Yakutsk
Yanukovych, Viktor
Yaremenko, Bohdan
Yazykov, Nikolai
Yekaterinburg
Yeltsin, Boris
economic shock therapy
misrule of
promised democracy
resignation
Yeltsin Center
young people
Yudashkin, Valentin
Zabolev, Yury
Zhernakov, Vladimir
Zosima, Saint
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NINA KHRUSHCHEVA is the author of Imagining Nabokov and The Lost Khrushchev. She is a Professor of International Affairs at New School University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times, among others. You can sign up for email updates here.
A contributing editor at The Atlantic and author of the New York Times Notable Book Facing the Congo, Angry Wind, and River of No Reprieve, among others, JEFFREY TAYLER has reported on Russia and the former Soviet Union for Foreign Policy, Harper’s Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, National Geographic, and more. He lives in Moscow. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
MAP
PROLOGUE: Solovki, the Soul of Russia
INTRODUCTION: In Putin’s Footsteps
1. Kaliningrad: The Amber-Tinted Gaze of an Empire
2. Kiev: The Mother of All Russian Cities or the Threat to Mother Russia?
3. Arkhangelsk, Solovetsky Islands, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow: Kremlin Time, or Russia’s Clock of Clocks
4. Ulyanovsk (Simbirsk) and Samara (Kuibyshev): Cities of the Mighty Volga
5. Perm, Yekaterinburg, and Tyumen: The Urals’ Holy Trinity
6. Omsk: A Mixed Metaphor of Putin’s Empire
7. Novosibirsk: A Story of Science and Serendipity
8. Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, and Lake Baikal: Asian Abodes of the Spirit
9. Blagoveshchensk, Heihe, and Yakutsk: Roughing It
10. Vladivostok: Rule the East!
11. Magadan and Butugychag: From the Gulag Capital to the Valley of Death
12. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: The Very Far East
EPILOGUE: The Past of the Russian Future
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHOTOS
NOTE ON NAMING AND RENAMING
NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION
NOTES
INDEX
ALSO BY NINA KHRUSHCHEVA
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT
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Song lyrics from “Land of Bones and Ice” in chapter 11 © Vladimir Vysotsky, reprinted by permission of the Estate of V. Vysotsky (translated 2019 by Nina Khrushcheva).
Map by Paul Pugliese
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1962– author.|Tayler, Jeffrey, author.
Title: In Putin’s footsteps: searching for the soul of an empire across Russia’s eleven time zones / Nina L. Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler.
Description: First edition.|New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.|Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018039821|ISBN 9781250163233 (hardcover)|ISBN 9781250163240 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Russia (Federation)—Description and travel.|Khrushcheva, Nina L., 1962– —Travel—Russia (Federation)|Tayler, Jeffrey—Travel—Russia (Federation)|Russia (Federation)—History, Local.|Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952– —Political and social views.|Regionalism—Political aspects—Russia (Federation)|Russia (Federation)—Politics and government—1991–|Russia (Federation)—Relations.
Classification: LCC DK510.76 .K53 2019|DDC 947.086/2—dc23
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