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political prisoners 42, 54

in Perm gulag camps 240–44

Polubesova, Elmira 238–9

pop music 169, 170, 171, 249

Pussy Riot 232–3, 234

popular culture see Western culture

population crisis 5–7, 10, 11, 165, 189, 206–7, 216, 236, 246

birth/death rates 5, 6–7, 16, 21, 33, 94–5, 145–6, 154, 165, 206, 209, 216

death, causes of 5, 93, 94; of children 16–17, 22, 95, 99–100; hunger 27–8; violence 5, 17, 94, 99

depopulation 5, 18, 24, 48–9, 58, 64, 156, 189, 203, 216, 241

life expectancy 5, 6–7, 93–4, 99, 165, 206, 246; of women 5

pensioners, number of 189

population levels 5, 12, 24, 49, 56, 203, 216

in Moscow 203

Potanin, Vladimir 210

Powers, Gary 6

prices 33, 55–6

propaganda

German, during occupation of Russia 30, 122, 123–4

Soviet 41–2, 101, 114–15; Father Dmitry’s recantation as 176, 177

Western 81

protest see dissidents

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 208, 224

see also Jews

psychiatric assessment/treatment of dissidents, by KGB 116–19, 127

public opinion/polls 10–11, 229–30

publishing, as state controlled 7, 114

see also Russian literature; samizdat

Punin, Nikolai (husband of Anna Akhmatova) 60–61, 70

Two Years in Abez 168

Pussy Riot 232–3, 234

Putin, Vladimir 51, 204, 216, 228–33

opposition to 229

as prime minister 229

re-election as president (2012) 229–30

Russian Orthodox Church and 232, 235–6

his United Russia party 229–30, 238

railway travel 4–5, 35, 37–8, 48, 49, 51, 66, 67, 77, 92, 96, 141–2, 146, 154, 156–8

accidents 127

Trans-Siberian railway 236–7

Regelson, Lev 101–2, 105

religion 8, 15, 23, 29, 81–2, 87, 117–18

atheism 82, 85, 86, 88, 90, 96–7

the Bible 242, 243

Catholicism 210

Evangelical 130–31

in gulag camps 56, 242, 243

Lenin on 44

Muslims 92, 93, 135, 210, 211

see also Jews; Russian Orthodox Church

religious freedom 15, 17, 101

religious relics 235–6

Richards, Keith 170, 171, 172

Russian army 94

Russian history 5, 6, 7, 9, 17, 121, 168

Holy Fools (Yurodivie) 239–40

Soviet Union, collapse of 207, 208–10, 215, 225

teaching of 239–40

see also World War II

Russian identity 197, 210, 211

Russian literature 7, 77

by dissidents 7–8, 73; see also samizdat

see also individual authors

Russian Orthodox Church 8–9, 21, 23, 32, 40, 82–6, 155–6, 204–5, 213–14

as anti-Semitic 223, 224

church buildings 84–5, 107–8

church/state relationship 9, 32, 36, 44–5, 72, 82–3, 90, 105, 181, 185, 218, 235–6

churches, Khrushchev’s closure of 82, 94

as conservative 85

Father Dmitry, action against 90–91, 98, 100–102, 109, 198, 206; see also Grebnevo and Kabanovo

importance of 9, 32, 211–12

KGB and 45, 222–5

monasteries 37, 38–41, 44, 204–5

Old Believers 84

priests 82, 83, 100; as KGB informers 222–4; training of 36–7, 38–41, 123; see also individual priests

Pussy Riot case and 232–3

Putin and 232, 235–6

resurgence of 85–6, 123

services 107–8, 251–2; christenings 104–5, 126

Stalin and 32, 36–7, 44–6, 51–2

young people and 82–3, 87, 108, 126, 179

see also religion

Saint Petersburg 231–2

Sakharov, Andrei 73, 130, 131, 135, 136, 140, 171, 172, 200, 207

on the birth rate 99

hunger strike 243

his Nobel Peace prize 112

samizdat (underground publications) 8, 73, 87–8, 93, 104

Chronicle of Current Events (newspaper) 113, 139, 242

see also dissidents

Sedov, Father Vladimir 103, 104, 115–16, 120–21, 225

Father Dmitry and 104–11, 116, 119–20, 133, 134, 251, 252; on his arrest/recantation 116, 119, 126, 173, 178

Semyonov, Father Alexander 108–11, 133–4, 202

arrest 134

Father Dmitry and 251, 251; on his arrest/recantation 180–81, 202

Semyonova, Zoya (I) (wife of Alexander Semyonov) 108, 109, 111, 115–16, 119, 133, 134

Semyonova, Zoya (II) (daughter of Alexander Semyonov) (goddaughter of Father Dmitry) 108, 109, 115, 133, 202–4

serfs/serfdom see peasant class

Sergei, Patriarch 36–7

St Sergei 39

Shabalkin, Colonel Ilya 3

Shafarevich, Igor 101

Shcharansky, Natan 130, 131, 139

Shchelkovo (town) 107

Shchipkova, Tatyana 135

Shimanov, Gennady 117–18

Shmurov, Viktor 245–6

Siberia 27, 76, 80, 154

Sinyavsky, Andrei 8, 79, 170, 233–4

smoking 100

Sobchak, Ksenia 232

Sokolov, Sergei (KGB agent) 196–7, 198

Solovetsky Islands gulag camp (Solovki) 49, 50, 138

Solovov, Mikhail 135

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 87, 140, 200

in exile 129

The Gulag Archipelago 50, 51

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 75

Sonin, Konstantin 233–4

Sorokin, Vladimir (KGB interrogator) 181, 193, 194–5, 196

Soviet Union, collapse of 207, 208–10, 215, 225

see also Russian history

space travel 6, 76

Spodin, Sergei 241–2, 244–5

Sretenka monastery, Moscow 204–5

Stalin, Joseph 5, 7, 9, 23–4, 25, 28, 59–60, 73–4, 151

his great purges (1937–8) 73, 74

Hitler and 59

Khrushchev’s criticism of 74–5, 82, 86

Russian Orthodox Church and 32, 36–7, 44–6, 51–2

death 43, 74

starvation

deaths from 27–8; of children 22

in gulag camps 49, 152

see also famine

state control 9, 23–4, 73–4, 87, 121, 167, 169–72, 187

bureaucracy 79–80, 149–51, 160

children, enforced removal from parents 245

church/state relationship 9, 32, 36, 44–5, 72, 82–3, 90, 105, 181, 185, 218, 235–6

collectivization see collectivization

election fraud (2011–12) 229–30, 246–7

of publishing 7, 114

see also political issues

state corruption 7, 8, 10, 80, 232

police 75, 237–8

state pensions 5–6, 63, 191, 209, 230

number of pensioners 189

storks 24

Sukhanov, Oleg 39, 41

taxation 17, 22, 23

alcohol duty 92–3, 95, 207

terrorism 144–5

Tian-Shanskaia, Olga Semyonova 17, 26

Time (magazine) 130

The Times 135

Tomorrow (newspaper) (continuation of Day) 209

trains see railway travel

Transparency International 10

transport/travel 14, 21, 34, 35, 98, 182

of goods/supplies 49, 67

cars 106–7, 153, 187, 203

railways see railway travel

Trofimov, Anatoly (KGB) agent 194–6

Tula region 182, 189, 191, 192, 203

Ukraine 27, 28, 51, 53, 64, 67, 69, 70, 113, 135, 152, 245

Unecha (town) 20, 22, 31, 34, 35, 211–12, 213

unemployment see labour market

United Nations (U N) 207

United Russia party (of Vladimir Putin) 229–30, 238

United States (US) 79, 111–12, 129, 130

Jackson–Vanik Act 1974, on Russian trade 131

Olympic Games (1980), boycott of 136

Vadim, Father (of Berezina) 211, 212, 213–16

Vaneyev, A. A.: Two Years in Abez (ms memoir) 58–9, 60

Vasily, Russian Orthodox Bishop of Brussels 180

Vasilyevna, Anna 15, 16, 17

VGIK (Soviet film school) 80–81

Vinogradovo (village) church, Father Dmitry at (post-recantation) 198, 202–4, 206

vodka 2, 3–4, 7, 92, 95

see also drinking

Volkov, Oleg 58