Mikhail Gorbachev - The New Russia

relationship between democracy and

Stalinism disguised as

system created in USSR under the banner of

values of

Socialist International

socio-economic policy

Soka Gakkai (Japanese religious political movement)

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Isayevich

Solzhenitsyna, Natalia Dmitrievna

South Africa

see also Johannesburg; Zuma

South Korea

see also Kim Dae-jung

South Ossetia

abolition of autonomy for

independence recognized by Russia

see also Tskhinvali

Sovetskaya Rossiya (newspaper)

Soviet–German treaty (1990)

Soviet–Japanese Declaration (1956)

Soviet republics (former)

democratic elections held for first time

leaders of

ties between

troops in

see also Armenia; Belarus; Chechnya; Estonia; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Tajikistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan

Spacey, Kevin

Spain

see also Barcelona; Franco

Spenier, Donald E.

Speransky, Mikhail

spy scandals

St Louis, Missouri

St Petersburg

letters to MG from

protests widespread in

Putin as deputy mayor

reported ‘death’ of MG in

RG and MG visit for the last time

supplies of food and medicines to

venues/events: Actors Club of the Union of Theatre Workers

Baltika factory

Bolshoy Drama Theatre

Conference of Social Democrats (1999)

Economic Forum

G8 Summit

Kshesinskaya’s Palace

Mariinsky Palace

Raisa Gorbacheva Centre for Paediatric Oncology and Haematology

see also Kornstadt; Petersburg Dialogue

St Petersburg Pedagogical University

St Petersburg State University

stagnation

belief that people will put up with

characterized

generational change avoids

industrial

living standards of the majority

need for reforms during the years of

new era of

political

Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich

calls to bring back

cleansing socialism of the totalitarian legacy of

concern at creeping rehabilitation of

documentary evidence of guilt for Katyn massacre

Stalinism

dogmatic thinking and ideological stereotypes

first blow to the ideology of

hardline

heinous crimes of

legacy of

MG one of the staunchest opponents of the evils of

one of the first to speak out about the inhumanity of

rejecting

repressive machinery of

Russian social democracy perverted and compromised by

victims of repression

see also neo-Stalinism

Stampa, La (Italian newspaper)

see also Chiesa

standard of living see living standards

Stanford University

START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties – 1991/1993)

see also New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

State Council

State Duma

Committees: Economic Policy

Legislation and Judicial and Legal Reform

delays in trying to get it to pass anticorruption law

entrance barrier for parties to be admitted to

essential that there should be changes in organization of elections

initiatives from United Russia, exploiting its majority in

parties enabled to funnel ‘right people’ into

presidential ‘reshuffle’ and elections

pretext for dissolving

Putin’s participation in campaign

question of removing Yeltsin from office

rubber-stamping body

seats dished out or simply sold

Stalin extolled by chairman of

START-2 Treaty and

State Emergency Committee

Impeachment Commission supporters of

investigations into

political and economic amnesty to members

trial of members

see also coup (August 1991)

State Prosecutor’s Office

Stavropol

dust storms

medical equipment to hospitals in the region

MG sacks bribe-takers in the militia

Stavropol Agricultural Institute

Steele, Jonathan

Stepankov, Valentin

Stepashin, Sergey

Stockholm

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Stone, Oliver

Stone, Sharon

Strasbourg

Strauss, Bob

Strong, Maurice

Strzhelchik, Vladislav

Sun Yat-sen

Supreme Soviet of Russia

approval of destruction of the Union

CNN cameras broadcasting live from blocks adjacent to

decree annulling the powers of

friction between Yeltsin’s team and

irreconcilable stand-off between president and

popular privatization plans by academics in

Presidium chairman of

privatization of state property within the competence of

resolutions of

right to issue statutory decrees

shelling of

tragedy brought about by leaders of

see also Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR

Surikov, Viktor

Surkov, Vladislav

Sverdlovsk

Sweden

Moscow Embassy

see also Palme; Stockholm

Swiss bank accounts

Switzerland

see also Davos; Geneva

Syr Darya river

Syria

Taffertshofer, Josef

Taganka Theatre

Tagliavini Commission (2009)

Taiwan

Tajikistan

TASS see ITAR-TASS

Taubman, Bill

tax avoidance schemes

tax evasion

large-scale

Tbilisi

Telen, Lyudmila

telephone justice

terrorism

anyone can become the victim of

condemnation of

conditions for it to flourish

criminal

essential to destroy a hotbed of

fight against

harsh measures necessary to combat

mass poverty facilitates the spread of

rampant

see also anti-terrorist coalition; extremism; fundamentalism; international terrorism; religious fanaticism

Thatcher, Denis

Thatcher, Margaret

Time Machine

Titov, Konstantin

Tkachenko, Alexander

Togliatti, Palmiro

Togliatti (city)

Tokyo

Tolstykh, Valentin

Tolubeyev, Andrey

totalitarianism

attempts to drag Russia back to

breaking free of

CP leaders yet to break umbilical link with

disappeared regimes

downfall of

eliminated

Khrushchev’s attack on

legacy of

methods nowhere proved efficient

not repudiated

personification of victory of democracy over

return to

Solzhenitsyn’s contribution to overcoming

transition to democracy

waging war on

Transcaucasia

Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (1990)

Trial of the CPSU

controversy surrounding

provocative intentions of those who set up

Trifonova, N. A.

Trimble, David

Troyanovsky, Oleg

Tskhinvali

Tuđman, Franjo

Tuleyev, Aman

Tunisia

Turetsky Choir

Turin

Turkey

Turner, Ted

MG with (2009)

see also CNN; Nuclear Threat Initiative

Twitter

Ufa

Ukraine

anti-Russian sentiment and behaviour encouraged in

crisis precipitated by association agreement with EU

letters to MG from

Orange Revolution (2004–5)

relationship between Russia and

relief supplies to

see also Crimea; Kiev; Kravchuk; Minsk Protocol; Yanukovych

Ulan-Ude

ultra-nationalism

attempts to drag Russia back to totalitarianism

Nastya Baburova’s killers sentenced to long terms of imprisonment

Umalatova, Sazha

Umansky, Artur

UN (United Nations)

Charter of

Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen 2009)

Conference on Environment and Development see Earth Summit

Convention on the Elimination of Chemical Weapons

Environment Programme