Сергей Медведев - The Return of the Russian Leviathan

White House –In Soviet times, the White House was the seat of the Russian Supreme Soviet (Parliament). It was at the heart of the opposition to the failed coup against the Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev, in August 1991; and then the scene of the stand-off against the Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, in October 1993, which ended when Yeltsin ordered tanks to fire on the building. It is now the seat of the Russian government.

A Just Russia (political party) 224

Abkhazia 16

abortion 130, 146, 147

Abuladze, Tengiz 184–5

Adamovich, Ales 234

adoption

adoption rights for gays 137

law forbidding foreign adoptions ix, x, 13, 81–2, 121, 155, 163, 167

advertising

condoms 128, 129, 130

foreign words in 109

Afghanistan 14, 78, 93, 144, 179, 180, 181, 236

Agamben, Giorgio 105, 135–6

agriculture 7

AIDS 120, 128, 132, 144

Akhmatova, Anna 239

Aksyonov, Vasily 64

al-Baghdadi, Abū Bakr 20

Al-Qaeda 20

Alaska 180, 181

Aleppo 89

Alexander I, Emperor 246

Alexander II, Emperor 246

Alexievich, Svetlana 144, 233–7

Boys in Zinc 234, 236

on trauma and pain in Russia 234–7

Andropov, Yury 66, 126

Antarctic Agreement (1959) 11

Antarctica 12

anti-globalism 23

antisemitism 135, 137

Antonov, Alexander 22

Apple 132

Arab Spring 87

Arab states 49

Aral Sea 35

the ‘Arbat Hamlet’ 161

Arbatov, Georgy 108

Arctic 9–12

Northern Sea Route 11–12

oil exploration 9–10, 56

sovereignty 10–12

Aristotle 191

armed forces 76, 108

violence against junior soldiers ( dedovshchina ) 142

Armenia 230

Ashurkov, Vladimir 27

Assad, Bashir 89, 91, 173

Astafiev, Viktor 200

authoritarianism, and the information society 51–2

autocracy, return to Russian tradition of viii–ix, 246, 248

avatars 112–16

Babiy Yar (poem, Yevtushenko) 200

Bakhtin, Mikhail 211

Baklanov, Grigory 200

Balabanov, Alexei 15, 22

Balibar, Étienne 227

Baltic States 35, 84, 228

Bandera, Stepan 218

Banishment, The (film) 161

Barber, Benjamin, Jihad vs. McWorld 23

Barnes, Julian, The Noise of Time 215

Bataille, Georges 156

Batomunkuev, Dorzhi 78

Baudrillard, Jean

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place 40

The Violence of the Global 42

beauty contests 138–40

Beck, Ulrich 87–8, 90

Belarus 230

Belkovsky, Stanislav 188

Belorussian Station, The (film) 200

Belovezha Accords 37, 181

Belsky, Vladimir 150

Benjamin, Walter 105

Berdiev, Ismail 146, 243

Beria, Lavrentiy 184, 199, 215

Berlin Olympics (1936) 94, 97–8, 121

Berlin Wall 14, 17, 23, 105

Berlusconi, Silvio 13, 92, 126

Bernasconi, Boris 244

Bernes, Mark 198

Beslan tragedy (2004) 55, 87, 106, 113–14, 116, 224

Beust, Ole von 133

bin Laden, Osama 23

biopolitics x, 120–2

and disability 167

and the female body 149

Biryulyovo, ‘Russian March’ in 27, 28–9

Bismarck, Count Otto von 74

Blok, Alexander 8

Blokhin, Vasily 239

body, cult of the 121

body of the sovereign 123–7

Boko Haram 20, 21, 23

Bolivia 22

Bolotnaya Affair 106

borders of Russia, and sovereignty 95–6

Boris Godunov (Pushkin) 163, 164

Borodai, Alexander 20, 25

Boston Marathon, terrorist bomb (2013) 86, 115

Brazil 109

Brexit 93

Brezhnev, Leonid 51, 66, 186–7, 188, 189, 224–5

and victims of Stalin’s terror 239

and Victory Day 200–1

Brimson, Dougie 104

Britain

Brexit vote viii

Iraq war 40

post-imperial feelings 219

and Russian resentment 221

Salisbury poisoning viii, 172, 173

Brodsky, Joseph 209, 219, 234

Brother 2 (film) 15

Bryl, Yanka 234

Brzezinski, Zbigniew 30, 172

Bulatov, Alexander 251

Bulatov, Erik 247

Bunin, Ivan 233

Bush, George Jr 20, 199, 224

Bykov, Vasil 200, 234

cars

in central Moscow 63

and the culture of violence 143

GLONASS satellite tracking system for 48

pathological fetishism about 150–3

traffic in Moscow’s Kutuzovsky Prospekt 65–8

cartography 45

Castells, Manuel 175

Cat Stomping Law 13

Catherine II, Empress 246, 248

Caucasian war 95

CCAMLR (Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) 11

Central Asia

invasion by Russia 35

and Russian nationalism 29

Chaadaev, Pyotr 99

‘Philosophical Letters’ 183–4

Chaplin, Archpriest Vsevolod 146

Chaplin, Charlie 215

Charles I, King of England 124

Charlie Hebdo (journal)

cartoons 112–13

terrorist attack on offices 114, 115

Chechnya 24, 78, 143, 236, 237, 246

cheese, Russian state’s war on 154, 156, 157–60

Chekists 85, 171, 196, 204–7, 210, 238, 242

Chernenko, Konstantin 123, 126

Chernobyl disaster 38, 144, 234, 236

children

abandoned 161–4

car drivers and aggressive behaviour towards 150–2, 153

education in use of weapons 152–3

see also adoption

Children of Iron Gods (film) 22

children’s crusade 161

children’s ombudsman 146–7, 148

Chilingarov, Artur 95

China 32, 109

Beijing Olympics 98

Beijing’s Forbidden City 63

Chinese community in San Francisco 131

Chubais, Anatoly 222

Chudakova, Marietta 212

Churchill, Winston 86, 216

citizenship 45, 46

Civil War in Russia (1918-21) 22, 114, 209

class in Russia 71

and Elite Road theory 67–8

Clinton, Hilary 55

Cold War 30, 33, 39, 91, 92, 185

Colombia 22, 25

colonialism 34–7, 45

‘colour revolutions’ 79, 87, 230, 232

Come and See (film) 198

complexity management 132–4

condoms 120, 122, 128–30

conspiracy theories 86–7, 170, 221

Constitution Day 251, 252–5

Constitution of the Russian Federation 193, 202, 253

consumption, and European cheese 158

contraception 128–30

corporal punishment 142

corruption 69–70

Cossacks 21, 22, 37, 103

Council of Europe 13

The Cranes are Flying (film) 200

crime, organized crime and modern wars 23–4

Crimea

annexation vii, viii, ix, 14, 17–18, 22, 32, 37, 38, 40, 143, 162, 242

and imaginary threats 84

EU ban on technology exports to 53

and feelings of resentment 219

and football thugs 103

and historical revisionism 179, 180–1

and the hybrid war 102

‘little green men’/‘the polite people’/Russian spetsnaz soldiers vii, 38, 40, 78, 102, 103, 175

rebuilding of 84

and Russian sovereignty 54, 55

Siemens turbines scandal 53, 57, 172

and the Sochi Olympics vii, 169

and the Soviet Union 179, 180–1

state of emergency in 37–8, 107

as a territory of the subconscious 13–16

as a toxic asset 172, 173, 180

and Victory Day 202

Crimean War 251

cruise missiles 41, 42

Customs Union of Post-Soviet Countries 48

cyber warfare 78, 92

Czech Republic 103

Czechoslovakia, Soviet invasion of Prague 77, 231

Dadin, Ildar 242

Danilevsky, Nikolai 14

The Dawns Here Are Quiet (film) 200

The Death of Stalin (film) 214–16

Decembrists 246, 249–55

Degtyarev, Yury 34

Delanöe, Bertrand 133

demographic policy 119, 120