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Berlin Olympics (1936) 94, 97–8, 121

Paralympics 166–7

see also Sochi Winter Olympics

OMON riot police 149

Onishchenko, Gennady 119

‘orange threat’ myth 82

Orbán, Victor 52

The Order of the Russian Knights (film) 251

orphans, prohibition on foreign adoptions ix, x, 13, 81–2, 121, 155

‘Orthodox bikers’ 103

Orthodox Church 16, 18, 23

as an offended group 225

on corporal punishment 142

hygiene policy 120, 122

Old Believers 146

and the Olympic Torch Relay 94

and the politics of the female body 146, 147–8

and Putin 125

and suffering 237

Osipova, Natalya 241

Ossetia 16

Outskirts, The (film) 22

Pakistan 74

Paneyakh, Ella 147

Paralympics 166–7

Pasternak, Boris 233

‘Patriot’ military park 76

patriotism, and armoured tanks 76–7, 78

Pavlov, Arseny 23

Pelevin, Viktor xi, 8, 40, 211, 237

‘people’s diplomacy’ 91

perestroika 69–70, 195, 198, 201, 246

Peru 22, 52

Peskov, Dmitry 231

Peter the Great 114, 158, 221

Petranovskaya, Ludmila 142

Petrov, Nikita 239

Pioneer Cinema (Moscow) 214, 216

Pioneer Dawn (radio programme) 17, 18

Pokémon 32–7

Pokrov charity foundation 147

Poland 18

police, and the culture of violence 143

political correctness 132–3, 144

Politika talk show 18

Politkovskaya, Anna 231

populist politics

and Russian special operations 172–3

in the West 92

Poroshenko, Petro 31, 82, 218

Portnova, Martha 250

Portugal 230

post-industrial society 32

complexity management 132–4

postcolonialism 36–7

postmodern wars 39–42

Potlatch festivals 156

power

and the culture of violence 142–4

excess and the legitimization of 70

and the politics of the female body 148–9

state power and the Kremlin 62–4

Pozhigaylo, Pavel 108, 109

Prague Spring (1968) 189

presidential elections (2018) 148

Primakov, Yevgeny 108

prisons, women’s beauty contests in 138–40

Prokhanov, Alexander 14, 15

Prokhorovka, Battle of (1943) 78

Pugachev, Yemelyan 22, 252

punitive hygiene policy 119–22

Pushkin, Alexander 7, 46–7, 99, 234

Boris Godunov 163, 164

‘Eugene Onegin’ 221

statue of 253

To the Slanderers of Russia 219

Pussy Riot 9, 13, 106, 138, 148, 149, 180, 225

Putin, Vladimir 13, 41, 229

as ‘Agitator’ 20

and battle tanks 78

body of 123, 125–7

and Brezhnev 188

and Chechnya 24

and civil memory 115–16

and the collapse of the Soviet Union 37, 95, 191, 193–4, 222

and conspiracy theories 87

and contraceptives 128, 130

and Crimea 180

disappearances of 123, 126

and football thugs 10

foreign policy thinking 223–4

and geopolitics 31, 32–3

and Gorbachev 189

and homophobia 136

and IT 51–2

and Kukly 216

and the ‘Magnitsky list’ 241

and missile parades 74

Munich speech (2007) 55

and the Orthodox Church 147–8

and punitive hygiene policy 119, 120

Putinism as ‘warped mourning’ 212–13

re-election (2018) vii–viii

resentment as state policy 221–4

and the return of autocracy viii–ix

and Russian history x–xi

and Russian sovereignty 54–6

and Russia’s hybrid war 91

and Schmitt’s theory of ‘the state of emergency’ 106–7

and the Sochi Olympics vii, 98, 169, 171

and special operations 174

and Stalin 78, 93

and Syria 92

third presidential term ix

and Ukrainian fascism 226, 227

upbringing in St Petersburg 104, 107

and Victory Day 201–3

and Yeltsin 243–4, 248

PyeongChang Winter Olympics (2018) 169, 172

Qaddafi, Colonel 89

racism 27–8, 36–7, 135

Ralph Appelbaum Associates 247

Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel 113

Rasputin, Grigory 147, 148

Ratzel, Friedrich 30

Razin, Stepan 22

Reagan, Ronald 98

refugees 91, 113

remembrance 115

Repentance (film) 184–5

resentment 218–28

myth of Ukrainian fascism 226–8

the offended and the insulted 224–5

Putin’s resentment 221–4

and the slave revolt 219–21

and Ukrainian independence 218–19

The Return (film) 161

Riefenstahl, Leni 97, 98, 121

risk society 87–8, 90, 174

roads 3–5

Elite Road theory 66–8

and military parades 75

road tariff protests 114

Rodchenkov, Grigory 170, 171

Rogozin, Dmitry 5, 14, 53, 95, 119

Romania 53, 54

Romanov dynasty 56

Rosneft 31

Rotenburg brothers 75

Royzman, Yevgeny 243, 245

Rozanov, Vasily 221

The Apocalypse of Our Time 194–5

Russia Day (12 June) 76, 103

Russia Today (RT) 91, 92, 173

Russian Empire 28–9, 36, 148

fall of 194–5

Russian Revolution (1917) 8, 71, 86, 114, 209

Russian Sea companies 83

‘Russian spring’ 23

Said, Edward, Orientalism 36

St Petersburg 57

Sakharov, Andrei 233

Salisbury poisoning viii, 172, 173

Samaranch, Antonio 98

same-sex marriages 136, 137, 214, 216–17

Samoilova, Yulia 165–6, 167, 168

Samoyardov, Alexei 22

San Francisco

Chinatown 131

gay quarter 131, 132, 134

sanctions against Russia 53–4, 56, 174

destruction of Western sanctioned goods 55–6, 81

Scheler, Max 220

Schlöndorff, Volker 18

Schmitt, Carl x, 97, 105–6, 107, 114

Schroeder, Gerhard 13, 92

scientific knowledge, crisis in 148

scientific research 51

Sechin, Igor 31

Second World War 18, 99, 226

and battle tanks 77–8

the ‘Lieutenants’ prose’ 200

missiles 74

and Victory Day 198–203

as a war of memory 209

Segalovich, Ilya 48

separatists 84, 95

Ukraine 8, 20, 23, 81, 89, 92

SERB 232

sex education 129, 130

sexual violence 141–2, 147, 240–1

and homophobia 135

sexuality

Russian views on 129–30

see also homophobia

Shakespeare, William 161, 211, 215

Shalamov, Varlam 210, 212, 235–6

Sharov, Vladimir 211

Shchegolyov, Vanya 150

Shchekochikhin, Yury 231

Shcherbak, Andrei 133

Shekau, Abubakar 20

Shevchenko, Maxim 86

Shoigu, Sergei 79

Sholokhov, Mikhail 233

Shostakovich, Dmitry 215

Shulzhenko, Klavdiya 198

Shuvalov, Igor 69–72

Siberia 35

Siemens turbines scandal 53, 57, 172

Silicon Valley 131–2

siloviki (power ministries) 9, 44

as an offended group 225

and the doping scandal 171

as purveyors of threats 83–5

and Soviet computer technology 174–5

Sinyavsky, Andrei 138, 211

Skidelsky, Lord 228

Skolkovo 51, 134

Skripal, Sergei and Julia viii, 172

Sobchak, Anatoly 243

Sochi Winter Olympics vii, 5, 13, 14, 15, 71, 92

and the Berlin Olympics 97

doping scandal 169–71, 173

‘Operation Sochi’ 169–71

Torch Relay 94–6

social Darwinism 26

social media 49

and domestic violence 240

and Gorbachev 186

‘groups of death’ 161

politics of the female body 141–2, 148–9

trolling on 172

see also Facebook

Sokolov, Maxim 26

Sokolov, Nikita 200–1

Sokurov, Alexander, Taurus 216

Soldatov, Andrei 50–1

Solovetsky Monastery 208, 213

Solzenitsyn, Alexander 212, 233

Somali extremists 156