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Somme, Battle of the (1916) 77

SORM (Operational Search Systems) 49

Sorokin, Vladimir 51–2, 211

Day of the Oprichnik 157, 160

South Korea 98

South Ossetia 74

sovereigns, bodies of 123–7

sovereignty x, 45, 46

and the Arctic 10–12

and biopolitics 120

and the destruction of sanctioned foodstuffs 154

and the failed coup of 1991 193

and fear of the future 96

loss of 4–5, 53–7

and missile parades 73

and the Olympic Torch Relay 95–6

punishment for thoughtcrime against 95

and Russian territorial expansion 20

Schmitt’s theory of ‘the state of emergency’ 105–7

and Victory Day 202

Soviet Union

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

biopolitics 121

‘closed towns’ 51

collapse vii, 14, 17, 37, 79, 86, 93, 95, 191, 193–7, 199, 209, 222

Comintern 102

computer technology 174–5

and Crimea 179, 180–1

and the Decembrists 251

and the English language 108

foreign policy 93

labour camps 206

and military-patriotic hysteria 77

return of Soviet speech practices 225

stagnation era 123

territorial expansion 17, 18, 36

and Victory Day 199–201

see also Stalin, Josef

Sovok 195

space of flows 45

Spain 230

special operations 171–5

Speer, Albert 97

Speransky, Mikhail 246, 248

Spitting Image (TV programme) 216

Spivak, Gayatri 36

spontaneous memorials 229–32

sport

Paralympics 166–7

see also Olympic Games

sports journalists, and football hooligans 101–4

Stalin, Josef 16, 74, 78, 93, 163, 246

anniversary of the death of (5 March 1953) 123, 183–5

and biopolitics 121

and conspiracy theories 87

de-Stalinization programme 210, 213

death of 123, 126, 215

The Death of Stalin (film) 214–16

and the ‘Doctors’ Plot’ 185

and historical revisionism 180

and Hitler 220

and innovation culture 51

and the Kremlin 62

memory of the terror 208–13

and nuclear weapons 185

rehabilitation of x

and the Second World War 99

trauma of Stalin’s repressions 144

victims of terror 238–40, 241

Victory Banquet 199, 237

and Victory Day 199–200, 203

Stalker (film) 35, 162

Starovoitova, Galina 231

the state

return of viii, ix

state power and the Kremlin 62–4, 98–9

threats in the state system 81–5

Stockholm Syndrome 184

Stotsko, Pavel 214

Strategy-31 opposition movement 230–1

Streltsy 62

Stubbendorf, Ludwig 97

surrogate motherhood 146

Suslov, Mikhail 69, 201

Suvorov, Viktor 201

Sverdlov, Yakov 245

Sveshnikov, Boris 211

Syria viii, ix, 5, 8, 21, 23, 40–1, 89, 143, 173

and Russia’s hybrid war 90, 91, 92, 104

tanks 76–80

and the coup of 1991 79, 188–9, 190

and missile parades 74

Tarkovsky, Andrei 35, 162, 200

Tatars 56, 180, 210

Taurus (film) 216

technical sovereignty, loss of 56

telegony 146, 148

television

and military-patriotic hysteria 77

Russian television on the war in Syria 41, 42

terrorism 20, 23, 42

avatars of sympathy for 112–13, 115, 116

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

Boston Marathon (2013) 86, 115

in Chechnya 24

global war against 116

Kenya 113

the Lockerbie bombing 89

Moscow theatre seizure 113

in Norway 115

in Paris 112, 114, 115

and Russia’s hybrid war 91

Sinai aircraft explosion 112–13, 114, 116

in the United States 42, 86, 91, 115, 224

Thatcher, Margaret 88, 187

threats, purveyors of 81–5

Tikhon, Bishop 147–8

Timchenko, Gennady 75, 83

Timoshenko, Yulia 218

Tin Drum, The (Grass) 18, 19

Toffler, Alvin 78

tolerance

and complexity management 132–3

of sexual minorities 137

Tolokonnikova, Nadezhda 138, 139–40

Tomsk, mass graves of terror victims 209

Trans-Dniester 16

Treisman, Daniel 32, 52

trolling of the West 155

Trubetskoi, Prince Sergei 251

Trump, Donald viii, 49, 53–4, 55, 92, 139, 172, 173, 241

Tsarist Russia see Russian Empire

Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin 74

Tsoi, Viktor 47

Twitter 173

Tyrants Destroyed (Nabokov) 216

Ukraine

Association Agreement with the EU 84

and biopolitics 121

Eurovision Song Contest in 165–6, 167

geopolitics 31, 32

Holodomor 210, 236

hybrid war in 21–5, 104

the Maidan 84, 87, 195–6, 224, 226

myth of Ukrainian fascism 226–8

revolutions 37, 82, 119, 158, 224, 230

Russian fixation with 218–19

Russian plan to divide up 18

and Russian sovereignty 53, 55

Russian view of 37

and Russia’s hybrid war 90

separatists 8, 20, 23, 81, 89, 92

and the ‘state of emergency’ theory 107

and Victory Day 202

war in ix, xi, 8, 14, 32, 84, 172, 227

and military-patriotic hysteria 77

see also Crimea; MH17 (Malaysian airliner)

United Nations

Security Council 13

and sovereignty 54

United Russia party 114

United States

California 131–2

CIA 86

Democratic Party 92

and foreign languages 110

and the Kosovo war 42

and Latin America 37

and nuclear blackmail 90

and Pokémon in Russia 44

presidential elections 46, 55, 172, 173

and Russian conspiracy theories 86

Russian hackers interference in elections viii, 92

and Russian hybrid warfare 92

and Russian resentment 221, 224

and Russian sovereignty 54–5

sanctions against Russia 53–7

and Soviet computer technology 174–5

terrorist attacks 42, 86, 91, 115, 224

and the war on terror 222

Urals separatism 245

Uralvagonzavod Tank Factory 78

USSR see Soviet Union

Uzbekistan 35, 230

vaccinations for children 146

Valls, Manuel 26

Valuyev, Nikolai 119

Vancouver Winter Olympics 171

Vavilov, Nikolai 239

Vayno, Anton 148

Verkhovensky, Pyotr 221

Versailles, Palace of 124

veterans, as an offended group 225

Victory Day (9 May) 6, 113, 135, 198–203

falsification of 203

military parades for 74, 76, 78

and Putin 201–3

St George ribbon 198–9, 203

and Stalin 199–200, 203

villages

abandoned 4

grass fires 6–8

violence

against women 141–5

car drivers and aggressive behaviour 150–2, 153

domestic violence 142, 152, 163, 240

education in weapons use 152–3

Russian culture of 240–2

sexual violence 135, 141–2, 147, 240–1

victims of Stalinism 238–9

virtual wars 39–40

Vizbor, Yuri 74

Voitsekhovsky, Yevgeny 214

Volodin, Vyacheslav 126

Volozh, Arkady 48

Voronenkov, Denis 44

Vysotsky, Vladimir 86

WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) 91, 170, 174

‘The Waltz of the Urals Chekists ’ (song) 204

warped mourning 208–13

Weber, Max 54

Welke, Hans 97

Westphalian sovereignty 54, 56

White Protest Movement 252

Wikileaks 125, 174

Wilson, Woodrow 105

Winter Olympics see Sochi Winter Olympics

women

and beauty contests 138–40

in the Lugansk People’s Republic 21

politics of the female body 146–9

violence against 141–3

World Anti-Doping Agency see WADA

Wowereit, Klaus 133

WTO (World Trade Organization) 109, 222