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Russia

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by Philip Longworth


  Semen (great-grandson of Ivan ‘Money-Bag’), 63

  Semino, Dr O., 6

  Serbia, Serbs, 9, 157, 204, 220, 221, 222,

  313

  Sergius of Radonezh, St, 50, 58-61, 64,

  319

  settlements, societies: and beginnings of

  serfdom, 106; Bronze Age, 12; burial

  practices, 11-12; cluster developments,

  18-19; defensive, 110-11; defensive

  and governmental, 110 ; distribution of,

  52; effect of climate on, 5-6, 15-17,

  18; ethnographic studies on, 8-9; food

  preparation, 11; hill (gorodishche), 24;

  hunter-gatherers, 7-8, 1 0 - n ; Iron

  Age, 12-13; and language, 14-15;

  patriarchal tendencies, 12; religious

  beliefs, 12; and river trade, 24-5; and

  serfdom, 129-30; Stone Age, 5, 6, 8,

  9—10; swidden agriculture, 13—14;

  Tnpolye type, 10; (un)conscious

  adaptations, 8; Viking, 23, 24; sec also

  economy

  Sevastopol, 179, 206, 209, 210, 257

  Seven Years War (1756-63), 168, 178

  Severiane (tribal association), 22

  Seymour, H.D, 209

  Shahin Girey, Crimean Khan, 178

  Shamyl (imam; Murid leader of

  insurrection), 203, 207

  Shanghai Forum, 326

  Shaposhnikov, Marshal (Chief of Staff),

  255

  Shatalin, Stanislav, 294

  Shchelkalov, Andrei and Vasilii, 109, 111

  Shcherbatov, Prince Mikhail, 79

  Shchigolev, Artemii, 144—5

  Shevkal (shamkal of Tarku), 112

  Shostakovich, Dmitrii, 198; Cheriomushki, 272

  Shuiskii, Prince Andrei, 90

  Shuiskii, Vasilii, Boyar, then Tatar see

  Vasilii IV

  Siberia, Siberians, 5, 66, 69, 166, 197, 244, 251, 256, 316; administration of, l22 160-1, 176-7; communications in, 223; conquest of, 97, 129, 132—3; difficulties of adjustment/absorption, 280; effect of climate on, 6; illness in, 176; introduction of law in, 198-9; mapping of, 133; mineral wealth of, 279-80; native peoples of, 134; population movements into, 130; railways in, 223-5; a n d religious conversion, 135; settlement programmes for, 130-1; strategic importance of, 133; strategic

  significance of, 96, 110

  Siberia Office, 132

  Sigismund, King of Poland, 122, 123

  Silk Road, 158

  Silvestr (monk), 91

  Simeon the Proud, Grand Prince 51

  Sinkiang, 263

  Sinope, 210

  Sisak, Prince, 92

  Six-Day War (1967), 278

  Skrynnikov, Ruslan, 111

  Skuratov (post-communist prosecutorgeneral), 312

  Skyger, Lieut.-Col., 137

  Slansky, Rudolf, 267

  slaves, 23, 30, 33, 42, 93, 173, 200, 202

  Slavonic Benevolent Committee, 221

  Slavs, 6, 10, 15, 41, 197, 220

  Slovakia, Slovaks, 265, 284

  Slovenia, Slovenes, 20, 220, 294

  Smolensk, 24, 33 52, 55, 62, 84, 110 ,123, 124, 128, 129, 136, 141, 144, 194

  Sobieski, Jan, King of Poland, 147

  Social Democrats, 237

  ‘Socialism in One Country’, 239

  Sofia (daughter of Tsar Alexis; regent during minority of Ivan V and Peter I), 147, 148, 151

  Sofia (city), 222

  Sokhma river, 48

  Sokolovskii, Marshal V.D., 257

  Solari, Pietro Antonio, 82

  Solomonia, Grand Princess, 85

  Soloviev, Vladimir, 112

  Solvychegodsk, 96, 124

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 283

  South Vietnam, 278

  South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), 269

  Soviet Academy of Science, 8

  Soviet Union, 2, 320—1; 500-day regeneration plan for, 294—5; acquisition of territories, 261; apparent stability of, 283-4; Autonomous Provinces, 245; Autonomous Republics, 244-5; censorship, propaganda and public relations in, 150, 252; collapse of, 281, 324; collectivization programmes, 252-3, 268-9, 274-5; constitution for, 244-6; continuities with old regime, 238, 239; and demobilization, 264-5; demographic/economic changes 271—4; deportations in, 256, 271; and detente, 278-9; deteriorating standard of living in, 292; disastrous aftermath of collapse, 301-2; dissidents in, 283; easing of foreign and domestic attitudes, 268; and East-West relations, 286—7; economic problems in, 240—2; enlightened attitudes of, 245—6; events leading to collapse of, 282-6; as a Federation of National Republics, 242—6; final disintegration of, 298—300; and freedom for satellite countries, 290—6; Gorbachev reforms in, 284—8; increasing influence of, 270-1; introduction of democratic practices, 287; judicious use of repression/concession, 269; labour camps in, 253; management of, 271—2; military disasters/victories, 255-60; mineral wealth of, 285; nationalist sentiments in, 273-4; Nazi-Soviet Pact, 254, 261, 292; New Economic Policy, 242, 246; new security agency in, 239—40; nuclear weapons in, 269, 277-8; political coup in, 296-8; and political/constitutional reform, 289; and post-war territorial divisions, 262-3; presence/influence in Eastern Europe, 265—7, 274-7; prestige/world influence, 261—2, 280—1; reasons for collapse, 298-300; and removal of conservative elements, 290; science/technology in, 279—80; social/economic crisis in, 246-8; space missions, 269, 270; succession of disasters in, 286—8; trade agreements, 269; trials, executions and purges in, 252, 267; urban/industrial building projects, 250—2; uskorenie, glasnost and perestroika in, 285, 287, 288; war casualties, 264; Western attempts to curtail, 269; withdrawal of troops and non-interference policies, 288—9

  Spafarius (Romanian in Tsar’s service), 148

  Spain, 6, 171

  Speranskii, Mikhail, 198

  Spiridonov, Admiral, 172

  Sprengtporten, Colonel G.M., 192

  Stakhanov (a miner), 250

  Stalin, Joseph, 246, 261, 271, 273, 321; adherence to post-war agreements, 264; character of, 252—3; Communist ideology, 264; death of, 267; and Georgian independence, 244; and issue of Declaration of Rights of the Peoples of Russia, 242; and management of war, 255, 257, 258; patriotic speech by, 247—8; and the ‘percentage agreement’, 263; popularity of, 268; and Nazi-Soviet pact, 254; and war against Japan, 264

  Stalingrad, 110; battle of, 257—60; see also

  Tsaritsyn

  Star Wars, 286, 298

  Stefan, abbot, 59

  Stephen of Novgorod, 50, 57—8

  Stiglitz, J., 311

  Stolypin, Petr, Premier, 231-2, 272

  Strabo, 17

  Strategic Arms Limitation, 277

  Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’), 282

  Strobel, Lieut.-Col. van, 137

  Stroganov, Grigorii, 96—7, 110 , 173

  Stroganov venture, 130

  Sungir archaeological site, 5

  Sunzha, 180

  Suvurov, Generalissimo Aleksandr, 179

  Suzdal, 44, 46, 52

  Sviatopolk (son of Iziaslav), 42

  Sviatoslav the resentful, 27

  Sviatoslav (son of laroslav), 41, 42

  Sviatoslav (son of Olga/Helen), 37-8

  Svoboda, Colonel (later President of Czechoslovakia), 262

  Sweden, 1, 4, 49, 55, 79, 98, 108, 122, 142, 143, 146, 188; war with, 152—6, 168

  Syr-Darya river, 160, 173, 209

  Tabriz, 204

  Taiwan, 326

  Tajikistan, 278, 325

  Tajiks, 217

  Taliban, 308

  Tallin, 104

  Talyanky, 10, 18

  Taman (Tmutorakhan), 41

  Tamara, Queen of Georgia, 44

  Tamerlane the Great, 63

  Tannenberg, 234

  Tara, 110

  Tashkent, 160, 173, 209, 216, 222

  Tatars, 46-7, 48, 52, 70, 78, 96, 140, 146, 158, 164, 176, 187, 199, 216, 245, 248, 319; alliance with Ivan the
Great, 79; arrival of, 46—7; attacks on Moscow, 62-3, 66; baskak (officials), 49; defeats of, 57, 92; exploitation of Russian assets by, 49—50; imposition of power by, 49; relationship with princes, 49—50, 53—5; religious toleration of, 51; uprising against, 54; see also Mongols

  Tatary, 273

  Tavasarans, 94

  Tbilisi, 191, 205, 223, 292, 325

  Tehran (1943), 262

  Temriuk (Kabardinian prince), 93

  Terek Cossacks, 203, 243

  Terek river, 93, 94, 191, 203, 257

  Terka, 93, 112

  Teutonic Knights, 49

  Theodora, Empress, 34

  ‘Third Rome’, myth of the, 1, 85

  Third World, 261, 280

  Thirteen Years War, 138

  Tibet, 145, 188, 326

  Tien Shan mountains, 222

  Tiflis see Tbilisi

  Tilsit, 190, 254

  Time of Troubles (era of confusion concluding Muscovite period), 108-27, 129, 144, 323

  Tiumen, no

  Tiutchev EL, 215

  Tobolsk, no

  Tokhtamysh (Tatar leader), 60

  Tomsk, 280

  Toropets, 69

  Torzhok, 72

  Totleben, General Ye. I., 210 towns/cities: additions, 44; changing relative importance of, 51—3; development of, 20-1, 23-4; expansion of, 44, 110 ; movement away from, 58; as tribal headquarters and agricultural centres, 24

  Trabzon, 263 trade/commerce, 11, 12—13, 93, 178; with Baghdad, 30; with Byzantine Empire, 30 33. 36; Caspian monopoly, 204; Cold War agreements, 269; early, 18; effect of rail network on, 224—5; with the English at Kholmogorii, 97-8; England-Russia route, 173-4; expansion into eastern Caucasus, in—12; in Great Perm region, 96-7; helpful policies for, 109, 110; improvements in, 315; Jewish, 181; limited, 130; oil, 297, 307, 324, 325; Orenburg project, 173, 174-6; and removal of Khazar control, 37; resumption of, 108; with Siberia, 110 133; Viking-Russian collaboration, 22, 23, 24-5, 27-8; with the Vikings, 24-5; worldwide, 128; see also economy

  Trafalgar, battle of (1805), 209

  Trakhaniot brothers (migrants from

  Byzantium; advisers to government), 75, 82-3

  Trakhaniot, lurii, 70, 75, 77

  Trans-Siberian Railway, 222, 223-5

  Transbaikalia, 225, 226

  Transcaucasia, 219, 244, 273, 314

  transportation, 210—11, 212; see also railways

  Transylvania, 276

  Trauernich, Lieut.-Col., 137

  Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1917), 238

  Treaty of Edirne, 204

  Treaty of Horodlo (1413), 66

  Treaty of Jassy (1792), 180

  Treaty of Rapallo (1922), 241

  Trepov, A.F (premier), 236

  tribes, 20—1, 24, 94, 245; see also named tribes

  Trinity Monastery (Volga), 109

  Trubetskoi, Prince Dmitrii, 124, 125, 126

  Truman, President Harry, 266

  Tsaritsyn, 22, 110; see also Stalingrad

  Tsiolkovskii, Konstantin, 245-6

  Tsitsianov, General Pavel, 191-2

  Tsivilsk, 110

  Tukhachevskii, Marshal Mikhail, 240, 253, 255, 259

  Tula, 122, 138, 152, 194

  Tungus, 134, 176, 209

  Tupolev, Andrei, 279

  Turkestan, 217

  Turkey, 166, 204, 221, 238, 263, 310

  Turkics, 46, 319

  Turkish War, First (1768-74), 179

  Turkmenistan, Turkmens, 174, 216, 310, 325

  Turks, 46, 95, 112, 146, 157, 160, 170,

  178, 193, 204, 235, 319

  Tushino, 122

  Tver, 49, 53, 54-5, 56, 65, 69, 72, 73-4

  Tzimisces, Emperor John, 37, 38

  Udmurts, 245

  Ufa, 96, 110, 145

  Uglich, 111

  Ugra river, 69

  Ukraine, 1, 80, 129, 142, 297, 324; chaos in, 243; Council of Officers, 184; nationalism in, 244; Diet of Nobility, 184; discontent in, 138-9; Peter I’s distrust of, 162-3; early settlements in, 10, 11, 14, 17; ethnic minorities in, 245; independence of, 298; integrationist policies in, 219; nationalism in, 292; problems in, 143-4; railway connections, 213-14; Russification policy in, 184—5; as Soviet Republic, 243-4; tribes in, 20

  Ukraine Office, 148

  Ukrainians, 6, 10, 52, 164, 178, 183, 248, 259

  Ukraintsev, Emelian, 148

  Ulbncht, Walter, 268

  Ulug-Mehmet, 64

  UNESCO, 265

  Uniate Church, 113, 274

  Union of Lublin (1569), 103

  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics see Soviet Union

  United Arab Republic (UAR), 270

  United States of America, 265, 280; and 9/11, 317; and the Cold War, 266; competition with Soviet Union, 278; and containment of Russia, 321; and expansion of NATO, 307; expansion of power, 215, 225, 226; on good terms with Soviet Union, 270—1; as imperial power, 320; and nuclear power, 269, 277; as superpower, 326; support for Putin, 317; and troops in Vladivostock, 244

  Ural river, 159, 173

  Urals, 1, 15, 18, 44, 96, 110 , 138, 145, 176, 187, 216, 256

  Urquhart, David, 205-6

  Ustiug, 148

  Uzbek Khan, 54

  Uzbekistan, Uzbeks, 217, 294, 325

  Vaga river, 48

  Valona, 270

  Vasilevskii, Marshal A.M., 257

  Vasilievskaia, 84

  Vasilii I, 62-3

  Vasilii II (Vasilii the Blind), 62, 63-7, 69

  Vasilii III, 83-6, 89

  Vasilii IV (Vasilii Shuiskii), 89, 114, 119, 121-3, 124

  Vasilii Kosoi, 63, 64

  Vatican, 315; see also Catholic Church/Papacy/Popes

  Vatutin, General, N.F., 257, 262

  Venice, 70, 71

  Verkhoturia, 110

  Vernadsky, George, 219

  Viacheslav (son of laroslav), 41

  Viatichi, 20

  Viatka, 69

  Viazma, 80

  Viborg, 156

  Vienna, 76

  Vikings, 2, 4, 22, 48; and building of first Russian state, 27-8; co-operation with Russians, 22, 23, 24-5, 27-8; contact with Constantinople, 26; early settlements, 23, 24; intelligence system, 24; intermarriages, 31—2; as traders and plunderers, 23, 24

  Vilna, 142

  Vinius, Andrew, 138

  Vishnevetsky, Dmitry, 95

  Viskovatii, Ivan Mikhailovich, 104

  Vistula river, 178, 262

  Vitebsk, 144

  Vitovt of Lithuania, Grand Duke, 63

  Vitte, Sergei, 224, 225, 229, 230, 231

  Vladimir, Grand Prince (grandson of Olga/Helen), 37, 38-9, 40

  Vladimir Monomakh, 42-3, 87

  Vladimir (city), 5, 44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 53,

  Vladimir the sainted slave trader, 27

  Vladimir-Moscow, Grand Principality of, 52, 53, 61, 319-20; see also Muscovy, Grand Principality of

  Vladivostock, 225, 244

  Vlasov, Major-General A., 259

  Voguls (Mansi), 69, 96, 273

  Volga Bulgars, 37

  Volga Germans, 245, 256, 271

  Volga region, 12, 44, 121, 172, 216;

  Russification policy in, 186—7

  Volga river, 27, 37, 45, 48, 95, 109, 110, 125, 151, 158, 182

  Volga-Oka region, 130

  Volhynia, 44

  Volkhov river, 24

  Vologda, 124

  Volpe, Gianbattista della, 75

  Voltaire, 150

  Volynskii, Artamon, 159

  Voronezh, 110 , 152, 257

  Vorontsov, M.S., 207, 289

  Voroshilov, Marshal K., 257

  Votiaks, 69, 187, 216

  Vsevold III (‘Big Nest’), 45

  Vsevold Rostislavich, Prince, 45

  Vsevolod (son of laroslav), 40, 41, 42, 43

  Vsevolodovich, Prince Mikhail of Kiev, 46

  Vyluzgin, Eleazar, 111

  Vyshnevetski, Adam, 118

  Wallachia, 192, 276

  Wal
lhausen, Johann von: The Art of Infantry Warfare, 136—7

  Warsaw, 196, 213-14, 284

  Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO), 276, 288

  Washington, 278, 286-7, 303, 305, 311, 313

  Waterloo, battle of (1815), 195

  weather see climate

  Wenden, 104

  Wesenberg, 98

  West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany), 278, 290

  Western Dvina river, 142

  Western Powers, 264, 279

  White army (anti-Bolsheviks), 238, 240, 242, 243, 244; see also army; Red Army

  White Cowl, Legend of, 68, 85

  White Horde, 97

  White Sea, 69, 97, 251

  Wilmanstrand, 171

  Wladyslaw, Prince, 122, 123, 126

  World Bank, 312

  Yaik Cossacks, 158

  Yakutia, 244, 273

  Yakuts, 134, 199, 216, 272

  Yakutsk, 131, 251

  Year of Revolutions (1848), 208

  Yedigei, Tatar Khan, 62, 63

  Yelets, 110

  Yeltsin, Boris, 289-90, 294-8, 302, 322, 323; constitutional changes, 305-6; economic mismanagement of, 302-4, 310—12; health of, 309; re-election of, 309—10; resignation of, 313; support for, 306, 312-13

  Yenisei river, 131, 280

  Yerevan, 191, 199, 204

  Yermak (Cossack leader in service of the Stroganovs), 97, 110

  Yermolov, General A.P., 199-200

  Yngvar the Viking, 32-3

  Yugits, 134

  Yugoslav Communist Party, 267

  Yugoslavia, Yugoslavs, 263, 265, 294, 298, 313

  Yukagirs, 132, 176

  Yukos (oil company), 316

  Zagorsk, 60, 64; Trinity St Sergius

  Monastery, 124

  Zakaev, Akmed, 316

  Zaporozhian Cossacks, 95, 122

  Zaporozhian Sech, 143, 144, 155, 163, 181, 184

  Zarutskii, Hetman Ivan, 124, 126

  Zhukov, Marshal Georgi, 253, 255, 257, 258, 269

  Ziuganov, Gennadi, 309-10

  Zoe/Sofia Paleologue (wife of Ivan IV), 70-1, 82-3

  Zolkiewski (Polish commander), 123

  Zosimus, Metropolitan, 82

  Zubov, Platon, 188

  Zvenigorod, 63

 

 

 


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