Evangelical 130–31
in gulag camps 56, 242, 243
Lenin on 44
Muslims 92, 93, 135, 210, 211
see also Jews; Russian Orthodox Church
religious freedom 15, 17, 101
religious relics 235–6
Richards, Keith 170, 171, 172
Russian army 94
Russian history 5, 6, 7, 9, 17, 121, 168
Holy Fools (Yurodivie) 239–40
Soviet Union, collapse of 207, 208–10, 215, 225
teaching of 239–40
see also World War II
Russian identity 197, 210, 211
Russian literature 7, 77
by dissidents 7–8, 73; see also samizdat
see also individual authors
Russian Orthodox Church 8–9, 21, 23, 32, 40, 82–6, 155–6, 204–5, 213–14
as anti-Semitic 223, 224
church buildings 84–5, 107–8
church/state relationship 9, 32, 36, 44–5, 72, 82–3, 90, 105, 181, 185, 218, 235–6
churches, Khrushchev’s closure of 82, 94
as conservative 85
Father Dmitry, action against 90–91, 98, 100–102, 109, 198, 206; see also Grebnevo and Kabanovo
importance of 9, 32, 211–12
K G B and 45, 222–5
monasteries 37, 38–41, 44, 204–5
Old Believers 84
priests 82, 83, 100; as K G B informers 222–4; training of 36–7, 38–41, 123; see also individual priests
Pussy Riot case and 232–3
Putin and 232, 235–6
resurgence of 85–6, 123
services 107–8, 251–2; christenings 104–5, 126
Stalin and 32, 36–7, 44–6, 51–2
young people and 82–3, 87, 108, 126, 179
see also religion
Saint Petersburg 231–2
Sakharov, Andrei 73, 130, 131, 135, 136, 140, 171, 172, 200, 207
on the birth rate 99
hunger strike 243
his Nobel Peace prize 112
samizdat (underground publications) 8, 73, 87–8, 93, 104
Chronicle of Current Events (newspaper) 113, 139, 242
see also dissidents
Sedov, Father Vladimir 103, 104, 115–16, 120–21, 225
Father Dmitry and 104–11, 116, 119–20, 133, 134, 251, 252; on his arrest/recantation 116, 119, 126, 173, 178
Semyonov, Father Alexander 108–11, 133–4, 202
arrest 134
Father Dmitry and 251, 251; on his arrest/recantation 180–81, 202
Semyonova, Zoya (I) (wife of Alexander Semyonov) 108, 109, 111, 115–16, 119, 133, 134
Semyonova, Zoya (II) (daughter of Alexander Semyonov) (goddaughter of Father Dmitry) 108, 109, 115, 133, 202–4
serfs/serfdom see peasant class
Sergei, Patriarch 36–7
St Sergei 39
Shabalkin, Colonel Ilya 3
Shafarevich, Igor 101
Shcharansky, Natan 130, 131, 139
Shchelkovo (town) 107
Shchipkova, Tatyana 135
Shimanov, Gennady 117–18
Shmurov, Viktor 245–6
Siberia 27, 76, 80, 154
Sinyavsky, Andrei 8, 79, 170, 233–4
smoking 100
Sobchak, Ksenia 232
Sokolov, Sergei (K G B agent) 196–7, 198
Solovetsky Islands gulag camp (Solovki) 49, 50, 138
Solovov, Mikhail 135
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 87, 140, 200
in exile 129
The Gulag Archipelago 50, 51
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 75
Sonin, Konstantin 233–4
Sorokin, Vladimir (K G B interrogator) 181, 193, 194–5, 196
Soviet Union, collapse of 207, 208–10, 215, 225
see also Russian history
space travel 6, 76
Spodin, Sergei 241–2, 244–5
Sretenka monastery, Moscow 204–5
Stalin, Joseph 5, 7, 9, 23–4, 25, 28, 59–60, 73–4, 151
his great purges (1937–8) 73, 74
Hitler and 59
Khrushchev’s criticism of 74–5, 82, 86
Russian Orthodox Church and 32, 36–7, 44–6, 51–2
death 43, 74
starvation
deaths from 27–8; of children 22
in gulag camps 49, 152
see also famine
state control 9, 23–4, 73–4, 87, 121, 167, 169–72, 187
bureaucracy 79–80, 149–51, 160
children, enforced removal from parents 245
church/state relationship 9, 32, 36, 44–5, 72, 82–3, 90, 105, 181, 185, 218, 235–6
collectivization see collectivization
election fraud (2011–12) 229–30, 246–7
of publishing 7, 114
see also political issues
state corruption 7, 8, 10, 80, 232
police 75, 237–8
state pensions 5–6, 63, 191, 209, 230
number of pensioners 189
storks 24
Sukhanov, Oleg 39, 41
taxation 17, 22, 23
alcohol duty 92–3, 95, 207
terrorism 144–5
Tian-Shanskaia, Olga Semyonova 17, 26
Time (magazine) 130
The Times 135
Tomorrow (newspaper) (continuation of Day) 209
trains see railway travel
Transparency International 10
transport/travel 14, 21, 34, 35, 98, 182
of goods/supplies 49, 67
cars 106–7, 153, 187, 203
railways see railway travel
Trofimov, Anatoly (K G B) agent 194–6
Tula region 182, 189, 191, 192, 203
Ukraine 27, 28, 51, 53, 64, 67, 69, 70, 113, 135, 152, 245
Unecha (town) 20, 22, 31, 34, 35, 211–12, 213
unemployment see labour market
United Nations (U N) 207
United Russia party (of Vladimir Putin) 229–30, 238
United States (US) 79, 111–12, 129, 130
Jackson–Vanik Act 1974, on Russian trade 131
Olympic Games (1980), boycott of 136
Vadim, Father (of Berezina) 211, 212, 213–16
Vaneyev, A. A.: Two Years in Abez (ms memoir) 58–9, 60
Vasily, Russian Orthodox Bishop of Brussels 180
Vasilyevna, Anna 15, 16, 17
V G I K (Soviet film school) 80–81
Vinogradovo (village) church, Father Dmitry at (post-recantation) 198, 202–4, 206
vodka 2, 3–4, 7, 92, 95
see also drinking
Volkov, Oleg 58
Vorkuta gulag camp/town 47, 50, 51, 153, 154
Votyakov, Sasha 78
wages 33, 49, 56, 76, 93, 209, 210, 230
Washington Post 174
West Germany 6
see also Germany
Western culture, in Russia 169–70, 171
Western media
B B C 82, 88, 102, 110, 114
dissidents, reports on 129, 130, 171, 172; on prisoners 242, 243
Father Dmitry, reports on 100–101, 102, 110, 114, 115, 134–5, 136, 174, 179
women 33
abortions 85, 95, 99
birth control 99
drinking by 2, 4–5, 167, 216
in gulag camps 160–61
life expectancy 5
as mothers 5, 6–7, 235–6
women workers 33
World Christian Council 101
World War II (1939–45) 9, 15, 36, 51, 73, 74, 94, 152, 208
German occupation of Russia see German occupation . . .
Jews, treatment of 30–31
Yakir, Pyotr 139, 140
Yakunin, Gleb 85, 101, 102, 105, 129, 131, 218, 221–2, 223–5, 228, 230, 236
his Christian Committee . . . 125–6, 218
defrocking/excommunication of 223–4, 234
Father Dmitry and 218–19, 224–5
o
n Pussy Riot 234
in Russian parliament 222
trial/imprisonment: I (1987) in Yakuta 195, 200, 217, 219–20, 222; release 207; II (1981) in Perm 236–7, 241–3; hunger strike 242–3
Yakunin, Ira (wife of Gleb Yakunin) 195
Yakunin, Vladimir 235
Yeltsin, Boris 209, 210, 211
Yerofeyev, Venedikt: Moscow-Petushki 93
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny 240
Young Communist League (Komsomol) 32, 67, 74–5, 77–8, 79, 80
young people 76, 77–9, 104, 108, 166, 167, 169, 170–72, 188, 202–3
future for 228–49
in gulag camps 152
Jewish 89, 190
Pussy Riot 232–3, 234
Russian Orthodox Church and 82–3, 87, 108, 126, 170
see also children; dissidents; education
Yuvenali, Metropolitan (K G B codename A D A M A N T) 222
Zagorsk (Sergiev Posad) seminary 37, 38–41, 43, 44
Assumption Cathedral 38, 39, 44
Zhirinovsky, Vladimir 207–8
Zyuganov, Vladimir 210, 211
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