Russia

Schonberg, Nicholas, 85

Scythians, 17—18

Sea of Azov, 37, 205

Sea of Okhotsk, 161

Second Turkish War (1787-92), 185, 187-8

Second World War, 2, 8, 253-60, 261, 262-3, 274, 279

Secret Police sec Cheka; Federal Security

Service (FSB); KGB; NKVD

Selim II, Sultan, 95

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