Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

peasants in 74, 84

and Bloody Sunday 85

in First World War 90–1

soldiers in 1917 revolution 93–4

and Second World War 110, 112–13

and Georgian demonstrations 122

and Chechnia 127

Artel 82, 85

Astrakhan 19

Augustus, Roman Emperor 25

Austria 46, 57

Autocracy 53–4, 73

Azerbaijan 122

B

Baikal, Lake 6

Ballets Russes 80

Balkans 23, 56–8, 112

Balkars 111

Baltic Sea 5, 8, 14, 19, 38, 58

provinces 46, 66–8

republics 111, 122

Barclay de Tolly 51

Barimta 63

Bashkirs 35–6

Batu 6–7

Belorussia 9, 64–5, 125

language of 9

Benkendorf, Count 54

Berlin Wall 121

Black market 117–18

Black Sea 46, 56–9, 68

Blat 117–18

Bloody Sunday 85–6, 90

Blue Waters, Battle of 9

Bolsheviks 84, 92–5, 97

Borodino, Battle of 51

Bosphorus 46, 56

Boyars 14, 17, 26–7

Boyar Duma 14, 28

Brezhnev, Leonid 120

Britain 42, 56–8, 76

Bukhara, Khanate of 63

Byzantium 3, 5, 15–16, 23, 24

C

Cadet Corps 43, 45, 72

Catherine II 33, 36, 46–9

Catholic Church 9, 15, 27

Caucasus 46, 56–8, 68–70

Caves Monastery, Kiev 4

Censorship 73, 90

Central Asia 61–4

Central Committee (of CPSU) 97, 102–4, 115, 118

International Department of 120

Chaadaev, Petr 54

Chechnia 69, 127

Chechens 111

Cheka 97

Chernobyl 121

China 6–7, 17, 25, 74, 111

Chingis Khan 6

Circassian people 69

Civil society 74–6

Civil war 96, 103

Commonwealth of Independent States 125

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) 97–100, 112, 125, 126

20^th congress 114

22^nd congress 114–15 (see also Central Committee)

Congress of People’s Deputies 121, 123

Constantinople 46, 56

Patriarchate of 25–6, 31–2

Hagia Sophia 56

Constituent Assembly 91, 95–6

Constitution, not granted 73

Constructivists 103

Cossacks 18, 27, 29, 34, 62, 65, 69, 84

Crimea 18, 46

Crimean Tatars 111

Crimean War 56–9

Chuvash people 61

Culture 77–9, 103–4, 107, 118

D

Dagestan 69

Daniil, Great Prince 8

Danube river 46

Decembrists 53

Democratic Russia 123

Denmark 17

Diderot 45

Diplomacy 23, 44–6

Dmitry Donskoi 13

Dmitry, son of Ivan IV 21

Dnieper 2, 29

Dolgoruky family 42

Don river 13, 18

Dorpat University 67

Dostoevsky, Fedor 10, 78

Druzhina 2–3

Duma 88–91, 128

Dvorianstvo, see Nobility

E

Economic reform 122, 126

Education 43, 45, 73, 84, 90, 110, 115, 127

Emancipation Edict of 1861 71–2

Emergency Committee 124

Emperor, title of 37

place in political system 75 (see also individual Emperors and Empresses)

England 34, 37, 40–1

Estonia 67

Europe 44–6

European view of Russia 45

European Enlightenment 45, 53

intellectual imports from 53, 77

and Crimean War 56–9

F

Family policy 107

Fedor, Tsar 26

Feofan the Greek 10

Ferghana Valley 62–3

Ferrara-Florence, Council of 15

Filofei of Pskov 24

Finland 57, 67–8

Finland, Gulf of 38, 46

First World War 64

Fiskaly 42

Five Year Plans 100–1

France 45, 49–53, 55–8, 94

Freemasonry 53

Futurists 103

G

Galicia 9

Gapon, Father 85

Georgia 68–9, 122

Germany 45, 55, 67

and Second World War 111–13

reunification of 124

Germans 111

Germogen, Patriarch 27

Glasnost 121–2

‘Going to the People’ 82

Godunov, Boris 26

Gogol, Nikolai 77–8

Golden Horde 7–8, 13

successors of 15–17, 18–19

Golitsyn family 42

Gorbachev, Mikhail 120–3

Gorchakov 62

Gorky, Maxim 95

Gosplan 100, 108, 116

Great Horde 15

Greek Orthodox Church 31

Guerrillas 51

Gubernii 47–8

Gulag 102, 118, 121

H

Hanseatic League 5, 17

Hegelianism 53, 55

Helsinki Final Act 119

Holy Synod 33, 41

Housing 115–16, 127

I

Iarlyk 7, 8

Iaroslav, Great Prince of Kiev 3, 5

Iaroslavl 27

Industry 74, 100, 108

Ingush people 111

Isidor, Metropolitan 15

Islam 8, 46, 61

in Central Asia 61–4

in the Caucasus 68–70

Italy 31

Iuriev University 67

Ivan I (Kalita) 8–9

Ivan III 15, 18

Ivan IV 20–3

Ivan V 42

J

Japan 111

Jews 64, 66, 76–7, 119

Junker Schools 72

Jurisprudence, Imperial School of 54

K

Kadet (Constitutional Democratic) Party 88

Kalmyks 17, 35, 61–2, 111

Kandinsky, Vasily 80

Karamzin, Nikolai 53–4

Katkov, Mikhail 76

Kaufman, General 63

Kazakhs 35, 61–3, 101

Kazakhstan 101, 111

Kazan 19

KGB 114

Khiva, Khanate of 63

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail 128

Khrushchev, Nikita 114–15

Kiev 2–6, 29

Great Prince of 2–3

Metropolitan of 5–6, 8–10

Kipchaks 5

Kokand, Khanate of 62

Kolkhozy 100–1, 108

Kommunalki 108

Koreans 111

Korenizatsiia 109–111

Kormlenie 2, 3, 28

Kopelev, Lev 101

Kronstadt 38

Krugovaia poruka 20, 34–6, 44

Kulaks 100–1, 102

Kulikovo, Battle of 13

Kutuzov, General Mikhail 51

L

Land commandant 75

Latvia 67

Law Codes 4, 20, 47, 54–5

Law Courts 73, 75, 115

Law, rule of 54, 74

Lavra of the Holy Trinity 10

Legislative Commission 47

Lenin, Vladimir 84, 97, 102, 103, 125

Leningrad 116, 125

Likbez 110

Lithuania 9, 13, 14, 17, 21, 25, 46

Local government 47, 73, 74, 90

Lutheranism 67

M

Makarii, Metropolitan 25

Malevich, Kazimir 80

Mamai 13

Mandelstam, Osip 107

Mari people 61

Marxism 82–4, 97, 120–1

May Laws of 1882 66

Medvedev, Dmitry 128

Mensheviks 84, 94

Mestnichestvo (lineage hierarchy) 29

Mikhail, Grand Duke 91

Mikhail Romanov, Tsar 28

Military Chancery 18–19, 28

Minin, Kuzma 27

Ministries 50

Ministry of Interior 50, 75

Mir 2, 34, 38, 75

land tenure system 44

and emancipation of serfs 72

and narodniki 81

and 1905 revolution 87

and Stolypin 89

and 1917 revolution 92–3