Vodka Politics (119 page)

German quarter of,
39
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41
,
338

set ablaze under Napoleon’s occupation,
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154

See also
Muscovy

Moscow News
,
374

Moscow River,
1
,
290
,
438
n
28

Moscow State University,
67
,
150
,
223
,
259
,
350

Moscow to the End of the Line
,
242
–
243
,
276

Moscow Uprising (1648),
154

Moscow Uprising (1682),
37
,
54
,
154

Mosfilm,
21

Moskovskaya vodka,
65

Mukden,
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167

Münnich, Burchard,
56

murder,
136
,
137
,
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161
,
247
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348
,
352

and alcohol,
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88
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114
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131
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137
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234
,
276
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282
,
309
,
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332
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367
,
369

Murmansk,
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,
205
,
336

Murray, Eustace Clare Grenville,
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125

Muscovy,
18
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26
,
27
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28
,
29
,
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73
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344

See also
Moscow, imperial Russia

Nagorno-Karabakh,
284

Napoleonic wars,
151
–
154

Narcissus,
57

Narkomtrud. See
People’s Commissariat of Labor (
narkomtrud
)

Narodnaya volya. See
People’s Will

narodniki
,
140
–
143

Naryshkina, Natalia,
37
–
38

Nashi
,
379

“national champion” companies,
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342
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346
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357
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361
,
366
,
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,
376

National Economy of the USSR
,
244

See also Goskomstat

National Intelligence Council,
285

National Priority Projects,
353
,
361
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366
,
376

National Review
(magazine),
285

nationalism,
150
,
204
,
232
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240
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283
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289
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348
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380
,
389

Native Americans,
173

Navalny, Alexei,
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96
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107
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357
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365
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373
,
379

Nazarbayev, Nursultan,
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290

Nazi Germany,
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8
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15
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20
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237
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310
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338
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343
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360

Nebraska,
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303

Nemtsov, Aleksandr,
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xvi
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253
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317
,
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,
367

Nemtsov, Boris,
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373

nepotism,
94
,
272

See also
corruption

nesting dolls,
xi

Netherlands,
40
,
403
n
40

Neue freie Presse
,
168

Neva River,
45
,
49
,
55
,
130
,
164
,
203

Nevsky Prospekt,
144
,
199

New Economic Policy (NEP),
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,
206
,
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216

“New Soviet man,”
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17
,
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223
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264

New Year’s holiday,
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44
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,
306

New York,
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134
,
326
,
358

New York Times
,
xi
,
249

New York University,
310

New Yorker
(magazine),
242
,
352

Nezhdanov, Alexei,
142

Nicholas I, Tsar,
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59
,
93
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99
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118
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121
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156
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158

Nicholas II, Tsar,
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18
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140
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147
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184
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196
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199
,
279
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338

drinking habits of,
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military service of,
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171

and prohibition,
16
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and Russo-Japanese War,
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170
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179

and temperance,
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179
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,
196

and World War I,
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190
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193
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196

Nieman River,
151

Nightingale, Florence,
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155

nihilism,
129
,
136
,
147

Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke,
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176
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180
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199

Nikolasha.
See
Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke

Nikolayev, Andrei,
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–
315

Ni shagu nazad
,
233

Nixon, Richard,
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–
25
,
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300
,
305

Nizhny Novgorod,
76
–
77
,
147
,
204
,
264

NKVD.
See
People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)

nobility,
47

Nobel Prize,
207
,
240
,
313
,
376

North Ossetia,
314
,
465
n
81

North Pole,
141

North Sea,
163
–
164

Notebooks for the Children
,
248

Notes of a Soldier
,
191

Novaya zhizn
(magazine),
202

Nove, Alec,
228

Novgorod birchbark documents,
68
–
70

Novgorod Veliky,
67
–
68
,
73
,
82
,
309

Novikov, Aleksandr,
5

Novodevichy Convent,
38

Novo-Preobrazhenskoye,
39

Novosibirsk,
250
,
276
,
284
,
370

NTV,
342
–
343
,
361

Nurgaliyev, Rashid,
366

Obama, Barack,
275

obshchina. See
imperial Russia, village commune in

“October Events” (1993),
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297
,
300
,
345
,
348

October
(film),
20
,
26
,
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October Manifesto,
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176

Odessa,
175
,
323

Of the Russe Common Wealth
,
81

oil,
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Oklahoma,
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okhrana. See
imperial Russia, secret police in

Old Believers,
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,
125

Oldenberg, Sergei,
196

Olearius, Adam,
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Oleg Konstantinovich, Prince,
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oligarchs,
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Olympic games,
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,
361
,
363

Olympic Stadium,
378

Omaha,
303

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
,
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