Vodka Politics (120 page)

Operation Barbarossa,
231

Operation Trawl,
257
–
258

oprichniki
,
21
,
33
,
228

See also
boyars

Oranienbaum,
51
,
55
–
56

Orel
(warship),
164

Orlov, Alexei,
55
–
58

Orlov, Grigory,
55
–
57

orphans,
206
,
327
,
334
–
336

Orthodoxy.
See
Russian Orthodox Church

Orwell, George,
15
,
397
n
9

Oryol,
104
,
191
,
323

Osborne, Peregrine, Admiral,
41

Osipov, Nikolai,
124

Oskin, Dmitry,
191

Oslyaba
,
163

Ostankino,
296
–
297

otkupshchik. See
tax farmer

Ottoman Empire,
111
,
121
,
151
,
155
–
160

Our Home is Russia,
348

Pacific Ocean,
111
,
163
–
165
,
196
,
236

Palace of Congresses,
73

Panchulidze, A. A.,
96

Pankratev, L.,
133

See also
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai

Paris,
154
,
159
,
174
,
391

Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property,
66
–
67

partisans,
234

Passek, Peter,
55
–
56

Pasternak, Boris,
63
,
313

Pasteur, Louis,
78

pasteurization,
78

Patenaude, Bertrand,
208
–
209

Patients’ Rights Protection League,
365
–
366

Paul I, Tsar,
58

Pavlov, Valentin,
59
,
288
–
289
,
291

Pavlovna, Vera,
130
–
132
,
134

Pavlovsk,
182

Pavlovsky Regiment,
204

Peace Palace,
65

peasantry,
16
,
79
–
91
,
100
–
108
,
111
–
112
,
117
–
120
,
124
–
126
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130
,
138
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150
,
172
,
185
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196
,
204
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210
,
213
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218
,
223
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230
,
239
–
240
,
389

pechenochniki
,
319

Penza,
96

People
(magazine),
251

People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment,
202

People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD),
2
,
4
,
202
,
214
,
228
,
232
–
234
,
237

See also
Committee for State Security (KGB)

People’s Commissariat of Labor (
Narkomtrud
),
223

People’s Will,
143

Pepsi Cola,
62
,
313

perestroika
,
262
,
265
–
266
,
277
,
280
,
288
,
293
,
321
,
333
,
338

Perestroika: History of Betrayal
,
271

Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA),
65

Persia,
111

Peter and Paul Fortress,
48
,
130

Peter I (the Great), Tsar,
18
,
26
,
36
–
50
,
54
–
55
,
111
,
155
,
159

drinking habits of,
39
–
48
,
58

and “Drunken Synod,”
42
–
43
,
48

and dwarfs,
43
,
45
,
47
–
48

Grand Embassy of,
40
–
41

and “Great Eagle,”
42
–
46

instrumental use of drinking,
45
–
46
,
293

“Jolly Company” of,
41
–
44
,
404
n
50

modernizing reforms of,
44
,
47
–
48
,
112
,
150

murder and torture by,
38
–
39
,
46
–
48

and
streltsy
,
37
–
39
,
46
–
47

upbringing of,
36
–
40
,
44
,
47

Peter II, Tsar,
54

Peter III, Tsar,
18
,
50
–
59

drinking habits of,
50
–
51
,
53
,
57

marriage to Catherine II,
50
–
53

overthrown by Catherine II,
53
–
59
,
291

upbringing of,
50
–
51

Peter Petrovich, Tsarevich,
47

Peter of Holstein-Gottorp.
See
Peter III, Tsar

Peterhof,
56

Petrograd,
181
,
186
,
189
,
195
,
199
–
206
,
210
,
215

See also
St. Petersburg, Leningrad

Petrograd Soviet,
189
,
199

Petrovich, Porfiry,
136

Petrovsky, Boris,
251

Petrovsky Palace,
154
,
424
n
16

Petrov Vodka Factory,
204

Philip II, Metropolitan,
33

Pipes, Richard,
67

pivo. See
beer

Plekhanov, Georgy,
131

Pleshakov, Constantine,
232

Pleyer, Otto,
48

Podolsk,
xvi
,
61
–
62
,
228
,
335

pogrom,
175
,
200
–
204
,
284
,
427
n
19

Pokhlebkin, Vilyam,
61
–
67
,
73
,
80
,
90
,
409
n
44
–
47

murder of,
63
,
67
,
334

Poland,
20
,
30
,
34
,
49
,
61
,
65
–
67
,
71
,
74
–
76
,
111
,
117
–
119
,
125
,
155
,
205
,
257
,
322
,
382

polio,
329

Politburo.
See
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Politburo of

Political Power of Bad Ideas
,
xvi
,
386

Politovsky, Evgeny,
161

Polivanov, Alexei,
186
–
187

poll tax,
112
–
113

pollution,
327
,
336
,
360

Poltava,
45
,
195
–
196

polugar. See
vodka

pomoch
,
87
,
105
,
214

Porter, Robert Ker,
115

Portsmouth, Treaty of,
167

Poskrebyshev, Aleksandr,
8
,
396
n
33

Port Arthur,
160
–
167

pot distillation,
67

Potemkin
(warship),
175

Potemkin village,
173

Poti,
314

poverty,
13
,
16
,
27
,
128
–
133
,
136
–
138
,
141
,
176
–
177
,
207
,
218
,
223
,
295
,
308
–
309
,
314
,
321
–
322
,
331
,
351

Prague Spring,
257

Pravda
,
66
,
146
,
210
,
212
,
216
–
217
,
223
,
263
,
269
,
376

Preobrazhensky regiment,
39
–
42
,
54
–
56
,
204

Pressburg,
42
,
151

price liberalization,
308
,
312

Primakov, Evgeny,
349
,
387

Primary Chronicle
,
77

Princip, Gavrilo,
178

Printz, M.,
46