Sergei Medvedev is Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Preface to the English Edition

Part One: THE WAR FOR SPACE
Sovereign Territory...with No Roads
The Smoke of the Fatherland
Sacred Ice
Crimea as a Territory of the Subconscious
Drum Solo
Jihad in Donetsk
Global Biryulyovo
Seduced by Geopolitics
Profession: Invader
Noughts and Crosses
The War with Pokémon
Kremlin Firewall
A Sovereignty Full of Holes

Part Two: THE WAR FOR SYMBOLS
The State's Game Reserve
The Elite Avenue...to Death
An Ode to Shuvalov's Dogs
Missile Mania
Tank Invasion
Purveyors of Threats
Churchill Dreamt It All Up
A Racketeer with Rockets
The Torch Procession
Olympic Schizophrenia
The Thugs' Game
The Sovereign from the Back-Streets of St Petersburg
Putinism and Questions of Linguistics
War of the Avatars

Part Three: THE WAR FOR THE BODY
Punitive Hygiene
The King's Body
The Condom as a Sign of Protest
The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom
Test for Homophobia
The 'Miss Prison' Contest
Breaking 'The Silence of the Lambs'
The Politics of the Female Body
A 4-by-4 as a Teaching Aid
A Russian Potlatch
A Requiem for Roquefort
The Land of Abandoned Children
The Amputation of Conscience
The Fiasco of 'Operation Sochi'

Part Four: THE WAR FOR MEMORY
Hysterical Revisionism
The Holiday of 5 March
The Oblomov and the Stoltz of Soviet Power
A Bear of a Man
Maidan in Moscow
A Holiday without Tears
Waltz of the Urals Chekists
The Return of the Ghosts
Tyrants Destroyed
Russian Resentment
The Flower Revolution
Who's Afraid of Svetlana Alexievich?
The Private Nuremberg of Denis Karagodin
The Battle at the River Iset
Constitution Day

Glossary and List of Abbreviations
Notes