The Last Empire (85 page)

    
nuclear disarmament and,
363
,
371

    
as nuclear republic,
xix
,
310
,
346
,
348–349

    
population,
311
,
351
,
352

    
sovereignty and,
178
,
179
,
181
,
182
,
249
,
347
,
351

    
U.S. and,
346–349
,
351
,
382

Kebich, ViacheslaÅ­,
311
,
312

    
Belavezha Agreement and,
305
,
309
,
310

    
biography,
302–303

    
See also
Belarus

Kennan, George F.,
328
,
392–393

Kennedy, John F.,
3
,
5
,
6
,
369

Kerr, Richard,
105
,
106

KGB (Committee for State Security),
38
,
48
,
54

    
coup d'état and,
77
,
81
,
82
,
84
,
86
,
88–89
,
91
,
100
,
108
,
110–111
,
120–121
,
148
,
160

    
demonstrations,
140–141

    
Gorbachev and,
84
,
135
,
138

    
Kennedy assassination and,
369

Khans, of Golden Horde,
257

Khasbulatov, Ruslan,
94
,
244
,
246
,
247–248
,
383

Khmara, Stepan,
293

Khrushchev, Nikita,
12
,
15
,
54
,
56
,
281
,
333
,
401

    
Belavezha Forest and,
301

    
coup d'état and,
81
,
82
,
98

    
in Kazakhstan,
351

    
Kennedy and,
3
,
5
,
6

Kipling, Rudyard,
305

Kissinger, Henry,
117
,
248
,
249
,
290

Kohan, John,
333

Kohl, Helmut,
58
,
77
,
79
,
209
,
367
,
378

Kolbin, Gennadii,
349–350
,
395

Komisarenko, Serhii,
157

Kommunist
(journal),
215

Komplektov, Viktor,
68
,
104–105

Komsomol'skaia pravda
(Komsomol Truth),
298

Koppel, Ted,
372
,
373

Korea,
210

Korean Airlines, flight 007,
6

Korzhakov, Aleksandr,
109
,
121–122
,
136
,
182–183
,
187
,
213
,
217

    
on Gorbachev's retirement package,
367
,
369

    
on secret documents,
369

    
on Yeltsin,
302
,
311
,
319
,
369
,
386–387

Kosygin, Aleksei,
54

Kotkin, Stephen,
xix

Kozyrev, Andrei,
27
,
104
,
200
,
264

    
Belavezha Agreement and,
297
,
305
,
306
,
314
,
337–339
,
341

    
coup d'état of August 1991 and,
110–114

    
on Gorbachev,
146–147

    
reform and,
215
,
229
,
238–239

Kravchenka, Petr,
303
,
304–305
,
306
,
311
,
325

Kravchuk, Antonina,
315

Kravchuk, Leonid,
xxi
,
xxii
,
59
,
65
,
224
,
250

    
Almaty summit and,
358–359
,
362–364

    
Belavezha Agreement and,
298
,
299
,
301
,
303–310
,
314
,
315
,
320
,
324

    
biography,
55–57
,
67

    
Bush, George H. W., and,
61–62
,
67
,
68
,
207–209
,
294

    
on center-republic relations,
207
,
208–209
,
219

    
CIS and,
358–359

    
coup d'état of August 1991 and,
114
,
124
,
155–158
,
160
,
161–162
,
164

    
legacy,
366
,
400
,
405

    
new union treaty and,
222–223

    
Ukrainian referendum and,
275–277
,
279–282
,
284–287
,
291–294
,
303–304
,
399

    
Ukrainian sovereignty and,
153–155
,
163–165
,
167–170
,
178
,
180–181
,
182
,
184
,
206–207
,
258
,
260
,
273
,
279–282
,
292
,
363–364

Kremlin,
xiii
,
xiv

Kriuchkov, Vladimir,
10
,
24
,
38
,
74
,
117
,
202

    
biography,
86–87

    
coup d'état and,
82
,
83–84
,
86
,
88
,
89–91
,
95–96
,
97
,
99
,
100
,
111
,
116
,
120
,
121
,
123
,
125–127
,
130
,
145
,
160

Kruchina, Nikolai,
142
,
150–151

Kryzhanivsky, Volodymyr,
299–300

Kseniia (Gorbachev's granddaughter),
133

Kuropas, Myron, B.,
261

Kuwait,
232

Kuznetsov, Anatolii,
66

Kyiv.
See
Ukraine

Kyrgyzstan

    
Akayev and,
224
,
345–346

    
CIS and,
322
,
345–346

    
military forces,
346

    
nuclear weapons and,
346

    
sovereignty and,
173

    
U.S. and,
345–346
,
382

Landsbergis, Vytautas,
197–198

Language, of Ukraine's military,
289
,
290

Lapychak, Chrystyna,
292

Latvia,
45
,
191

    
annexation of,
192

    
sovereignty and,
174
,
175
,
197

Lebed, Aleksandr,
108
,
118

Lenin, Vladimir,
xiii
,
328
,
395
,
398

Lezginka
(dance),
288

Ligachev, Yegor,
28–29

Likhachev, Dmitrii,
175–176

Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty,
6

Lincoln, Abraham,
67
,
101

Lithuania,
45
,
191
,
197

    
demonstrations in,
50–51
,
117–118

    
sovereignty and,
34
,
37
,
38
,
50
,
174
,
198

Lobov, Vladimir,
209–210

Loyalty,
289

Lubianka Square,
139–140

Lukashenka, Aliaksandr,
324–325

Lukianenko, Levko,
60
,
165–169
,
278
,
279

Lukianov, Anatolii,
125

Luzhkov, Yurii,
94
,
122

MAD.
See
Mutual assured destruction

Madrid peace conference.
See
Middle East Peace Conference

Major, John,
75
,
113
,
209
,
378

Make Way for Ducklings
(McCloskey),
20

Makhamov, Kakhahr,
163

The Malachite Casket
(Bazhov),
228

Malkina, Tatiana,
98

Maria (Yeltsin's granddaughter),
100

Marshall, George,
329

Marshall Plan, for Soviet Union,
205–206
,
329–331
,
341

Massacres

    
Babyn Yar,
66–67
,
266
,
285

    
Katyn Forest,
369

    
Tiananmen Square,
77

Matlock, Jack,
26
,
48
,
65
,
69
,
76
,
193
,
206

    
Bush, George H. W., and,
52–53
,
58
,
194

    
on Cold War and Soviet Union's collapse,
392

McCarthy, Joseph,
xiv

McCloskey, Robert,
20

McDougall Barbara,
112

Media.
See
News media

Medvedev, Vadim,
36
,
81–82
,
128
,
135
,
149
,
216
,
228

    
on Belavezha Agreement,
326

    
Gorbachev and,
183
,
319–320

    
on sovereignty of Soviet republics,
175
,
185

    
on state funds,
270

    
on Yeltsin, Boris, and countercoup,
137

Medvedev, Vladimir,
82

Meshkov, Yuri,
282

Middle East,
21
,
22

    
peace in,
231–232

    
U.S. interest in,
232–233

Middle East Peace Conference (Madrid peace conference),
234

    
Bush, George H. W., at,
231–233
,
236–238

    
Gorbachev at,
231–233
,
235–241

    
Mitterand at,
240–241

Military

    
Bush, George H. W., in U.S.,
191–192

    
Kyrgyzstan,
346

    
Ukraine,
289–291
,
362

Military, Soviet

    
central control over,
236
,
242
,
270
,
287
,
291
,
357
,
362